HomeMy WebLinkAbout7/16/2018 Item 2, Kinsley
Goodwin, Heather
From:Cohen, Rachel
Sent:Monday, July 16, 2018 11:37 AM
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:FW: 790 Foothill
Attachments:Thank you Mr.pdf
Please forward the attachment as correspondence for ARC Item #2.
Rachel Cohen
Associate Planner
Community Development
919 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3218
E rcohen@slocity.org
T 805.781.7574
slocity.org
From: Marilyn Kinsey <
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 11:34 AM
To: Cohen, Rachel <rcohen@slocity.org>
Subject: 790 Foothill
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A Letter to the City of San Luis Obispo and the Architectural Review Board, C/o Rachel Cohen,
Associate Planners of Community development
Thank you Mr. Chairman and the Architectural Review Board members for an opportunity to
voice my concerns about 790 Foothill project. I am sending my comments to you in advance
with the hope that I can read them at City Hall this evening.
All due respect should go to the fine work you Architectural Review Board members are doing
to make this project comply to our Master plans for redevelopment of this area of the city of
San Luis Obispo. . However, I believe we are putting the cart before the horse in starting public
discussion with the review of the architecture of this project.
I would like to voice two points:
1., The Land Use Element, 8.2.1 Foothill Boulevard/Santa Rosa Area, for the City of San Luis
Obispo, Page 1-91, says, “…At the affected property owners’ request, the boundary of this area
on the north side of foothill may be extended to include one or more of the existing
commercial properties west of Chorro Street.” Who was the owner in 2014 of the 790 Foothill
lots who had the influence and power to be cited in our SLO city master plan, to have changed
the boundaries of a redevelopment area, and what has that relationship to do with the
problem we are facing now. Perhaps we should revisit the advisability of these two lots being
included.
2., My second point is that the type of redevelopment is going to create an immense traffic
problem and again, this is putting the cart before the horse. We can’t know the traffic impacts
on our intersections until 22 Chorro is filled to capacity. Foothill/Chorro has always been an
awkward intersection and the density this project bring has the potential for legal costs to the
city in the future in terms of culpability in the case of accidents.
In addition, we have a unique situation in our neighborhoods north and south of Foothill in that
the beautiful mountains which we all love also prevent exit from our neighborhoods to both the
north and south. We only have the East West corridors like Foothill and Highland for rapid exit
from much of the area. God forbid, a disaster prevents all the thousands of residents from
fleeing to the west (and this could happen with wildfire, earthquake, or even flooding as
Foothill west of our neighborhoods is in the middle of the 100 Year flood plain). Most of the
vehicles trying to escape this area would have to be funneled eastward through this
increasingly dense corridor on Foothill Blvd.
Yes, let’s upgrade our neighborhood commercial area, but adding yet one more big apartment
complex with many permanently housed people and vehicles is not the way to make this
redevelopment work to the satisfaction of our neighborhoods.
Respectfully submitted, Marilyn Kinsey
Resident: 355 Mira Sol Drive, SLO