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Purrington, Teresa
From:Richard Schmidt <slobuild@yahoo.com>
Sent:Wednesday, May 8, 2019 3:41 PM
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:Planning Commission Montalban Project
Dear Planning Commissioners,
Staff Bell and Codron should be ashamed to maintain these two-door/two-code-compliant-escape-window partitioned
"bedrooms" are one, not two bedrooms.
Such an argument defies both common sense and common honesty. It also defies the facts.
You may recall this issue came up in connection with the 22 Chorro project, and the 71 Palomar project, and staff
engaged in similar mumbo-jumbo, and the projects were permitted as 2 bedroom count for Chorro (and 2 and 3 for
Palomar).
Well, here's how the Chorro units are being advertsed:
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https://www.apartments.com/the-academy-chorro-san-luis-obispo-ca/nmnpsnq/
You got it -- they're now 4 bedroom units. Whoda thunk it?
The Palomar units are being advertised as 4 and 6 bedrooms, and the studios, claimed to be "affordable housing" in
order to get exceptions, are advertised at $1950 per unit! (Which if true suggests the affordable housing ruse was a staff-
tolerated scam on the public.)
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https://www.apartments.com/the-academy-palomar-san-luis-obispo-ca/dxcjd3j/
The public is not stupid, and the public's fed up with staff's dishonesty, and with its being rubber stamped by "decision
makers."
It is incumbent that your commission be honest, call these units the 4 bedrooms they are, and apply our municipal
development codes and standards accordingly.
Sincerely,
Richard Schmidt
(8 year veteran of Planning Commission from the days we had an honest staff to guide us towards making sound
decisions)
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