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8.A. - Page 131 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> Grounds for Denying or Modifying the Tentative Permit for 525 Middle£eld <br /> I. The proposed Development violates the following provisions of the Downtown <br /> Precise Plan (DPP): <br /> A. 1.2.4 (page 9) The Development violates the documented "community <br /> preference" for buildings that reflect the context of the historic architectare <br /> throughout the downtown area. <br /> B. 1.2.6 (page 10) The Development violates the city's commitment to "complete <br /> streets" in the Downtown area. Particularly, a ten story escarpment only twelve <br /> feet from the narrow Bradford Street side of the Development will increase <br /> feelings of"uncomfortablilty, lack of safety and inconvenience" for many users. <br /> Essentially no consideration has been given to the disparate heights between the <br /> Development and the cluster of historical buildings immediately across Bradford <br /> Sh-eet that will not tend to make pedestrians feel their streets are "safer, more <br /> livable and welcoming to everyone". <br /> 1) The Development violates the primary vision of the DPP in that it does not <br /> establish a distinctive "human scaled" district that retains the "history, charm and <br /> livability" of an historic medium sized city. <br /> 2) The Development provides no affordable housing for a"variety of income <br /> groups" as extolled in the vision of the DPP. <br /> 3) The Development violates the DPP vision that "new buildings are to define a <br /> distinctive, unique and livable form for a medium sized city...well scaled to <br /> surrounding neighbarhoods". <br /> 4) The Development does not maintain access, human scale, walkability and the <br /> right "feel"which should be "strongly rooted" in Redwood City's history. <br /> 1 <br />