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MINUTE ORDER <br /> CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br /> <br /> January 27, 1997 <br /> MO. 97-014 <br /> <br />CITY CLERK DEPARTMENT <br />Redwood City <br /> <br />DATE: January 30, 1997 <br /> <br />Attention: City Manager <br /> City Attorney <br /> Community Development Director <br /> Planning <br /> <br /> SUBJECT: APPEAL OF THE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR'S DENIAL OF A <br /> VARIANCE TO ALLOW A TRIPLEX AT 704 VERA AVENUE, <br /> REDWOOD CITY (603) <br /> <br />Meeting of the Council of the City of Redwood City on January 27, 1997. <br /> <br />Present: Councilmembers Buchan, Claire, Howard, La Berge, Leipzig <br /> and Mayor Hatlnett <br /> <br />Absent: Ruskin <br /> <br />The following motion was made, carried and entered on the Minutes: <br /> <br /> M/S: LA BERGE/HOWARD TO DENY THE APPEAL OF THE <br /> ZONING ADMINISTRATOR'S DENIAL OF A VARIANCE TO ALLOW <br /> A TRIPLEX AT 704 VERA AVENUE, REDWOOD CITY. <br /> <br /> Mayor Hartnett agreed with his colleagues that this was a particularly <br /> difficult decision because "the people who wish to build are exactly the <br /> people who you wish would build in our community. That is, people who <br /> have roots here, people who intend to stay here, and people who wish to <br /> have quality in what they build and where they live. The kind of people we <br /> want to encourage in our City. They have come up against an Ordinance <br /> and policies of the City that relate to preserving single family character of <br /> neighborhoods where that is possible, and the possibility that if the variance <br /> requested is granted which by its nature is granting something exceptional, <br /> then that opens the opportunity for others in a concentrated area to feel that <br /> they would have a right as I think they may well have under similar <br /> circumstances, to build something as well. That would have an impact on <br /> <br /> <br />