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Mejia, Anthony
From: Codron, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 201411:48 AM
To: Mejia, Anthony
Subject: FW: Needed changes in the SLO LUCE Update
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From: Sierra Club f mailto :inforrnation @sierraclub.or ] On Behalf Of Kathryn Tribbey
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 201410:58 AM
To: Council—ALL
Subject: Needed changes in the SLO LUCE Update
Sep 30, 2014
San Luis Obispo City Council
Dear City Council,
RECEIVED
SEP 3 0 2014
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The proposed update of SLO's Land Use and Circulation Elements promises unacceptable impacts on traffic, air quality,
and greenhouse gas emissions. It needs to do more to protect our health, environment and quality of life over the next
20 years. Before you approve the draft plans, please ensure that they:
REQUIRE that new development use methods to facilitate rainwater percolation for roof areas and outdoor hardscaped
areas, and require project designs that minimize drainage concentrations and impervious coverage.
Implement a BUILDER INCENTIVE PROGRAM that will encourage new homes to be built with an onsite heat
recovery/water recycling system, as the city of Lancaster is doing with the intention of becoming America's first "net
zero" city for energy and water consumption.
Provide for an INTELLIGENT PARKING demonstration program with the potential to reduce parking requirements,
congestion, accidents, energy consumption, pollution emissions and consumer costs.
STOP including local open space areas -- designated for the use of residents -- in state and national tourism marketing
campaigns, with neighborhoods left to pay the price of open space being "loved to death."
ELIMINATE the policy of "off -site mitigation" for development, protecting lands far removed from a project site, a recipe
for habitat fragmentation. Require that all lands set aside to mitigate the impacts of development are in the same area
as the project.
ELIMINATE the proposed incorporation of the Economic Development Strategic Plan into the Land Use Element and the
concept that new development pay a subjective "fair share," a departure from the City's longstanding policy that
development pay its own way via impact fees for all needed infrastructure, a change that will result in public subsidies
for private development.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Kathryn Tribbey
1237 Vista Del Lago
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 -4836
(805) 458 -7172