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From:Peg Pinard <
To:Heidi Harmon; Rivoire, Dan; Christianson, Carlyn; Pease, Andy; E-mail Council Website;
Gomez, Aaron; CityClerk
Subject:Jan. 16, 2018 Council Agenda Item #9
City Council Members,
Residents of San Luis Obispo deserve better!
In your staff report the Parks & Recreation Director is claiming authority for setting Open Space hours
due to an outdated enforcement clause in the 1998 Open Space Ordinance. It is called a “Reach Back”
when someone tries to claim authority for something that has long since been changed.
This attempt at semantic trickery is so disrespectful to the residents of this city. There’s no end to that
kind of "Reach Back” rationale - is it going to be city policy from now on to find any “convenient" time in
history to suit one’s purpose and then claim some old “authority”? Under that rationale you could go
back to the Ten Commandments!
It is a slap in the face to residents who participated in the development of the city’s 2006 General Plan,
the city’s massive LUCE survey, and who believed that residents’ #1 priority, protection of Open Space,
was being implemented.
Speaking of slaps in the face…the city listed the protection of the city’s open spaces/natural reserves
FIRST in Measure G when it wanted residents to tax themselves. Residents were so clear that they
valued this protection that they approved another tax. This city council has not only decided to drop
protection of Open Space as a city goal or other important objective for the city but it is now weakening
the very protections that residents had already accomplished.
Just wait until this city ask residents to tax themselves again!
Peg Pinard
Former Mayor, City of San Luis Obispo
Former Chairperson San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors
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