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Christian, Kevin
From:Victoria Wood <victoriawood@charter.net>
Sent:Tuesday, June 2, 2020 12:44 PM
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Item 12: 545 Marsh
6/1/20
Victoria Wood
972 Church
San Luis Obispo, CA
City Council of San Luis Obispo
I am hoping that all of you can appreciate what is remaining of our historical areas in San Luis Obispo. I have lived on the
Central Coast my entire life and have lived in San Luis Obispo for the last fifty years. I can always remember driving into
SLO and appreciating and seeing the mountains that surround us and what beauty and calmness this brings to the city.
L arge buildings with no set back and without any thought to historical architectural style take away the light and views that are so
special to this city. Some of our new larger buildings have taken away the light and you can no longer see the beautiful mountains
around us when you drive down Marsh, Santa Rosa, Higuera and many streets in our down town core. I am one of the previous
owners of the Kaetzel House and I love the Historical homes in the gateway to our city. While owning the Kaetzel House with Gail
Johnson we were active in preserving the Pinho home as well as working with the Historical groups to address the architectural style
of the bank next to the Jack House. At that time people in the city were more open to retaining a flow of new building with the
old. We still have the opportunity to do this with the current project that is proposed. The project as it is currently designed is too
large, too tall with no setbacks and makes no attempt to blend with any of the Historical buildings in SLO. Please take all of this into
consideration when reviewing this project.
Victoria
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