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September 15, 2015
SUBJECT: Item B-2, Guiding Principles for the Cal Poly Master Plan Update Process
Mayor Marx and Members of the Council,
The staff report states, "It is anticipated that Cal Poly will have updated the Guiding Principles
used in the last Master Plan update effort and if those are available prior to the (Council)
meeting, they will be distributed via agenda correspondence."
Residents for Quality Neighborhoods respectfully requests that the Council delay its vote on
this item for thirty (30) days from the date that Cal Poly provides these updated guiding
principles. Specifically we would like to see which of the guiding principles contained in The
Neighborhood Relations Task Force (attachment B of the staff report) have been included in the
update before we provide comments -- and before Council votes on this item. *
This is important. We are concerned that residents of San Luis Obispo could lose existing,
critical protections if the specific "Guiding" and "Supporting Planning and Policy Principles"
from the current Neighborhood Relations Task Force Recommendations are not carried forward
into the Master Plan Update. Residents need to know which, if any, of the neighborhood
relations guiding principles have been retained before being able to adequately comment on
this item.**
Sincerely,
Sandra Rowley
Chairperson, RQN
* Input from the distinctly different "Neighborhood Wellness/Community Civility Report" was not
intended to be a substitute for the guiding principles set forth in the Cal Poly Master Plan's "
Neighborhood Relations Task Force Recommendations" (attachment B in the Staff Report).
** The proposed "City's Guiding Principles For Cal Poly Master Plan Update" —"Neighborhood Wellness"
states; " The Master Plan should include buffers between areas of campus activities and adjoining
residential neighborhoods; protect neighborhoods from light, noise, and glare from campus
development; pull more intensive uses to the interior of campus and provide suitable locations for
parties and Greek life housing and activities on Campus." While this is appreciated, it does not include
all the neighborhood protections incorporated in the "Guiding" and "Supporting Planning and Policy
Principles" of the existing "Neighborhood Relations Task Force Recommendations."