HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-18-16 ARC Correspondence - Item 1 (Cooper)Lomeli, Monique
Subject:
570 Higuera St. (The Creamery
From: Allan Cooper [
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 2:07 PM
To: Price, Lee; Cohen, Rachel
Subject: 570 Higuera St. (The Creamery
Dear Lee and/or Rachel -
Meeting: KC
Item: J_
DTI9-I P
RECEIVED
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
JUL 18 2016
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Would you kindly
forward this
email
to the ARC so they
can see it before
their July 18,
2016
meeting? Thanks!
- Allan, Secretary S.O.D.
To: SLO Architectural Review Commission
Regarding: 570 Higuera St. (The Creamery)
From: Allan Cooper
Honorable Chair and Commissioners -
Save Our Downtown fully concurs with Ursula Bishop's concerns that no amplified music
be played nor any alcohol served within the Creamery patio after a certain hour. Spikes
could remain open until the regular bar closing time but not their outdoor patio. Because of
the Creamery's close proximity to a residential neighborhood, a formal acoustical analysis
should be undertaken before approving the outdoor patio facing the Nipomo Street
parking lot. This acoustical analysis could also address any bar -related noise spilling out
into the new patio when the roll -up doors are opened.
Furthermore, I would like to draw your attention to three major omissions in the staff
report.
Firstly, you should not approve this project until the architect has satisfactorily made clear
to you the precise location (or locations) and design treatments planned for the pedestrian
path(s) connecting the Creamery to the 8 off-site parking spaces located behind 560
Higuera.
Secondly, staff has failed to acknowledge the fact that this project has completely turned
its back on San Luis Creek. Improvements to the somewhat dilapidated pathway flanking
the Creek should be a condition of approving this project.
Thirdly, there is no explanation provided by either the architect, staff or the City Arborist
justifying the removal of the 40+ year-old Pinus densiflora, Japanese Red Pine (my
identification of the species could be in error, but it is the large red -barked, multi -trunked
tree adjacent to the Creamery loading dock). This appears to be a healthy specimen and a
type of tree not commonly found in the San Luis Obispo area. I'm sure you are aware that
it is fully within your purview to deliberate on the reasons behind any tree removal. Thank
you.
Allan Cooper, San Luis Obispo