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In response to Vice Chairperson Ruskin's questions regarding heights of the buildings, Mr. Tang said the EI Camino Real retail/residential buildings are retail on the ground floor and four story residential. He said the same configuration existed for the buildings on the west side of Jefferson, but the buildings on the east side of Franklin were townhomes with two and three stories. In response to Director Leipzig's questions regarding the specific "for sale" townhomes and condominiums, Mr. Tang said there would be about 85 townhomes and the balance would be condominiums, "and some small percentage of townhomes within that condominium mix." He said that would include some high density townhomes, "basically the 85 would be the lower density townhomes and the balance of the 300 would be the condominiums." In response to Director Member Leipzig's questions, Mr. Tang said there would be about 85 townhomes along the tracks, and a small percentage of high density townhomes "across the street." He said that the Pacific Bell building would remain and negotiations were on going with Bekins. In response to Director Leipzig's questions regarding the percentage of moderate and low income units included in the project, Director Church said, "The legal requirement is 15% of the total units in the project being affordable to low and moderate income.... It could be all in one or split between all three (rental, townhomes, condominiums)... There has been no closure on (this issue.)" Director Church said the 15% is based upon the assumption that the Redwood City Redevelopment Agency gets involved in some or all of the acquisitions. If that is the case, then it is mandated by state law." Director Church said the 15% was not contingent upon the degree to which the Agency was involved. He said, "the requirement would go simply because it is in a Redevelopment Area. Even if we didn't have any active involvement with the developer, we would still be having to pass that responsibility on to the developers because the state imposes the requirement on us, and that is the only way we have of fulfilling it." In response to Director Member Leipzig's questions, Director Church said there had been discussions of in lieu fees, using development fees to build the units elsewhere. He said, "we are resistive to that at this point, because 15% of the total units would be about 75 to 80 units" and staff would need guidance from the Director as to the appropriate place to build such a large affordable development. In further response to Director Member Leipzig's questions, Director Church said that the original request from staff to Irvine for apartment units was 204, and their original proposal back to staff was around 230 to 240, and then it got scaled back. Director Member Leipzig said that it was now about 200. At 11:14 p.m. MIS: IRAlRUSKIN TO EXTEND THE MEETING TEN MINUTES. CARRIED BY UNANIMOUS VOICE VOTE MINUTE ORDER 98-016RD SPECIAL REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO.1 May 18, 1998 MINUTES Page No. 473 PAGE 4