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Home My WebLink AboutFW_ Corrections_ Cal Poly - City of SLO Grand Jury Reportmsg (1) msg1 From:Courtney Leigh Kienow <ckienow@calpoly.edu> Sent:Monday, June 16, 2025 9:38 AM To:McDonald, Whitney; Stewart, Erica A Cc:Jennifer L. Haft Subject:FW: Corrections: Cal Poly - City of SLO Grand Jury Report Attachments:FINAL CP Enrollment Housing Fall 2024[4].xlsx Hi Whitney and Erica, I’m sharing with you what I sent to the Grand Jury this morning. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to talk through any pieces of this. There was much I wanted to correct on your behalf as well but I know that’s not my place. 뇤눎눐눑눒눏 Anything we can do to assist on your front, please let me know. Grateful for your sincere partnership, Courtney From: Courtney Leigh Kienow <ckienow@calpoly.edu> Date: Monday, June 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM To: Grand Jury <grandjury@co.slo.ca.us>, Reggie Rini <rrini@co.slo.ca.us> Cc: Jennifer L. Haft <jhaft@calpoly.edu> Subject: Corrections: Cal Poly - City of SLO Grand Jury Report Good morning members of the SLO County Grand Jury, Thank you to you and the entire Grand Jury for your diligent work to put together the report regarding Cal Poly and the City of SLO’s efforts to support student’s making the best choices possible and ensuring the City’s neighborhoods are places where all residents can thrive. There are a few corrections we would like to submit for your consideration. 1. The report states that: “However, the expansion of the university has led to significant challenges in housing availability, both on and off campus.” Correction: Over the past two decades, Cal Poly has more than accommodated its enrollment increases by investing nearly a billion dollars in constructing new student beds on campus. In fact, using the year identified in the report (2005), Cal Poly has about 700 LESS students living off campus/in the community today than we did in 2005. I’ve attached a spreadsheet that includes greater detail and sources for this information. There were 14,855 students living off campus in 2005 (the year the Grand Jury used for Cal Poly’s enrollment numbers). As of Fall 2024, the most current academic year, there were 14,132 students living off campus. Another important component worth noting is that many students live outside city limits, commute, study abroad, or are part-time distance learners. In fact, a few years ago Cal Poly launched the Local Address Project; a survey asking students to identify where they reside in our local communities. At the time, seventy percent of all students updated their local physical addresses through this effort. From the data collected, we were able to identify that approximately 11% of students were living outside of the City of San Luis Obispo. 2 In recent years, Cal Poly has housed more students than ever before and the highest percentage of students in its history (37-40%). Cal Poly has the largest housing program in the CSU. In addition, Cal Poly is actively planning to increase on campus student and workforce housing capacity. Cal Poly’s 10-year, $1.2 billion Housing Future Plan is actively in motion. This includes replacing North Mountain halls, building on the adjacent parking lots, and adding from 3,300-3,800 new beds — with the first building expected to open its doors for fall 2026. For details: http://www.housing.calpoly.edu/future-housing Another important consideration in this discussion is that we have significantly increased the percentage of our students who are from the local area. In 2015, students from our local service area made up 6% of our total new student population. In fall of 2024, local students made up 12% of our new student population. So. while the percentage of students to the enrollment at Cal Poly has grown by 4%, local students make up a significant amount of that enrollment growth. A major factor in our growth strategy has been to provide additional opportunities for our local students (who are twice as likely to be admitted than non-local students) to earn a Cal Poly degree. There is also a comment about the negative impact that Cal Poly’s growth is having on the City’s infrastructure. Cal Poly is currently constructing a Water Reclamation Facility project ($40 million investment) that will dramatically reduce Cal Poly’s impact on the City’s sewer system and treatment facility - reducing it to minimum required flows. It will also reduce our water usage to levels significantly lower than 2005. Once construction is complete, we’ll be using less water, less sewer capacity, and less energy. 2. This statement: “Due to the lack of on-campus student housing, some students must live off-campus” implies that there is an expectation that Cal Poly house all of its students. I don’t believe that is a realistic expectation and ask that it be reframed or removed from the report. 3. “However, due to changes in policies, Cal Poly stopped assisting the city, stating privacy concerns, and revised their AB 524 report to remove some of the addresses that were previously provided in the document.” p. 10 Clarification: While it is true that addresses are no longer available due to privacy complaints from students and in alignment with many other CSUs, Cal Poly continues work with the City of SLO on these issues through regular meetings and communication with Community Development, Code Enforcement, and SLOPD as recently as this week. Several outcomes have come from these meetings including: a. Coordination of City officials to speak directly with students and groups about a variety of topics including noise, neighbor relations, understanding their CUPs, and an overview of how to engage with City government. b. Preparation of students who are seeking new CUPs or responding to reviews of their CUPs by both the Planning Commission and City Council. c. Cal Poly now has a copy of existing CUPs and is able to assist with the onboarding process for new student leadership for each organization. d. The City of SLO now sends noise violation information to Cal Poly for review and we have engaged the Interfraternity Council in a process for peer accountability. e. Cal Poly has also offered to consult on language for new CUPs as appropriate and provide a review of existing CUPs for accuracy (several are attributed to the wrong organization, the wrong address, non- existent organizations, and unrecognized organizations). Again, thank you for the time and effort put into this report. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on our suggested changes to the report. Gratefully, Courtney Courtney Kienow 3 pronouns she/hers (why is this important?) Director of Community Relations and Economic Development Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA _____ office 805-756-6000 direct 805-756-6098 www.calpoly.edu Year Cal Poly Total Enrollment Cal Poly Students Living in Campus- Provided Housing Percent of Cal Poly Students Living On Campus 1975 15,158 2,793 18% 1980 15,943 2,793 18% 1985 16,140 2,795 17% 1990 17,756 2,795 16% 1995 16,022 2,796 17% 2000 16,877 2,816 17% 2001 18,079 2,934 16% 2002 18,453 2,775 15% 2003 18,303 3,551 19% 2004 17,582 3,680 21% 2005 18,475 3,620 20% 2006 18,722 3,621 19% 2007 19,777 3,872 20% 2008 19,471 5,362 28% 2009 19,325 6,493 34% 2010 18,360 6,395 35% 2011 18,762 6,959 37% 2012 18,679 6,657 36% 2013 19,703 7,241 37% 2014 20,186 7,150 35% 2015 20,944 7,377 35% 2016 21,306 7,074 33% 2017 22,188 7,807 35% 2018 21,812 7,774 36% 2019 21,242 7,839 37% *2020 22,287 4,468 20% 2021 22,022 8,130 37% 2022 21,778 8,513 39% 2023 22,279 8,801 40% 2024 22,785 8,653 38% Sourcing: Enrollment data was obtained through the Institutional Research website (https://ir.calpoly.edu/content/index) and through IR staff and Cal Poly Fact Books: https://ir.calpoly.edu/content/publications_reports/factbook/index. Housing data was sourced from Cal Poly University Housing staff: http://www.housing.calpoly.edu/ Fall quarter (the point in time that we use as a baseline across the years) tends to be the highest in terms of enrollment which is also the timing of the census. Numbers tend to drop throughout the year as students graduate at the end of each term, engage in study abroad programs, or participate in off-campus internships, among many other reasons. *2020 - Unknown but estimated significant percentage of students studied remotely and did not reside in San Luis Obispo. 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 *2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Cal Poly Housing and Enrollment Cal Poly Total Enrollment Cal Poly Students Living in Campus-Provided Housing Percent of Cal Poly Students Living On Campus