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Home My WebLink About05-03-2016 Item 11, SchmidtC°NINCH toil J NII; lC�l �l�i l�C) Lt Item 11 — Aero Vista Beer Hall Dear Council Members, PLEASE THINK BEFORE YOU GRANT THIS PERMIT! THEN SAY NO. Last year more than 32,000 Americans died in highway accidents. That's two thirds the population of San Luis Obispo. Think about that for a moment! Of those 32,000+ Americans murdered on our highways, about one third met their deaths at the hands of inebriated drivers. Drivers impaired by drugs accounted for another 16% of highway deaths. THAT MEANS HALF OF ALL THE FATALITIES ON OUR HIGHWAYS OCCUR AS A RESULT OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL IMPARIMENT. One third the population of San Luis Obispo wiped out each year by drunk or drugged drivers who think they're entitled to get into their cars and drive whatever their brain state. News Flash just yesterday: "A woman died Saturday after an oncoming drunk driver drove into her lane and caused a head-on collision. At the time of the crash, traffic on Highway 58 was heavy because of attendees leaving a concert at the Pozo Saloon." Tomorrow there will be another such local news flash — maybe even today. By end of week for sure. About 90 Americans per day killed, 45 of those by drunken/drugged drivers. And we worry about terrorism? By approving this project you are contributing to increasing this death and mayhem. The ONLY reason for cgoing to this place is to drink. Everyone knows that places of this sort are also havens for on -the -spot drug use, and probably also for ready -to -use sales. The developer will try to schmooze over this fact, but that doesn't change the facts. So nearly everyone at this place will be impaired as a driver. DMV states very clearly that ALL consumption of alcohol produces impairment: L► y BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT (BAC) Tabie for Male (M) f Female (F) Plumber of Body Wei ht in Pounds_ --- Driving Drinks 100 120 1 140 1AQ 180 200 220 240 Conditlon 0 na eoo. .04 ,00 . :...:1)0 .00 00 . _ ...:.aa .00 only sale F 00 .66 .50 0o .00 .00 .n0 : .00 Driving ! unit 1 M f18= -05 f o 03 (k3 moi^ vti n. IRMF �+Elia ,i35 U� 17r1 9.�lellf�� 3 Ms i r es } The ONLY safe driving limit is zero consumption!!! Patrons will go to the beer hall/nightclub to have their minds altered by alcohol and drugs, then, because there's no other way to go anyplace else from there, have to drive away. And to drive anyplace else means turning across four lanes of high-speed high -traffic state highway at a non -signalized intersection. Could any location be more stupid for a place of this sort? APPROVING THIS IS PROMOTING CARNAGE AND THE DEATH OF YOUR INNOCENT CONSTITUENTS!!! DO YOU CARE SO LITTLE ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE TO DO THAT??? THIS LOCATION IS TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR SUCH A USE SIMPLY BECAUSE OF ITS DEFINITE IMPACT ON PROMOTING DRUNKEN/DRUGGED DRIVING CARNAGE ON A HIGH SPEED HIGH TRAFFIC STATE HIGHWAY. I was sufficiently disturbed by this prospect that I contacted CalTrans, thinking since it was a state highway they might have concerns. They received my message with silence. I guess they don't give a hoot. So, figuring it's a state highway, I thought CHP might be concerned. They said sure they're concerned, but it's not their jurisdiction, so their hands are tied. They told me since it's in the city it's a city police issue, and to contact the police chief. I'd heard wonderful things about the new chief, so I shot off an email to her begging her to weigh in. I hoped for the sort of open response people allege she provides. Sure as shootin' I got the famous SLO city hall silent response treatment, exactly the treatment one would get from Lichtig, who wants this project's sales tax and who hires and fires police chiefs. Clearly a bit of tax money's more important than public safety. So, it seems nobody has the guts to stand up for what's right. AND PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELVES WONDER WHY SO MANY ARE READY TO VOTE FOR TRUMP! WELL, I'LL TELL YOU WHY, BECAUSE ESTABLISHMENT POLITICS SELLS OUT THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE EVERY CHANCE YOU CAN, AND EVEN THOUGH TRUMP'S A LIAR, HE AT LEAST SOUNDS LIKE HE CARES. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR A CHANCE — TO TURN DOWN A PROJECT THAT IS INDISPUTABLY DANGEROUS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE. PLEASE SAY NO TO THIS MENACE. Sincerely, Richard Schmidt PS. Regarding the re -notice fiasco that is causing your de novo hearing: Staff tells you "City staff has confirmed that the notification error was an isolated circumstance and the issue that resulted in the error has been corrected." That's a bunch of baloney. Don't swallow it. This most certainly IS A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM and it's highly dubious it has been corrected. It's been going on for about a decade. In my neighborhood, more times than not we're never noticed about things we should be noticed on. Many appeals have been filed after unnoticed admin hearings when people find out after the fact something ridiculous was approved that they should have been noticed about, but weren't. In talking with others, find this is happening throughout the city. In fact, you have heard this repeatedly from constituents throughout the city. This current case is not an isolated one, and I believe it is also not an accident. It's just how the city does things. I'm absolutely convinced staff is sloppy with notices because they think they can get away with being sloppy, and don't care about due process for anyone other than developers. And staff typically is just impossible when errors are pointed out to them. Let me give you one of my favorite examples, when an effort was made BEFORE an admin hearing to get it postponed till proper notice was issued. It was Doug Davidson's first admin hearing, and there was a neighborhood project for which no notice had been sent out. I realized that the morning of his scheduled hearing and called him, and told him, and asked postponement, and he said no. So I went to a council member, who went to the city attorney, who went to Mr. Davidson, who told the attorney he knew exactly how he was going to rule, so it made no difference whether people were noticed! Why the attorney didn't put his foot down, I don't know, but he wimpily didn't. So the hearing went ahead that very day. Mr. Davidson did exactly what he intended to do. I am impressed that he's perhaps the most corrupt person in CDD because of his know-it- allism, his arrogance towards residents and their rights, and indifference towards following the law. Neighbors were forced to appeal the decision to the Planning Commission, which, by motion of John Ashbaugh, indicated its annoyance with the process by refunding the appeal fee. Still, that had zero impact on this sort of behavior. In the current instance, I suspect I inadvertently led to this rehearing. I have a physical therapist and physician in that complex, and knowing how ill -designed, challenging and already over -crowded the parking lots are, was totally dumbfounded to learn that the beer hall was getting away with using existing parking in a joint -use arrangement. I wondered if the tenants had been noticed of this project, had any clue what it meant for their own parking, so I emailed Michael Codron and requested the notification list, which is public information. Apparently in trying to provide that to me he discovered there was no list. (I still don't know if the tenants in the complex have been noticed.) The main difference between this instance and past instances is that CDD didn't try to shove it under the rug, but decided to admit error and go back and fix things, and for that I commend Michael, for his two predecessors consistently used the under -the -rug approach. But claiming this is an isolated notification mess doesn't wash. You guys still have big, long-standing systemic notification problems that must get fixed.