HomeMy WebLinkAbout5/8/2024 Item 5b, Fischer
Roberta Fischer <
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:Bishop Street Project
This message is from an External Source. Use caution when deciding to open attachments, click links, or respond.
Greetings San Luis Obispo Planning Commisioner,
I am writing to express my concern about the fast tracked project that is slated to be built at the intersection of Johnson
and Bishop. Due to the lack of time, I will highlight only a few of my concerns.
PARKING This project will take away the 100 parking spaces that are used daily by the county mental health staff that
work on the mental health campus. Overflow parking will move onto the street and into the neighborhoods. As you know
the topography of that area, parking at the church entails a hike up the hill. Will county employees really park down the hill
or will they opt for the flat land located at the end of Flora and on Johnson? Also as the fragile unhoused get up-righted
and ready for employment, we highly doubt they will all have a bicycle or opt for the hourly bus service - they too will have
cars to get them to their employment, where will they park?
DIGNITY MOVES This is a for profit private equity firm from the Silicon Valley. We all know what happens when private
equity gets involved in healthcare, long term care and assisted living projects. It's the patient who comes out on the short
end of the stick. Isn't there a local company - Peoples Self Help Housing or Echo Housing to name the first two that come
to mind - that could administer this grant. To quote Elizabeth Funk the CEO of Dignity Moves - "many investors got really
rich." Many of you have spent your life in public service. Have you gotten really rich?
NO BUILT IN PLUMBING Mind boggling. This city dictates what shade of gray a building can be painted as well as how
many branches can be cut off a tree in your front yard. But the planning commission will allow an eighty unit housing
project to be built in a parking lot without any permanent plumbing. How often will a waste pumping service come - and
that's allowable in a residential neighborhood? How many sewer laterals are you requiring the county to donate?
LOCATION & NOTIFICATION This grant is supposed to be located where the homeless encampments are located. The
Bob Jones Bike Trail/Prado Road couldn't be any further from this third place site selected. It's an hour bus ride over to
Social Services and the Prado Day Center. This 80 bed unit is going to be voted on by the County Supervisors on May
21st. We just heard about this. What happened to the required notification?
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I appreciate the time you donate to the City's planning commission.
Sincerely,
Roberta Fischer
1