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8.A. - Page 394 <br />ATTAcHmENr- -E -CIL . <br />� u <br />Redwood City Planning Commission i4AR 2 () 2013 <br />OF <br />c/o Redwood City Planning and Housing Division cPP1ANNING S��OoF' <br />1017 Middlefield .Road <br />Redwood City, CA 94063 <br />Laurel Way Development <br />The new plan we saw looks like it is going to allow very large homes on very small lots. <br />The steep slope of the lots, without test drill holes to bedrock, makes it inadvisable to <br />allow such large homes. The city gets to determine the size of the houses on it not the <br />developers. The city was supposed to develop a plan for infill -zoning for hillside lots. <br />From the proposal the homes will be twice the size of the existing neighborhood homes <br />on small steep lots. It is against all the existing slope rules for development_ <br />We would be very interested to see the city zoning and development plan for these types <br />of lots. Has it been developed and proposed to the public yet? <br />The other issue I have is traffic and the poor quality of Highland Avenue and Laurel <br />Way. Highland Avenue is determined to be an unimproved street, what ever that means. <br />It is poorly paved, the city just puts in inadequate patches that crumble under the traffic <br />of the fire trucks and is used as a through street rather than the neighborhood street it is. <br />Not only is the street poorly maintained it is hazardous. Highland needs to be re -graded <br />and then repaved to take fire trucks and increased traffic due to there proposed 16 new, <br />very large houses. <br />Laurel Way has its problems as well. The street is sliding down the hill. Large fissures <br />are developing showing how the city paved street is breaking up. Also the curb catches <br />water rather than carrying it to Highland where it becomes surface drainage and adds to <br />the wear and tear of lower Highland Avenue. <br />It is our opinion that the lots need to be developed as housing which confirms to the <br />slope/lot size standards currently in place. <br />JiEd�� , <br />Martin Kam <br />3670 Highland Av nue <br />(corner of Laurel Way) <br />Redwood City, CA 94062 <br />