HomeMy WebLinkAbout9/15/2020 Item 9, Dunaway
Purrington, Teresa
From:Deon Dunaway <deon.dunaway@yahoo.com>
Sent:Tuesday, September 8, 2020 10:20 PM
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Froom Ranch Specific Plan: Agenda Item 9
To SLO City Council:
I am writing in regard to Agenda Item 9, the Froom Ranch Specific Plan, which I urge you to
approve. For years SLO has recognized a need for a Life Care retirement facility which would allow
community residents to remain on one campus in this area as they age, even if their need for care
increased to the point of requiring skilled nursing or dementia care. My husband and I moved from
SLO in 2014 to find that kind of quality care. It had become obvious that my husband would likely
soon require it. We were on a waiting list for Villaggio, but progress on the project seemed to be
stalled for a matter of years. We knew at least six other families who moved from SLO for the same
reason. As time ran out we were forced, sadly, to move elsewhere, away from our family in SLO
County. We moved to an excellent facility in Oregon where I remained an additional four years after
my husband's death, waiting and hoping for a Life Care Community to be built in SLO so I could
return "home" near family. Last year I returned to SLO, still wishing and hoping for a Life Care
Community here. Please act now to facilitate this much needed type of retirement community!
Deon Dunaway
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