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7.6 -30 PLG -Jill Ekas From: Protean1 @aol.com Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 2:54 PM To: je; @redwoodcity.org Subject: Pub is Hearing - August 11, 2003 Response Jill Ekas Redwood City Planning Services ATTACHMENT 7 Page 1 of 1 �IVNIEodIE AUG 0 4 2003 CITY OF REDWOOD CITY PLANNING SERVICES Project Number: General Plan Amendment 14003 -01 Zoning Map Amendment 10410 -01 Project Address: 20 Avondale Avenue Assessor Parcel Number: 052 - 064 -110 As homeowners residing at 102 Hyde at the corner of Avondale, we are oppose to any further GP and ZM Amendments affecting 20 Avondale Avenue, a single family residential property. Currently, the Avondale property is zoned for Low Density Residential, R -1, and is in keeping with the immediate residential neighborhood, one parcel removed from El Camino Real. The owners of the property facing El Camino Real and backing up to 20 Avondale knew or should have known that this commercial property had limited use and "gambled" that by spot zoning, he could enlarge this property and enhance his investment. This amendment should be denied as enlarging his commercial property is not in keeping with the residential pattern established. Furthermore, we believe that changing the zoning pattern will not improve our community by further incursion into a residential neighborhood. Changing the current zoning to Heavy Commercial /Office Mixed Use Commercial and Residential is invasive to our quality of life that has been established in our neighborhood. The traffic pattern at Avondale and ECR is sometimes congested because drivers making a turn onto Avondale often make left turns onto Kentucky Fried Chicken and block traffic for those returning home or traveling to ECR. This pattern creates a traffic hazard on many occasions and seems to happens more often in the late fall through early spring around 5:00 P.M. Easy access to the neighborhood should not be impeded and traffic enforcement is essentially nonexistent (perhaps as it should be when considering other law enforcement priorities). Changing 20 Avondale Avenue from a Single Family Residential, R -1, to General Commercial - Combined Residential, CG -R is also inappropriate. The ECR property according to its For Sale /For Lease sign says or implies that it has zoning for CG -R. Let it remain so for the ECR property. He didn't develop it after the last spot zone amendment and it remains a vacant lot. The investor gambled and obtained a variance that the neighborhood opposed. It seems that the investor is nibbling away at purchases affecting Avondale and that he has created his own General Plan. We think that the neighborhood's general plan of R -1 zoning remains superior. Let the investor develop the ECR property as is and deny him the spot zoning amendments as set forth in the current Notice of Public Hearing. By the way, the investor could "speculate" again and build a single family residence on the property's existing plot dimensions at 20 Avondale Avenue! Jack and Barbara Kirkpatrick 102 Hyde St. Redwood City, CA 94062 (650)599.9945 Protean Oaol.com 8/4/2003