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I I I III Mr. Kampf said, "I am opposed to the rezoning of this site to a new zoning designation for single family moderate density housing. The fmdings and basis for a Negative Declaration is flawed and it does not discuss all the significant impacts of this proposed project. Each significant impact needs to be addressed by showing ~ mitigation measures which clearly mitigates the impact or lessens significant levels. If there is doubt that there is a significant impact which is mitigated to less than a significant level then an Environmental Impact Report must be prepared. The following environmental issues represent significant impacts which have not been addressed and not been mitigated to a less than significant level. To be consistent with an amendment to the Land Use Element of the General Plan, I am not sure how the inftastructure and circulation systems will have adequate capacity to serve the amended land use. Not to look into these matters is in direct conflict with the requirement to protect health, safety and welfare of the public. Redwood City must comply with CEQA, comply with the General Plan or update the General Plan, specifically housing, inftastructure and traffic." Mr. Kampf said, "The report that was prepared states that the proposed R-2 Density is compatible with the existing R-l neighborhood. It is hard for me to believe that a project that is twice as dense as the existing community does not constitute a conflict for the Land Use Element, Policy L-2. According to CEQA there should be an alternative low impact design, provide R-l design that was never provided. In terms of the Land Use Policy, L-4, the loss of commercial space is inconsistent with the General Plan. There were no other studies being done as to a commercial site or how that could be developed. We have no ideas what is going to happen to other neighborhoods. As soon as developers see that this law come in, they may start assembling sites and other - neighborhood commercial sites may be put in jeopardy. If there are no neighborhood places to go shopping, people are still going to have to get in their cars to go shopping to Sequoia Station which is going to increase traffic, rather than decrease traffic. "Initially the study showed Housing Element, H-l, stated that they would be moderately priced housing. These houses are going to go for at least what the rest of the neighborhood goes for, and I assume a year ITom now the way property values are going to go, I wouldn't be surprised if they are in the $375,000 range. For the City Council to double the density for this housing is basically just to line the pockets of the developer and the land owners, and is just going to create more problems for this neighborhood. I feel the project will denigrate the aesthetic quality of the area by filling up the site with two-story, tightly spaced buildings in an existing neighborhood of single family homes. This project creates a conflict by disparity, density, intensity of proposed land use, and will significantly damage this neighborhood. "This proposed project is an inappropriate land use for this site. If you drive up Roosevelt Avenue ITom E1 Camino, the Petrini building is large. Imagine the impact when this site is completely filled up by buildings, and actually they look like condos. These pictures here I took at a project in Los Altos. You can't see between the buildings. They are just one large mass. And that is what everyone is going to see - driving up El Camino, it is up on a hill. It is really going to stand out, and it is not going to look like single family homes. This is another picture of the cuI de sac, and REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 MAY 5,1997 MINUTES Page No. 291 PAGE 16