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ITEM NO.: FEB 0 7_.2017
Gardner, Erica
From: Richard Schmidt
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 10:23 AM
To: E-mail Council Website <ernailcouncil(@slocity.org>
Subject: 22 Chorro a public health menace
Dear Mayor and Council,
Please see the attached about the impact of 22 Chorro on overflowing sewers.
Feb. 7, 22017
Re: 22 Chorro
Dear Mayor and City Council,
This project is a public health menace.
Previously I wrote about its effects on its residents.
Today I'm writing about its effects on the rest of us in one particular way.
Sewage in the streets, disease, epidemic! That's only in the Third World, right?
No, it's life in Third World Obispo, your city.
For years the city's sewers have been overflowing into streets, and we have all been put
at risk. Just yesterday I observed this mid-afternoon at Johnson and Monterey, cars and
bikes splashing through it, pedestrians stepping through it and getting splattered.
Just over a week ago, it happened practically in front of my house, not once, but twice in
three days, one time with an estimated 36,000 gallon spill, the other probably more than
that. And I suspect it has continued to happen, I just haven't observed it.
Our area is one where the city admits it has too little sewer capacity. Here's a city map
of our substandard-sewered part of the city.
And there, center right, is 22 Chorro, within this substandard area, about to contribute
the sewage of 90 additional residents plus visitors to our already overflowing sewer
pipes.
This is NOT OK! It is malfeasance on your part to continue to approve development that
further endangers residents with overflow sewage. There will be consequences --
health, legal, and Karmic.
Please pay attention to this sort of stuff, now, before there are serious consequences.
Don't continue to compound the problem by approving projects like 22 Chorro.
If you do not take constructive action prior to compounding matters, it will be clear that
the City of San Luis Obispo doesn't care about the welfare of its residents, and
residents will have no choice but to take this matter to higher authorities, to the press, to
the county, state and nation, to show how a self-styled "progressive" city can be just as
indifferent to the common good as a kleptocracy.
Please don't approve this, or any other high -sewage -producing projects till
you've fixed your infrastructure to protect public health.
Thank you.
Richard Schmidt