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CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
JAN 16 2015
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
From: Sharon Whitney [whitney.sharon @gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 8:53 AM
To: Carloni, Marcus
Cc: Council, SloCity; Christianson, Carlyn; Carpenter, Dan; Rivoire, Dan; Marx, Jan; Ashbaugh, John;
Johnson, Derek; Murry, Kim; Lichtig, Katie; Mejia, Anthony; dmultari slocit .org
Subject: Grand Avenue "Infill" Project is a disguise for densification creep in R -1
Marcus Carloni and other members of the ARC,
The ARC should not approve the proposed subdivision of 2 lots on Grand Ave between
McCollum and Fredericks into 4 lots. This project makes too dense an R -1 neighborhood under
the guise of "infill." There are clearly specific issues of parking and circulation of parked
vehicles that need attention, but beyond these and other technical details (compatibility of
design, etc), the issue is really about land use development.
Infill should be about using empty spaces efficiently, not about making R -1 zones so dense they
look more like R -3 zones. I have no doubt that the ultimate use of these houses will be as student
rentals. UGH! We in the Alta Vista Neighborhood are already overwhelmed by this kind of
development. People who reside here are leaving in droves because of it. It's not fair to those of
us who just want to live in the homes that were purchased 50 years ago as modest workforce
housing. It feels like a "taking" by the City of the values we bought into.
To ignore our rising voices of opposition is to transform our democratic governance into a
technocratic bureaucracy.
Sharon Whitney
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