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You don't often get email from pfritz@lfrep.com. Learn why this is important <br />From:Redwood City City Council <br />To:publiccomment <br />Cc:GRP-City Clerk <br />Subject:FW: Redwood LIFE Evolve Community Engagement and CEQA Process <br />Date:Monday, March 3, 2025 1:14:09 PM <br />Attachments:image590820.png <br />RWLE Letter to Planning and Council.pdf <br />From: Peter Fritz <pfritz@lfrep.com> <br />Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 7:52 PM <br />To: GRP-City Council <council@redwoodcity.org>; Council-Elmer MartinezSaballos <br /><emartinezsaballos@redwoodcity.org>; Council-Kaia Eakin <KEakin@redwoodcity.org>; Council- <br />Isabella Chu <ichu@redwoodcity.org>; Council-Jeff Gee <jgee@redwoodcity.org>; Council-Diane <br />Howard <DHoward@redwoodcity.org>; Council-Marcella Padilla <mpadilla@redwoodcity.org>; <br />Council-Christopher Sturken <csturken@redwoodcity.org>; GRP-Planning Commissioners <br /><PC@redwoodcity.org>; BCC-Rick Hunter <rhunter@redwoodcity.org>; BCC-Filip Crnogorac <br /><fcrnogorac@redwoodcity.org>; BCC-Kimberly Koch <kkoch@redwoodcity.org>; BCC-Maggie <br />Cornejo <mcornejo@redwoodcity.org>; BCC-Dylan Finch <bcc-d@redwoodcity.org> <br />Cc: CD-Jeff Schwob <jschwob@redwoodcity.org>; CD-Ryan Kuchenig <rkuchenig@redwoodcity.org>; <br />CD-Margaret Netto <mnetto@redwoodcity.org> <br />Subject: Redwood LIFE Evolve Community Engagement and CEQA Process <br />Dear Members of the Redwood City Council & Planning Commission, <br />As you know, Longfellow Real Estate Partners first submitted our pre-application for the <br />Redwood LIFE Evolve project in May 2021. During the four years since that submittal, we <br />and the City and the community have invested countless hours meeting, investigating, <br />discussing, and asking and answering questions about the project, its design, benefits and <br />viability. We have held dozens of meetings with community members, sent thousands of <br />mailers to the surrounding community, held multiple open houses, and have engaged <br />openly and in good faith with a wide range of interested parties. <br />When we last met with the City Council in the summer of 2023, Council directed City staff to <br />lead a two-fold effort: <br />First, to undertake an initial investigation (dubbed a “Sensitivity Analysis”) to <br />understand if there were environmental factors that could inform a reduced project <br />alternative, and <br />Second, to work with the community and Longfellow to develop a consensus around <br />a reduced project alternative that would be studied alongside the original project <br />application in a dual-track EIR. <br />City Council requested a project status update in eighteen months.