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taxes. Mr. Molony said those businesses have provided major community support for decades and decades and have plans for massive investments for the future as well as providing diversity in the City's portfolio. Mr. Molony said the Report citing blight was inaccurate relating to Area 2, and this sub-area was not legally justified to be labeled as blighted. He said this was a very healthy economic sector and property values were increasing on their own. Mr. Molony said there was a need to respect private property rights, and recommended that a project area committee be formed to avoid creating a divisive issue. He said redevelopment works well where it is needed, but it is not needed on Blomquist. Mr. Molony submitted his slides for the record. Director Church said the law does not obligate the formation of a project area committee as there are no residential units in the proposed area. He said if there were, however, the plan as currently proposed would exempt them. Director Church said the original direction from the Council was to include area along the EI Camino and both sides of the 101 corridor, and the original Plan name was the 101 Project. He said the testimony tonight "indicates that there is a substantial investment in the industrial sector. The Plan life we are proposing here will run for 20 years, and a lot may change in that time. This proposal before you would provide you with tools to respond to changes in circumstance a long time in the future. It may be that you want to leave and encourage those businesses to grow in that area. I think that is the direction that you have given us over the last year or so. If that is the case, then that is what will happen as a result of redevelopment. It gives you a tool to affect those businesses in a positive way. The implication is from the discussion of blight and eminent domain that the only thing you are going to do is affect them negatively, and I don't think that's true." Lynette Dowling, 751 Canyon Road, said her auto mechanic's business is on Tacoma and she buys lots of materials to beautify her property from Lyngso. She asked if her mechanic's business was compatible with the area for redevelopment, and if not, what kind of relocation assistance would be offered to him. She described the positive outcome of the City staff working with the gas station on Canyon Road and Oak Knoll. She encouraged staff to use that process as a model. Director Church said it was too soon to comment on any given use as there is no Plan at this point. He said there is relocation assistance available as provided under law to businesses impacted by redevelopment. Bart Saucerman, 1485 Veterans Blvd., representing Good Night Inn Hotels, in the proposed Area I, said he supported the Redevelopment Project. He said that his company wanted to create more jobs for the City, and generate more revenue, and asked, "How can we partner with the City in helping to redevelop our property and our project?" AGENDA FOR THE JOINT PUBLIC HEARING MINUTE BOOK NO.1 JUNE 8,1998 AND CONCURRENT MEETING WITH THE Page No. 487 PAGE 12 CITY COUNCIL