HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-04-2017 Item 16, CzechRECEIVED
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TEM NO.: 1 APR 04 2017
From: Advisory Bodies
From: Genevieve Czech [
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2017 6:53 PM
To: Advisory Bodies <advisorybodies@slocity.org>
Subject: 71 Palomar
Dear Lady Mayoress, and members of our City Council:
Those among you who have seen Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" will not forget the sound of the axes felling the
trees at the end of this masterpiece. I beg you to imagine the sound of power driven saws felling 55 trees in
advance of constructing student housing. Those trees are not only historic and mature examples of their
species, but are home to a wide variety of bird life including nesting raptors. Dream you are a female raptor
with her nest holding her fledglings, and allow your fancy to witness the first flights of those young. Student
housing need not destroy an ecosystem, nor take precedence over the norms of city guidelines that clearly
require environmental studies before final approval of a project.
Your Council will have to answer to the challenges that have been posed, repeatedly and with unanswerable
arguments, by well informed citizen residents, or face their consciences in overriding and overruling the norms
that have been the basis of the SLO we all cherish.
Respectfully submitted, Genevieve Czech. SLO