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From:Maria Baricevic <br />To:publiccomment <br />Subject:Fwd: Fw: 112 Vera Ave Project (APN: 053-064-130) <br />Date:Friday, July 5, 2024 4:53:27 PM <br />You don't often get email from maribari29@gmail.com. Learn why this is important <br />Re: 112 Vera Ave Project (APN: 053-064-130) <br />DPC2024-002 <br />Dear Planning Department and all Redwood City Residents, <br />I am a Redwood City resident since 2012. I live at 803 Adams St, Apt. 4 <br />on the Alleyway facing the proposed new Apt. Structure. There are 2 of us <br />living in a 1-bedroom apt. and while I have a parking spot in my driveway, <br />boyfriend does not and has to drive around for up to 30 minutes to find a <br />parking spot and most likely it will end up being 1/2 to 1 mile away. <br />I understand the proposed apt. Building will not include a parking garage <br />for its residents. There needs to be parking, because it will make the <br />unsustainable lack of parking situation here impossible. It’s ridiculous that <br />there will be no parking garage as a 1-2 floor level. No underground <br />parking is needed. Honestly, I have to pay $135 a month for my work <br />parking and my take home pay after all of the taxes, disability, Medicare <br />and my work benefits in taxes for a “quote, unquote” annual pay of <br />$55,000 per year. <br />There is another already approved building going in at 1330 El Camino <br />Real, consisting of 130 Residential units with 110 parking spaces, <br />approximately half of which will be on electronic lifts… less than 1:1 ratio <br />of parking is rational compared to what’s being proposed at 112 Vera. <br />I am not protesting low income and high density housing, but factor in <br />parking. Again, people with supportive pay from work, disability or low <br />pay can afford to pay for parking, but ideally it should be a nominal charge <br />of $35 per car, built into the rent or paid for by the landlord. <br />The residents of the apartments surrounding me love their cars. They own <br />many, because there are often multiple families per unit and they take up <br />3 spaces with one car to save parking for their spouses or multiple family <br />members or roommates. <br />Unless you plan to 1) allow our neighborhood to immediately have parking <br />stickers/permits for residents, and 2) will actively police those stickers and <br />ticket and tow cars that do not belong here… I can not see any other way <br />that you can justify building 178 units with no parking. 3) Street cleaning <br />days/signs would also be welcomed due to the number of cars that never