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apartment complex is not in the best interest of Concord resident's health, safety and welfare, quite the opposite. Public Safety Issues: A 41-unit apartment complex in the proposed location is a great public safety concern, not only for the apartment complex tenants but for the neighborhood residents as well. The developer's proposal to address this concern is a 6 foot iron-wrought fence along the riverbed border. As it is, the riverbed (being county property) is not patrolled at all. Neighborhood residents bordering the riverbed have constant problems with gangs and transients - primary reason why residents along the riverbed have fences higher than six feet tall. Adding a 41-unit apartment complex will provide a great opportunity for the tenants to be victims of crime; easy access through the riverbed and easy escape. It's inevitable that such problems will spread to the surrounding neighborhood and obviously that a huge concern for our community. Again, we don't need the additional targets of criminal activity in our neighborhood. City Funding of Project: My understanding in 2010 the Developer asked from the City and received $1.5 million in HOME loans. However, the developer was unsuccessful in receiving low income tax credits and now wants the City to lend it another $469,000, so as to "improve its success" with another tax credit application. At a time when the City's workforce has been slashed to a bare minimum (or less), how can the city be loaning money to a developer so the it can "improve" it chances at getting low income tax credits - especially to add an apartment complex to single family residence neighborhood! While I understand it's a different "pot" from which the City makes these loans, it is still incredible to believe the City would be funding the "destruction" one of its last remaining single family residence neighborhoods! If the City has such funds available, maybe the City should consider funding a Community Center in that location. There are no community centers anywhere close to Concord and the surrounding neighborhoods and there is definitely a need for one. Instead, the City is looking to fund an apartment complex to be located at a prime entryway to the City. The Developer: Prior to March 7, 2011, the last time the Developer had any contact with Concord as in the summerof 2009. Contrary to the statement, in the Discussion section of the Recommended Action before the Council, the Developer has NOT been working with 21 Page CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 26 MARCH 21, 2011