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From:Jason Lee To:publiccomment Subject:Palm Park needs - Agenda item 9, CIP study session Date:Monday, April 14, 2025 5:29:35 PM You don't often get email from lee.jason.thanh@gmail.com. Learn why this is important Dear RWC City Council Members and Staff, Thank you for the opportunity to comment on RWC's Capital Improvement Program (CIP) proposal. I'm writing as a resident of Redwood City and, equally importantly, on behalf of all my neighbors of the Palm Park neighborhood, the beautiful triangular enclave of hardworking families bound by El Camino Real, Woodside Road, Redwood Avenue and Valota Road. I am co-chair of the Palm Park Neighborhood Association representing the interests and needs of our residents. Our residents have come together in the last two years working in good faith with the City to drive purposeful, positive, permanent solutions to our most pressing neighborhood concerns. We aim to address the underlying problems that bring ever-increasing degradation in the last 5-10 years of quality of habitability to our increasingly high-density and even higher un- mitigated through-traffic neighborhoods: disproportionate amount of crime, in particular, of violent nature persistent, daily significant amounts of illegal dumping by non-residents, including large furniture, alcohol, large appliances, etc daily/hourly harassment from vehicular violations including large commercial traffic through un-approved residential streets, excessive speeding, reckless driving, illegally- modified vehicles, illegally high levels of noise, etc plagued by two traffic-ridden thoroughfares (El Camino Real and Woodside Road) more than any other part of Redwood City without any restrictions seemingly inequitable investment in neighborhood improvements relative to other parts of our City and many other concerns Palm Park sincerely asks that, in your study of the current CIP report and the 2025-2026 and 5-year proposals, to please reconsider investing much more towards neighborhoods like Palm Park where effective, permanent solutions have been few to come by but are urgently needed for the physical and mental health of our residents. We thank you for your relentless efforts to continue building a better, safer Redwood City. Palm Park wishes to be, and is capable of becoming, that shining example of how your efforts effect real-world positive change on the lives of our socially and economically diverse hardworking families. Please help Palm Park achieve these goals for a desperately needed better quality of life. Sincerely, Jason T. Lee Resident, Palm Park neighborhood