HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/27/1989, 1 - iACET iNG AGENDA
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*Denotes action by Lead Person
June 26, 1989 Respond by:
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Mayor Ron Dunin and City Council Members ,Cie rig.
City of San Luis Obispo
990 Palm St, 8•J7A- r40jP
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 ❑
Dear Mayor Dunin and Council Members:
ECOSLO would like to voice our support of two items on your revised budget in
the.City Council Work Program, as follows:
1. Items A6, C2, and C3, Alternative Transportation Work Program: In light of
the fact that the county of San Luis Obispo is often not in compliance with
state air quality standards, and that the city of San Luis OObispo is feeling
the negative impacts of growth on an infrastructure inadequate to deal with the
rate of growth we are experiencing, we urge your council to support items A6,
C2, and C3. ECOSLO feels strongly that viable alternatives to automobile
transportation exist and should be aggressively pursued. Monies budgeted for
implementing the 1985 Bicycle Plan, developing a Monterey St./Downtown shuttle
and to asses the feasibility of a Class I. Bikeway will help to facilitate a
smooth transition away from automobile dependency toward the mass transit and
bicycle alternatives. ECOSLO strongly urges you to vote in favor of these bud-
get items.
2. Item C10, Recycling Improvement Implementation: ECOSLO has been a leader
in recycling for the past Plyears in San Luis Obispo. We are very pleased to
see that your Council is proposing monies to further the recycling efforts of
this city and to begin im ementing the plan you approved in April 1989. We
fully support your proposplan to prepare city property for a composting fa-
cility, and to contract with the county to coordinate recycling activities. As
we are all acutely aware, 'the solid waste crisis which .we face is a problem
that is not going to disappear`: Furthermore, many different strategies are re-
quired to solve the problem; recycling is one of, our .most viable options. ECO-
SLO strongly urges your ,Council'-s vote in favor of the Recycling Improvement
Implementation item.
Sincerely,
"X RECEIVE®
Nancy Wood 4kjd I& 1Q8�
Director
Environmental Center NW:gm CITY CLERK
SAN LUIS OBISPO.CA
of San Luis Obispo �:5S�•7ry .
P.O. Box 1014
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
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San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
June 26, 1989 Denotes action by Lead Person
Respond by:
Honorable Mayor and City Council t1ldA0
City of San Luis Obispo ❑city Atty.
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SUBJECT: Budget hearings on transportation "0
I would like to see the City take stronger steps toward greater
energy conservation, air quality and urban amenities through
your decisions on the transportation budget. Make this year the
one when you take the conserving approach, rather than the one
proposed by your Public Works and Engineering staff.
Please consider the points raised by the Sierra Club Alternative
Transportation Task Force. I favor substantial increases in
bikeway and transit funding to avoid the Los Angelezation of
San Luis Obispo.
a. Ask the staff to estimate the cost of implementing
major projects in the Bikeway Plan, and allocate
funding. Remedial work is needed also on Orcutt and
other locations to ccuplete bike lanes.
b. Allocate money to have free buses for one year on a
trial basis, to counter the negative effect of the
existing infrequent bus service.
C. Allocate money for purchasing four new buses a year and
smaller jitney buses for a five-minute downtown loop.
d. Halt all funding for road widening projects except for
remedial work on bottlenecks like Orcutt Road, until
the City decides how it will reduce air pollution and
handle growth in its planning.
e: Take steps to beautify existing city streets such as
undergrounding utilities on Broad Street south of Pismo
Street. The street trees aregrowing tall enough to
warrant trimming otherwise, which will ruin their
natural growing pattern (Trimmers often just shave the
tops of trees below power .lines) . New street lights
downtown would be ideal now also.
I am against adding mast arms to the traffic signals downtown, C EIV E
unless they extend_ only 4 or 5 feet out. Mast arms will do more
to Isis Angelezify downtown than any other project except perhaps II1'II 1�1g
widening Higuera Street. There is no local justification for tltl� �t
the expense. The present system works fine.Other areas have
more accidents, such as the Morro and Buchon intersection, and CM CLERK
SAN LUIS OBISPO,CA
PubliC works refuses even to put up a stop sign.
Instead, the City should be funding new street lights that are
lower, now that the street trees have grown tall, and buy
well-designed ones that cm plement the buildings.
Sincerely,
James Lopes
C: Sierra Club
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