HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/7/2023 Item 6a, Chamberlain
2023 9:53 AM
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Subject:SLO Parking Fees
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Dear SLO City Council members,
I am writing to suggest strongly that you rescind immediately this ‘doubling’ of the downtown parking fees.
Just when you think that the City can do nothing more to discourage the public to visit the
downtown...................then something like this happens.
I am a 1978 graduate of Cal Poly (as was my father and one of my daughters), and I have lived in SLO County
for fifty years, with most of it being in the city of San Luis Obispo. I moved out over 20 years ago over quality
of life issues, and I have watched as one by one, almost all of my friends, relatives, and acquaintances have
done the same. Some have moved to Atascadero, some to Cayucos, some to Los Osos, and some out of the
County. Every single one of them would have the same exact observations, ‘It is not the same SLO I
remember and loved. The city has made every single planning decision incorrectly, and in the process, has
now destroyed the city we loved so greatly’. The traffic that your decisions have engendered is hurting all of
us, and it’s time you recognized the folly of some of these decisions.
If it isn’t the densification of the City (with infrastructure always falling at least ten years behind the impacts
that are so carelessly created), the continual approval of insanely dense housing projects, the over-emphasis
of bicycle culture to the detriment of once pristine local neighborhoods, to increasing height allowances in the
downtown area, to continual incorrect decision making.................it just never seems to stop. If I see one
more ugly, black Stalworks architectural abomination erected, I think I’m going to pass out. What happened to
the ARC and protecting SLO’s once proud architectural pedigree...? Every good thing seems to have been
abandoned..........................and now you’ve gone and DOUBLED the parking fees? No more free nights? No
more free Sundays??? This is madness. Do you even for a minute ever think of the struggling downtown
business people, and what this ridiculous new policy is doing to their businesses, employees, and customers?
In case you aren’t listening, the uproar over this policy is deafening and increasing. This dis-connection
between the City Council decisions and basic common sense.................has to stop, and be rethought.
Please start by returning the parking fee structure to something more normalized, before you drive the final
nail into the coffin of what was once seen as the best city in America.
Sincerely,
Jeff Chamberlain
Los Osos, CA
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