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Delgado, Adriana
From:Kristin Tara Horowitz <maculated@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, December 6,
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:SB9 Support
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Hello there!
As a person who has lived in the SLO area since college, and built a couple businesses here, I wanted to weigh in to
support SLO's maximal use of the SB9 allowances.
Going to college here, I lived in the absolute worst places in town. I had landlords shutting water off because they failed
to pay the bills, I had mold in every single place; things were simply not up to code and if I requested it, I was told to
move out. I lived in places like this because it was what I could afford. I lived in areas a lot of people don't see, where our
main labor force in restaurants lives, where the elderly who do not own their homes live, where college students paying
their own way live.
I had to move out of SLO when it was time to buy a place, despite my roots there and my businesses there. I now
commute 1 hour round trip to go to my business, and the last few years I additionally had to bring my kids to preschool
due to lack of availability nearby. I rode my bike everywhere and now I'm contributing to the traffic problem, burning so
much more fossil fuels, and the like because San Luis Obispo was not an affordable option for me, even as a business
owner whose business development has had huge fees go toward "affordable housing" in San Luis Obispo that I could
never afford myself.
My employees don't just share houses anymore, many of them have to share rooms or live with their families and
commute in. Not only that, because of AirBnB and house flipping, the subpar affordable homes that I stayed in are
getting improved or razed and what comes after is too expensive for the labor force and others I described above.
The only solution to this is to produce so much housing that prices go back down - legally zoning more housing (as has
already done throughout SLO successfully) is a great way to start this. It will kill sprawl, not affect viewshed, and
continue to support our bike friendly, green city and its workers.
I've watched this city change over the past twenty years, and it's been for the better as we've built up. Let's let old
expectations about what this place should look like drop in favor of the truly equitable city that grows and flourishes
that we believe in.
K
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Kristin Tara Horowitz (She/They - why this is important)
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