HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/16/2020 Item 11, GinderDale Ginder
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San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
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June 15, 2020
Carlyn Christianson
Council Member
Office of the City Council
990 Palm St.
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3249
Re: June 16, 2020; Business Item 11.; Consideration of a Resolution Establishing a Policy for Clean
Energy…
Dear Carlyn Christianson:
Please move the business item 11 above to a more convenient time for the citizens of this community
to address it in person with the council members.
Majority people in our community demand use of gas in their homes. Requiring new development
piping in gas to pay a fee, and or to install electric service capacity with specified sufficient amperage
connections, wiring, and space for future required all-electric system connections is costly, unnecessary,
and is shameful.
In my verbal discussions with people of this community, not one has found required electrification for
new buildings worthwhile. The council is failing to go about this in an appropriate manner. The solution
is to go after gas at the production end, not at the end-user.
Southern California Gas Co. has made it clear that it is discovering new methods and technologies to
harness and make renewable gas a reality. Knowing this to be the case, the council’s penalizing a
preferred energy choice of a homeowner by strapping further costly requirements is wrong, pure and
simple. Let people be free to choose without paying these in-leu extortion costs.
Last, exempting this ordinance for commercial kitchens shows preferential treatment and again displays
hypocrisy at its finest.
I am not happy with this type of leadership. Move this item to a later date allowing us to protest in
person, please.
Dale Ginder