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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06_28-29_2017 PC Correspondence - Avila Ranch (Longcrier) From: Wayne Longcrier < Sent: Friday, June 09, 2017 2:56 PM To: Advisory Bodies; E-mail Council Website Subject: Input or proposed project - Avila Ranch Project Members of the San Luis Obispo City Council and San Luis Obispo City Planning Commission, RECEIVED CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO JUN 0 9 2017 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT As a local businessman, I urge you to support the Avila Ranch development project located on Buckley Road. I believe projects like Avila Ranch are exactly what the city needs if it is serious about improving the quality of life for the city residents and assisting local businesses to attract qualified employees. Avila Ranch, with 360 homes targeted below the current median housing price, is what is needed to help the City's achieve the stated goal of facilitating creation of more workforce housing. There are many benefits I see in this project, but those I would point out that I think are significant and worthy of your support include: • By design, over 11% of the housing is directed at low to moderate income household, • By design, 47% of the housing prices are affordable to the missing middle "workforce" households, those young professionals employed within SLO who are currently forced to commute from other parts of the county as city housing is just too expensive for them. In my opinion, this is a critical, much needed segment of housing that has ignored in our community, • New parks and bike paths that can be enjoyed by all city residents, • The community is designed as "net zero energy consumption" through extensive use of solar power and energy efficiencies, Is Improvement of the traffic in the South Higuera area with the extension of Buckley Road from Vachell across to South Higuera. We in the city have discussed for decades the need for more affordable housing. I don't believe this will come to fruition until projects like Avila Ranch are approved and moved with efficiency through the regulatory process. I want to thank you in advance for your careful consideration, and I hope ultimate approval, of this project. Regards, C. Wayne Longcrier, CPA 805.782.5202 wa ne Jon criers as.com LONG BIER &ASSOCIATES wnoifi-I P'Nie. Ary Wnlnnls 100 Cross Street, Suite 103 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 P 805.541.2500 F 805.541.4024 1244 Pine Street, Suite 213 Paso Robles, CA 9344 P 805.238.3600 To keep your information secure, we suggest you transfer files to Longcrier & Associates by uploading them to our file server accessed on our website: www.longcriercpas.com The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.