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Mejia, Anthony
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Agenda Correspondence 10/07/14 PH3.
Anthony J. Mejia, MMC I City Clerk
City of San Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
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Subject: FW: SLO LUCE Update
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From: Sierra Club [mailto :information @sierraclub.org] On Behalf Of Karen Newman
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 3:02 PM
To: Council ALL
Subject: SLO LUCE Update
Oct 7, 2014
San Luis Obispo City Council
Dear City Council,
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I've recently learned how the visionary nature of SLO's General Plan and LUCE in past decades has contributed
enormously to the character and quality of life in this town I love. Resulting actions, such as the closure of Mission Plaza
to vehicular traffic, seemed radical at the time, but it's impossible now to imagine SLO without them. The actions that
resulted from that vision have made SLO the place we all love to live. I encourage you to do your utmost to ensure that
the current LUCE update captures that vision, pointing the way to a future SLO where our children and grandchildren
will thrive.
To this end, I support the following suggestions offered by our local Sierra Club chapter:
The proposed update of SLO's Land Use and Circulation Elements 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 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.
Eliminate the policy of "off -site mitigation" for development, protecting lands far removed from a project site, which
permits 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." This concept is a departure from the City's longstanding
policy that development pay its own way via impact fees for all needed infrastructure, and would result in public
subsidies for private development.
Thank you for your efforts on behalf of all SLO residents, present and future.
Sincerely,
Karen Newman
1145 Leff St Apt 2
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 -3744