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Purrington, Teresa
From:Davidson, Doug
Sent:Tuesday, January 23, 2018 2:32 PM
To:Purrington, Teresa
Subject:FW: Froom Ranch Specific Plan Comments for PC 1-24-18
PC correspondence. Thanks
From: AR Wyatt \[ ]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 2:25 PM
To: Davidson, Doug <ddavidson@slocity.org>; Fowler, Xzandrea <XFowler@slocity.org>; ecreel@swca.com; Advisory
Bodies <advisorybodies@slocity.org>
Subject: Froom Ranch Specific Plan Comments for PC 1-24-18
Dear Planning Staff and Commissioners:
RE: Froom Ranch Item 2 -SPEC-0143-2017 (12165 and 12393 LOVR)
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the preliminary review of the Froom Ranch Specific Plan. In general, the high density and
high percentage of housing in this general concept seems to support community goals for more higher density housing, and the Villagio
design plan is fantastic, with an elegant vertical mixed-use plan incorporating small, well designed, dense housing units. These specific areas
of concern linger, and I hope you will consider them, so as to ensure the resulting plan is community serving:
Request to exceed hillside building standard height As of yet, there does not seem any clear reason for exception so would hope
you would deny exception without clear articulation of public purpose to be gained from such an exception.
Villagio gates: Gated enclaves are contrary to our public goals of access, inclusion, connectivity and community vitality, in general.
The memory care areas and special member facilities at Villagio can be secured w/o securing the entire complex, much as
hotels and other residential complexes do with key cards to certain resident and guest-only areas. Further, more specifically,
the gating is contrary to the general guidance in LUE SP-3 for that area, discussed at start of staff report, specifically conflict
with: d: provide access to trails; f) address neighborhood commercial needs of new neighborhood; and g) provide connectivity
to adjacent development. The issue of gating may seem stylistic, yet it is primary to general access and circulation. When you
deny access, you affect public circulation in an extreme fashion, and this denial of access is both inappropriate and
unwarranted as well as in complete disregard for guidance area g, in particular, above.
Affordable housing is an essential public goal: Please mandate full 15% of housing units be affordable, as required, with no Table
2-A reductions for this specific plan area. The assumptions of the City's Table A are outdated and sized units triggering
exception to requirements do not produce affordable housing. The City should revisit Table 2-A and revise or eliminate all
together, as a further action.
Multi-modal circulation concerns at the Auto Park Way and Froom Ranch crossings and connectivity to Bob Jones Trail: Already,
crossing at Froom Ranch Road is restrictive and dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians. More traffic is going to exacerbate
challenges and safety concerns for elder, vulnerable users, in particular. Please ensure amenable, accessible, protected
crossings at both of these intersections so as to ensure fair and appealing multi-modal access to all area users, so residents can
safely jump out of the Villagio Mediterranean paradise, should they wish to, and other uses can access safely for work and
share in recreational and commercial benefit.
Appreciative of your careful consideration and attention to balancing private and public benefit in this and other development.
Sincerely,
Anne R. Wyatt
(805) 296-0013
a.reneewyatt@gmail.com
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