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Subject: FW: SLO Community Goals for 2015 - 2017 -�
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JAN 12 2015
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From: Kenneth Schwartz
Date:01/10/2015 6:05 PM (GMT -08:00)
To: "Marx Jan" "Christianson Carlyn" "Carpenter, Dan" "Ashbaugh John" "Rivoire Dan" "Lichtig Katie"
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Subject: SLO Community Goals for 2015 - 2017
I submit the following goals for San Luis Obispo for 2035 - 2017.
1 urge you to think comprehensively about the needs of our city within
the context of the financial realities the business of local
government must be conducted.
Ken Schwartz
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SAN LUIS OBISPO CITY GOALS FOR 2015 — 2017
Submitted by: Kenneth E. Schwartz, FAIA 201 Buena Vista, San Luis Obispo
Principal Goal: Putting the HEART back into the Urban Center of San Luis Obispo we call "Downtown"
Background task*: City Council, Advisory Bodies and Management Staff shall carefully review and
understand the economic impacts of Prop 13, then build and enhance the economic engines that
respond to those Prop 13 realities; most notably:
a. Generate and capture more bed tax revenues; and
b. Generate and capture more sales tax revenues
1. Prioritize an aggressive City -financed Cultural Center as envisioned in the City's "Downtown
Concept Plan" and construct as follows
a. Working cooperatively with the Art Association, raze the existing Art Museum and construct
in its place a new and expanded Art Museum according to plans devised by the Art
Association and already approved by the City; break ground: Fall, 2015.
b. Abandon the surface parking lot adjacent to the History Center and working cooperatively
with the History Center, utilize this site to build an expansion to the Center in a manner that
preserves the integrity of the existing historic Carnegie Library building yet provides needed
space for preserving and storing historic artifacts and records, preparing exhibits, and
expanding exhibit space: approve building program Winter 2016; contract for architectural
services, Summer 2016, devise financial plan, Winter 2017.
c. Convert the Broad -Monterey "dog leg" into a one-way single lane street running from Palm
to Broad Street with temporary diagonal parking adjacent to the mission side of Broad
Street only. Pavement to match Mission Plaza pavement with Welcome -Entry sign at Palm
Street. Implement work as quickly as completion of major construction of projects permits.
d. Purchase single family residential property facing Broad Street and hold for future expansion
of History Center.
e. Re -configure current design plans for City -owned properties within the quadrant between
Monterey and Palm Streets and between Nipomo Street and the Latimer Adobe by (1) Re-
zoning the parcels to PD, Planned Development and removing any building height
restrictions; (2) re -platting site to provide for a new Little Theater with principle facade and
entrance facing Monterey Street; and (3) a newly designed parking structure to include a
top floor suitable for restaurant use, recreational activity use, office use or any similar
commercially leasable uses for which an overview of the City would be desirable; top floor
to provide a free public accessible observation area. It is understood the final height and
architectural character of this mixed-use "parking structure" will undergo critical review
under PD regulations by the PC, ARC, CHC, and the City Council
f. Prepare, approve, and implement a comprehensive Landscape Master Plan that includes all
public properties and rights of way for this entire segment of Mission Plaza Extended. Install
in segments as completion of above listed projects permit.
*Simplified reading guide to be prepared by City Attorney's Office