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These structures would arguably be the most visually obstructive commercial development relative to neighborhoods in all of Redwood City.
Redwood Life Plan related page(s): 116 - 129, 172, 173
100 feet tall + rooftop enclosures + fill
100 feet tall + rooftop enclosures + fill
Proposed zoning allowing for up to 100 foot tall buildings
Rooftop enclosures / screening adds up to 20 feet
Up to 10 feet added fill (dirt) height will additionally raises buildings
Existing Westport plan only allows up to 53 feet
Image is a rendering of building N12 per the 1st proposed plan
Drag the slider to see the proposed N12 building superimposed over existing buildings
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Proposed N1 and N2 Buildings along Marine parkway
Proposed N1 and N2 Buildings along Marine parkway
Source image taken from Marine parkway facing North
Source image taken from Island drive and Marine parkway facing NW - Click for animation!
Source image taken from Island drive and Marine parkway facing NW - Click for animation!
Viewshed and Sightlines (looming buildings)
Viewshed and Sightlines (looming buildings)
Plan 1 Proposed buildings are tall and close to shores residents
Building N12 is 120 feet tall and 146 feet away, creating a steep sharp viewshed occlusion of 39 degrees, sharper than any other development near residential in all of Redwood City
To visualize, imagine standing at the bottom of the steepest street in San Francisco and looking up at the top
Even More information available here
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Rooftop Mechanicals Enclosure
Rooftop Mechanicals Enclosure
Biotech labs and manufacturing requires substantial, noisy, and sometimes smelly, rooftop equipment including:
Cooling towers
Chillers
Boilers
Air compressors
Shadows
Shadows
Proposed 120 foot tall buildings would cast shadows over:
The slough
The Redwood Shores Ecological Reserve
The Boardwalk Neighborhood
Peninsula Landing Neighborhood
Timberhead Ln and Cutwater Ln in Foster City
Wind
Wind
Prevailing Shores winds blow through Westport, then over residential
Proposed tall buildings may create wind tunnels
Prevailing winds blow from site to residential
Releases from labs
Proposed garage entrance and exits face residential
Notes
Describing a building by number of floors is misleading as floor heights often vary
Regarding architect plans, "Elevation" is the term for top and side views
To find the height of a proposed structure, find the bottom floors height and add consecutive floors to it to calculate actual heights
MEP stands for mechanical enclosure, the tallest part of the building that houses elements like blowers and air conditioning
MEP's are not included in zoning height regulations. They are an additional 20 foot height added to what's allowed by zoning.
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Renderings scale references (20 foot tall people!) and pictures are often misleading, see below
Windrose generated from San Carlos airport reports
Original scale reference image from 2nd Redwood Life plan, pg# 138
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