HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/18/2019 Item 4, Ferris June 3, 2019
City of San Luis Obispo— Public Works
Transportation Planning & Engineering
919 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3218
Attn: Jake Hudson, Interim Deputy Public Works Director
Re: Mitigation Fees for Future Development
This letter is to officially protest my property at 4080 Horizon Lane being included in the special
T.I.F. for Avila Ranch development.
I object on the following grounds:
City Code 16.20.110 specifies eligibility for developer reimbursement and it states two criteria
that must be met for a reimbursement to be possible.
1. Condition #1 —Adjacent to the development. 4080 Horizon Lane is NOT �c�"�s�� to
the development— It is only near.
2. Condition #2 — Improvements are of greater size or capacity than that required for
the development of the property.
At the 5/28/19 meeting at RRM, Jake Hudson made it clear that all improvements to the
roadway are required to support the traffic levels of Avila Ranch alone. Therefore, they are not
of greater size and capacity than already required.
Putting in sidewalks, curbs, and gutters may satisfy a City desire, but in no way are they
necessary for Avila Ranch access of roadway capacity. They should be left for when each
property improves and as they are not necessary, either the developer or City must pay if they
are to be done now.
If they are done later when each property develops, then there is no issue of who bears the
appropriate cost for Avila Ranch to have the roadway capacity.
Horizon Lane is required to have the other half of the road put in.
This may someday benefit John Wallace as his side of Horizon Lane has not been built, but
4080 Horizon Lane is behind the finish part (minus curbs and gutters) of Horizon Lane and,
therefore, is no more eligible to be included in this special T.I.F. than the other properties on our
side of Horizon Lane.
In conclusion:
1) We are not adjacent to and we do not benefit from any extra roadway capacity being put
in by Avila Ranch development.
2) Increasing the traffic on Horizon Lane 100 fold is a serious cost/disadvantage that the
City Planning staff has curiously forgotten to quantify or include in their analysis.
Additional traffic is a big negative —Where is it in the staff analysis? Bearing the cost of
additional traffic is bad enough without being required to pay for it!
3) The improvements to Suburban Road do not increase roadway capacity and are not of
greater size than already exists. The City's desire to have these improvements put in
ahead of the appropriate time is noted, but a desire for unnecessary roadway edge
improvements does not meet the requirements of City Code 16.20.110 in any way as
they have no effect on the traffic, only on roadside niceties. The proposed premature
improvements on Suburban Road are neither of greater size nor do they increase
roadway capacity, so they do not fall under City Code 16.20.110.
4) None of the proposPd Avila Ranch improvements DIRECTLY benefit 4080 Horizon Lane
in any manner. Overall, they represent a detriment and a cost, not a benefit.
None of the required circumstances that would allow for developer reimbursement exist,
the��� �, �' .�se remove my property from the special Avila Ranch T.I.F. immediately!
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