HomeMy WebLinkAbout06_28-29_2017 PC Correspondence - Avila Ranch (Vavrek)
From: Dennis Vavrek <
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 10:06 AM
To: Advisory Bodies
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Subject: AVILA RANCH / Planning Commission mtg.:: 6/28/17
Dear Commissioners:
'Those who frame the question, own the outcome.' --anonymous
FACT
The hard/cold housing -data for decades has been a consistent refrain,
'in California alone over the past 10 years,
we should have built 100,000 (S million nationally)
more new 'residency -units' to pace currezItly existing latent -demand'
That elevates our current planning -status to one of acute failure;
But who is accounting for a statewide residency -inadequacy, anyway?
Certainly not SLO,
with its long history of restrictive 'zoning' & 'smart' growth.
COMMENT::
This presently considered Avila Ranch (AR) project
isn't going to solve/dent that kind of a state/national residency -shortfall.
However,
it can serve as an anticipatory concept -window it into what is possible,
now & tomorrow;
A demonstration of'abodic-experimentalism'....a lost art of modern times.
The framing -question (ergo, outcome -thesis) might be this::
"As planners,
are we contributing to a Housing Crisis or,
are we complicit in a Residency Crime?"
Ask ourselves,
Do we want mere programmatic Residential renderings,
or is it time to accommodate more novel, poetic Residency outcomes?
RECEIVED
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
JUN 2 8 2017
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Answering that near -existential inquiry,
opens a conceptual -ortal within which SLO/AR
can offer A VALUE to the rest of the state/nation:
Manifesting either,
a new planner -day of FoundLuck assets -creation(?),
or an extended political -age of LostOpportunity costs -accrued(?)....
left still for another generation to reconcile [i.e. deny the crisis, bury the crime ].
FoundLuck or LostOpportunity ?
.... a high stakes game, we are playing.
The oldest/most tiresome racket in (any) town,
'Create scarcity, feather your nest.'
SOLUTION::
Please consider,
The main obligation/responsibility of possibility within this pending AR Proposal,
is to task_ out- planners, developers, & bankers
to envision a Residency -Rea IEstate Future that 'productizes' (not only profitizes!)
the fun -and -fortuitous.
As,
The pleasing -and -surprising consumer -aspects of R.E. product -inventiveness
go a long, long way (even, MarketMakers!)
in backfilling a few potholes of'abodic-despair' [i.e. Crisis/Crime]
in our historical -dearth of Real Estate/environmental-design Product -Options.
after all,
no one appreciates pot -holes in the increasingly arduous roads they travel,
where those incongruous paving -voids are so (obviously) elemental to fix !
....as the phrase goes, "paving the future. "
Smooth (product) divergences ahead.
Respectfully,
Dermis Vavrek @ Dyabode®
"putting The Real back into Real Estate "TM
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