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A better use for this property would be to let the church, that is helping feed and cloth the local needy, <br />remain, turn the building into one that could serve as a community center something sadly lacking in our <br />south side of the city, add a small green space and add some paid parking spaces. <br />I know that won’t happen, so perhaps a <br />low-income project with forty units, a <br />driveway for drop-offs and deliveries, <br />enough parking spaces for tenants and a <br />few visitors and a garden for tenants or at <br />least balconies so they have some <br />outdoor space. <br />I also question the fact that an <br />environmental report is not needed. It is <br />obvious that neither Criteria 1 nor 3 are <br />met, but I also question Criteria two. <br />While the project is 100% affordable, it is not as stated in Sandis’ rational for meeting the requirements <br />of Criteria 2, within a high-quality transit corridor. They themselves state that in Criteria one. It is also <br />not in an underutilized location. Nearly every inch of the Woodside corridor has been or is being <br />developed, leaving no green space at all. <br />It is doubtful that this property meets the standards that the state sets for requiring concessions for <br />construction. Projects that are unsafe, unhealthy, environmentally unsound are all excluded. They make <br />a point of stating that if projects are not on high quality transit corridors they should be on streets that <br />are not busy, which certainly is not a description of Highway 84. Additionally, this piece of property does <br />not meet the one-acre requirement that the city had set for affordable housing donations. The city then <br />added that if it’s less it should be able to have 40 units built on it, not 72. A forty-unit project could <br />work. <br />I beg you to carefully read all the plans and documents for the proposed development and discover the <br />many problems, yourselves, before agreeing to let it be built. We do need affordable housing and it can <br />be in my backyard, but this project is wrong for this location and the city should reject it as it has been <br />submitted. <br /> <br />Cath Trindle <br />56 Orchard Ave <br />Catht@aol.com <br />650-207-2747 <br /> <br /> <br />