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HomeMy WebLinkAbout9/9/2019 Item 4, Judd[lei To Arch. Review Commission, Sept 9, 2019 about Item 545 Higuera Street Dear commission members, Thank you for all your preparation work -and the possibility for us to comment. During my 25 years of teaching city- and transportation planners at Cal Poly I did many studies about downtown SLO including publ. exhibitions, which were also visited by Council Members. My personal consulting - also international with UNDP - is described in the attachment I studied the different reports - approximately. 90 - on the web. I also visited the neighborhood and especially the upcoming building on 460 Marsh St. with its questionable ground floor that only presents four doors of double parking garages to the curious visitor. Such detailed design can hopefully be avoided in the future 545 Higuera Street 1_X I support the writings of Jean Awn (owner of the Pollard House) and the highly professional work of Mr. James Papp. My comments: 1. Consultants recommendation on page 35 of their report: Positive: Three creative points to mitigate a bad situation, but by far not enough. Negative: Their remark, basically "big buildings are a trend, so get used to itl" are unprofessional. 2. My proposal: Send project to Cultural Heritage Committee. 3. My personal take: Reduce project by 40 percent and P -spaces by 50 percent. Include environmental considerations which are much more important than multiple city guidelines, that were used. Note that our city council is rightfully concerned about global warming. United with you for a better downtown! Eugene Jud 665 Leff Street, San Luis Obispo " `2. G/ giul@calpoly.edu Attachment: CV R EC'EI 'EIV U 9 2019 To Arch. Review Commission, Sept. 9, 2019 about Item 545 Higuera Street s 0 CjrY �Rk Dear commission members, Thank you for all your preparation work and the possibility for us to comment. During my 25 years of teaching city- and transportation planners at Cal Poly I did many studies about downtown SLO including publ. exhibitions, which were also visited by Council Members. My personal consulting - also international with UNDP - is described in the attachment. I studied the different reports - approximately. 90 - on the web. I also visited the neighborhood and especially the upcoming building on 460 Marsh St. with its questionable ground floor that only presents four doors of double parking garages to the curious visitor. Such detailed design can hopefully be avoided in the future 545 Higuera Street. I support the writings of Jean Anderson (owner of the Pollard House) and the highly professional work of Mr. James Papp. My comments: 1. Consultants recommendation on page 35 of their report: Positive: Three creative points to mitigate a bad situation, but by far not enough. Negative: Their remark, basically "big buildings are a trend, so get used to it!" are unprofessional. 2. My proposal: Send project to Cultural Heritage Committee. 3. My personal take: Reduce project by 40 percent and P -spaces by 50 percent. Include environmental considerations which are much more important than multiple city guidelines, that were used. Note that our city council is rightfully concerned about global warming. United with you for a better downtown! Eugene Jud 665 Leff Street, San Luis Obispo eiud@calpoly.edu Attachment: CV Prof. Eugene Jud Fellow Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), USA Eugene has 56 years of experience in transportation and city planning in Europe, USA, Middle East and Mexico. He teaches at California Polytechnic State University and owns Jud Consultants in San Luis Obispo, California, with partner firm Planungsbuero Jud in Zurich, Switzerland. He holds master degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (Transportation) and from the University of Zurich (Environmental Sciences). He is a Licensed Civil Engineer in all European Countries (FEANI #114892) and member of several professional organizations in USA and Switzerland. At the university he teaches transportation, planning, and especially sustainable mobility, since 1994. He wrote over 100 reports in the fields of data collection, analysis, proposals, design and research. He worked together with famous architects like Gensler Partners in San Francisco, Stern and Partners in New York, and Jean Nouvel from Paris. He also worked with environmental organizations like the Rocky Mountains Institute in Colorado. As a UNDP expert he produced within two years the first master plan of transportation for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the final version of the transportation master plan of Nicosa, Cyprus. In 2011 he was a speaker at the international STARS conference in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland. This conference is regularly attended by 100 CEOs, professionals and economists, who often participate in the Economic Forum in Davos. He has a standing invitation as a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Engineering (ICTTE), where he spoke at the annual conferences of Lisbon, Portugal and Lucerne, Switzerland. Ou/e, Nov. 27, 2017)