HomeMy WebLinkAbout06_28-29_2017 PC Correspondence - Avila Ranch (Ramirez)
From: Ramirez <
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:46 PM
To: Advisory Bodies
Subject: attn: ARC, RE: Project Avila Ranch/San Luis Ranch
Dear SLO Architectural Review Commission: Brian Rolph,Greg Starzyk, Richard Beller, Amy Nemcik, Allen Root, Angela Soll,
and Greg Wynn;
A quote from Dr. Seuss " So, open your voice lad! for every voice counts"
My name is Silvia Ramirez, I am a mother of two teenagers( 17 years and 14 years) and a wife to a UPS Driver. I work at a
rental property management company in SLO and my husband works from the SLO UPS center and my two daughters go to
SLO High. I worked for over 7 + years for the SLUSD Elementary school and volunteered there for 10 years as well. My
husband and I volunteer as Youth Leaders at a local Spanish speaking community Church here in SLO which has been helping
and serving locals for the past 20 years, we work with kids ages 12 years and older for the past 11 years.
For 6 years we were forced to move to Atascadero due to the very high rental market and steep home buying prices. We had
to commute for those six years to our daily jobs and kept our daughters in SLO School district because we have always called
SLO home. Due to my husbands income we cannot qualify for low income, but we cannot afford the current housing market as
our income is not of an upperclass. We would have loved to have been able to afford a home to see our girls grow up and be
able to have a puppy and see them be able to play in their very own back yard. Sadly this is and was not our case. We have had
to rent high rental prices and apartment size places where our girls have been very limited to what they can decorate there room
and not able to have a pet as a companion. This Projects that are being well planned out would give us the opportunity to be first
time homeowners at the age of 34 years for me and 39 years at my husbands age.
I ask that you pass this two projects that are being presented before you and take the voices of those who have quietly been
waiting for this type of opportunities and are very grateful for the people who decided to speak for on our behalf to be able to
afford our first time home as WE are SLO Locals and will be. I was until now one of the quiet voices who hoped for some one to
step up and speak up in order to build homes for people in our income bracket.
I realized that we are the voices, we are the ones that need to speak up, staying quiet is of no help. We must try and ask for
affordable housing for the workforce people like ourselves.
I urge you in making this Project Plans a reality and making this dream a reality to families like mine. Dr Seuss quote
"Unless someone like you cares a whole aweful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." and "Sometimes the
questions are complicated and the answers a simple"
Sincerely and patiently waiting, RECEIVEDCITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
Silvia Ramirez JUN 2'8 2017
Contact information Email: eramirez111677@yahoo.com
Phone number 805-234-1930 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Mail address: POBOX 621 San Luis Obispo, Ca. 93401-w--� --