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Home My WebLink About5/7/2019 Item 15, Teaford May 6, 2019 COALITION PARTNERS: Brian Leveille, Senior Planner Bike SLO County Boys and Girls Club South County City of San Luis Obispo, Community Development Cal Poly State University 919 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Art and Design Department Center for Sustainability Food Science & Nutrition Department Subject: Tank Farm Mixed Use Kinesiology Department Commercial / Assisted Living Center STRIDE CenCal Health City of San Luis Obispo Parks and Recreation Community Action Partnership of SLO Dear Brian, Community Foundation of San Luis Obispo County The Healthy Communities Work Group has reviewed the proposed Dairy Council of California Diringer & Associates Tank Farm Mixed Use Commercial/ First 5 San Luis Obispo County Assisted Living Center Project. Overall, we support this project and the Food Bank Coalition of SLO County additional assisted living units that it will bring to the community. Between French Hospital Medical Center 2015 and 2035, the senior population in SLO County is projected to increase Lucia Mar Unified School District 1 by 58%, and the population 70 years and older is projected to double. One Cool Earth Rideshare Safe Routes to School While our group supports the overall project concept, we suggest the San Luis Sports Therapy following improvements to promote community health: SLO Council of Governments SLO County Departments: Alter design to enhance walkability. Board of Supervisors A pedestrian friendly design would better promote the health and safety of Health Commission Planning and Building senior residents, residents of neighboring developments, and business Public Health clientele. A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that SLO County Office of Education men and women aged 50 to 71 who briskly walked every day had a 27 percent The Community Foundation SLO County 2 reduced death rate compared with non-exercisers. Improved walkability will UC Cooperative Extension support resident health and can also improve business: Clifton et al. found YMCA of SLO County that customers who arrive by walking or biking are more regular and more 3 profitable than customers who arrive by automobile. We encourage the developer to maximize the mixed-use aspect of the project by promoting connectedness with a more walkable design. We specifically recommend the addition of speed bumps on the road connecting Broad St. to Tank Farm Rd. via the western edge of the property. Alter design to mitigate air quality concern. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 58,000 premature deaths every year are associated with long-term exposure to road- transportation pollution, which is linked to asthma and cardiovascular 4 disease. The Healthy Communities Work Group recommends an alteration in project design to reduce exposure of residents to truck exhaust from the loading dock of Building 1. HEAL-SLO is the SLO County obesity prevention coalition and its mission is to increase healthy eating and regular physical activity among County residents through policy, behavioral and environmental changes. In carrying out that mission, a subcommittee called the Healthy Communities Work Group provides responses to Planning sta amendments, and special projects. Include affordable units in compliance with inclusionary housing allocation as opposed to in-lieu fees. 38% of elders (age 65+) in San Luis Obispo County do not have enough income to meet their basic housing 5 needs, as measured by the Elder Index. Our community desperately needs more assisted living units priced below market rates. The Healthy Communities Work Group urges that deed restricted affordable units are included in accordance with the inclusionary housing allocation. Sincerely, Stephanie Teaford Healthy Communities Worgroup Chair ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 2050 Regional Growth Forecast for San Luis Obispo County, prepared for SLOCOG by Beacon Economics and SLOCOG Staff 2 Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007 3 Consumer Behavior and Travel Choices. Clifton et al. 2012 4 ive, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2014. 5