HomeMy WebLinkAbout2/4/2020 Item 8, Correia
Purrington, Teresa
From:Stanwyck, Shelly
Sent:Tuesday, January 28, 2020 6:49 PM
To:Christianson, Carlyn; cristina correia
Cc:Purrington, Teresa; Codron, Michael
Subject:RE: ADU's and affordable housing
Thank you Ms. Correia for your email. Staff will be coordinating a response (and will get back to you by
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February 5) as this involves multiple departments, Utilities and Community Development.
Best,
Shelly Stanwyck
Assistant City Manager Community Services
City Administration
919 palm street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3934
E sstanwyck@slocity.org
T 805.781.7294
slocity.org
From: Christianson, Carlyn <cchristi@slocity.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:57 PM
To: cristina correia <tinapires@yahoo.com>
Cc: Purrington, Teresa <TPurring@slocity.org>; Codron, Michael <mcodron@slocity.org>; Stanwyck, Shelly
<sstanwyc@slocity.org>
Subject: Re: ADU's and affordable housing
Hi Ms. Correira,
Thanks for taking the time to communicate with the Council. I've included staff so that they might respond to your email
in case you are misunderstanding the proposal, and also to include your letter with Public Comment on this item.
Your details do help Council and staff craft the best possible ordinance going forward, and I'll be keeping your email in
mind as I deliberate.
Thanks again,
Carlyn
Carlyn Christianson
Council Member
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Office of the City Council
990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3249
E cchristianson@slocity.org
T 805.781.7122
C 805.550.9320
slocity.org
From: cristina correia <tinapires@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:19 PM
To: Christianson, Carlyn <cchristi@slocity.org>
Subject: ADU's and affordable housing
Hi Carlyn. I am a resident of SLO living in one of the “utility constrained” areas where if you want to add a lateral (sewer
line) to your property, you have to also replace a neighbors lateral. I am trying to add 2 units and 2 ADU’s on my
property. One of the units would house my own family (we are currently living on the existing residence on South), and
one of the units would be affordable housing and each would have an ADU unit. There is verbiage coming to the council
on Feb 4th which would allow utility to require each ADU unit over 750 square feet to also have their own utility connection
and that would then trigger each ADU unit to replace a neighbors lateral. So for our small project, that would be 8
laterals! At about 20k each, that would very quickly get rid of our affordable housing plan and, honestly, probably prevent
any building on our lot. There is no provision excluding ADU’s from the lateral replacement plan and there is no provision
excluding affordable units from the sewer lateral replacement ordinance. I’ve just come from the utility department where
they have confirmed that this verbiage is intended to be used in this way. I am overwhelmed at the length that various
bodies of government will go to to prevent housing from being created. Please consider all avenues of what this verbiage
means to the citizens of SLO. I emailed you before with a few concerns on some of the restrictions staff is proposing but
wanted to pass along this info from utility. I’ve attached my plan to give you a sense of what I’m trying to do. But, more
importantly, I’m concerned about what this means for SLO as a whole.
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