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8.A. - Page 489 <br />From: STEVEN MADAMA [mailto:steven.madama@roadrunner.com] <br />Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 7:32 PM <br />To: GRP -City Council; Planning E -Mail <br />Cc: o hanerOl@vahoo.com; CD-Sailesh Mehra <br />Subject: Letter of Support for the Laurel Way Group to Build Their Individual Homes <br />Redwood City Council Members <br />Redwood City Planning Department <br />City Attorney <br />1017 Middlefield Road <br />Redwood City, CA 94064 <br />Dear Honorable Mayor, Council Members, City Attorney and Planning Department Members <br />The Laurel Way Plan Development Project has been in the works with the Redwood City <br />Planning Department since 2005. I was kept in the loop by the individual land owners of the <br />Laurel Way Group and recently learned that Redwood City's Council will be taking a decision <br />on the project. <br />I am in favor of approving the EIR and allowing the Laurel Way Group to build <br />their individual homes as was initially requested in the submitted PD. <br />On behalf of Laurel Way Joint Venture ("LWJV"), I'd like to note the following: <br />(1) The project followed CEQA in detail and adequately analyzed the environmental impacts to <br />Laurel Way and to the immediate neighborhood. <br />(2) The CEQA analysis concluded that there are no significant impacts (after mitigation). <br />(3) The opponents have been raising the same questions for 3 years and those questions have <br />been answered repeatedly for 3 years by Redwood City's environmental experts. Nothing new <br />was brought about. <br />(4) The Planning Department decided in 2011 to make changes to the Geotechnical mitigation <br />measures and those were successfully accomplished by Redwood City's environmental experts. <br />(5) If Laurel Way were in any other neighboring city in the peninsula, it would have already <br />been developed and the individual land owners would have had a home to live in. <br />We are in favor of having our neighborhood improve by this planned development. Hence I am <br />in favor of approving the EIR as was submitted and allowing the individual land <br />owners to develop their private land on Laurel Way. <br />With Regards, <br />Steve Madama <br />