HomeMy WebLinkAbout11-10-2014 PH2 LakemanCOUNCIL MEETING:
ITEM NO.:
Mejia, Anthony
From: Marx, Jan
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 6:32 AM
To: Mejia, Anthony
Subject: FW: Non complying Pacific Courtyards
agenda correspondence
Mayor Jan Marx
CMOF
Office of the City Council
990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 -3249
E jmarx @slocity.org
T 805.781.7120
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SLO CITY CLERK
From: Sandra Lakeman [sandralakeman @gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 4:24 PM
To: Marx, Jan; Ashbaugh, John; Christianson, Carlyn; Codron, Michael; Carpenter, Dan; acooper gmail.com; James
Lopes; Diane Duenow; Joeseph Abrahams; Elizabeth Thyne; Diane Brown; Mark Lakeman; Jennifer Lakeman
Subject: Non complying Pacific Courtyards
Dear Mayor Marx and Council Member,
Save Our Downtown has actively sought a traditional design for the Pacific Courtyards project at 1327 Osos Street,
similar to the approved design in 2009.
Two times the Cultlural Heritage Commission has denied this latest scheme. SOD supports this decision and
requests that you send the application back to the Architectural Review Commission for revisions which
will conform to the Historic Preservation Guidelines, Community Design Guidelines and other City
ordinances. The ARC's work and subsequent Architects conclusions should then be sent back to the
Cultural Heritage Commission to check out the revisions.
We have specific concerns that City policy on development in and adjacent to historic districts is not being followed and
has not been followed since the Garden Street Project along Broad Street.
One issue, in particular, is the use of the Terrace Decks to take place as 'Open Space' for the entire
project. There is absolutely NO precedent for fourth floor roof decks in the entire Historic District.
They provide an undesirable overlook situation and ungainly finish to the tops of the buildings that
should be reflecting the gable roof of the Seventh -Day Adventist Church as in the 2008 -9 Scheme.
Furthermore, the Podium Parking proposed in the latest Scheme is nowhere evidenced in the Historic Center
and therefore should not be allowed as NO precedents exist and this type of architecture will have a negative
impact on any street level neighborhood activity or attempts for community building. Residential
neighborhoods in the Historic District should encourage attractive human scale activities along the streets so as
to encourage neighborhood building.
Sincerely,
Sandra Davis Lakeman
Emeritus Professor of Architecture
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
mailing address:
1677 Foreman Court
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
805 541 3223
WWW.sandralakeman.corn
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