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HomeMy WebLinkAboutREDvariousph5-4------------------------------------------- From : Bruno Giberti[SMTP :BGIBERTI@CALPOLY .EDU ] Sent : Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1 :10 :45 PM To : Council, SloCity 2 ]L ] COUNCI L 0 ATTORNEY)21 CLERK/ORI G q D PT HEAD S 7 f g wiX_ T MES CM Gl- Subject : Historic preservation ordinance Auto forwarded by a Rule CCEOL I am in full support . The arguments against it seem to be highl y irrational and presume that the city and staff cannot treat the issue s reasonably . CDD Di R FIN DI R ?l FIRE CHIE F PW DI R POLICE CH FREC DI RUTIL DI R HR Di R RECEIVE D SEP 21 201 0 SLO CITY CLERK RED FIL E MEETING AGENDA DATE`S )V IQ ITEM #NC- Bruno Giberti AIA Ph D Professor Architectur e Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Cal Poly One Gran d Avenue San Luis Obispo CA 9340 7 (805) 756-203 6 ------------------------------------------- From : Larry Hoyt[SMTP :LHOYT03@YAHOO .COM ] Sent : Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12 :31 :32 PM To : Council, SloCit y Subject : Tonight's meetin g Auto forwarded by a Rul e Mayor and Council Members , I will not be able to attend tonight's meeting but want to express m y concerns regarding the new ordinance : Before you adopt this ordinance, consider and understand what you ar e asking of a select group of your citizens . Put yourselves in thei r shoes . The city has determined that your home is in some sense historical . This determination, which may at first seem like an honor, ofte n results in a substantial taking of property without compensatio n through building and land restrictions . Now you are being told that you are financially responsible to foreve r maintain an old structure that long ago probably should have bee n replaced . You are held responsible for decades of wear that you had n o control over . The structure can not be insured and has little valu e beyond the land it sits on . To make matters worse, you are told that you must do all of this no t because your home is really unique or historically important as i s called for in preservation guidelines , but because its age and loo k increases tourism . Is it really in the city's long term interest to to ignore the Fift h and Twelfth Amendment rights of any of its citizens . Larry Hoyt