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, I '¡,4. /4 A IT A CIMENT 2 April 26, 2005 , i::.', :~ :r. .. . ;" ~--:'. ì hi!'=' ,~. , . - -"' ;; I ~ I ¡:(~; APR 2 6 Zo05 :_,~¡ r '~..., :¿7: ::~: ;;_oJ INTERNATIONAL e .' B v Hand Delivery Appeal of Issuance of Use Permit Project No.: 2005-01 Property Address: 890 Broadway Assessor's Parcel Number: 054-040-270 !T"y ~'ncil City Uanap ::a, AItam8J CIty CIIIt COIIIIUIIIJ 011.- Finøce DIpt. Fill DIpt. PuIIIIc WaIIII DIpL- .... RIL" - L.InIy DIpt. - PIIb I Ale. ~- PaIicI DIpt. ì~~:;C -y I 090 Mills Way Redwood City, CA 9-iO63.3120 Phone (650) 261-5300 Fax (650) 361.1713 hap:J/www.fpind.com . . City Clerk City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road Redwood City, CA 94064-0391 Re: Free&w Pødcorrnr InœmøtionaI, Inc. œ~:~o\Vmœ ,..,í:\ é.. 7 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen: CITY OF FiLe', 000 CITY PLANNIt\!G seRvICES By this letter, I am appealing the decision by the Zoning Administrator to issue a Use Permit for High Tech High Bayshore at 890 Broadway. I previously submitted a letter to the Redwood City Planning Services on April 6 and attended the public hearing on April 13. I have also reviewed the Transportation Demand Management Plan (TDM Plan) for High Tech High. I am the owner of the property located at 1093 Charter Street and have been since 1978. This pïOperty is used for light industrial manufacturing by the company I founded, FP International. FP International also has an office at 1090 Mills Way. ¡ and FP International are strong proponents of educational reform and the charter school system as J.n element of that reform. However, this is not the right location for the students or for the rWrerty owners, businesses, and employees who cuITently comprise the neighborhood. The standard used by the City for granting the Use Permit is that "the establishment, maintenance, or operation of the use applied for would not, under the circumstances of the particular case, be detrimental to the health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, or general welfare of persons residing or working in the neighborhood of the proposed use or would not be detrimental or injurious to property or improvements in the neighborhood or to the general welfare of the CIt: .. (Section 42.3 of Redwood City Zoning Ordinance.) The required standard was not met in granting this Use Permit for the following reasons: It is unsafe for the students and for the CUITent businesses in the neighborhood. The planned use would be detrimental to the peace, comfort, and general welfare of persons working in the neighborhood and to the property in the neighborhood, This area is not designed appropriately to take into consideration the safety of 400 students pi us whatever number of teachers, parents, and administrators visit or work at the school each day, nor does it appropriately consider the impact on others already in the area. The traffic flow does not allow for easy access during busy times. The site has no set-back from a very busy street. Most would be traveling through one of the worst and most congested and