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Grimes, Maeve MAR 0 5 2013
SLO CITY CLERK
From: Marx, Jan
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 7:12 PM
To: Robert Vessely COUNCIL MEETING: .
Cc: Grimes, Maeve ITEM NO.:
Subject: RE: South Broad Street
Thank you for your thoughtful comment on this important issue, Bob. I am including our city clerk in this response, so it
can be posted on the city website as agenda correspondence.
]an Howell Marx
Mayor of San Luis Obispo
(805) 781 -7120 or (805) 541 -2716
From: Robert Vessely [vesselyr1745 @gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 10:42 AM
To: Marx, ]an
Subject: South Broad Street
Jan,
I'm hearing from friends that there is some concern about the proposed South Broad Street Area Plan. Several people
with light industrial businesses in the McMillan & Duncan Lane area have told me that they feel like they are being
driven out of town. Specifically I'm hearing that:
• There is no reasonably - priced industrial space available elsewhere in town.
• Adding residential units to an existing industrial area will inevitably lead to conflicts which the pre - existing
industrial businesses can only lose. When work load demands it, some of these businesses operate 24 hours a
day.
The current industrial businesses employ dozens of people whose jobs & paychecks will go elsewhere if the
businesses are not allowed to expand with demand.
Places like Atascadero and Grover Beach are more than happy to accept new industrial businesses; they seem
to be much more business - friendly.
I find it hard to imagine the McMillan & Duncan Lane area becoming a part of a mixed -use, "second downtown ". It is
physically separated from the Broad Street corridor, they are dead -end streets and are accessible only from Orcutt Road.
The existing businesses are quite, productive & compatible and some of the owners are feeling threatened by this
proposed Area Plan.
Thank you for listening,
Bob Vessely