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Page 2 of 6 <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org <br />BACKGROUND <br />Redwood City’s existing vision and development plan for Downtown, the Downtown Precise Plan (DTPP), <br />was adopted in 2011 and has been subsequently amended several times, most recently in 2023. The DTPP <br />has been successful in implementing the community’s vision for Downtown in many respects and resulted <br />in significant office and residential development, which has, in turn, supported Downtown’s renewed <br />vitality. However, now that the DTPP’s development caps have been reached, the City Council has <br />expressed interest in assessing current and anticipated community needs Downtown and in the directly <br />adjacent neighborhoods in terms of development, historic preservation, transportation, and <br />infrastructure, among other considerations. On November 4, 2019, City Council unanimously approved a <br />motion (MO 19-210) directing staff to “develop a resource plan to support a community visioning process <br />to develop a new land use vision for Central Redwood City, with an initial emphasis in rail and <br />transportation planning.” <br />In response to City Council’s direction, rail and transportation planning was largely accomplished through <br />the creation of the City’s Transit District in December 2022. In order to implement the Council’s direction <br />to develop a new land use vision for Downtown and adjacent areas, staff prepared and issued a Request <br />for Proposals (RFP) on January 23, 2024, for consultant teams to assist the City in preparing a new plan <br />for Downtown and Central Redwood City, which includes the Downtown core and the adjacent <br />neighborhoods of Centennial (between Brewster Avenue and Whipple Avenue) and Stambaugh-Heller <br />(see Figure 1). <br />6.D. - Page 2 of 68 <br />103