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Subject: FW: 323/353 Grand Ave. project.
From: Doug Irion [dirion @gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 5:16 PM
To: Marx, Jan; Ashbaugh, John; Carpenter, Dan; Christianson, Carlyn; Rivoire, Dan
Subject: 323/353 Grand Ave. project.
Dear City Council Members,
I just wanted to ask for you to keep Cal Poly from building apartment complexes disguised as single family
dwellings in my neighborhood. Actual single families need to be given the opportunity to live here in existing
modestly -sized homes. Mid - Century homes like these are rare. This is good housing stock that adults value.
Students do not value such things.
As crazy as it may seem, my wife and I just bought a house in Monterey Heights last month. We've been renting
it for the past four years, so we know what we are getting into by living here.
That said, the events of the past few months are profoundly troubling, even for a cynic like me with very little
hope that things in the world will get better rather than worse. But at this point I'm thinking I should probably
just stop caring about what happens to this city. We should stop kidding ourselves. It is a fake, shell of a town
with only a tiny handful of working adults making a meaningful contribution to its culture. It is a place to spend
your college years drinking beer and then to return at retirement to drink wine. Pathetic.
Eventually, all of SLO's neighborhoods (not just those near Cal Poly) will be primarily student neighborhoods.
Intelligent adults don't want to live an environment that is becoming more hostile and uncivil every day. The
adults will flee, no matter how much they love the weather. Things will get worse and worse, and there will
never be any decent restaurants here. Cal Poly will be laughing all the way to the bank, and will wield even
more power over city government than they do now.
Please prove me wrong. Vote against the acceleration of the ruination of SLO neighborhoods.
Thank you,
Doug Irion I
MAY L 7 2015
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