Skyscraper
supporters are truly desperate
Editor,
The Yes on
Q campaign is desperate. To defeat No on Q, a Redwood City citizensı
group, the Marina Shores developers are threatening to build ìbig
boxî retail if their project isnıt approved. Iım betting Redwood
City voters wonıt be bullied by the developerıs scare tactics.
If No on
Q succeeds, ìbig boxî retail is not the inevitable result. Instead,
the developer will have to come back through the entire public
planning process with any new project. I hope by now the developer
and the City Council have heard the message that the voters of
Redwood City do want housing they just donıt want skyscrapers.
The bottom line: any new project must go through a full public
review.
And, now,
the developer is slinging mud in hopes of diverting votersı attention
from the fact that it has spent at least $1 million to defeat
a group of volunteers. Wow, how much low-income housing could
that tidy sum have bought? All this money comes from the project
developer, which has only its own financial interests at heart.
The No on Q campaign, on the other hand, has raised all of $50,000
half of this from the past owners of Sunset Magazine. We are
proud of the hundreds of supporters who have donated their time
and money to the No on Q campaign not to make a profit, like
the Marina Shores developer but to build a better Redwood City.
Lynne Trulio
Redwood City
