HomeMy WebLinkAbout7/16/2018 Item 2, Mattson
Goodwin, Heather
From:Cohen, Rachel
Sent:Monday, July 16, 2018 1:11 PM
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:FW: 790 Foothill Project
Please see correspondence below 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: Ron Mattson
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 12:20 PM
To: Cohen, Rachel
Subject: 790 Foothill Project
Ms Cohen,
I am writing to express my tremendous concern over this project should it
proceed as designed. I am a homeowner here in town and must traverse the
Foothill corridor daily and I don't feel anyone has addressed the huge
amount of increased traffic in this area that this project will introduce.
It will make the Tassajara to Cal Poly area absolutely untenable along
with causing potential safety issues due to narrow streets (caused by
street parking), left turn lanes and a massive influx of new traffic.
Further, this project will also burden our already stressed water system
and will put the burden on home owners like myself as well as other
current users of the system. I have no doubt the City Counsel will
continue to look at home owners as an ATM and will levy increasing fees to
address shortcomings that this project will further exacerbate.
This project needs to be downsized dramatically. I know there is a lot of
pressure to provide housing in SLO but this project as it stands is not
the correct path. It will continue to degrade the standard of living and
experience of our lovely town and merely panders to developers. Should
that continue, I suspect a backlash to current city employees and council
members by SLO voters will occur (and that I would encourage).
I sincerely hope that the City will take into account the numerous and
valid concerns expressed by voters that this project generates and does
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not rush through the approval process simply to placate developers. Growth
is inevitable and welcome but only through careful planning which appears
not to be the case with this project. The current project across the
street done by the same developers has not even finished and thus we have
no empirical data to see how that smaller project will impact the area so
moving ahead with a much larger project essentially on top of the previous
one is reckless and unnecessary.
Ron
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