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Subject: 22 Chorro project comments - please replace with this email
Please refer to this email rather than the one my fat fingers previously sent. Thanks.
Members of the City Council,
I would like to voice my strong opposition to the project that is up for your consideration at 22 Chorro Street.
During my undergraduate work in Cal Poly's City & Regional Planning program, we learned all about Smart
Growth, walkable and bike -friendly neighborhoods and affordable housing. I am completely on board with the
goals of these measures, however the project at 22 Chorro does not honor the tenants of these planning
principles.
Firstly, given the existing traffic on this very busy intersection and the existing parking challenges at adjacent
businesses and the neighborhood, I do not understand how the City could allow it to proceed with NO
TRAFFIC STUDY at all! This project will most assuredly compound the dangers and frustrations to both traffic
and parking. How much? Nobody can answer that because nobody has performed that study.
The parking lift system seems like a recipe for disaster. My neighborhood has been beset by sideswipes of
parked cars. It has happened to my cars twice in two years .... the last time there were 4 other cars hit just in my
neighborhood. My car is still in the shop ..... and we're expecting students to successfully maneuver onto a lift
with inches to spare? I'm guessing the lift will be out of commission permanently within months.
The "affordable" component is a joke as any student could qualify.
The developer's thinly disguised extra large bedrooms that will be partition -able and nearly double the
occupancy (a la Icon building at Taft street) is clearly a student dorm and will do nothing to add to workforce
housing. Even if we believe that these dorm rooms will open up single family residence elsewhere, my
experience is "once a student rental, always a student rental" until such time as it is purchased by a family and
fully renovated. There are many many barriers to families moving into these neighborhoods, not least of which
are projects like 22 Chorro and its even worse sister project at 71 Palomar. These projects, far from attracting
families, cause them to flee.
Please think about this critically. My neighbors and I have thought about it. We talk. And we vote.
Thanks
Greg Robinson