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Delgado, Adriana
From:Jonathan W. Reich <jreich@calpoly.edu>
Sent:Tuesday, July 5, 2022
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:I Support SLO's New "Buildings Should Be All-Electric Ordinance" - It's About Time!
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Honorable SLO City Council Members:
I wholeheartedly support the proposed resolution (#11133) leading to the requirement that all new buildings in
SLO be all-electric.
Thank you for considering this VITAL policy for mitigating at least some of the very considerable green house
gas emissions
all along the natural gas supply system from drilling to storage to leaks in supply lines to the home.
Methane is many many times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2.
I want to call out in particular Mayor Stewart and urge her to support this new policy.
Back when the first all-electric buildings proposal came before the SLO City Council,
in a knock-down dragged-out city council meeting a few years ago,
at that time as Council Member, Mayor Stewart, you unfortunately adopted a position against the facts and
against the best interests of the entire city.
The gas companies representatives proved to be bullies, and as usual, the companies were only interested in
protecting their bottom line and manipulated their workers to that end.
Mayor Stewart, I hope you have come to understand that all electric buildings, with solar, will make housing
more affordable in the long-term when all the crucial unavoidable externalities are fully considered.
Thank you.
Jonathan Reich, Architect,
Full Professor of Architecture & Fulbright Scholar (in Sustainable Design),
California State (Office of Regulation Services) Certified School Building Inspector,
(Former, for 10 years) Board of Directors Member, Mercy Housing, Inc. (Non-profit affordable housing
developer)
and VOTER
Architecture Department, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
http://architecture.calpoly.edu/faculty/reich
Cell: 805-801-8848
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