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From: Mejia, Anthony
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 8:48 AM
To: Kremke, Kate
Subject: FW: Poly Dorm EIR
Agenda Correspondence for 06/10/14 as Public Comment.
Anthony J. Mejia I City Clerk
990 Palm .Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401,
tO 180S- 781 7102
From: Richard Schmidt [mailto:slobuild @yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 8:23'AM
To: Mejia, Anthony
Subject: Poly Dorm EIR
Dear Council Members,
P,ECHVED
JUN 10 2014
AGENDA
CORRESPONDENCE
Date Item# L
support litigation against the inadequate EIR for the student housing at Grand and Slack.
If this shoddy document goes unchallenged, it will send a signal that the city will bend over every time
our large neighbor chooses to do something to us. Contemplating where that will take our city is not a
pretty picture.
I would contrast your general inaction and impotence with that of Davis, where I lived with my parents
in the 1960s just as the Berkeley farm was transitioning into the university. We lived a half block from
campus, in the equivalent of the Alta Vista neighborhood. It was clear that speculators would have
taken over our neighborhood and destroyed it, using all the same stupid arguments we hear around
here (it's near the university, you can't expect to have a nice neighborhood where there is so much
pressure, we need student housing, etc.), and the real estate /development community all loudly
declared the neighborhood toast and ripe for ripoff. But the city council of that little town of 8,000
people listened to the neighbors (I think that may be the only city council meeting my father ever
attended in his life), and took to heart their pleas that they both didn't want their neighborhood
destroyed and thought it in the best interests of the city to preserve it so there'd be a nice place next
to the campus where professors could live in peace and quiet. The Davis city council took every
conceivable step it could to preserve that neighborhood from campus and speculator intrusion.
Today, 50 years later, their foresight is evident. That neighborhood remains one of the finest in town,
and looks nothing like the Slum Luis Obispo you folks and your predecessors have allowed to
metastasize unchecked around the Cal Poly campus.
It's time for action. Show that you actually care.
Sincerely,
Richard Schmidt