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REV: 02-18-2022 SK <br />120695-00000325/5690848.4 <br />Page 1 of 9 <br />REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT <br />BETWEEN THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY AND <br /> IQHQ ELCO YARDS, LP AND GREYSTAR GP II, LLC <br />THIS REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is dated for informational <br />purposes only as of the ____ day of February, 2022 by and between the CITY OF REDWOOD <br />CITY, a charter city and California municipal corporation (“City”), and IQHQ Elco Yards, LP, a <br />Delaware limited liability partnership (“Developer I”) and Greystar GP II, LLC, a Delaware <br />limited liability company (“Developer II”) (Developer I and Developer II collectively referred to <br />herein as “Developers” and Developers and City referred to herein collectively as the “Parties”). <br />RECITALS <br />A. By Resolution No. 15583, adopted in May 2017, City updated the Planning <br />Division Cost Recovery Policy (the “Cost Recovery Policy”) for certain planning projects and <br />requires the applicant to pay a deposit and/or fee to City to cover City’s costs of processing the <br />application. Reimbursement includes among other things the cost for City staff, consultants, <br />including, but not limited to, environmental consultants, housing consultants, and special legal <br />counsel. Developer II filed an Application with City, governed by the Cost Recovery Policy; <br />therefore consistent with the intent and framework of the Cost Recovery Policy, the Parties agree <br />to enter into this Agreement requiring Developers to reimburse City for City resources expended <br />during its evaluation of each Developer’s proposed development of the Project (defined below). <br />B. Developer II and City entered into a Reimbursement Agreement dated November <br />30, 2017, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Reimbursement Agreement dated November 13, <br />2020, and Amendment No. 2 to Reimbursement Agreement dated January 15, 2021, for the <br />projects located at 1601 El Camino Real and 1304 El Camino Real (collectively referred to herein <br />as “Original Reimbursement Agreement”). <br />C. Developer I acquired from Developer II the part of the proposed project formerly <br />called the South Main Mixed-Use Project and currently renamed Elco Yards, which is located <br />between El Camino Real, Maple, Cedar and Main streets, generally referred to as Parcels A, B, C, <br />D and E and includes the construction of 502 residential units (including 109 affordable units), <br />530,000 sq. ft. of office, 28,841 sq. ft. of retail, 8,367 sq. ft. of child care, and 40,000 sq. ft. of <br />publicly-accessible open space (“Project Part I”). <br />D. Developer II retained the offsite affordable housing portion of the proposed project <br />located at 1304 El Camino Real, generally referred to as Parcel F, which includes the construction <br />of 38 affordable housing units and is part of the entitled project (“Project Part II”) (collectively, <br />Project Part I and Project Part II are referred to herein as the “Project”). <br />E. The Parties desire to enter into this Agreement to allocate cost recovery to <br />Developer I and Developer II for their respective portions of the Project and to implement the Cost <br />Recovery Policy and specifically to cover the costs incurred commencing as of the Effective Date <br />as defined in Section 2.01 and to be incurred by City in connection with the processing of the <br />Project application. Developers understand that funding of such costs is at Developers’ sole risk <br />and that nothing in this Agreement is or shall be construed to control or limit City’s exercise of <br />discretion with respect to any aspect of evaluating the Project, nor shall it be construed as making <br />any commitment regarding the granting of any entitlements for development. Developers further <br />ATTY/AGR.2022.043/IQHQ (ELCO) (Page 1 of 9) <br />24th