HomeMy WebLinkAbout9/3/2019 Item 18, FowlerAugust 28, 2019
San Luis Obispo City Mayor Heidi Harmon and City Council Members
880 Palm St
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Re.: 2020 Reach Code ordinance around de -carbonization
Dear Mayor and Council Members.
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I would like to applaud and support the Cities efforts to promote and implement health and safety
ordinance for its Cities residents and workforce. Having attended a couple of the draft sessions
surrounding the reach code, I can say that the City has taken a realistic and considerate approach to
encourage, owners, builders and developers to design and allow for the most economical and pragmatic
method to meet the current State Building Code update while also addressing decarbonization of the
Cities new housing stock.
As the President & CEO for People's Self Help Housing, we are shifting all of our new development
designs toward an all -electric pathway as deemed appropriate where the development is taking place.
The advantages that I'm seeing relate to the following:
• Reduced utility infrastructure coordination and costs.
• Reduced apartment energy consumption due to the implementation of HeatPump technology.
• Allows for solar PV offset of all of the tenants energy costs.
• Reduced onsite conflicts with other underground utilities and landscape plans.
• Reduced overall construction costs by eliminating gas piping, meters, and venting of appliances.
• Improved indoor air quality for our tenants.
It is my hope that the Council and the Community will get behind this type of local ordinance and then
become a model City for other jurisdictions to follow as we all try to combat the changes to our local
environment, health and standard of living that we've all come to enjoy on the Central Coast.
Sincerely,
J�'Fowler
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