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Subject:Item 7.a. City Livability - Greek Life & Illegal Fraternity Operations
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Dear City Councilmembers,
While making your decisions about the 2025-2027 Major City Goals and Work Plans budget, please
provide funding to address illegal fraternity operations and improve city livability.
I am writing to you as a SLO resident whose quality of life has decreased due to the increase in illegal
fraternity operations and Greek life in the Alta Vista neighborhood.
There are 19 fraternities in the IFC at Cal Poly. Each fraternity has a main chapter house. Six fraternities
have Conditional Use Permits and are zoned appropriately; the other main chapter houses are not and
are embedded in the neighborhood, circumventing use permits and zoning regulations. These fraternities
also have multiple satellite houses that host fraternity events.
This City and current council champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; however, I feel those principles
frustratingly fall short in this neighborhood. My wife and I have repeatedly been told by
fraternity members in our neighborhood that we should move and that we don't belong here. The
problem has become worse over the past few years.
The current system is not working, and there is a perceived double standard when compared to other
neighborhoods in our wonderful city. Please provide some funding to support or create a program or
position that can create some meaningful change in the neighborhoods close to Cal Poly. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Steve Walker
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