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Goodwin, Heather
From:Allan Cooper <saveourdowntownslo@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, May
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:1121 Montalban Street
Save Our Downtown
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Seeking to protect and promote the historical character, design, livability and economic success of downtown
San Luis Obispo.
To: San Luis Obispo Planning Commission
Re: 1121 Montalban Street
From: Allan Cooper, Secretary Save Our Downtown
Date: May 7, 2019
Honorable Chair and Commissioners -
On April 1, 2019 the Architectural Review Commission reviewed the 1121 Montalban
Street project, a three-story mixed-use development consisting of 15 residential units and
430 square feet of commercial space.
The ARC recommended that the project plans should incorporate adjacent structures in
the project renderings to demonstrate compatibility and neighborhood context and we
agree with this recommendation.
But, perhaps more importantly, the ARC recommended re-evaluating the parking
requirement in relation to the proposed divided bedrooms. The bedrooms include divided
walls that should be considered as multiple bedrooms for the purposes of parking
requirements.
Please consider that this is not the first project which has come before the City that had
bedrooms that included divided walls that should have been considered as multiple
bedrooms for the purpose of parking requirements. Previous projects (not incidentally
designed by the same architect, Thom Jess) include 71 Palomar, 22 Chorro and 790 East
Foothill.
We think that it is “high time” that the Planning Commission address this problem. We
acknowledge that parking requirements have been significantly reduced as a result of
State and City mandates, but this is an unacceptable circumvention of the law granting the
developer unwarranted and undeserved special privileges.
We are urging you to address this problem and we thank the Architectural Review
Commission for drawing our attention to this. Thank you!
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Allan Cooper, Secretary - Save Our Downtown, San Luis Obispo, CA
Website: www.SaveOurDowntownSLO.com
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