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Wilbanks, Megan
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Subject:RE: Anholm Greenway, Tier 1 Funding Resources
Attachments:210531 LOS Anholm Grant and REOC.pdf
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Greetings Mayor Harmon and Council Members Pease, Christianson, Stewart, and Marx!
Please find attached Bike SLO County's Letter of Support for use of funding resources for the Anholm Greenway project.
Cheers!
Gary Havas
Board President, Bike SLO County
805-458-0755
president@bikeslocounty.org
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June 1, 2021
Mayor Harmon and Council Members Pease, Christianson,Stewart, and Marx
emailcouncil@slocity.org
RE: Anholm Greenway, Tier 1 Funding Resources
Greetings Mayor Harmon and Council Members Pease,Christianson, Stewart, and Marx!
Bike SLO County offers its congratulations to you and the City staff for its award of the $1.7 million grant
from the Urban Greening Program for the Anholm Greenway project. We are also grateful to REOC for
previously recommending allocating $2.5 million towards completing the Anholm Greenway project. Both
of these figures represent the understood importance of bicycling and walking infrastructure in San Luis
Obispo and what imminent buildout means for achieving the overall goals of our Climate Action Plan and
mitigation of the effects of greenhouse gasses in our state.
We understand the timing of this award, and the separate recommendation from REOC may not have
allowed for planning and designating of what may be seen as surpluses, so we hope the City will take the
additional funding that the grant provided to specifically build and engineer other parts of the Tier 1 Active
Transportation network identified in the recently adopted ATP. The risk we see is that without specificity,
these funds may drift elsewhere when a perfect opportunity exists for a robust beginning to fulfilling the
recently adopted ATP.
Sincerely,
Gary Havas Rick Ellison
Board President Executive Director
860 Pacific Street, Suite #105, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401