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You don't often get email from vidyut_lingamneni@yahoo.com. Learn why this is important <br />Phone: (650) 780-7220 <br />www.redwoodcity.org <br /> <br /> <br />From: vidyut lingamneni <vidyut_lingamneni@yahoo.com> <br />Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2025 9:37 PM <br />To: GRP-Planning Commissioners <PC@redwoodcity.org>; GRP-City Council <council@redwoodcity.org> <br />Subject: Joint Study Session on the Life Sciences Office and Laboratory proposal known as Redwood Life located at 800 – 3400 <br />Bridge Parkway <br /> <br />Dear Honorable Mayor, members of the City Council and Planning Commission: <br /> <br />My name is Vidyut Lingamneni. <br />I’ve lived in Redwood Shores for over 20 years. I am not in support of the two alternative proposals, which are way <br />over the size wanted by me and most of our residents who have attended the workshops and meetings held over the <br />past couple of years. <br /> <br />Longfellow's investment in this campus may appear to represent an incredible opportunity for Redwood City. However, <br />Longfellow has not listened to many of our community concerns and has responded by creating these alternatives that <br />are not significant reductions in the scope of the project. I feel that our views do not matter and the community feels <br />ignored. <br /> <br />I would like the City Council to listen to the concerns of the residents. My main concern is the effects of climate change, <br />with a resultant sea level rise and the concurrent sinking of the Foster City/Redwood Shores area described in a recent <br />study. <br />The study found four places in the Bay Area that are sinking the fastest: San Rafael, Corte Madera and Foster City, <br />along with Bay Farm Island in Alameda, which is located next to Oakland International Airport. The land in those areas <br />is subsiding at a rate of more than 0.4 of an inch per <br /> <br />https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/4-bay-area-locations-sinking-at-alarming-rate-study- <br />says/3796551/#:~:text=The%20study%20found%20four%20places,next%20to%20Oakland%20International%20Airport. <br /> <br />I will support a version that brings the most prosperity in the forms of investments in affordable housing, early <br />childhood education, and job opportunities. There currently exists a jobs-housing imbalance in Redwood City and <br />surrounding cities. It will only worsen with what has been proposed for the RedwoodLIFE campus. <br /> <br />Thank you for your consideration. <br />Vidyut Lingamneni <br />255 Nice Ct <br />Redwood City, CA 94065