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From:James Lopes <
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Subject:Re: Comments on 650 Tank Farm - Retail and Assisted Living
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On 7/16/2019 2:48 PM, James Lopes wrote:
July 16, 2019
City Council
City of San Luis Obispo
RE: 690 Tank Farm and 3985 Broad Street - Proposal for Retail Uses and Assisted Living
Dear Mayor Harmon and Council Members:
At this last minute, I'm hoping that you have read my December 11, 2018 comments to the Planning
Commission. I request that you continue this item indefinitely in order for staff and the applicant to
address the items below:
The location is the center of the Business Park concept of the Airport Area Specific Plan, where mixed
employee residential and retail uses should be the most intense. This zoning should remain with some
enhancements. A retirement home should be located away from this area, for instance at the Atoll
property. Someone forgot to address this area for mixed-use work and living opportunities in the 2014
LUCE update. This is the KEYSTONE property for affordable housing for airport area employees, which
you have proclaimed you support.
1. Please retain the Business Park zone (which has a higher 45-foot height limit), and add a Mixed-Use
Residential Overlay Zone. This is not the location for general Community Commercial uses! Think of this
area as a larger version of the Foothill commercial mixed use concept.
2. Create a list of allowable uses which will serve a mixed-use office, retail and residential development
and nearby neighborhoods.
3. Add an affordable housing standard to require more than the minimum 2 ADU's per acre (only 20
total). Consider requiring that at least 20 percent be dedicated affordable units, for very - low to
moderate incomes. Note that the applicant could later apply for a density bonus.
4. Require a noise study to investigate if aircraft noise should be mitigated.
5. Require a traffic study to identify the best access to Tank Farm Road and adjacent properties. Give
priority to the traffic signal at Mind/Body.
6. Approve site plan and building design standards which create a village / campus environment - at
least:
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Require structured parking for a percentage of the units, for more usable open space, and to
reduce the dominance of parking.
Require buildings in C-shaped layouts, similar to the Villa Rosa project, with parking in the
middle, not necessarily in garages.
Require buildings aligned facing interior drives with a lane of guest parking, so that frontages
face each other.
Require a similar mixed-use lane with a "village main street" appearance, rather than a parking
lot.
Require buildings fronting Tank Farm Road to have wide landscape planters and sidewalk
behind, away from the street. And require entrances on the street to these buildings.
A detailed CUP revision should be submitted after the rezoning to enable community review of a fully
designed project.
Sincerely,
James Lopes
912 Bluebell Way
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
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