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Councilman Leipzig said he opposed this amendment. "I hate to see us expand a very large department of our City, the Redevelopment Agency, before we have accomplished many projects in an Area that has been in place since 1989. There are lots of things we can do in the existing Area to improve the downtown, the El Camino, the streets, the roads, cleaning up the entrances to Redwood City... I read in here (the staff report) that the consultant, and quite ITank1y, I think that we are going to be spending more money on consultants looking at different proposed projects, the consultant recommends taking out Ampex campus because some one is going to develop it. That is what we want. We want the private sector to come in and develop large and small areas, blighted areas. It is clear that the private sector will come in if we do our job, and that's the basics: clean up some of these areas. We can do a lot, and we started with the discussion on code enforcement.... Hopefully we will get an update on that. This is just job security, consultant security, and adding to the maze of government, and it's not moving forward in my opinion." Councilman Claire said, "the Redevelopment process was started by the Council in 1977. .. That Council, and I was on the Planning Commission at that time, pointed out that the development Councilman Leipzig is referring to, would not have occurred unless there was a willingness on the part of the City to participate in that development. The idea has always been to take those blighted areas... and include them in the Redevelopment Agency.... I disagree with the philosophy that we shouldn't be in this business. I think it is one way that we can attract (development).... We would not have Sequoia Station right now, if it were not for the Redevelopment Agency. We would not have the... Lincoln Properties Project, Seaport Center. The fact is that the Redevelopment Agency has been a vehicle for the private sector to develop in areas that would not normally be developed.... In deference to what the Mayor has said, if the seconder would allow me to amend the motion, so that we exclude the residential portions.... I would be happy to do so." Councilwoman La Berge, the seconder of the motion, said "I would support that." THE MOVER AND SECONDER AGREED TO THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS TO THEIR MOTION: The northern boundary of the proposed amended Survey Area will be as follows: north on El Camino Real to the San Carlos border, east across the railroad tracks to Stafford, south along Stafford to Whipple; the northern border would then extend east along Whipple to Industrial Road, north along Industrial to the San Carlos border, including east and west sides of Industrial excluding all residential properties; and excluding the Mobile Home Park as welL MINUTE ORDER NO. 97-018 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 JANUARY 27, 1997 MINUTES PAGE 17 Page No. 120