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CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
JAN 2 0 2015
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
323 -353 Grand Avenue
While the approval of the lot divisions for this project should never have been
approved by the Planning Commission it demonstrates the overwhelming influence that
speculators and developers have gained over the City Council, as well as over some on
the so called "citizen advisory" committees. There is no intention by these speculators to
rent these houses to anyone but students, and as many as can be accommodated. As
the Leroy Court project was also promoted to be for families we see that all have
become student rentals. Leroy Court should not be viewed as a precedent but as a
mistake. Having strolled down the Court this past Saturday morning I witnessed a slum
in the making.
Your responsibility as ARC commissioners is not only to see that projects comply
with city design codes and nearby community character, which the 323 -353 Grand
project does not, but to relay to the council the feelings and wants of the citizenry as a
whole and responsible neighborhood residents. Not to follow the councils lead in
kissing up to special interests.
It is quite obvious that the neighbors in Monterey Heights are sick of the city approving
these speculator approved mini dorms thereby running many responsible residents out
of their own neighborhood. The ridiculous idea forwarded by some of our elected
officials that the police should be the arbiters of conflicts caused by these poor planning
decisions or the residents should remedy the problems themselves by confronting the
trouble makers just demonstrates the spinelessness of these elected officials to perform
their duties. The appropriate way to stop this erosion of our neighborhoods is to stick to
the codes that were set up to protect neighborhoods from this type of incursion in the
first place.
Having a lot (1179 San Carlos, ask anyone at City Hall) that has been an
eyesore and nuisance for going on four years across from my house I can personally
attest to the character of the developers of this proposed project, they are the same,
and can tell you that their intentions are for profit only with no concern for the neighbors
or the quality of our city. I urge you to totally reject this application and send them back
to the drawing board to come up with a proposal using appropriate lot sizes and proper
lot to house percentages. Our city is not that desperate for housing that we need
projects that degrade its integrity to the extent this one does.
Terry Mohan
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
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