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8.A <br /> Appeal of Issuance of Archit�....ural Permit (Residential Use) Pag P�� 43 <br /> Supplemental Submission /Statement of Reasons or Grounds for the Appeal l0/22/2010 <br /> i <br /> 4. The policy and practice of undervaluing or ignoring the legitimate legal, � <br /> equitable, and community privacy interests of neighbors, especially when <br /> reasonable means are available to protect such interests. <br /> 5. T'he policy and practice of withholding, or failing to make available in a <br /> timely manner, information essential to neighbors and the community with <br /> respect to the content and irnpact of a permit applicant's proposed plans; the <br /> refusal to make such information avaiIable in a form and manner that can be <br /> readily understood by the average lay resident. <br /> 6. The Planning Department's longstanding failure to work from, and base its , <br /> decisions on, written standards and guidelines, resulting in arbitrary, I <br /> inconsistent decisions; the refusal by the Planning Department to generate <br /> such guidelines. <br /> 7. The demonstrable bias of the Planning Department staff towazds ; <br /> accommoda.ting the wishes of property owners, as evidenced by the issuance � <br /> of architectural permits for residential building projects acknowledged by the <br /> I Plannin De artment u f I <br /> n ortunatel onl after the res ective residences had <br /> g P � Y> Y P I <br /> already been constructed) to be designs and structures inappropriate to the I <br /> neighborhoods in which they are situated. <br /> 8. The assertion, made without substantiation or documentation, that this and, <br /> presumably, other proposed and previously permitted residential projects are <br /> "categorically" exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act <br /> Guidelines. <br /> Appellants expressly reserve the right to submit additional Reasons or Grounds at any <br /> time prior to November 15, 2010, or the last permissible date, whichever is later. <br /> APPELLANTS HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that pursuant to the terms of "Appeais of I <br /> Planning Approvals," issued on July 1, 2006, by Redwood City Community <br /> Development — PIanning Services, Appellants shall submit additional written materials in <br />