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From:Jerry Rioux <jerry@slochtf.org>
Sent:Tuesday, July
To:E-mail Council Website
Cc:Codron, Michael
Subject:Support for San Luis Ranch
Attachments:San Luis Ranch CC letter 17-07-18.pdf
Attached is my letter of support for San Luis Ranch.
Jerry Rioux
San Luis Obispo County Housing Trust Fund
71 Zaca Lane, Suite 130, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
www.slochtf.org
805-543-5970
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71 Zaca Lane, Suite 130, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (805) 543-5970 www.slochtf.org
July 18, 2017
Delivered via email to emailcouncil@slocity.org, mcodron@slocity.org
City Council
City of San Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Re: Support for San Luis Ranch – Item 14 on 7/18/17 Agenda
Dear Mayor Harmon and Members of the Council:
I am writing to encourage you to approve all aspects of the San Luis Ranch project later today. San Luis
Ranch deserves your unanimous support because it offers a wide variety of benefits to the City, local
employers, local employees and residents.
First, San Luis Ranch will provide 580 new housing units that are sorely needed in our community.
Instead of providing only large single family homes, the project will include a variety of housing types
and sizes. This will ensure that the project will serve a much broader range of community members than
would a typical residential development.
San Luis Ranch will also help fund critical gaps in our local circulation system – particularly the Prado
Road overpass. The project will also connect Prado Road with Los Osos Valley Road. Traffic conges-
tion will also be relied throughout the city since the project will contribute funds for various other infra-
structure improvements. In addition, it will help to improve and extend local bike routes.
San Luis Ranch will help the City’s jobs-housing mismatch and take up to 900 commuters off the high-
ways every morning and evening. This, in turn, will help the City meet its GHG goals. Commuter traffic
is probably the largest single source of GHGs in the county.
Once again, please vote to approve San Luis Ranch for these and other reasons.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Gerald L. Rioux
Executive Director
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