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September 23, 2013 Redwood City Council Members Redwood City Planning Department City Attorney 1017 Middlefield Road Redwood City, CA 94064 Dear Honorable Mayor, Council Members, City Attorney and Planning Department Members 8.A. - Page 504 SEP 17 2013 CrrY OF REDWOOD CITY PLANNING SERVICES The Laurel Way Plan Development Project has been in the works with the Redwood City Planning Department since 2005. As a resident of San Mateo County, I was kept in the loop by the individual land owners of the Laurel Way Group and recently learned that Redwood City's Council will be taking a decision on the project. I am in favor of approvin2 the EIR and allowing the Laurel Way Group to build their individual homes as was initially requested in the submitted PD. On behalf of Laurel Way Joint Venture ("LWJV"), I'd like to note the following: (1) The project followed CEQA in detail and adequately analyzed the environmental impacts to Laurel Way and to the immediate neighborhood. (2) The CEQA analysis concluded that there are no significant impacts (after mitigation). (3) The opponents have been raising the same questions for 3 years and those questions have been answered repeatedly for 3 years by Redwood City's environmental experts. Nothing new was brought about. (4) The Planning Department decided in 2011 to make changes to the Geotechnical mitigation measures and those were successfully accomplished by Redwood City's environmental experts. (5) If Laurel Way were in any other neighboring city in the peninsula, it would have already been developed and the individual land owners would have had a home to live in. As a resident of San Mateo County, we are in favor of having our neighborhood improve by this planned development. Hence I am in favor of approvinLy the EIR as was submitted and allowin the individual land owners to develop their private land on Laurel Way. With Regards, Signature: �C, �� (print name) L— f\ P-- 0- \-rl W Dated: