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Subject: Draft EIR - San Luis Ranch Comments and Questions
To: Planning Commission - City of San Luis Obispo
Cc: San Luis Obispo City Council Members
Katie Lichtig - City Manager
Re: Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) San Luis Ranch Development
From: Mila Vujovich-La Barre
Date: January 30, 2017
Dear Planning Commission Members -
Thank you for the opportunity to voice opinions about the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for
San Luis Ranch at the last two Planning Commission meetings.
At the last Planning Commission meeting, some of you on the commission were asking very specific
questions of both the developer and City staff. I am hoping that we all receive full, logical, comprehensive
answers for your queries that mirrored mine. At the meeting, I did not hear the responses.
This property on 131 -acres of Class 1 agricultural land is still located in the County of San Luis Obispo. It
should not be annexed into the City until all of the questions are answered with verifiable data.
Some members of the Land Use Circulation Element (LUCE) team envisioned that development at this site
was good in theory. However, some have now questioned the practicality and feasibility of what is in the
LUCE document.
A majority of the LUCE members held steadfast to the fact that Prado Road was going to be a four -lane
truck highway in accepting proposed development for both San Luis Ranch and Avila Ranch. That is what
is in the approved and certified LUCE document.
As I have said on numerous occasions, I have been asking for a comprehensive Environmental Impact
Report (EIR) for Prado Road from Madonna to Broad Street for the last 15 years. It has never been done. It
cannot be "segmented" or "piecemealed" any further without wreaking havoc with the traffic infrastructure
throughout that part of town.
In Curtin's California Land Use, it is stated that in Citizens Association, the court "held that `chopping up' a
large project into many little ones, each with minimal impact on the environment, with the use of negative
declarations, did not comply with CEQA, as it would result in overlooking the cumulative environmental
consequences, which could be disastrous. Citizens Association, 172 Cal. App. 3rd at 151. "
So, thank you for asking the hard questions about Prado Road and the proposed traffic flow out Froom
Ranch to Los Osos Valley Road. Please secure answers for: Who is going to fund Prado Road? Where are
those funds now? Is Prado Road going to be an overpass or an interchange? In either scenario, as the
road goes east towards Higuera, what path is it going to take? A layperson can go out onto to the existing
Prado Road today and see with their own eyes and measure with a simple measuring tape that a four -lane
truck highway, even one without bike lanes, simply does not fit.
For San Luis Ranch to be allowed to go forward and to funnel all of the traffic onto Los Osos Valley Road
via an extended Froom Ranch Road is the opposite of good planning.
The traffic infrastructure cannot be an afterthought. This should be discussed now to avoid extreme
congestion on Los Osos Valley Road. Everyone needs to remember that another development - the
Madonna family's Continued Care Residential (CCR) Facility is also being proposed with traffic to also be
funneled on to Los Osos Valley Road. In the current plans, Madonna's CCR also has 280 homes
scheduled to be built. The traffic will become unbearable.
Also, several of you, as commissioners, also asked about the supply of water for this development at the
last meeting. Thank you. This epic drought is not over and I do not believe that an adequate water supply
exists.
I would also like to know if the sewer plant is in condition to handle the increased demand from these
proposed residential and commercial units at San Luis Ranch.
In closing, thank you for the opportunity to express my concerns again so that they can be addressed in the
responses by the staff and development team.
Sincerely,
Mila Vujovich-La Barre
Mila Vujovich-La Barre
650 Skyline Drive
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405