HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/18/2024 Item 4a, Ayral
Colunga-Lopez, Andrea
Odile Ayral <oayral@calpoly.edu>
Sent:Monday,
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:Item 4a. 466 Dana St.
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To the Advisory Members of the ARC,
My late husband—Gary Dwyer—lived twenty years in a condo close to the Rosa Butron adobe. After we
became partners, we would walk in the neighborhood, and he would point out the “oddities” of this picturesque
street, where several historical buildings had been terribly neglected. The Dana house was one of them, the
Rosa Buton adobe another. He would sigh as he stood in front of the adobe and explained to me that it had been
gifted to the city by its last owner, Mary Black, under the condition that the city maintain and protect it. But the
city did not do anything, and we watched the place slowly deteriorate.
I was therefore ecstatic when I heard about the Waterman project because I thought it would achieve two
things: provide needed housing and save the adobe. I realized that, during all these years, I had never walked
around the property, so I recently went there and walked around. I was stunned to discover how little land there
was behind the adobe, and that this land is squeezed between a creek that overflowed several times in the past,
and the adobe itself. Yes, you are planning raised pathways and putting other measures to prevent inundations,
but this will not increase the amount of land available. I lost all my enthusiasm. This now seems to me another
ill-thought-out project that will create many problems to its residents and to the people who have lived there for
a long time. I hope I am wrong.
Sincerely,
Odile Ayral
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