Please join us on Tuesday, July 9 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. for an online community workshop to learn about East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood Business District/4 Corners Specific Plan and how you can provide your input on this plan to the city.

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This workshop is hosted by Nuestra Casa in partnership with Green Foothills, the Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter, SPUR, Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge, and Sequoia Audubon Society.

What’s Happening

The Ravenswood Business District/4 Corners Specific Plan is the city’s proposed plan for growth in the northeastern part of the city (see map below). The plan envisions up to 3.35 million square feet of office space and up to 1,600 units of housing. Office buildings next to the Bay wetlands could be up to eight stories, and buildings closer to existing neighborhoods could be four or five stories. That much development could cause impacts such as increased traffic, gentrification and displacement, and harm to wetlands and sensitive species.

Community benefits that might be provided due to the Ravenswood Specific Plan include new parks, affordable housing, job training, and support for local businesses. But these benefits come with trade-offs. For example, providing new parks sounds great, but with thousands of new office workers and new residents in the area as a result of this development, will the amount of parkland be sufficient to accommodate all the people who will want to use it?

The city is asking community members to submit comments through this public comment form. The deadline to submit comments is July 25.

Why It Matters

The amount of new development proposed in the Ravenswood Specific Plan is bigger than anything East Palo Alto has seen before. Whether you believe this massive development is a good thing for the city or not, it will fundamentally change East Palo Alto. That’s why it’s so important for community members to learn about the Ravenswood Specific Plan and tell city officials their opinions.

What You Can Do

Please attend the online community workshop to learn more about the Ravenswood Business District/4 Corners Specific Plan and how to provide your input to the City of East Palo Alto.

What: East Palo Alto Ravenswood Business District Informational Workshop
When: Tuesday, July 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
How to join:
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82378965581?pwd=OIMiHym3ArTFZqQwV4sUoSXefwWfgn.1
Meeting ID: 823 7896 5581
Passcode: 628246

If you can’t attend the July 9 community workshop, you can still submit your comments to the city through the public comment form. The deadline to submit comments is July 25.

Thank you for taking action!