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From: sharon@sharonwhitney.com [mailto :sharon @sharonwhitney.com]
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Subject: Content of my public comment tonight attached
Dear City Council Members,
Please find attached my intended remarks for public comment period tonight.
Sharon Whitney
Honorable Mayor and City Council Members,
I am Sharon Whitney, a resident of San Luis Obispo. I am here tonight to say I
am dismayed that your agenda omits any analysis of the CSU Board of Trustees
certified EIR covering Cal Poly's dorm project at the intersection of Grand and Slack. I
do not understand that omission. Therefore I am here to repeat a request I made during
Public Comment on May 20.
The analysis I am requesting should be put on your agenda for June 17, if not
before. That analysis should include a statement of:
• All existing off -site Class I and unmitigated impacts
• Any and all MOUs related to mitigation of off -site impacts, including
financial arrangements
• The City's other alternatives, particularly the filing of a writ of mandamus
and pursuant litigation
• Staff recommendations regarding all available alternatives.
Two things have changed to support this repeated request:
1. The May 21 certification rendered moot and irrelevant Councilwoman
Christianson's "No" vote on Councilwoman Smith's May 20 motion to put the matter
on tonight's public hearing agenda; Christianson said her "No" vote was justified then
because the final outcome of the CSU Board meeting was unknown; now it is.
2) The May 21 certification also rendered moot and mistaken Councilman
Ashbaugh "No" vote based on his view that there was no need to rush to put the item
on the agenda before July; that view is mistaken because, as I understand it, if there is to
be any litigation by the City, a writ of mandamus must be filed by June 21. The matter
cannot be put off to July.
Three things have not changed to underscore the urgency of this repeated
request:
1) The technical insufficiencies of the EIR remain, as laid out by Derek Johnson
for the City in his March 31 letter to the CSU Board. I won't repeat those now —that is
the job of the CDD as directed by this City Council.
2) The CSU Board has a continuing duty to inform the public via a CEQA
adequate EIR.
3) Cal Poly's duty to mitigate off -site significant impacts remains. I understand
that is underway, but the details need to be aired in a public hearing.
In my opinion, for the sake of complete information and transparency, we, the
residents have a right to the public hearing I am requesting. In my opinion, you owe
nothing less than that. Last, but not least, the time is now for the Town Hall promise to
be kept that the City will litigate, if appropriate. Thank you.