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Please distribute as Agenda Correspondence for 11/20/12 .
Thank you .
maeve kenneOy quime s
City Clerk
city of san Luis oBispo
990 Palm Stree t
San Luis Obispo, CA 9340 1
phone : (805) 781-710 2
email:mgrimes(caslocity.org
From :Carter, Andrew
Sent :Tuesday, November 13, 2012 9 :59 A M
To : Grimes, Maev e
Johnson, Derek ; Lichtig, Kati e
lect:FW : SLOBrew Expansion & Relocatio n
Public correspondence re . SLO Brew.
Andrew Carte r
Council Membe r
City of San Luis Obispo
Original Message
From : Allan Cooper [allancoope@gmail .com ]
Sent : Tuesday, November 13, 2012 05 :04 AM Pacific Standard Tim e
To : Marx, Jan ; Carpenter, Dan ; Smith, Kathy ; Carter, Andrew ; Ashbaugh, Joh n
Subject : SLOBrew Expansion & Relocatio n
Dear Honorable Mayor and Council Members –
Congratulations Jan, Dan and John on your recent reelections ...you have truly earned the trust of the SL O
electorate! As you may know, Derek Johnson, Doug Davidson and Marcus Corloni made a presentation t o
Save Our Downtown on November 8 t"giving us a preview of their staff report on the SLOBrew propose d
anion and relocation . This report seems to ignore Council's direction in response to our appeal . There is
a roof top lounge which could easily be converted into a bar facility . There is still an industrial scale
steel stair replacing the current original, historical structure providing exterior access to the roof top.
Nightclub queuing will still encroach onto Mission Plaza on Thursday nights (begging the question:why no t
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Grimes, Maev e
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 5 :27 P M
Goodwin, Heathe r
SLOBrew Expansion & Relocation
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limit nightclub activities to the remaining six days of the week?). And the facility is still greatly expande d
over its current size. As a rebuttal to staffs recommendations (and why, may I ask, is staff advocating on
behalf of the developer?) I suggest you reiterate the following points :
Fifty-four to fifty-nine percent of SLO business owners and residents recently polled are opposed to mor e
bars and nightclubs in the Downtown (and one should be able to conclude from this that those polled were
also opposed to bar and nightclub expansions).SLO has the highest number of bars per capita of any city in
California (and perhaps the nation) and the number of alcohol outlets within our City continues to ris e
because the City presently lacks the controls to stop this . The SLOBrew owners are still proposing a 50 %
expansion in its new location (with a maximum capacity of 758 patrons) and the property owners reserve th e
right to place another bar/restaurant in its previous location . Finally the business owner across the stree t
from the current SLOBrew admitted that he has had every store window broken over the past 10 years
ostensibly because of his proximity to this establishment. In short, all S.O.D. is asking is that SLOBre w
relocate at its current size without the right of the owner to open a new alcohol outlet in it's previous
location, that the historical integrity of the Carrisa Building be maintained and that its bar/nightclu b
activities not encroach onto Mission Plaza (even on Thursdays).
Respectfuly yours ,
Allan Cooper, Chair Save Our Downtow n
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