HomeMy WebLinkAboutAC 12-06-2017 Small - Item 3
Purrington, Teresa
From:Camille Small <notetocamille@yahoo.com>
Sent:Wednesday,
To:Stanwyck, Shelly
Cc:CityClerk
Subject:December 6. Item 3
Dear Director Stanwyck and Parks and Recreation Commissioners:
The Strategic Plan with programs, plans and pictures is very
impressive to view. I'm curious how many hands it took for that production. You might tell
about it at the meeting which I may be
able to attend. We neighborhood advocates go to an incredible
number of meetings! When projects negatively impact neighborhoods,
it leaves our heads spinning between ARC and CHC to Planning Dept. and City Council. We
understand that if you keep trying and keep
getting the same results, it defines insanity....and yet we try.
Well, that is not the purpose for this letter. I am writing to thank you
for helping with the plan for a park in the North Broad Street area.
I am not sure why the funds granted by Council for this specific purpose were questioned
as if it wasn't deserved. When Katie Lichtig (presuming it was she) suggested divvying up
the money for several other purposes, it was shocking to learn. And, might I add, extremely
unfair.
While Neighborhood Wellness has been an important goal for many
years, there is little cost to the City. I support all neighborhoods and
I always sense what is fair and what is not. The people with hearts desiring a park have
been subjected to scorn--as if they stole that money from the City or as if they went behind
someone's back to
obtain it.
Neighborhoods in our entire area are struggling to remain neighborhoods at all. As families
find it difficult to live with hundreds
of college students filling up homes, many are moving. I feel very sad for them and I wish
the rest of our City employees and City Staff understood enough to be empathetic. Even
Tom Franciscovich of
SLO LIFE magazine is moving to Avila for this reason. He can no
longer imagine growing his family here when every house that comes
up for sale becomes a student rental. (20 students and 20 cars for
every 4 houses.)
As you can see, that is my soap box and it has been since 2001. We can't fight Cal Poly as
it grows far too large for this wonderful
small city and we have never had a City Council who would help.
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Thanks for understanding how a park could help,
Camille Small
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