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Subject:Fee study comments
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Good morning--
My family and I are owners of commercial and residential investment properties in the City of San Luis
Obispo--particularly in the downtown area.
I have read the new proposed fee schedule for making changes to existing properties. I am outraged that
you would charge such exhortative fees to have city employees do the job they were hired to do, We
already pay these employees to do their job and then we are asking the general public to pay for them
again when going through the permit process. This is basically double taxation by the city of San Luis
Obispo.
Today property owners are taxed over and over by our city government in order to be able to operate
within the city limits. Every single expense associated with property that is privately owned has gone up
dramatically in the past few years. This does not take into consideration that builders are given permits
for anything they want to build and adjoining owners are not even notified of the project. We currently
have a downtown office building that is almost completely vacant because of all the construction going
on around us. We were never notified that the project was going forward until the equipment arrived and
demolition began. No one is compensating us for our loss of revenue but if we need to do any
maintenance work on the property, you (the city) are going to charge us to repair the damage done to our
property.
Permit and user fees have gotten completely out of line with what needs to be done and how long it is
going to take to get the project done. Please reconsider your proposed new fees and make adjustments
so that the property owner doesn't get scammed again by the City of San Luis Obispo.
Thank you,
Rosalind M Hansen
L J Morganti Co
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