HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/23/2019 Item 3, ShandCity of San Luis Obispo
Planning Commission Hearing October 23, 2019
RE: 1234 Broad Street (MOD -0610-2019)
OCT' 2 3 2019
1 COMM UNFY DEVELOPMENT
The Application for review, submitted to you from Libertine for modification
of the use permit contains information that is a misrepresentation of the
facts regarding complaints or the effect that Libertine has on the residences
in the surrounding neighborhoods.
I have complained to the management of Libertine monthly for the last four
years. I have spoken to the police and to the planning department all to no
avail to help us hold Libertine to the current use permit on file. The notice of
this meeting was not received with enough time to obtain copied of my
phone records that contain the times and dates these calls were made. I
am happy to provide these records to you should you need them to
substantiate my claim that these complains are real.
Currently we are subjected to a complete disregard to the stipulations this
commission originally put into place for Libertine to receive a limited use
permit on January 14, 2015. When the original permit application was
approved over numerous objections and concerns presented by the local
residents and established businesses, this committee put into place
stipulations that limited the use of this location for the protection of the
people and business already established. Libertine understood these
limitations and agreed to them.
1. The doors and windows would be closed at Spm.
2. No amplified music.
3. No hard alcohol would be permitted at this location.
4. No alcohol of any kind would be consumed or sold in the three retail
outlets facing Pacific Street.
We were assured at the time the original permit was issued that there
would never be hard alcohol permitted at this location. By allowing hard
alcohol and street queuing on Broad Street you will be creating a nightclub
clocked under the guise of being a restaurant. It will start with a night of two
of live music a week, in addition to the current live events already in place,
in violation of the original permit, like "game nights". Then add private
parties and "special venues" (that will only require separate permits that will
be issue on an event by event basis, without community review) now we
are up to events every night of the week. Offering to provide a manager on
site to complain too defeats the whole purpose of the original stipulations.
There should be no noise loud enough to need a complaint.
We were assured by this committee that there would never be live music
permitted at this location due to the buildings domed construction that
amplifies the noise that bleeds out of the doors that are currently left open
until 9 pm. We are forced to listen to the beer bingo, play along to the trivia
games and hear music not of your choosing in our own living rooms. This is
caused by the use of live mikes and amplifiers currently being used without
closing the doors. Now imagine that going on until 12 pm in a residential
setting.
There are also the private parties hosted, that have no guideline in the
contracts drawn up with Libertines management that should hold these
private events accountable for the volume and of the doors and window
being closed as stipulated. This is allowing two to five hours of throbbing
bass music from these private events to permeate our households night
after night regardless of our repeated requests for them to correct this
problem.
The original permit prohibits the doors or the windows being open after 9
pm. Libertine completely disregards this current stipulation. The thought
that we will now have to be subjected to open doors during and after
queuing at any of the above mentioned events, Sunday through
Wednesday until 10 pm and Thursday through Saturday until 12pm should
not be allowed.
These requested amendments can and will cause harm to the local
residents. It is a complete violation to the peace and sanctity of our private
homes. Homes that must adhere to a 10 pm sound curfew. Libertine should
be held to this standard as well, Libertine knowingly took the risk to open
this venue,at this location as restaurant and beer brewery, on the fringe of
the downtown area knowing the required limitations this location entail:
No hard alcohol.
No live music or amplified of any kind.
No beer, wine or alcohol served, used or sold in the retail store fronts on
Pacific Street.
The door and windows closed nighty at 9 pm
To now be asking this commission for exactly what was not a good fit in the
first place just to increases profits at the expense of their neighbors should
not be allowed. If Libertine wants to get the hard alcohol permit before the
deadline they mentioned in their application, they should do that in a more
appropriate location. As they have many to choose from. We, the people
that live here do not. I respectfully ask you not to allow the requested
changes at this or any other time.
Respectfully yours,
Hileri Shand