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Wilbanks, Megan
From:Patrick Vowell <
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:Architectural Review Commission Hearing, July 6, comment item #3
These comments pertain to item #3 on the Architectural Review Commissions July 6 meeting agenda regarding file
number ARCH-0764-2019, AFFH-0210- 2020, & USE-0209-2020.
Zoning rules and regulations are enacted after thorough review of their impacts and are based on good planning
practices and procedures proven to provide for a better community in the long term. To constantly provide exceptions
to the established zoning rules serves only to undermine those good planning practices and results in an environment
and a citizenry overly burdened by the necessity to compromise quality of life to accommodate these exceptions.
A two foot setback from a creek that serves as a wildlife corridor and a sliver of green in an otherwise highly
developed part of town, when the established setback is 20 feet, is ridiculous. The standard is 20 feet, and should
remain at 20 feet to provide adequate protections to the adjacent open space in the creek corridor.
There are currently two other large projects being built within the same block as this project, both of which
received parking reductions, even though they shouldn't have. Granting parking reduction for any of them, or any other
new project is ludicrous. Encouraging people to ride bikes is great, but even people who ride their bikes still own a car,
and they need to park it somewhere while they're off riding their bike. The side streets such as Duncan and Sacramento
in this area are already beginning to fill up with cars using the street parking, and that will only continue to get worse as
the city continues to allow these parking reductions. But perhaps that's the overall plan - make parking so hard and let
the streets become so decrepit that no one is able to drive. If so, you're well on your way to success.
Please do not grant the reduced creek setback or the reduced parking for this project.
Patrick Vowell
3215 Fennel Lane
pvowell805@gmail.com
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