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Heather,
Agenda correspondence.
Thanks - Kathy
Smith, Kathy
Monday, November Ll,2013 9:07 AM
Goodwin, Heather
FW: Redacted info/ AiTBNB complaints
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From: Karen Hale Iubwell53@gmail,com]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 4:26 PM
To: mcordon@slocity,org; Max, Jan; Johnson, Derek; Smith, Kathy; Christianson, Carlyn; Ashbaugh, John
Subject: Redacted info/ AiTBNB complaints
I am in receipt of the five AirBnB complaints, one of them involving me. I am very concerned that while
people complaining had names redacted, my name and Dale Landis ( not involved in any of this) are named
with our address. I am requesting that our names be redacted. The city must be responsible to all citizens. The
complaint was files anonymously from the same neighbor who has made ethnic slurs at me and my
children. All the information is false with the exception that I did do AirBnB ( this letter was sent to city
attorney in April). Publishing our names to the public with the complaints puts the city at supporting slanderous
and false statements. I had never seen the complaint before and I am shocked at its content. I am not going to
continue to be bullied by this neighbor, and now by the city of SLO, and I am requesting that our names be
redacted from the info. The city of SLO has allowed this hateful man to continue making slanderous remarks
that you are now making public. The person in question is Richard Orcutt, and there are police files attesting to
the continued harassment we are facing.
Anonymous complaints should not be weighted against honest people. Driving our street, one would notice our
home has the most improvements, has been drought tolerant for 15 years, no noise complaint has ever been filed
or any complaint except for this neighbor who lives 2 doors down and started harassing us when my 10 year old
son told him in an innocent conversation that we were celebrating Chanukah. This was 16 years ago, and if I
could afford to move, I would have.
We will be leaving SLO in the near future. I am hopeful that in the future, current city employees and City
Council respectfully support a more tolerant view.
Again, please redact our names from this public information. We are innocent until proven otherwise? Your did
not place names with other addresses in complaints and this is simply outrageous.
We have been investigated multiple times due to this man. At some point, it must be obvious this is merely
harassment, as the only claim of reality was AirBnB, which at the time, the city business license office said was
fine.
We have 2 businesses on the street that have never been investigated, One has a home license, but has 2heavy
duty trucks, boxed commercial plants, additional towing vehicles around his home, the other is a full time
private gym run out of a garage, with 40-50 people per week in addition to Tues and Thurs night boot camp.
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Please go pick on someone else. Of course, Mr. Orcutt could care less about the degradation of his
neighborhood regarding these issues.
FYI, my license has never been at question ( altho I am retired), Dale has never worked out of the garage, we
have gone away camping and left house sitters for our animals. None of this is illegal in any way.
Sincerely,
Karen Hale
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