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From: Mejia, Anthony
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FW: Council Meeting October 21, PH 2, Final Action LUCE
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From: pschwart [mailto:pschwart @calpoly.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 3:34 PM
To: Eugene H. Jud
Cc: Ashbaugh, John; Carpenter, Dan; Christianson, Carlyn; Codron, Michael; Dietrick, Christine; Lichtig, Katie; Marx, Jan;
Smith, Kathy; Mejia, Anthony
Subject: Re: Council Meeting October 21, PH 2, Final Action LUCE
Dear Mayor and Council members.
As a student and professor of societal change and sustainability, it is clear to me that if we build infrastructure
for the automobile society, we are locking in our high energy and resource use for the next generation. Time
and time again, experience has shown that if you don't build for the car, people will adjust and usually improve
their lives through alternative means. Curitiba, Brazil is a prime example of this, but it is being done in
European cities and many other societies as well. Please make San Luis Obispo a leader in this field. Please
build for the society we want to nurture. My family and I support Eugene's message and a better future.
Peace
Pete
Pete Schwartz
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On Oct 20, 2014, at 7:04 PM, Eugene H. Jud <eiud@calpol edu> wrote:
Dear Mayor and Council members,
In addition to the three attached plans please receive our comments as follows:
1. Re point 1 of Planning Commission
We suggest you should not overrule, as Mr. Bert Forbes wrote in his letter of October 20. I was a consultant to
Zurich International Airport (Switzerland) for 20 years, and I know what buildings too close to the airport
mean: less safety, complaints, less planning flexibility (Plan 1).
2. Re point 2
Re point 2a). Based on the very helpful "Compendium of Changes" we look forward to the special study for
Caltrans along Hwy 101 from and including LOVR and Madonna Interchanges and wider surrounding area
including Prado Road East, as well as Tank Farm and Buckley Road (Plan 2). We need a multidisciplinary
analysis (open space, hydrology, safety esp. for children etc.),and smart urban building proposal, which may
well last some years.
It is beyond our understanding how we can take a "final action" for LUCE (esp. road concept), when the most
important element ( Prado Road /Hwy 101 area) is undefined and highly questioned by Caltrans and others. This
is not easy to comprehend for the average citizen and may even be illegal. I brought this up earlier in an email
to Mayor Marx, but never got an answer. It is like certifying an EIR before the project is finished: Such actions
reduce the dignity of Government.
Re point 2b). LUCE (especially CE road building) has no "internal consistency" at all with the Open Space
Element, as anybody can see, who can read a map. This part of 2b cannot be approved on October 21, 2014.
3. Conclusion
In order to have a real circulation element, we must invest more time to work on
- Senate Bill 743 (in effect since January 2014)
- the Long Range Transit Plan, which is needed to plan attractive connections to intense land uses (bus rapid
transit). I seems, that these elementary connections were
not made when the land use plan was discussed, therefore we may produce more an more car oriented people.
Let us lean back and finish it
right!
We thank all council and commission members as well as staff for their hard work and late night hours.
Sincerely for SLO 2035/2050:
Eugene Jud, Fellow Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE assisted by
Blayne Morgan, M.S Civil and Environmental Engineering
Eugene Jud, Fellow Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE
Faculty Civil and Environmental Engineering
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 -0353
Phone: (805) 756 -1729; E -mail: ejud(�z )calpoly.edu
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Blayne Morgan
(805) 540 -0313; gracewetmoreggmail.com
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Pete Schwartz
Cal Poly Physics
the new science building, 180 -608
Renewable Energy
Appropriate Technology
805- 756 -1220
pschwartgealpoly.edu
My webpage: http : / /physics.calpoly.edu/node /94
Our Appropriate Technology Classes: http://appropriatetechnology.wikispaces.com/About+Us
Our Solar Concentrator Research
littns://www.facebook.com/cpschefflei-
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