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From: Grimes, Maeve
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:17 PM
To: Goodwin, Heather AGENDA
Subject: FW: Neighborhood Wellness SS1 CORRESPONDENCE
Date 2 /1 temp -
Heather, Please distribute as Agenda Correspondence for Study Session Item 1 on tonight's Agenda.
Thank you,
Maeve kenne0y gmmes
City Clerk
City Of san Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
phone: (805) 781 -7102
email: mgrimes @slocity.or
From: Marx, Jan
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:41 PM
To: 'Brett Cross'; Smith, Kathy; Ashbaugh, John; Carpenter, Dan
Cc: Grimes, Maeve; Goodwin, Heather
Subject: RE: Neighborhood Wellness SS1
Please post this as agenda correspondence.
Thanks,
Jan
From: Brett Cross [mailto:brettcrossta?yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2:03 PM
To: Marx, Jan; Smith, Kathy; Ashbaugh, John; Carpenter, Dan
Subject: Neighborhood Wellness SS1
Just a couple of notes regarding the Neighborhood
Wellness Update that the Council and staff need
to be considering for future action.
1. Rental Inspection and inspection upon sale
requirements. The high percentage of rental
properties has proved to be significant source of
illegal construction, code violations, and
conversions. Additionally, the state and
condition of the City's older housing stock is
unknown.
2. Yard landscaping requirements. As water rates
continue to increase there is a trend to remove
water intensive landscaping and instead of
replacing with low water landscaping, replacing
with what I describe as "rock gardens ". This
trend is exacerbated by the high number rental
properties in the City which reduce upfront costs
of plantings and ongoing maintenance to the
owner.
3. Adoption of an amortization schedule for
garage conversion carport requirements. Prior to
the adoption of the garage conversion ordinance
the code requirement was for one covered space
and one space outside the front yard setback.
This requirement was easily met by building an
approved carport. Unfortunately these types of
structures have serious negative impacts on the
character of properties and neighborhoods. A 15
year amortization schedule that requires property
owners to meet current standards for garage
conversions would significantly improve property
values for the community as a whole.
4. Required landscape buffer between adjacent
driveway areas. Many properties have extended
paving adjacent to the driveway out to the
property line. Where both properties have
driveways that are along the same property line
and both are paved out to their respective
property lines the result is a continuous
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uninterrupted paved area. This type of pave -out
seriously impacts the overall character of the
,neighborhoods. The City should adopt a 3 foot
landscape buffer between property lines along the
front yard setback area adjacent to the driveway.
Thanks for your consideration.
Brett Cross
1217 Mariners Cove
San Luis Obispo,CA
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