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Christian, Kevin
From: Mejia, Anthony
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 11:39 AM
To: Christian, Kevin
Subject: FW: Support of LUCE
PH1 12/09/14
Anthony J. Mejia, MMC I City Clerk
CILY Of San IMS OBISPO
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
tel 805.787.7102
From: Christianson, Carlyn
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 11:38 AM
To: Murry, Kim; Mejia, Anthony
Subject: FW: Support of LUCE
Don't know if this has gotten into the public record; I haven't seen it come through.
Thanks,
Carlyn
Carlyn Christianson
Vice Mayor
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Sfm LuIS OBISPO
Office of the City Council
990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 -3249
E cchristianson @slocity.org
T 805.781.7122
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From: Justesen, Erik P. [EP]ustesen @rrmdesign.com]
Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 2:10 PM
To: Rivoire, Dan; Marx, Jan; Christianson, Carlyn; Ashbaugh, John; Dan Carpenter
Cc: Justesen, Erik P.
Subject: Support of LUCE
Dear Council members,
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First of all, congratulations to Mayor Marx and Councilman Christianson and Rivoire for your campaign success. It cannot
be understated how important it is to have professional, informed and committed leadership serving our citizens. I am
humbled by your commitment and willingness to serve our City in this most important capacity. Best wishes for a
productive term and for the good stewardship of San Luis Obispo.
I encourage you to "stay the course" on the LUCE update and finish the job that was started by our citizens nearly 3
years ago. As the CEO of a relatively large local employer and A &E firm who is regularly involved with planning
assignments of this nature throughout the State, the LUCE update process is one of the most comprehensive and
forward looking plans I have come across. You should be very proud of your staff and their ability to successfully manage
this effort.
Few efforts of this nature engage their community's like this one. I participated in this update more than almost any
other SLO City process and found it to be open, transparent, highly effective in reaching and engaging a broad number of
residents opinions. The summary of community outreach in last week's staff report tells the story well and it is
Impressive.
The product of this engagement represents the foundation of the policies and guidance found in the LUCE. It was
designed by our citizens, refined by our LUCE Task Force and further refined and then recommended to you, our Elected
Officials by one of the most competent and professional Planning Commissions in the State. They did their homework
and brought you a wonderfully progressive yet ever so SLO, LUCE. The surgical quality of the land use section in
particular with a focus on a compact urban form and broad mix of housing to support our very healthy business
environment is just right for our town, and the kind of sustainable planning (jobs /housing balance) that our own CAP
demands and will preserve our community's high environmental ethic and our cherished SLO Life.
The Circulation element with its focus on alternative transportation modes is a game changer for SLO. We will have re-
prioritized the historical auto centric model with one that emphasizes bikes, pedestrians and transit and tied funding to
these modes to give power to the words.
Of course our carefully conceived LUCE will go largely unfulfilled if we don't follow through on our long -known issue of
ALUP inconsistency. You must overrule this underwhelming and inaccurate Plan and then have SLO City staff work with
the ALUC and their staff to update the ALUP. From the very beginning of the LUCE update our City Council and everyone
else In the planning process knew that either A. the Airport Land use Commission must bring its plan up to date or B. the
City would need to overrule the ALUP.
For almost 3 years the ALUC did nothing but drag their feet, ignore the City's engagement efforts and coerced the City in
to doing what certain members wanted; maintain complete land use control over large areas of the City. I attended
some of the ALUC meetings and watched many more, it was a disgraceful display of arrogance, obstructive behavior and
purposeful misinformation on the part of the ALUC. Hopefully with new members this attitude will turn more
collaborative and constructive in the future.
I have testified at numerous meetings with this same message. I am hoping, Councilman Riviore with your solicitation of
more public comment you will take this input and consider the entire record of public engagement when making this
important decision for our future on Tuesday evening.
Thank you again for representing the Citizens of Slo and taking the full spectrum of citizen participation into account.
This is what you were elected to do by a decisive voice of the people on November 4 th
Best,
Erik P Justesen, ASLA, LEED AP
President + CEO
3765 S. Higuera St., Suite 102
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
(805) 543 -1794
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