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Page 1 of 6 <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org <br />STAFF REPORT <br />To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From the City Manager <br />DATE: December 16, 2024 <br />SUBJECT <br />Downtown & Central Redwood City Plan Community Engagement Strategy <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />By motion, approve Community Engagement Strategy prepared by staff and consultants for the <br />Downtown & Central Redwood City Plan effort. <br />STRATEGIC PLAN GUIDING PRINCIPLE <br />Communication and Community Building <br />BACKGROUND <br />On August 26, 2024, the City Council approved a contract for planning, urban design, community <br />engagement, and economic development services to support development of the Downtown & Central <br />Redwood City Plan (DCRC or “the Plan”) with a multi-disciplinary consultant team led by Wallace Roberts <br />& Todd (WRT), included in this staff report as Linked Document A. The DCRC will include an extensive <br />community outreach and visioning process, economic analysis, and environmental analysis culminating in <br />a plan that will guide the area’s equitable evolution in terms of land use, urban design, connectivity, <br />historic preservation, infrastructure, and climate resiliency. The City seeks to build on Downtown <br />Redwood City’s successes and engage the community in the visioning process in order to position itself to <br />meet new challenges and realities emerging around how residents, employees, and visitors live, work, <br />shop, recreate, and travel. <br />City staff and the consultant team held an internal kick-off meeting and site tour for the planning effort <br />on September 18, 2024, and have worked quickly to advance the early stages of the project scope. A chief <br />priority is to develop a Community Engagement Strategy. Building on the community engagement tasks <br />outlined in the project scope of work (see Linked Document A), the Community Engagement Strategy is <br />8.A. - Page 1 of 17 <br />64