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Carolyn Huddleston <carolyn.j.huddleston@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, March 31,
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Broadstone Village Project and Bob Jones Trail - Agenda Item 8A
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Dear Mayor and City Council Members,
I am a resident of Creston area that spends much time hiking all over San Luis Obispo County. I enjoy the
many trails that you have in the City of SLO, and combine many trips to SLO whenever I have a doctor
appointment or a shopping trip with a hike on one of the local trails.
One of the trails that I enjoy the most is the Bob Jones Trail, and just in the past month I have heard the
good news that one of the remaining gaps of the “City to the Sea Trail” will soon be completed from the
Octagon Barn to Ontario Road.
The reason that I am writing today is that I see that the proposed Broadstone Village Project is on the
agenda tomorrow (April 1) for your City Council meeting (Agenda Item 8A). My concern is that this
proposed project does not currently have the Bob Jones Trail creek-side alignment in its design. As you
are well aware, this important trail has been planned for decades, and the alignment of it has been
approved by the City in past years, and is in the City’s General Plan.
I know one of the goals of the City is to reduce pedestrian and bicycle collisions - but forcing people to
walk or ride their bike along LOVR and across the unprotected vehicle entrances/exits for this proposed
400+ unit development puts people in danger, and discourages them from walking and riding the BJT due
to its unsafe design.
The previously approved, creek-side alignment of the Bob Jones Trail needs to be incorporated
immediately into the design alternatives for this project. Now is the best time to have it included while it
is still in the design stage, and before any plans are approved.
Please direct your staff to incorporate the safe, creek-side alignment for the Bob Jones Trail in the design
of the proposed Broadstone Village Project now, before it is too late.
Thank you,
Carolyn Huddleston
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