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From :Ehrbar, Barbara
Sent :Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4 :58 P MTo:Judge, Christopher
Subject :Phone Call Regarding PH 5
Rosemary McKeen Carrington phoned the council asked them to continue consideration of PH 5
so that more time can be taken to review the memo from Kim Murry dated September 20 th
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Council, SloCity
From :Dan Krieger [dan@kriegerconsulting .net]Sent :Tue 9/21/2010 4 :35 PM
To :Council, SloCit y
Cc:alexgough@charter .net ; 'Dean Mille r '; 'Chuck Crotser'; rvessely@callamericacom .net ; 'Joseph Carotenuti'; 'Duerr,Sandra - SLO'; slohistory@gmail .com
Subject:Historic Resources Ordinanc e
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Dear Council Members,
I am writing in support of the proposed Historic Resources Ordinance as drafted . I am unable to attend tonight's meeting but I am
keenly interested the issues at hand .
During the first half of my nearly forty years residence in San Luis Obispo, I witnessed the loss of many important cultural resource s
through legal demolition processes.
Since the creation of the Cultural Heritage Commission, the loss is largely through benign or deliberate neglect . In the more flagran t
instances we have lost significant structures such as the Bottle Works, only to have them replaced by pale imitations of the origina l
structures.
I once was able to take groups of children and adults to the bottle works facade on Nipomo Street and speak of all that went o n
there in this once hot and dry town of the Far West .
Today, my audiences don't react in the same way because reality has been supplanted by replica . The original building could hav e
been saved with City intervention in the 1970's and 80's . By the time of the floods of 1995, it was too late .
The goal of preservation is to save the best of the historic and contributing structures . This requires an ordinance with some teeth i n
it, and if necessary in egregious instances, criminal penalties .
It also should apply to the city-owned properties, especially the Quintana Adobe on Dana Street, the Garcia Adobe in th e
Edna/Islay Development and the Bowden/La Loma Adobe off Lizzie Street .
Our heritage is the value added portion of our city . Please vote your obligations as stewards of these precious gifts for futur e
generations .
Best wishes,
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Dan K
Daniel E . Krieger
Professor Emeritus, Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
President, California Mission Studies Associatio n
662 Islay
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-434 6
Voice : 805 .543 .961 1
FAX:805 .543 .7122
dan@kriegerconsulting .net
slohistory@gmail .com
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Council, SloCity
From :Andrew Merriam [agmerriam@charter .netj Sent:Tue 9/21/2010 3 :25 P M
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Council, SloCity
Historic Preservation in San Luis Obispo
Dear Council Members ,
As a former practicing architect, planning commissioner, former chairman of the Cultural Heritage Committee and a practicin g
planner who has prepared over a dozen historic analyses for Ca€trans and the County , I would like to express strong support fo r
continued preservation efforts in San Luis Obispo . While there have been times when I felt there was too much micro managemen t
in the preservation process, there is no doubt in my mind that our community would have lost much that we feel Is vital an d
wonderful if there had been no preservation effort . Serving on the Conceptual Physical Plan for the Downtown committee with Ke n
Schwartz, Pierre Rademaker, Chuck Crotser and Rod Levin - a plan which has hung in the City Council chambers for nearly 2 0
years- convinced me that the commercial vitality of our downtown could not be what it is without major efforts to preserve and buil d
on our authentic historic past .
While we must permit adaptation and response to modern requirements, allowing significant destruction or degradation of building s
and community character that announce where we have been and who we are in our commercial and residential neighborhood s
would be placing San Luis Obispo into a "lowest common denominator" mentality of "anywhere USA". With this approach we could
lose what over two centuries of authentic California history on the Central Coast has created : our unique and desirable community .
I urge the City Council to judiciously review and update the preservation ordinances but not to abandon a process that has serve d
us well visually, culturally, and economically .
Andrew Merria m
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