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These comments are for the Planning Commission meeting on 11/16/22, agenda item 4a.
In the Planning Commission Agenda Report prepared by Kyle Bell it states that the
Purview of the Planning Commission is to review for consistency with 5 different
Plans/Regulations. My hat off to each of you. I couldn’t get through but one, the
Community Design Guidelines(CDG).
As a resident of Mill Street I have major concerns about the project at 1422 and
1480 Monterey Street. The proposed 5 story edifices do not fit in, are not
compatible with the surrounding neighborhoods of 1 or 2 story commercial
buildings and residential homes. Must be a reason a height limit of 45 feet was put
in place, perhaps to maintain San Luis Obispo’s small town scale (CDG 3.1A 1)?
While the roofs are flat and do not add to the height, there are maintenance rooms
on top of the roofs that do add to the height, which means that portions of the
buildings will be more than the requested 54 Feet. CDG 2C says that the scale of
multi-family projects should be considered within the context of their surroundings
and this project would be surrounded by measly 1 or 2 story buildings. There are
no large buildings until the hotel segment of Monterey Street. CDG sections 1.4,
2.2A, 3.1 A1 & B2, 5.4 A1, and 2C all deal with scale, size, and proportion and it is hard to
visualize how 54+ foot edifices taking up a city block comply.
A city employee told me that low-income households won’t have cars, I think that is
a stereotypical and incorrect assumption. 106 new households will be adding cars
and bicycles to the current traffic. Palm is a dead-end street and so has little traffic.
This project will put 2 parking lot floors of cars on Palm Street and those cars will
have to deal with turning on or crossing California without a street light. It will also
add traffic to the “high-collision rate” California-Monterey intersection. Will that
raise the rank of that intersection? I feel that should the project be approved
California Blvd. should be widened now rather than in the “future”. Adding a
southbound right-turn and bike lane channelization will help lower the rank of the
intersection by preventing collisions from the start of the addition of traffic from the new
households.
As a senior my choice of bicycle is an e-tricycle. Can the senior bicycle storage
accommodate tricycles especially if the ration is cut to 0.5 spaces/bedroom?
Charging stations available?
Our house currently has fantastic views. But the mature trees we see will be clear-cut and the 5-
story edifices will impinge on our view of the hills to the south. Palm and Mill
residences will have portions of their view of the hills blocked by the edifices which
is contrary to CDG Goal C2, Maintain views of hillsides and 5.2 E 2a preserve Natural
amenities such as VIEWS, mature trees.
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The project is too big for the neighborhood and certainly does not fit San Luis
Obispo’s small town scale. Please do not approve the height and set-back exemptions so that the project
will fit in with its surroundings. If the project is approved PLEASE delve deeply into the traffic issues and require
remediation before it becomes a more serious (possibly deadly) issue
Teresa Trejo
1435 Mill Street
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