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Facility provides incarceration and rehabilitative services to pre-trial and court-sentenced inmates and serves the courts, law enforcement agencies, inmates and their families, and crime victims. In addition to the Maguire Correctional Facility, the County operates three jail and custody facilities on Maple Street in Redwood City. The Men's Minimum Security Transitional Facility (MSTF), located at 1580 Maple Street, is used to ease overcrowding at the Maguire facility. The County also operates a weekender facility here for male inmates who are incarcerated only on Saturday and Sunday. The Women's Correctional Center, adjacent to the MSTF at 1590 Maple Street, provides security and custody for approximately 100 to 130 female inmates. Redwood City already contributes significantly to housing the County's incarcerated population. Redwood City understands the impact on the pedestrian environment that a jail imposes, from our experience with the Maguire Facility. The Maguire Facility, with its large forbidding walls reaching several stories from the ground level and the lack of active ground-floor uses such as retail, creates pedestrian "dead zones". These dead zones lack vitality and are incompatible with the vision for Downtown Redwood City. A second dead-zone around the proposed replacement jail site at the Motor Pool Site will discourage pedestrian activity in our Downtown. Noise has been an issue at the Maguire Facility. As described above, jail noise from Maguire has had a long- term and potentially profound impact on the image, viability, and general development potential in Downtown. San Mateo County has received complaints from nearby residents regarding noise levels emanating from this facility. In the 2003 San Mateo County budget, one of the priorities for the Maguire Facility was to continue to improve customer service by reducing complaints through training and changing the work environment by reducing noise levels. Residents in and near Downtown have continued to express concerns about noise six years after the County made this commitment. If the replacement jail were located in close proximity to the Maguire Facility, noise impacts could be exacerbated. Residents have also mentioned problems with vagrancy. Jail inmates are sometimes released at odd hours or without any means of transportation, and are left to wander Downtown neighborhoods. Merchants at the nearby Sequoia Station shopping center have told City staff that they have had to remove outdoor seating areas intended for patrons because of problems with non-patrons who loiter. This does not create an atmosphere conducive to active outdoor pedestrian activity. At the July 2009 community workshops conducted by the Sheriff's Office, Jail Planning Unit, Redwood City residents also cited trash from the Maguire Facility as a problem in their neighborhoods. 7. "Our Place" Child Care Center, which is adjacent to the Motor Pool Site, provides a critically needed service in the community and in Downtown in particular. "Our Place" County Child Care Center is located adjacent to the Motor Pool Site at 403 Winslow Street. It is operated by Marin Day Schools/Bright Horizons. The center serves over 90 children aged six weeks to five years old (pre-school age). The Sheriff's Office has indicated that this facility may require relocation to accommodate the replacement jail site at the Motor Pool location. The Redwood City New General Plan identifies a significant shortage of infant/toddler child care facilities and licensed school-age care centers in the community. The demand for quality child care continues to 26 Site I nformation for Alternative Locations for the Proposed Replacement Jail September 2, 2009