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San Luis Obispo City Counci l
City of San Luis Obisp o
990 Palm Stree t
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3249
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NOV 0 4 2010
SLO CITY CLER K
RE : Request For Postponement Of Action On Adoption of Histori c
Preservation Ordinance and Guidelines (GPI 72-09 )
Dear Mayor Romero and City Council Members :
My office represents Saving San Luis Obispo Homes which is a committee of Sa n
Luis Obispo residents that will be affected by the draft Historic Preservation Ordinanc e
and Guidelines if adopted at the upcoming November 9, 2010, City Council meeting . O n
behalf of my client I am asking that consideration of this matter be postponed so that m y
client and the hundreds of other similarly situated homeowners will have more time t o
analyze it and provide input thereon .
As you are aware from previous communications from representatives of th e
committee, the city failed to get early and meaningful input from the residents befor e
writing the document and then failed to follow its own General Plan requiring the cit y
to hold meetings in the neighborhoods . Further, there were problems with the post car d
notifications in that the information on the cards themselves was inadequate . In fact, th e
main body of one of the postcards stated : "The Cultural Heritage Committee will conduc t
a hearing to consider an application near your property or residence ." Obviously this di d
not notify recipients that new laws were being formulated that could have long ter m
negative impacts associated with them . It was also pointed out by city staff that postcard s
were not mailed for every meeting because public hearing items are typically continue d
from one meeting to subsequent meetings .
Without getting too much into the history of what has and has not taken plac e
with regards to making the neighborhoods aware of what was in the works, the reality i s
that many homeowners are just now becoming aware of the specifics of the propose d
ordinance and guidelines and many have some real concerns and questions about them .
Further, the staff report for this coming Tuesday's hearing on the proposed ordinance an d
guidelines just came out this week and is over two hundred and seventy pages long . The
document is not only full of changes to the previously proposed ordinance and guidelines ,
but also full of legal jargon which makes it complicated for many of the homeowners t o
understand without further clarification from staff As I'm sure you will agree, goo d
legislation takes time and tries to address the concerns of all who will be affected . The
Council's proposed hearing schedule will not accomplish this goal and will, effectively ,
shut out the effort of homeowners to have meaningful input into laws that will affec t
them for years to come .
I therefore request that the upcoming November 9, 2010, City Council meeting o n
this issue be rescheduled to allow sufficient time for meaningful input from the histori c
residential neighborhoods .
cc :
Babak Nafic y
Peg Pinard