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Agenda Correspondence Prado Road Onstreet Camping (Follow up )
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Thank you . This will now be for the October 2 nd meeting.
.Maeve Xennedy Grime s
City Cler k
City of San Luis Obisp o
990 Palm Stree t
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-324 9
(805) 781-7102
TFrom:Marx, Ja n
Sent :Friday, September 21, 2012 3 :00 PM
To:'Kevin McGurty'
Cc :Lichtig, Katie; Grimes, Maeve
Subject :RE : Prado Road Onstreet Camping (Follow up )
Thank you for your email, Mr . McGurty, and for your kind words . You may want to consider a letter to the editor, as well . By this
email, I am requesting our city clerk to include this email as agenda correspondence for our next city council meeting, when th e
ordinance receives a second reading .
Sincerely,
Jan Marx, Mayor
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From : Kevin McGurty [mailto :kmcgurtv@,charter .net l
Sent : Friday, September 21, 2012 2 :11 PM
To: Marx, Jan ; Carpenter, Dan ; Carter, Andrew ; Ashbaugh, John; Smith, Kathy
Subject : Prado Road Onstreet Camping (Follow up )
Dear Councilmembers ,
This is a follow-up to our March 19 letter a copy of which is attached for your reference . Again, I am one of the owners of the nin e
acre parcel at the corner of Prado and Elks Lane .
To say the least, owning property on the front lines of this problem has been very expensive and unnerving . As of late, just when
things finally started to improve around our properties, we were greatly disappointed to see we may be reversing course back to th e
old days of our property turning into a war zone and policing nightmare . We want to emphasize, the brunt of our problems neve r
came from the temporary or transitional homeless making honest attempts to better their situations . Our concerns were the frightenin g
crime, health & safety
issues accompanying the swelling numbers of "transients by choice,"
many of whom were quickly and opportunistically learning to pile into vans & RVs as overnight safe havens . Unfortunately, no w
they appear at the brink of successfully piggybacking protection of their interests and lifestyles on legitimate sympathies for the trul y
homeless . I guess we property owners should also receive undeserve d
and unjustified TT "brickbats," along with the brave three of you, just for pointing this out and wanting to protect our property an d
tenants . Maybe the TT could be invited to sponsor some overnight parking, without restrictions, on its parking lot to get a bette r
understanding of the full scope of the problem .
We, and we believe a very strong silent majority, understands the real problems and supports what you are doing . We all know i t
sometimes takes political courage and leadership to take some heat to do the
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right thing. For that we definitely want to thank you . Our greatest
feq is that without the resolve and backbone to stand up and do what's right for all legitimate interests, we are headed for a status qu o
mess of a non solution and the worst of all worlds for all parties except for the "transients by choice ." We absolutely acknowledge
there are legitimate homeless who need and deserve help . By all means, please get busy to target and help those . The experts in ou r
community know who those are . As for the others, if you do not restrict overnight camping, we expect they will continue to grow i n
number and go right back to harrassing our tenants while creating health and safety risks around our properties. In fact, if you bac k
down now it will likely be ten times worse for us . Right now they feel legally empowered to also threaten us with legal action . Once
they believe they have won the political battle as well we are essentially powerless and doomed .
Thank you very much for your courage and efforts to do the right thing for everyone involved, especially the truly deservin g
homeless .
Kevin McGurty
461-0548
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