HomeMy WebLinkAbout5/26/2026 Item 5a, Ayral
Odile Ayral <oayral@calpoly.edu>
Sent:Tuesday, May
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Item 5 A
Mayor Stewart and City Council Members,
The intelligent and informed letters you have received expose the acuteness of the problem, and the lack of
measures to counter it. As many residents pointed out, the student overlay zone is unreasonable because it
eliminates accountability, rewrites zoning to benefit fraternities and disregards neighborhood impacts. This is
simply an attempt to worsen the already severe predicament neighbors of Cal Poly are experiencing.
The City and Cal Poly can go on pretending they care while doing nothing or making the wrong decisions; or
they can be honest and take simple but effective measures (like clearly identify where each legal and illegal
fraternity is located, get rid of the illegal ones and enforce clear regulations for the others). An example: When
my neighbors moved out and turned their former home into a student rental, the result was dreadful: parties,
noise, visitors everywhere. We complained, the landlord listened and took decisions to ensure he got the right
pool of students. Result: no bad behavior for the last 15 years.
Most problems are not unsolvable; they simply require good will and competence. Both Cal Poly and the City
ought to be in control of the situation because they write the rules and therefore should be able to enforce
them. Cal Poly now has more administrators than teachers, you would think that some of those administrators
would be assigned to help the city solve a headache that has been going on far too long.
Sincerely,
Odile Ayral
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