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Delgado, Adriana
From:Genevieve Czech <agczech@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, December
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:PC Comment on SB9
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Honorable Mayor Stewart and Council Members:
I echo the sentiments expressed by Mrs. Rowley, Mr. Cooper, Mrs.
Aryal, Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Jones. There is urgent need for our City to address the implications of SB9, in the spirit of
other jurisdictions who aim to protect their residential and historic neighborhoods , Density has its limits as it has not
only aesthetic impacts, but also crime, traffic, health and safety ( rodents and pandemic transmissions
) and stress on resources, not to forget the tree canopy and wildlife.
It further can affect the actual rentability of existing units in terms of affordability. We have an ADU in our neighborhood
that was granted exemption from creek setback to 11 feet only, below the City standard. That ADU enables the
homeowner to rent his primary home to students while he benefits from the income, rather than helping to ease the
affordable housing crisis. The basis of RHNA is meant to ensure more affordable housing for California´s workforce.
There is every danger that SLO ADUs might rather become more student housing, encouraging more off-campus living
quarters, and thereby encouraging Cal Poly to increase its student population, rather than capping itr in proportion to
the City´s permanent population and its size/infrastructure.resources.
We hope that the City's commitment to preserving SLO from abuses permitted by SB9 ( e.g. developers profiting ) will be
demonstrated by your reiterating SLO´s policies before 1st January. As Mr. Schmidt stressed in his correspondence to
you, failure to pass an emergency ordinance by the deadline is yielding up our own standards to Sacramento. If there are
assurances that there is no such urgency, why are other proud cities making certain to pass their emergency
ordinances? While the timeline is ever shrinking, a specially scheduled meeting is not outside the means or will power
of our City Staff. It is within your power to direct them thus. The effort will reap permanent benefits and flexibility for
SLO as we continue to grow with respect to our individual standards while meeting the demands of CA housing and
climate change
Respectfully, Genevieve Czech, 612 Stanford Drive, SLO
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