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From:MJ Davey <br />To:publiccomment <br />Subject:Public Comment for 7/15 City Council Meeting Item 7:7A <br />Date:Monday, July 15, 2024 2:27:04 PM <br />You don't often get email from mjdavey36@gmail.com. Learn why this is important <br />July 11, 2024 <br /> <br /> <br />Dear Redwood City Council Members, <br /> <br />I am a co-worker of Lourdes Romero and am writing to ask that the Council please do some <br />further due diligence on this proposed development of 112 Vera. I understand that since this <br />is targeted as low income housing that the city has limits on what they can ask the developer <br />to provide. I am shocked to hear there is no requirement for an EIR study as well as traffic and <br />other impact studies. <br />Lourdes & Alberto share an alley with the property on Vera Avenue and are directly adjacent <br />to the proposed development across the alley. We have endured the issues this property has <br />gone through over the years and do not think it is fair to place the burden of high-density <br />housing in our already very over developed neighborhood. Finally, this is urgent and <br />extremely important to all of us because we have all spent an enormous amount of money to <br />buy and develop our properties and these are, almost in every case, our most significant <br />assets, so we want to protect them and we want to protect our quality of life that we have in <br />our community. <br /> <br /> <br />· The property has been vacant for over three decades (since 1992) <br />o April 3, 2017 Redwood City declared the property a public nuisance, citing <br />concerns of fires occurring in the abandoned apartments due to the <br />deteriorated state of the apartments. Firefighters, health officials and police <br />officers all became regular visitors to the complex, dispelling any squatters <br />from the five duplexes. Building inspectors reported caved-in ceilings, human <br />waste, empty beer bottles, stacks upon stacks of newspapers, old tool boxes, <br />chainsaws and broken windows. <br />o In 2017, the San Mateo Daily Journal reported that the developer faced code <br />violations for dilapidation and that the city would demolish them. The Estate of <br />Robert J. Galet is still listed as the property owner. <br />o The property owner Galet had the structures demolished in 2019 and began <br />construction on 5 replacement duplexes in 2020. Construction was never <br />finished, and the site remains uninhabited.