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Delgado, Adriana
From:M. E. Howell <mhowell.9035@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday,
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Letter to the Mayor and Council, San Luis Obispo City Council Meeting today,
September 7, 2021
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Mary Howell
600 Cuesta Dr., San Luis Obispo
Hello, Mayor Harmon and Members of the City Council,
Thank you for your consideration: please take a few moments to read these views. As a homeowner--and resident--of
this neighborhood, I ask you not to approve the Tentative Tract Map (Tract 3157) under discussion at today's Council
meeting. I wrote to the City Planning Commission for their meeting on July 28th; a copy is included below: thank you for
listening to views that I share with many San Luis Obispo City residents regarding this request from the developers. We
are interested in appropriate and well-thought out development in San Luis. With all respect, this project colors too far
outside the lines.
Please do not let momentum and project plan stages deter you from putting a hold on this proposal. The density is
overly-ambitious for this site, with environmental issues that include watershed effects, species denigration, and loss of
forested sections of a beautiful greenbelt area.
The traffic effects of too many lots, dwellings, and vehicles on the neighborhood would be considerable, adding to
constriction of flow and possibly dangerous conditions for bicyclists, walkers and children. The streets are not designed
to be or suitable as major feeders to a development that would bring many more vehicles into existing residential
streets, particularly as and when the pandemic ends. Please make every effort to maintain this neighborhood as a livable
part of town, by refusing to accede to the division of these less-than-five acres into twenty-three residential lots.
Thank you again for scrutinizing the proposal in its parts and whole effects.
Mary Howell
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In re:
468/500 WESTMONT AVE (SBDV-0169-2020, EID-0170-2020) REVIEW OF TTM
NO. 3157, 23 LOT SUBDIVISION AND ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
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Recommendation:
Adopt a Resolution entitled, "A Resolution of the Planning Commission of
the City of San Luis Obispo, California, recommending the City Council
adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration of Environmental Review and
Tentative Tract Map No. 3157 to create twenty-three (23) residential lots in
the Low-Density (R-1) Zone (SBDV-0169-2020, EID-0170-2020)."
To the Members of the Planning Commission; Hello. Thank you very much for your attention to this
request.
"Here, Now"
I ask that you not approve this development as configured. As longtime residents of San Luis Obispo we
value above measure this beautiful and unique place. Protecting this specialness should not be
compromised. Preserving a greenbelt around this community should be a vital priority, and not
forgotten and laid by, for any development proposal.
We have serious concerns about this proposed project and its effects: environmental degradation with
loss of trees, natural features, and habitat, and major impacts from its excessive density. There would be
deleterious effects on traffic and streets, as well.
We understand there are current and competing pressures to approve petitioners' real estate proposals.
Please do not lose sight of what we have here in this community and how easily it can be lost, step by
step. Help preserve the value existing here today, for all of us actually here now, and those who will be
here in the future. We know you as individuals care for this jewel of a small city. Please withhold your
approval on this project at this time.
Thank you.
Mary Howell
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