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Wilbanks, Megan
From:Gary Havas <
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:Active Transportation Committee Communication, December 3 continuation meeting
Attachments:201203 BSLOC Notes to ATC meeting Dec 3.pdf
Greetings!
Please forward the following document to the Active Transportation Committee for their review for tonight’s
continuation meeting, and thanks!
Cheers!
Gary Havas
Board President, Bike SLO County
805-458-0755
gphavas6953@gmail.com
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Bike SLO County
867 Pacific St #210
San Luis Obispo CA 93401
United States
(805) 547-2055
December 3, 2020
San Luis Obispo Active Transportation Committee
Attn: Chair Roberts and Committee Members
℅ City Clerk
990 Palm St,
San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401
Bike SLO County’s follow up comments on the 2020 Draft Active Transportation Plan
Greetings Chair Roberts and Committee Members!
We are pleased to have listened through your Monday meeting this week. We thank the past City
BAC and the ATC Committee members, City staff, and community stakeholders and volunteers for
having deliberated and collaborated on this important document, and for spending so much of your
time over the last two years getting the Draft ATP to this point. Bike SLO County congratulates you!
The themes that became evident at Monday’s meeting include retaining the draft’s Tier definitions
and project organizations within those tiers, promoting the general worthiness of this document with
caveats of addressing the shortcomings of existing wording and punctuation for increase of clarity
and readability, and identifying that this document’s approval process is quite rushed. We appreciate
the importance of the struggle to meet the deadlines leading to the Council Goal-Setting Workshop
February 2, and are pleased to hear the public comment deadline has been extended to December
31, 2020.
Bike SLO County’s name says a lot about how we view this particular process, and as a “county”
entity, we want it all, all the projects, including some of the very important big items whose
penetration into the City from the County is of such significance to transportation, connectivity,
enjoyment, and economic vitality of the entire area. Significantly the Bob Jones Trail segment from
the Octagon Barn (SLO County) to Los Osos Valley Road (SLO City) is a project that we see sweet
importance in from the amount time and effort spent in collaboration with so many groups,
stakeholders, funders and funding sources which have gotten the project so close to its next big
operational step.
Bike SLO County also recognizes the Active Transportation Plan is uniquely a City of San Luis
Obispo document designed to serve with the City’s other guiding documents leading to the 2035
Climate Action Plan goals. We believe that the general direction of the Draft ATP is correct in service
to the overall SLO City goals as it is formulated, and materially changing that formulation would not
serve our community and its stakeholders. We recognize the effect of the Plan on the Bob Jones
Trail segment, and commit to assisting in furthering the success of that project outside of and in
collaboration with the SLO City’s new ATP.
Please accept our recognition of your labors and their complexity, our gratitude, and our confidence
that the document you finally craft will support the overall health and vitality of bicycling and walking
and hence the community that is the City of San Luis Obispo.
Gary Havas Rick Ellison
Board President Executive Director