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From: Carol Rounsaville <carolrounsavillegyahoo.com>
Date: March 24, 2014 at 6:10:04 PM PDT
To: "Mejia, Anthony" <amejiagslocity.org>
Subject: Cal Poly Town Hall comments
Reply -To: Carol Rounsaville <carolrounsavillegyahoo.com>
I cannot attend the Town Hall Meeting as I have to work. I would like to submit my comments.
Thank you,
Carol
3/24/14
Dear City of San Luis Obispo,
I cannot attend the Town Hall Meeting in regards to the input on Cal Poly's draft Environmental Impact Report but I
would like to voice my opinion.
I have been a citizen of San Luis Obispo since 1980. 1 attended Cal Poly and left for a year to work in Michigan and
returned. I have worked for small business here for thirty years. My husband and I are the last of our friends to live in
San Luis Obispo. And we are currently looking to move outside of San Luis Obispo — somewhere in the North County. All
of our other friends have left the city for surrounding cities because of the lack of support for professional couples and
families here in San Luis Obispo. Up until you hired a fantastic Chief of Police who truly tries to curb the student ruckus
in neighborhoods, we really felt that the City could care less about residents. It seems that the focus is on attracting
students and their families to the area while the other half of the population (professionals and families) are being
squeezed out by noise pollution (loud neighbors who think everyone should enjoy their brand of music at all times of the
day and night), trash in your neighborhood and an amazing amount of cars parked half way in the streets (try driving up
San Miguel Avenue on a Saturday morning — you can barely get one car down the street at a time and many of the
vehicles are sticking out beyond what would be safe). If you drive anywhere on Grand Avenue on a sunny day, you will
find a bunch of students out in the middle of the streets, playing, skateboarding, etc. A number of times, I have had to
stop in the middle of road, while students complete their game ... what if someone wasn't as good a driver as I was that
day? My husband actually stopped on a hill in our neighborhood to let a cyclist (who was in his lane) go by and she
actually ran into the car ... didn't even stop. The neighborhoods can barely handle the level of students currently living
near the college. What do you think a 1,475 bedroom dorm project is going to do ??
One of our neighbors moved out to Kingfisher Canyon — they had a beautiful home here on San Miguel. She said she
was just so tired of being the angry neighbor all the time. Their home was beautiful... now it has trash in the front yard,
some of the cedar tiles are missing, old furniture on the deck, a barbeque on the wooden deck ... and usually a whole line
of red cups and bottles on the railing.
Ken Schwartz, a huge advocate for San Luis Obispo, recently wrote a piece in The Tribune about this project. As a past
Mayor, City Councilperson and Architecture professor at Cal Poly... he writes of the impact this huge project would have
— in traffic and noise — for the neighborhoods. He offers some alternatives which will probably not be considered,
unfortunately.
I fear San Luis Obispo will become an Isla Vista. And we hear on the news on a regular basis of the issues the police have
in that area. If you think the issue of neighbors and students is difficult now ... just wait until you have to enforce an Isla
Vista type environment at the top of Grand Avenue. If Cal Poly really wants to show their students how to be good
neighbors, they would not ignore the issues surrounding this project and consider other alternatives to a 1,475 bedroom
dorm complex. The dorms up near Poly Canyon are a perfect example of doing it right.
Respectfully submitted,
Carol Rounsaville
John Harrison