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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-09-2016 PC Correspondence - Item 1 (Flickinger)RECEIVED CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO MAR 10 2016 From: Sarah Flickinger [ COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 5:04 PM To: Carloni, Marcus Cc: Advisory Bodies Subject: Comments re: Public Hearing for 175 Venture Drive, SPEC/ER-1318-2015 To City of San Luis Obispo Planning Commissioners: Meefll1g i L 03- I !LO Item: Please include the attached letter as public comment with regard to this evening's public hearing for 175 Venture Drive, SPEC/ER-1318-2015. 1 will be presenting an abbreviated comment that includes some portions of the letter and some things which are different in my verbal comments this evening, but request that the letter in its entirety be included in the public hearing comments. Sincerely, Sarah Flickinger 79 Del Oro Court San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 To: City of San Luis Obispo, Planning Commission Re: Public Hearing, 175 Venture Drive, SPEC/ER-1318-2015 (Project PR -0090-2015) March 9, 2016 Good evening Commissioners, Thank you for taking the time to consider the issues and the development before you, and to advise Council as to Planning Commission concerns with the project as proposed. In the past I've spoken on behalf of the 500+ City residents who live in the Los Verdes Park 1 and 2 developments on Los Osos Valley Road (LOVR) near South Higuera. Tonight, I appear before you as a voice of those and so many others who have contacted me in support of careful circulation planning in southern San Luis Obispo. I have a laundry list of things I need to state on record, but ultimately am asking the Commission to support the advancement of the LOVR Bypass into an active and funded project as part of the General Plan, Airport Area Specific Plan and any other specific plan updates to be made as part of this development and for the variety of future and in - process developments that will impact traffic in the southern SLO area. Traffic impacts at LOVR and South Higuera are cumulative in nature, meaning the impacts are directly attributable to recent development, and have gone unaddressed throughout previous EIRs for two main reasons. First, for roughly 10 years, traffic studies accepted by the City and used as the basis for EIRs have been allowed to assume traffic forecasts dependent on a full interchange, overpass and through connection to Broad Street at Prado Road already being in place. Even the LOVR Interchange Project made this assumption. If we continue with these assumptions, major additional immediate impacts will occur up until such time that the full Prado build out is achieved. Avila Ranch and concurrent developments should be directed to perform circulation studies exclusive of the full build out of Prado, to give an accurate picture of the current situation. Second, concurrent developments, such as those before us at Avila Ranch, San Luis Ranch and the Madonna Property, along with Froom Ranch, the phased Irish Hills and the Margarita developments, do not reflect one another's traffic impacts—each conducting EIRs in a vacuum, so as to outwardly paint a picture that minimizes and segments the impacts. But if taken as a whole, instead of segmented, all of these traffic studies would have presented a much different and more accurate picture of the area's circulation. Avila Ranch and its counterparts should be compelled to include scenarios of one another's impacts in their EIRs for a more accurate long-term picture. the General Plan and specific plan updates related to this and concurrent developments, so it may be studied and begin fair share funding as early as possible. Sincerely, Sarah Flickinger 79 Del Oro Court San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Together with Donna DiGangi, Walt Bremer and Darrell Goo.