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07/06/2004, AGENDA (2)
ry Mr. Mayor, Council Members, I have several questions to pose to the City Council: 1. Has Mr. Bird's history of failed projects in SLO been addressed? 2. Can you name one California City whose downtown has benefited from large shopping Centers of the outskirts? 3. Mr. Dalidio, in a paid advertisement in today's Tribune, claims "the Marketplace will include construction of an overpass at Prado Road". If Mr. Birds project fails, won't the local taxpayers have to pay for the new interchange? Won't the taxpayers have to pay for most of this interchange whether or not the Marketplace is a success? 4. Mr. Dalidio claims that the Marketplace "will actually enhance the Downtown." How does taking business away from the Downtown "enhance" it? 5. Mr. Dalidio claims "the stores coming to the marketplace do not compete with the Downtown". Do not these stores sell the same merchandise and services as the Downtown stores? 6. Mr. Dalidio claims the Marketplace "will generate sales tax revenues that the City relies on to provide---city services." These sales taxes are already generated in the downtown. Shifting sales from others sections of the City is not GENERATING SALES TAXES. 7. The Marketplace is predicted to take as much as 20% of the Downtown business, which is a substantial impact, and the Downtown businesses will find it hard if not impossible to survive. Thank you for throwing this project out and saving our City. ,� SweetEarth Organic Chocolates July 6, 2004 Dear City Council Members: My sister,Joanne Currie,and I are investing our money and time in a business, Splash Cafe Artisan Bakery. Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates is a wholesale DBA of Splash that will be producing and distributing Fair Trade, Organic chocolate. Our business, located at the comer of Monterey and California, is currently under construction. We see this neighborhood as a promising location. We believe that our investments will pay off and that our success will contribute to the development of business in that end of town. We do not see the addition of more big-box stores that suck the lifeblood out of local businesses as contributing to our future in this community. We are investing in a city that until now has had the foresight and wisdom to know that not all investments are good, not all business ideas are wise. If you see acres and acres of blacktop punctuated with out-of-town stores carrying a lot of cheap imported merchandise as strengthening to our community, we suggest that you have been misled. Time and again,American communities make this mistake. So far, San Luis Obispo has gained notoriety as one of the few cities in America that controls where the blacktop starts and stops. San Luis has slipped on occasion, but allowing the Dalidio project to pass would be more than a slip; it would be a collapse, a catastrophe. Please consider the local investors, the people who are here for the long run. We are people with the vision for the future. We are people who stay when the chips are down. We are people who care about our fellow citizens. Please do not sacrifice the image of this community in return for a questionable investment. The Mission is part of who we are. So is that stretch of black dirt surrounded by the brown morros, the blue sky, and the fleecy white clouds. Thank you. Sincerely, Tom Neuhaus(Vice-President) and Joanne Currie(President) 1491 Monterey (Future site) 805-549-9339 tom@sweetearihchocolates.com SLO General Plan Land Use Element PREAMBLE TO THE LAND USE ELEMENT ��Gu- A O We the people of San Luis Obispo hold that we have the right to determine our community's destiny based on our community's values; that the future livability of our community will be driven by historical choices made from day to day, and not by inevitable forces beyond our control; that in an age when the livability of large, urban communities to our north, south, and east is being destroyed by incrementally accelerating environmental degradation and the breakdown of civility, we assert our desire to seek a different sort of future for our community; that, therefore, we direct our elected representatives and civic employees to preserve our community's natural environment and control excessive growth detrimental to the long-term sustainability of the community. SAN LUIS OBISPO'S VISION Our vision is of a sustainable community, within a diverse natural and agrarian setting, which is part of a larger ecosystem upon which its existence depends. San Luis Obispo will maintain its healthy and attractive natural environment valued by residents, its prosperity, and its sense of safety and community, within a compact urban form. Our community will have a comprehensible scale, where people know each other and where their participation in government is welcome and effective. The general plan outlines basic features of the city needed to sustain our livelihoods, our natural and historical heritage, and our needs for interaction and expression. The general plan is a benchmark in the continuing planning process, reflecting the desires of citizens with different backgrounds to sustain the community's qualities for themselves and for future generations. The City should provide a setting for comfortable living, including work and recreation. The City should live within its resources, preserve the relatively high levels of service, environmental quality and clean air valued by its residents, and strive to provide additional resources as needed. 5 lam opposed to the SLO Marke, ace proposal for the Dalidio Proper ecause: The Dalidio Property is prime ag land with rich fertile soihas if that isn't reason enough not to build on ital offer the following! Water source(creek and Laguna Lake)is readily available,which is good for farmland. Located close to a population that could support profitable a&organic "You Pick"farm similar to*hat Avila Barns Wme sort of Ag Tourism angle. Easy distribution of local ag product. Unique view sheds of Seven Sister peaks are visible from 101 Freeway at the south entrance of City of SLO. It would devalue our priceless picturesque community. Presently an environmental home of butterflies,birds,plants and animals. Ifistoric barn from the racetrack In the flight path of the ever expanding SLO County Airport. Strong community support to maintain a greenbelt around SLO as it is near the Buckley, Octagon Barn, Bob Jones bice trail,nearby open space of Irish Ms, Laguna Golf Course and Laguna Lake, Seven Sisters, Cal Poly, SL I3igh Mountain range(reservoir canyon)Terrace UK Islay Hil, our city and county open space. I don't see how approval of this project would permanently preserve 55 acres of open space. ❑ Changing the zoning does not preserve the Ag land as open space. ❑ Changes in zoning and redrawing county and city boundaries jeopardizes the existing open space of the ag land of the entire Dalidio Property not just 55 acres. So we loose open space that we already have. I don't see how that is an improvement. ❑ Could set a president that would make it even more difficult to enforce existing zones and boundaries. That any commercial site successfully developed would add tax revenue to our city. While I do favor the installation of the Prado Road/101 overpass I believe it would pay for its self in tax revenue collected and savings created from more efficient traffic patterns and less strain on all the roads. There are so many government employees and clients served on South Higuera that if it was made convenient they might shop and eat the Madonna Plaza/Laguna Lake area once the overpass was installed. Submitted by Rose Shapley 543-0388 3150 Estedita Apt. C. SLO, CA 93401 Local SLO resident over 40 years 'Resume-Jud Consultants G PPage I of 2 Resume - Eugene H. Jud, Jud Consultants ............................................................................................................................................................................................. ...... ................. Education Civil and Traffic Engineering Diploma Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,Zurich, 1961 P.E. licensed to practice in all European Countries Postgraduate Studies Diploma Environmental Sciences University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1991 .......... ............... ............... ............ ........ Employment Record(1966-present) Co-owner andlor owner of.- PlanungsbfiroJud A and Soft Tech Infomatik AG Zurich, Switzerland Tebah Planning and Engineering Gliwice,Poland Jud Consultants San Luis Obispo, California Faculty Member Transportation Planning Unit Civil and Environmental Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California(1994-present) Project Manager City planning Office of Zurich(1965-1966) Transportation Planner Wilbur Smith and Associates, San Francisco(1963-1964) Transportation Engineer City Planning Office of Zurich (1961-1962) ........................-................................................................................11...................................................................................................................................... .............. Memberships Fellow, Institute of Transportation Engineers,USA American Planning Association(APA) Swiss Association of Architects and Engineers,Zurich Swiss Association of Transportation Planners ........................ .................I........... ............1-1...... .......-................................................-................ ............. Some Projects and Studies done in and out of Switzerland • $1.7 million traffic calming(30 km'slow zones)and parking management study for the cities of Berne, Basle, Zurich and Biel 9 Transportation and land use relationship study with evaluation of light and heavy rail projects, City Planning Office,Zurich Traffic design for Lucerne Cultural Center http://wwwjudeons.comrjudres.htmi 7/6/2004 "Resume-Jud Consultants Page 2 of 2 • Alternatives analysis of Birmensdorf-Ristet connection to the N4 freeway, for Pro Amt and Pro Limmattal(Swiss Environmental Organizations) •Freight transport planning, Uetliberg Mountain(car-free)Recreation Area •Parldng needs and traffic forecasts,Lucerne and Berne *Noise impact studies for various cities in the County of Zurich • Study and recommendations for Residential Parking Permit Zones,Berne;Zurich, Basle,Lucerne,Biel and Kloten • Air pollution reduction measures using parking control policies, County of Zurich •Reorganization of the public transportation system,Zurich, Lucerne and Emmen •Continuous travel demand forecasting,Zurich Other International Projects •Air pollution study, City of Lodz,Poland • Creation of first transportation plan for the United Arab Emirates as consultant for the United Nations • Transportation planning consultant for the United Nations Development Program, Nicosia, Cyprus ....................:.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Selected Lectures and Speaking Presentations •Co-author"Parking and Public Transport Policy", presented at Transport Systems Engineering Conference,University of Warsaw,Poland, 1995 • Guest Lecturer, University of Warsaw and Polish Government, 1975-present •Moving Toward a Solution,transportation symposium presenter, San Luis Obispo, CA, 1995 •Presenter at series of transportation planning symposiums, Aspen, CO, 1995 • Presenter,AAAE Ground Transportation and Parking Conference, San Francisco, 1994 • Speaker, 23rd ASCE International Air Transportation Conference,Washington DC, 1994 •National Endowment for the Arts,Public-Service Design Abroad Conference, Washington DC, 1993 • "Swiss Environmental Legislation and Transportation", presenter at Institute of Transportation Engineers 63rd Annual Meeting,Netherlands, 1993 Selected Projects in the United.States • Traffic calming and light-rail project planning for Aspen, Colorado • Traffic calming projects for the California communities of Santa Monica, San Luis Obispo and Los Osos e-mail: cal�v edu httpJ/wwwjudeons.com/ludres.htnl 7/6/2004 Keith Crowe, PE (805) 484-0978 P. 1 I � Keith V. Crowe, P.E. ':Consulting Engineer July 6, 2004 Honorable Mayor and City Council 990 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, Ca 93401 RE: Additional Comments on Drainage Section of"Final EIR"for Dalidio Property Honorable Mayor and City Council; Jan Marx has asked to me expand on my recent comments about the drainage issues in the referenced EIR;specifically,the severity of DW-1 and the proposed mitigation. The"Final EIR"now says that DW-1 is a Class II (significant but mitigable)impact as opposed to the original designation as a Class I (significant and unavoidable) impact. The proposed mitigation is to"use pervious paving material to facilitate rainwater percolation." This proposed mitigation directly contradicts the words of the revising letteritself! Page 3 of the March 17 letter,when discussing the impact of the development on the 100-year peak flow rate says "...and secondarily, because the soils in the watershed are clayey...They have high runoff rates when fully saturated.... " The author is saying in this paragraph that the soil has such a high runoff value(i.e. doesn't allow water to infiltrate)that adding pavement doesn't matter. Yet, he suggests that using pervious pavement that allows the water to pass through the pavement to the soil(that won't accept any water for infiltration)is an acceptable mitigation and makes the impact "insignificant." The author wants it both ways! On one hand the soil doesn't increase flood levels because it won't accept water for infiltration, on the other hand he proposes a mitigation measure that relies on the soil to infiltrate water. The revision to the EIR and the"supporting"document do not support reducing the impact of DW-1 to a Class Il impact. It does provide a clear argument why the impact should remain a Class I impact as originally stated. Sincerely; Keith V. Crowe, P.E.; M.S. 1 � LIc.No.31.591 II Expires 12/04 * , 0 P.O.Box 832•Atascadero CA 93423-0832•Phone:(805)464.0975•E-Mail: KVCrowe@Charter.net Keith Cr^we, PE (805) 464-0r 't Keith V. Crowe, P.E. Consulting Engineer Keith V. Crowe, MS, PE, PLS P.O.Box 832 Atascadero, CA 93423 (805)464-0975 Professional Experience Presently in private practice as a consulting engineer specializing in water related issues including flood control and drainage analysis,water system design and computer control of water systems. Senior Irrigation Engineer for the Irrigation Training and Research Center,Cal Poly SLO November 1999 through August 2003 Designed SCADA systems for control of water pumping and transmission facilities Pump specialist including pump testing,pumping plant design and variable speed applications Designed hydraulic systems including canals,pipelines,pumping plants and reservoirs Taught short courses to industry personnel Introductory and Advanced SCADA Introductory and Advanced pumps Pump Efficiency Testing Lecturer for BioResource&Agricultural Engineering Departrnent,Cal Poly SLO Spring quarter 2002 and 2003 Taught BRAE X532-Pumps and Wells,a graduate level course Consulting Engineer 1996-2000 Self-employed consulting engineer working on municipal water systems,pumping plants, flood control,drainage plans and environmental impact analysis. Typical projects included new small municipal water system design and engineer's report,municipal water system expansion and engineer's report,environmental analysis for drainage and flood control issues,flood hazard analysis for commercial and residential projects. Served as expert witness for flood control and drainage issues. Partner and Principal Engineer-Engineering Development Associates Inc. (EDA) 1983-1996 Pounding partner and Principal Engineer of Engineering Development Associates(now EDA),a civil engineering design and land surveying firm in San Luis Obispo,CA. Responsible for all water related projects and analysis. Served as expert witness for flood control,drainage and construction related litigation. P.O.Box 832•Atascadero CA 93423-0832•Phone:(805)484-0975'E-Mall: KVCrowe@Chader.net ., , Keith Crowe, PE [8051 464-0978 P.7 Keith V. Crowe, P.E. Consulting Engineer Project Manager—Central Coast Engineering,San Luis Obispo,CA 1980-1983 Project manager for design,process and construction inspection of residential and commercial subdivisions. Civil Engineer—City of San Luis Obispo,1978-1980 Responsible for checking and processing plans for developer initiated projects,and checked all subdivision maps. Responsible for implementation of the City's flood damage prevention ordinance Professional Licenses Professional Civil Engineer,State of California#31581 Professional Land Surveyor,State of California#5273 Education Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering,Cal Poly SLO Master of Science in Engineering with a specialty in Water Engineering,Cal poly SLO P.O.Box 832•Atascadero CA 93423.0832•Phone:(805)484.0975•E-Mail: KVCmwe@Charter,net r- 0 O n c � c � o z o D n Ll �. Q � O Z N m � RI .4 z a aw -1` 3 f �J U. 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Page 1 of I SLO Citycouncil - Dalidio From: Christine Keightley <ckeightley@charter.net> To: <slodtycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/7/2004 2:28 PM Subject: Dalidio I read in the Tribune this morning that the majority of emails about the proposed Dalidio project were in favor of it. Let me put my two cents in. o ti + I, as well as others, would like to see better shopping opportunities in `A n San Luis Obispo. I travel to Sesta Maria occasionally to shop at Costco `�^"�� but we ARE getting a Costco here, aren't we?The stores proposed for the �V Dalidio project seem redundant. Why Lowe's when we just got Home Depot? P p,�'� � 11� Why Circuit City when we just got Best Buy?Why a hotel when Embassy 4t'` �`� Suites is so close? What tourist wants to stay in a shopping area when he comes to SLO, anyway?I would love to see a department store in addition to Gottschalks but the size of SLO does not warrant a store , large enough to offer the array of merchandise that I and most people would like. Old Navy? Not worth it.That leaves Target. Yes, I would like a Target here. Maybe it could be built over by Costco? How about an j <� REI? Several years ago, they said they were interested in adding a store in this area because it was an untapped market, with all the fitness �{ buffs and college students. Copeland's and Mountainair are our only (poor) alternatives. The bottom line, in my opinion, is that the proposal for the Dalidio project is not good enough to lose the agricultural land. Let's face it. SLO is a nice place to live because it does NOT have all the stores and malls that other California towns have. Is it too much to ask that people drive 20 minutes to Arroyo Grande or 30 minutes to Paso Robles or Santa Maria for these stores? Does EVERY town warrant a Lowe's and a Circuit City and a Target and an Old Navy and yet another hotel?I think not. Christine Keightley 2424 Cumbre Ct. San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 .544-8870 file:HC:\Docuriments%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/7/2004 Page 1 of 2 SLO Citycoundl -slo marketplace From: Laura Mordaunt <laura@mordaunt.org> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/7/2004 10:12 AM Subject: slo marketplace Hi, I am writing again after watching last night. I am from the bay area (Fremont). I lived by two fabulous downtown cities. One is Palo Alto and one is Pleasanton. If you have been there you will know that they thrive. They both have mega-shopping centers around them and they thrive. I have lived in the bay area for over 40 years and have watched the steadiness and continued love of these downtown areas. The longest.is Palo Alto over all the 40 years I have been here and Pleasanton the last 20 years that I was familiar with Pleasanton. Why do they do well? Why is WholeFoods interested in this area? Well I believe that the downtown and marketplace will both do well as long as they are managed and you have the fabulous restaurants and shops downtown and the items that we will travel to either Paso Robles or Santa Barbara for either added to downtown or at the marketplace will keep this city strong. Many years ago (10) I spoke to the president of WholeFoods and tried to get them to come to Fremont. He said that he could not. Fremont has become an Asian and Indian town and would not support the market. They require well educated people who care about the environment and their health. This is a great business to have in our community? This area is all of that. Fear is what is at work trying to kill the marketplace. SLO should be proud of its commitment to excellence and know that proper planning, compassionate landlords, ethical retailers and fabulous food will keep the downtown thriving. Fear will not. If you have a winning formula you are a winner. The formula should not exclude other opportunities except those that compromise our values for our families. One type of business that I am 100% against is the gambling casinos. This is what would destroy our town not quality shopping that keeps our good people in town and their$$$. My sister lives in Placerville (near Sacramento on the way to Lake Tahoe) and they are planning 3 casinos in a triangle about 40 minutes apart. The casinos bring in tons of traffic and people with sad stories. That is what I do not want not WholeFoods. I watched until 2 am and I enjoyed the specialness and love for this city that the citizens have. I want downtown to thrive and I want WholeFoods so I will spend my money at both places in SLO instead of splitting it up going elsewhere. Thank you for your time. Phil and Laura Mordaunt file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/7/2004 CC '(�1JUl C Page 1 of I orcc►�nd�cli tt.) SLO Citycouncil -slo marketplace 1 RECEIVED From: Laura Mordaunt <laura@mordaunt.org> 0 � To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> JUL 0 7 2004 Date: 7/6/2004 7:23 PM Subject: slo marketplace SLO CITY CLERK To The Mayor and City Council Members, I have been planning to move to San Luis Obispo for the past 5 years. My husband and I just retired this month and are enjoying all that this area has to offer. We are now paying over twice what we paid in property tax prior to moving. Even with that increase we chose this location. It won't be easy. When your prices for property are as high as the San Francisco Bay Area we are not so disappointed when the services are of high quality also. Therefore we are excited about the development of additional services as proposed in the SLO Marketplace development. We are in love with the WholeFoods market and will be forever grateful to enjoy this fabulous market in this beautiful area. This market's beliefs and ideals will only add to the wonderful offerings that SLO already provides. This market and development will keep my spending dollars here locally. We have enjoyed these services in our previous location for many years. Please vote in favor. Thank You...your new citizens Phil and Laura Mordaunt file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/7/2004 Page 1 of 1 -' RECEIVE- SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace JUL Q 7 2004 SLO CITY CLERK From: "hilary Roberts"<hilary.roberts@sbcglobal.net> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 7:55 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace For God's sake—give us some DECENT shopping! Whole Foods will offer great competition to New Frontiers;Old Navy will give us high quality clothes choices,made by the Gap folks but at a fraction of the cost;Target is my favorite store and !.have to drive all the Way to Santa Maria...AND ON.AND ON. Like it or not,people who:expect this kind of shopping are moving here. And while we're at it,bring in a Macy's!!! SHEESSSSHH! Best, Hilary Roberts Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system(hftp://www.grisoft.com). Version:6.0.714/Virus Database:470-Release Date:7/2/2004 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\]Local%20Settings\Tetnp\GW}000O1.HTM 7n12004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace RECEIVED From: <StaceyKurth@aol.com> SLo CIT` CLERK To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7f7/2004 9:51 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace This e-mail is to express my support of the San Luis Obispo Marketplace. With the exception of Gottschalks, Mervyns, and Home Depot, I rarely shop in San Luis Obispo. I usually head south to Walmart and Pismo Beach Outlets and even further south to the Santa Maria stores. On multiple occasions, I did try shopping downtown San Luis Obispo, but between the high prices in the shops and the parking situation, I just don't want to bother anymore. For instance, my 13-year old daughter needed a black pair of pants so I stopped in a few shops downtown and was shown pants in the price range of$70 to $90. That is just.not going to happen. I have tried to go to the movie theater downtown and when I could find a parking spot, it cost more to park than it did for my movie ticket. It is far less stressful to drive to the stadium seating theater next to Walmart in the Pismo Beach area where there is abundant parking. Let the opponents of the proposed Marketplace continue to shop downtown SLO because they obviously have more Money than many of us folks. If the Marketplace is built in San Luis Obispo, I will take my hard earned money to San Luis Obispo instead of driving to Pismo Beach and Santa Maria to shop. I have a feeling that the people who normally shop downtown will continue to shop downtown and the people who would shop the Marketplace were not shopping downtown to begin with. Thank you, Stacey Kurth file:HC:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/7/2004 Page 1 of 1 RECEIVELJ SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace JUL U 7 2004 SLO CITY CLERK From: "Jeanne Eggert' <mjdg@charter.net> To: " Mr.John Ewan " <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 10:57 PM Subject: Marketplace Jeanne Eggert 4661 Snapdragon Way San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 July 2, 2004 Mr. John Ewan 990 Palm St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Dear Ewan: I am asking you to vote no on the Marketplace. Being raised in SLO and living here I have seen it change so much. I understand that some change is necessary and good, however, we do not need another shopping center. If we keep approving these projects the SLO life and charm will be lost. There is no way that the Marketplace will not affect the downtown, in spite of what they say. It will affect it and also the Madonna Plaza merchants will be affected. Do we want to see those big stores sitting empty (like they were for awhile)? I don't. Enough is enough and I am against any more shopping centers. It scares me that the Madonna family is thinking of putting one on their property across from Home Depot. When will it stop? It needs to be stopped now. How about leaving some open space!!!!! Let's keep out city the beautiful place it is. It won't be if we keep filling in open spaces with box stores. Thank you Jeanne.Eggert Sincerely, Jeanne Eggert 5414445 file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/7/2004 — MEETING AGENT P. o. Box 1145 / 665 Leff Street �{{' San Luis Obispo, CA 93406- 1145 D.4TETEM # , Tel/Fax (805) 545-5919 July 2, 2004, JUD CONSULTANTS, SAN LUIS OBIS�PQO� Mayor and City Council '�` ao City of San Luis Obispo tn�CtCNQCI ? CDD DI:R RECENED 900 Palm Street ,%CAO 2-FIN DIR MACAO $FIRE CHIEF JUL p g 2004 San Luis Obispo CA 93405 ATTORNEY 2-PW DIR ?OLERK/ORIG POLICE CH Marketplace and Prado Road j_3DEPT EAD �REC DIP SLO CITY CLERK r � u UTIL DIP Dear Mayor and City Council _. 1._.. a'f7 i; Jud Consultants urges you to reject the Marketplace project.The projects eight significant and unavoidable impacts to our quality of life are undisputed,dramatic and in full contradiction with the General Plan. There are many more probable class 1 impacts.The"benefits"of this project are far outweighed by the environmental and socioeconomic harm to the City. The EIR is not adequate under CEQA and in some points appears to be more of a sales brochure than a serious analysis.The decisions of the Planning Commission should be upheld,except their certification of the EIR.This project would destroy the"soul"of San Luis Obispo. We fully agree with the letter of the Sierra Club of June 26, 2004,the letter of attorney Jana Zimmer of July 4, 2004,the letter of Mila Vujowich of July 2, 2004 and with the letter to the Planning Commission of Architect.Richard Schmidt, dated May 17,2004 [Staff Report.(SR)p. 1-94 fl]. As a long time Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)and a licensed civil engineer in more than 20 countries I comment on the Traffic and Circulation issues. I do this by using the FEIR Dalidio of April 2004, mostly volume I, including Comments and Responses to my two letters 13(1 )and 13(2). - . FPEIR Airport and Margarita Area of September 2003 Circulation Element of the City of 1994 and the corresponding PEIR Prado Road Interchange Project Study Report(PSR)by Caltrans, November 1996 Applicable ITE and Caltrans guidelines Work of Cal Poly Class CE x527, Spring 2002,"Sustainable Mobility from Johnson Avenue to Los Osos Valley Road (LOVR)",4 reports at,the SLO Community Development.Department given to Mr. Glen Matteson in December 2002 Other official documents Multiple correspondence by Jud Consultants with City Hall since 2000 including plans for a transportation and urban planning concept for the whole of SLID South based on modem Smart Growth concepts with heavy orientation towards non motorized mobility Some of this is attached; more materials can-be delivered.later. 1.Size of project and zone of traffic influence The Marketplace would be the biggest retail development this town has ever seen. It will contain the same amount of retail square footage as there is in the whole downtown. It has 2 700 parking spaces. If we add the parking in the Promenade and the Madonna Plaza centers we have more parking (and free of charge!)than in the whole downtown including the downtown parking garages. The Marketplace alone produces 20 000 vehicular trips per day using 3 000 gallons of gasoline. This is more than the vehicular trip generation of the whole downtown and the same as Cal Poly. In addition,the new freeway interchange will attract high amounts of new traffic.The traffic zone of influence shown in the EIR is:way too small towards the east -just to the 1 nearest intersection 500 meters east of 101/Prado Road and the proposed"regional powercenter". Given the high traffic volumes from these new developments(cumulative impacts), the area of high influence must go over at least to Broad Street as shown in the map of Appendix 1. For example,the amount of project-generated traffic on Prado Road East will be significant; approximately 12 percent of the total vehicular trips(FEIR, Figure 4.10-15).Yet the Citys analysis essentially ignores this potentially significant traffic impact outside the selected traffic impact area. See also Circulation Element 15.11: "The City shall evaluate development proposals to determine their effect on the entire community". Extending the impact area is common sense, as the political concerns about the intersection of the planned Prado Road Extension and Broad Street are very high(degradation of the sports fields and the Salinian archeological site)and have lead to recent letters to the Council, among others from ECOSLO and the Sierra Club.We have suggested multiple times in written form to the EIR preparers to use the ITE handout"Transportation Impact Studies" 1996 which would have lead them to the 52-page ITE recommended Practice"Traffic Impact Studies for Site Development"by Brian Bochner, 1991. Unfortunately this was not done and could be seen as an attempt to obscure the real impacts of this megaproject.Considerable impacts may also occur further away on arterials leading to Hwy 101, e.g. Santa Rosa Street,which operates often near capacity and in the future will spill over to Broad and California Street. It is unacceptable to just analyze a zone of influence that would fit a smaller neighborhood center, when we deal with one of the biggest trip generators in town. 2.General deficiencies of the traffic FEIR These are listed among others in Appendix 2, letter to the Planning Commission of May 25,2004 and are in short - The whole planning of SLO South with Prado Road violates modem principles of city planning and the highest(measurable)objectives of the Circulation Element(CE)p.10, which mandates a shift to alternative mobility modes in the future. These measurable objectives read as follows: "The City will pursue the greatest shift toward alternative transportation." "If objectives are not met,the City will examine programs that discourage the use of motor vehicles..." - The City Council has been in violation of the above mandate for years. (Compare Jana Zimmees comments in her paragraph 1 about LUE Policies). In reality the applicant now intends to fully shift us towards indiscriminate car use.The FEIR preparers in their answers to questions deny any measurable influence on the modal split in the City...Their answer 13F on p. CR-152 of the FEIR is below professional standards.See also letter Jana Zimmer, paragraph 18. All this is against common sense and illegal under CEOA. Numbers are urgently needed here, and transportation planners can produce them,even if the city traffic model has serious deficiencies. . These deficiencies are: - Only cars are modeled;alternative modes (and TDM)do not exist in the calculations - Induced traffic by the new freeway interchange and the whole Prado Road megaproject is not calculated.We pointed this out many times in our correspondence with the city,but to no avail. By now,transportation engineers should know that new bigger transportation facilities,which change travel times considerably, attract new traffic by themselves(latent demand). See corresponding publications of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). This effect is similar to the growth inducing impacts for buildings which the EIR also fails to identify(Jana Zimmer, paragraph 2.1).Correcting this overall failure will lead to considerably higher traffic volumes(in this case approximately 15 percent along Prado Road and the interchange)thus eliminating the effect of many*traffic mitigation measures'and producing more class I impacts than the FEIR wants to admit. 3.The whole concept of Dalidio/Prado Road is bad city planning This axis between the Marketplace and the Promenade/Madonna Plaza is a city arterial with 5 to 6 travel lanes going right through the middle of a huge shopping center parking lot. (By the way,these travel lanes of 12'width are too wide given the fact,that we are not operating in a high 2 speed scenario and we need to keep the crossing distances for pedestrians as short as possible). Such a road design is inhuman and makes all walking (and reasonable cycling)practically impossible. See also Caltrans District V periodicals by Director Gregg Albright and the Caltrans booklet"Main Streets: Flexibility in Design and Operations"of July 2002.An arterial road - if even needed- should be located at the edge of the development. Going further east, Prado Road between South Higuera and Broad Street(Appendix 1)is another example of highly insensitive road design:This road (called"2 lane" in the FEIR and"4 lane+truck route" in the FPEIR Margarita+ 1)heavily impacts the mobile home parks near South Higuera,the new Margarita Development and the Damon Garcia Sports fields -a total of several thousand people including many children. Some of these people spoke up in the Planning Commission meeting of June 9, 2004, and were basically ignored.Widening Tank Farm Road would eliminate this handicap as Tank Farm Road does not touch any residential areas but only industriallcommercial. Highway 227, in the long term,would go along Buckley Road south of the airport and be directly connected to the LOVR interchange with Hwy 101 bypassing the Los Verdes settlement on the south side.This would also become the regional truck route(to the garbage dump and to the airport)and the main regional access to the airport.This is shown in my Letter 13(1)in the FEIR and with more explanations in Appendix 3, Drawing A4. Although presented many times in written form since February 2000,Appendix 4,these altematives were never taken seriously by the City. But they are an integral part of the consequences of the Marketplace and can not.be ignored. See also letter Jana Zimmer, paragraph 17. In addition to. that,the whole environmental analysis and planning process of Prado Road has been piecemealed in an unfortunate, inefficient and probably illegal way(CEQA): Fortunately,there appears to be growing understanding that a broader approach makes sense and is possible,when the Circulation Element of the City is revised in 2005(meeting CAO Ken Hampian/Eugene.Jud of June 24,2004). Caltrans hinted,that -if the City proposes to relocate Hwy 227- Buckley Road may well be the preferred solution for them,looking at Hwy 227 and Hwy 101 as o n e overflow corridor. Caltrans made it also clear,that their policies.strongly support context sensitive design and transit oriented developments as proposed in Appendix 3. Caltrans does not see any regional importance in the currently proposed Prado Road and. therefore will not contribute financially to if. In fact,the proposed new:interchange is closer to the Madonna interchange than 1 mile -the Caltrans standard.Therefore an excemption process must be started in order to please the City,who still wants a freeway interchan9e which_may really be unneeded and now costs$22 million (meeting of Caltrans representatives Aileen Loe, Terry Farris and James Kilmer with Eugene Jud,Joe Gilpin and Chris Komblatt on June 24, 2004). Given the rapidly escalating costs of building materials we may end up with$30 million at. the end - if the interchange is.ever built. From a traffic point of view ft appears justified to contemplate dropping the new freeway interchange,to put maximum one or two new"big boxes"(if neededl)either into Madonna Plaza (infill)or near the Costco Building along LOVR for example.or nicely integrated into downtown (the new trend according to APA).Widening LOVR and quickly fixing the interchange with Hwy 101 appears to be the best investment.The funding of the LOVR.interchange looks brighter today than one year ago according to Deputy,Director of Public Works Tim Bochum (public meeting of July 1,2004). 4.The whole Prado Road/Interchange concept may be antique This concept made sense 20 years ago,when Prado Road was seen as a regional bypass from Broad Street to Madonna Road and from there further north along Laguna Lake into O'Connor Way.At this time,the city was much smaller and Prado Road would have been out"in the prairie" - a good solution.This is why some Council members and citizens still appear to believe dogmatically in a Prado Road alignment as the only way to happiness. However the people said no to a Prado Road Extension along Laguna Lake and preferred a park in this location.The city has now grown out towards the south and Prado Road as a"bypass" becomes more and more problematic.The whole issue of Southern SLO may sooner or later be treated in the framework of a Caltrans"Comprehensive Corridor Analysis Hwy 101/227",with for example SLOCOG as the lead agency. 3 C 5.Summary of impacts and mitigation measures (FEIR, page ES 36 and following) The summary statement says: "The project would result in several traffic and circulation impacts, that would be considered significant but mitigable..." This is highly misleading as it indicates only Class II impacts or lower. Impacts are much stronger for reasons mentioned in the FEIR itself and for reasons of inadequate analysis leading to underestimation of traffic volumes. This FEIR is full of questionable assumptions,such as approvals by Caltrans,the Promenade, the Post Office etc. No analysis was made for the intersection of the new collector road and LOVR.This is inadequate. Mentioned in the FEIR itself as"after mitigation": Four class I impacts: T-1 Intersection of Madonna Road/LOVR at baseline+conditions T-7 Ramps on US 101 at buildout+ T-8 Weaving on US 101 at buildout+ T-13 Site access on Dalidio Dr./Prado Rd. at buildout The rest are so called Class III impacts. Analysis of mitigation measures: T-1c Prado RdJHiguera Street can be LOS C with widening and ROW acquisition.Widening of San Luis Obispo Creek bridge necessary(see BIO-3).If this is impossible a class 1 impact would probably result. T-3b Mitigate Madonna/US 101 southbound ramp: at 10 year conditions Needs Caltrans approval. Design issues.Will Impact bicycle lane and sidewalk. Potential class I situation T-4 Mitigate Madonna/US 101 northbound ramp: at 10 year conditions Can only be done by lowering pedestrian safety Potential class I situation T-5 Ramp LOVR/US 101 southbound: at 10 year+conditions Assumes,that LOVR interchange is built, Otherwise potential class I situation but the interchange is not even designed yet T-6 Several study area intersections LOS F: at buildout+ Only mitigation for o n e intersection shown Potential class 1 situation T-10 Transit impacts: Mitigable through shelters. Turnouts questionable for bus operation, Preferential treatment for bus not planned, bus gets stuck in traffic. Potential class I situation T-11 Congestion Madonna/LOVR affects bus headways. No radical preferential bus treatment planned, bus gets stuck in traffic Potential class I situation T-12 Traffic calming on Oceanaire may or may not be successful: neighbors may not accept stringent measures,which would mean continuing cut through traffic Potential class I situation T-14 Collector street to LOVR: misleading info. Huge traffic volumes probable to bypass Madonna/LOVR intersection Clear class I situation T-16 Parking. Controversial: Project provides more parking than city requires=legally correct. SR 1-13 mentions,that developer could provide 30, percent less parking:Why is this not enforced? This 30 percent overpacking can be seen as a Potential class I situation. Add to this the clear underestimation of volumes because of induced traffic(approximately 15 percent,according to paragraph 2)and most of the above"potential Gass I situations"tum into real Gass I situations. This could bring the class I impacts up from 4 to 14. 4 The"Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program"in SR 1-120 contains the following statement: "Failure of a responsible agency to implement a mitigation measure shall not in any way prevent the lead agency from implementing the proposed project."Does this mean,that mitigation will not really be enforced?The Traffic and Circulation mitigation measures in SRI-173 and following are partially questionable:e.g.widening intersections leads to longer crossing and waiting times for pedestrians,sometimes a degradation of.the LOS for cyclists, more asphalt etc. It must be underlined, that the project does not contain a comprehensive and convincing pedestrian and bicycle plan. It is inadequate and not certifiable. We agree with Mr.Joe Gilpin from the bicycle coalition,that a separate bicycle/pedestrian path (Gass I or bicycle boulevard) should lead east-west from Broad Street through the Dalidio property to Madonna Road and Laguna Lake.This means a separate bicycle/pedestrian bridge over the freeway as built in several places in Davis,Arcata, Boulder CO etc. The bicycle pedestrian atmosphere would be greatly enhanced, if the Prado Road interchange were not built. Please reject the FEIR and the whole project. Thank you for your consideration Eugene Jud, PE, FITE Appendices: Four,with a total of 12 pages including plans. 5 x f t.: -��. i.•`, � :1:� -.lA"••:,',•n4•r:•j.y.jam F ��t��s' `'f.. ��2�' �C C1 ;i:;' as =.%�. S;;iX'l�?'s,a�;l�. F, ,4 •x _::. .: ,. Q N � 'V 7�'�t i ;.��:.Y••,�::.:r,(.M:v`^ 8, �,`••r �< la. sr'�3��'r O. w CD ` . Ca a _ 'v u Lca 0 SC y r CyC cc IM; 0 3- Yom: � •.. .w:'s '�' •> {•(<fi �,�vy Y'��•4. c r�•1....,,Y� - r 10 0 YO[ _ 4y �i _C•y Y: i i Rfie.. ', d `— 16 b �• v ' Jai t�.. w.r:��•;.�:..t ..y Gb.� �� �'�' ,c^:.i::•. a_•mss s<�•\ a• :i.�";, L, , V 4L Eugene Jud, Fellow Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE 25 May 2004 TO: The Planning Commission of SLO City PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING OF MAY 26,2004, RE: DALIDIO Dear Members of the Planning Commission: We urge you NOT TO ACCEPT the five"overriding considerations"and the final EIR Dalidio as well as the other points of the resolution in front of you. Reason: 1. We only comment on the trafficlair quality impacts. We commend the EIR preparers for .presenting their views in a well-structured and easy to read way. Nevertheless, it must be made Gear that in our view, the whole road concept of Prado Road from Madonna Road to Broad Street is highly questionable and does not follow principles of modem city planning(AHWANEH,Congress of New Urbanism,Transit Oriented Developments,etc). 2. It is also in contradiction to the proclamation of our Circulation Element pages 6-10, which stresses in clear numbers, that car traffic in the city should only grow one percent per year up to the year 2020. At the same time,the City Council promised in the Circulation Element that transit use, bicycle use,'and walking should grow approximately five times faster(Figure#1: Modal Split Objectives on page 10). The EIR preparers come up with an "answer" to this contradiction that really says nothing. Since we hire traffic engineers for the EIR, we could at least expect a professional estimate of the influence that the Dalidio Project and all the new developments along LOVR (sometimes named "Sales Tax Valley Road" with thousands of parking spaces)have on the modal split table of the Circulation Element, page 10. 3. The transportation concept is also in contradiction to newer trends, as can be seen in built university cities such as Davis, Santa Barbara, Stanford,Eugene, OR, Corvallis, OR, and Boulder,CO where authorities put above Point 2 really into practice. 4. The analysis of the basic transportation solutions in the area between LOVR and Broad Street contains a fatal.flaw: the area chosen Is too small by all professional planning -standards.One basic alternative for HWY 227, namely Buckley Road, was never even discussed (see Map page 4). This alternative came up later in a small focused study on the interchange of HWY 101 with LOVR (Dokken Report, Alternative 2), but by then it was"too late"to go back to the original discussion of alternatives. Any traffic model for"Prado Road and Surroundings"should cover the rectangle shown on page 4 in order to be credible.The traffic model for Dalidio can also show easily the impact of Dalidio on any intersection within the rectangle. 5. The traffic model applied to this southern part of town is definitely below standard, because it only contains cars, and no modal split, which means alternative modes of mobility. This automatically leads to car-oriented solutions, millions of dollars in wrong investment, and to the degradation of the quality of life. Other towns have used adequate models a long time ago (e.g. LUTRAQ) that take care of this and also simulate the influence of land use decisions on desire lines of pedestrians, bicycles, and public transportation users. 1 Also "the induced traffic" by the new mega project of Prado Road itself is not included in the analysis. By now, transportation engineers know that new transportation facilities, which change travel times considerably, attract new traffic by themselves (latent demand). See multiple publications by the Transportation Research Board and ITE. We have pointed this out for years in written documents, but never got an answer. In fact, in the current EIR, the EIR preparer managed in the answer to my letter to confuse induced traffic by Prado Road with the vehicular trip generation of the Dalidio Project! As pointed out by Commissioner Boswell and others, the zone of traffic influence of the Dalidio Project is way too small on the eastern side of the project. The analysis stops at the intersection of Prado Road and South Higuera Street, the very location where an enormous traffic growth due to the Dalidio is shown! Therefore, the minimum that must be done is analyzing the influence of the project on the Broad Street intersections. However, the EIR preparers have a simple answer. Staff told us to do so. We have repeatedly pointed out (for example, in my letter of March 20, 2003 to Pamela Ricci concerning the scoping of the Dalidio EIR and later letters)that the Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE has issued a 20-page report, "Transportation Impact Studies,Advancing the Land Development Process"in 1996. We asked several times in written form that the EIR preparers at least refer to this document. This again was not done in the EIR and was not commented upon. The EIR preparers calculate the vehicular trip generation with the "ITE Trip Generation Manual," 6"' Edition, although the 7 Edition has been on the market since 2003. General Remarks 6. It should be mentioned that the traffic engineers attempted, in special cases, to give some decent treatment to the pedestrians, for example, at the intersection of LOVR and Madonna Road. Also, a bike path along Prado Road between South Higuera Street and Broad Street is on the map. But this doesn't go far enough, as such a bike path should be far away from an arterial road in the form of, for example, a 7bicycle boulevard." Therefore, what is shown to us here are only"band aid measures." It is astonishing that staff proposes to certify this EIR when not even a Gear pedestrian and bicycle map for the Dalidio property exists. E.g. in one description "bicycle paths" (Class 1) are mentioned on the Dalidio property, while the plans appear to show only bicycle lanes (Class II). Also, there is no mention of preferential treatment for the bus, at traffic lights for example, as is done in many other towns. The question must be asked: Are we really implementing the basic promises of the Circulation Element or not? 7. Concerning the roads on the Dalidio property, it is appears hard to understand that we-bring an arterial road right through the middle of a shopping complex consisting of the Market Place and the Promenade. If there is one reasonable location, such an arterial road should go west of the whole complex and west of the Post Office building,which would mean a reduced footprint of the Dalidio Project. 8. It is not the fault of the EIR preparers that the City has a very confusing parking policy for shopping centers. One would expect that according to the noble goals in the Circulation Element, the City should set maximum parking limits, instead of minimal parking requirements. It can only be hoped that the City will soon mandate shopping centers to charge for parking as is done in other places in order to achieve a similar situation as in downtown. 2 9.Also, we would recommend that the traffic engineers openly state in a prominent place in their report, that traffic figures are not "exact" ("193 vehicles will tum right at intersection X in the year 2030"), but that the accuracy of the forecasts varies highly upon assumptions of travel behavior and is statistically higher with higher traffic volumes than with lower traffic volumes. Therefore, depending on the circumstance, it should be said that these 193 vehicles actually mean a reasonable estimate e.g. between 100 and 300 vehicles. The same applies to the Levels Of Service (LOS),which unfortunately are only applied to cars in the EIR and are very sensitive to small changes. For example, a change of 1 second can catapult a LOS of an intersection from F to E although this second is statistically irrelevant, especially if it is predicted for the year 2020 or 2030. The current traffic model appears to be very"exact" in vehicular turning movements while it may be wrong by 20 to 30 percent in the vehicular trip generation of SLO South, because another type of development(TODs, new urbanism)would generate less vehicular traffic, as documented in many cases (see literature Local Government Commission, Sacramento). In many cases reasonable estimates .of traffic volumes are more convincing than "exact" numbers based on questionable assumptions. To say it with Transportation Economics Prof. Donald Shoup from UCLA: "Better be approximately right than exactly wrong." 10: It is astonishing that this EIR Is based on so many assumptions,for example that Caltrans and the Promenade agree with the proposed project. Why is the public presented with an EIR that makes such assumptions before these entities have given approval to the project? Is this even legal? 11.We have conflicting horizon years. It is somehow confusing that the Circulation Element of the City has a horizon of the year 2020 while the General Plan, as quoted in the EIR, has a horizon of 2030. 12. It should once again be pointed out that we operate with a totally inadequate General Plan when it comes to transportation. The Long Range Transit Master Plan, promised to the citizens in 1994 has not even been started. We still do not have a long-range pedestrian concept covering the whole city. It can only be hoped that when these plans are produced, that they do not follow the unfortunate concepts along Prado Road,'but that they are really concentrating on alternative modes and transit-oriented developments. Some of the above mentioned points make the City highly vulnerable legally. 13. Despite all the above dramatically weak points, staff - probably under higher direction - recommends to go forward with a highly unsustainable project. Is this not degrading our highest ranking commission into a rubber stamping agency, who should not consider the future of our children and grand children? 14. Many citizens would be willing to discuss urban planning alternatives for the whole southern part of town with professionals (also from Cal Poly), politicians and experts, e.g. at a professionally facilitated meeting. The upcoming elections might highly profit from this. Some Cal Poly administered Bank of America funds might even be used for that, if the application comes in soon. We thank the Commission and everybody who tries his best and gives professional input into the planning of Dalidio and the whole SLO-South! Eugene Jud (and concerned citizens) Jud Consultants 665 Leff Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 805 549 8185 eiud(acalaolv.edu www.iudeons.com 3 June 27,2001 P. O, Box 1145 / 665 Leff Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93406-1145 To:Citizens Concerned for Prado Road c.o. BWWilson Tel/Fax (805) 545-5919 1690 Southwood Drive San Luis Obispo,CA 93401 Ap /J Prado Road San Leis Obispo:Alternative North or Tank Rad? dije . A group of sport fans,teachers and.citizens who are scared about the ongoing and upcoming*Los . Angelization"of the southern part of SLO has asked us to look into the above question. Our conclusion is: 1•. The Damon-Garcia Sports Complex could already be under connsir.Wos had the City not chosen to link it with the construction of an outdated and unneeded project called Prado Road.Instead of looking at all alternatives in the whole arca fiom Orcutt Road to Los Osos Valley Road(I.oVR)and south to Buckley Road within an overall Elk the City chose to implement the Prado Road concept in a piecemeal process in which citizens who favora more comprehensive concept were systematically igoorI The culmination of this process is the newest pwposal.of the City's Community Development Department tozot even prq=an EIR for their proposed Prado Road North alignment. This omission of an E1R is probably in violation of CEQA. 2. Based on transportation considerations and the given constraints.of hazardous materials and biology, we proper a long range alternative ca116d Highway 227 on Buddey Road, which is shown in the eridosure.Bueicley Road will be two lanes with widened intersections: ccording to Caltrans guidelines.Tank Farm Road will remain mostly a two-lane arterial and Prado Road wr11 ant as a two- lane collector street leading into Tank Farm Road at a.simple and safe intersection with the realigned Santa Fe Road. 3. This proposal should be incorporated into the recently formed technical 1=k force for the study of a realigned fineway interchange 011LOVR Stakeholders and professionals from My,.Corarry and Caltrans shouldjoin the task force to'study solutions for the whole southern Fart of townand beyond the southern urban reserve line. The lead agency could be the Caltrans Community Relations. Department In the long term however,Caltrans could also consider selling parts of Highway 227 to the City and the County,as has been done in other cities.; . 4. By r gi aft to give the esvimamewd permits for the official Alternative North,the Army Corps of Engineers will help to promote the idea of snstaiaable transportation and city planning.On the site of the sport fields, the land for road alternative North should be used for a regional bieyciMpedertrias boulevard leading from the Oram Area.in the east to the Froom Ranch Area west of LOUR.The main.road rxnssings at Broad and South Higuera Streets,FTighway 101 and LOVR could be in the form. Of bicycle/pedestrian bridges. Sincerely . . 9 �g Engen Jud-Civil Engineer,Fellow.Instit rte of Transportation Engineers,www.judeons.com . Enclosure CC to: -City Council of San Luis Obispo -Tim Bochum,PWD,City of San Luis Obispo -Gregg Albright,Deputy Director Caltrans District V,San Luis Obispo -Supervisors Peg Pinard and Shirely Bianchi,San Luis Obispo -County Engineering,San Luis Obispo Environmental Defense Center,San Louis Obispo -Dave Romero,2057 Skylark Lane,San Louis Obispo,CA 93401 Bicycle Advisory Committee,City Hall,San Louis Obispo,CA 93401 \J �G O d e j � C � a to .- •e a o 3� I Q co ' I kit � � .r• ,.ntc5 Y�r'. y•,�.n �. �< j yi �,�,y J '�'1 'N_ •' .K. av�i �P `.y,�. : ..''.. : ..•'i .�++++�YY� ......�.�rY�L r.--��.4 rr.�y/.(,ry.�n�_�" '�}�4t ,�� q�d�h" ^ 'yf�7 �Z_ ��ece' S.?,"+'"'•..S�v ^r 'S�#..,� }� .6.Y T +' A ..� :,'�:*' .. •iJc:'�1'!1.rseK G.1�t'i is_S S .i1..i-:" ..� d[(� w.. t a, c o ; FA Q U cc cs ir 14 lo. 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Box 1145 / 665 Leff Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93406- 1145 Feb. 1.2000 Tel/Fax (605) 545-5919 Re:Agenda Item Prado Road Awz Dear Council Members .� After talks with staff of both involved departments I submit the following 1.Please provide the public with a real planning visi e.g. a network of secure grade se thwafor bikes and pedestrians combined. This network must connect the main activity centers -mainly through the east-west"Quarry Trail" and the north south "Railroad Trail".My first sketches show,that this is possible.The main element would be a pedestrian/bile overpass over.Broad St between the Gas Offices and the sports fields. We would create an attractive new town called"The Trail Crossing"which would feature real alternative transportation oriented design. In addition to excellent bus connections one can even imagine a light rail station along the railroad between In Way and Tank Farm road in the long term future. 2.With this,we can reduce car travel easily by 20 to 30 percem Notre that our traffic model does not simulate all alternatives well. It is deficient in the following: Does not include"induced"travel,which is created by new transportation. facilities themselves Wkwleswe-1) Underestimates regional travel into and through SLO,as it does not assume full build out in the region surrounding us. - Does not contain a strong tool to simulate alternative transportation. 3. Looking at the"mobility wishes" of pedestrians and bikers WmWe )pL go for the EIR and choose as best solution the"Alternative Southern Ali�em" . Give the"proposed(northern)alignment" a dignified but quick burial because of the following weaknesses: One or two RpdqAdm tunnels of 85 feet length between a school and a sports complex are unacceptable for security reasons. By the way the cost estimates do not contain these costs as well as the costs of right of way acquisition.This probably makes all other alternatives cheaper than this one. - Noise,aesthetics and not taking into consideration driver psychology are points I would be happy to explain if needed. 4. If possible,pL inform the public what Caltrans and the School Board feel about the three alternatives shown in Enclosure 2. Sincerely Eugen Jud TARETL ,,-0LD :NAVY.,.i _ 'ani Hae la�rottt' Do ---YOU want these stores in SanL1Obispo * ,U S Fen years later and everyday shopping is still leaving San Luis Obispo. Its time far the SLO Marketplace..It will work well with Downtown SLO Residenul ant tT Let the SLO City Council know'by July 6th that you support the SLO Marketplace.. WRITE.•San Luis Obispo City Council 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 CALL 781-7100 EMAIL:slocitycouncil@slodi v org mens naS Spent L WCCUL ul:G u1 uaguuau 1115--u..* "e, u u u� -- ,18.4 billion aid package contracts,the risk of kidnapping ' ngress approved last year and other attacks aimed at for- ae Bush administration eign workers wac lire that TQafly alrQ bsao or a quick infusion of cash many projects never vegan.Sev ff iq to finance reconstruc- eral Western firms that won con- cording on cording to figures released tacts have summarily withdrawn T : V by the White House. their employees from Iraq. U.S.-led occupation au- Fewer than 140 of the 2,300 � s were much quicker to reconstruction projects that 0 100 2� 3 el Iraq's own money, ex- were to be ftmded with the U.S. 4fy ;,; 6t: " g or earmarking nearly all aid package are under way, the billion in a special deveb officials said. it fund fed by the coun- Officials with the contracting of- (Get a $50 Oft car 1 sales,a congressional in- fice contend the amount of mon- Valid only on new 1-or 2-year activat ons on itor said. ey actually spent does not reflect select plans$39.99 and higher.Expires 7/5/04. r$366 mullion of the$18.4 the full scope of work being per- ✓ U.S.aid package had been formed.A more accurate figure, as of June 22, the White they said,is the amount of money budget office told Con- allocated for reconstruction work in a report that offers the Just over$52 billion had been al etailed accounting of the located as of June 22,according to' re reconstruction package. the White House budget report s far, according to the re- `Ibe money that is disbursed tothing from the package is typically not disbursed until ® o :en spent on construction, the work is completed, so it rAdd any popukir demand� Famfl�y7ak hep care,sanitation and water doesn't give the best picture of ts.More money has been what's going on," said John � ] M0on administration than all Proctor, a spokesman for theis related to education,hu- contracting office."Some of our p to TMREE ADDM6O�A LIMES for$999 per fine, per month. ights,democracy and gov projects take months, or even On select plans'* ce. years,to complete." ICOR FREE nationwide to over 24 million C'mgular agtomers. 3.2 billion earmarked for se- Proctor said actual spending and law enforcement,a key had increased to $400 million FOR FREE with unlimited night&weekend minutes. )al in Iraq,only$194 mt'fiion since the figures were provided ,en spent Another central to the White House on June 22. a$orn from and I distance Ch es. ive of the aid program was Spending patterns have been ��g on9 ar9uce the 30 percent unem- different with the Iraqi money. I lent rate, but money has The Coalition Provisional Au- dom from overage Charges with unused anytimespent to hire only about thority, the now-dissolved U.S. OVER'^4 minutes,I Iraqis,despite US.promis- led occupation administration,t 250,000 jobs would be cre- spent or.locked in for future pro- ��M ��o� ���ga���oy now,U.S.officials familiar grams more than$19 billion from �J P ie aid program said. the $20 billion Development officials involved in the Fund for Iraq,which was estab- .struction blame security fished by the U.N.Security Coun- !rns and bureaucratic in- cit to manage Iraq's oil revenue, ig between the Pentagon, said Joseph AChristoff,director CALL 1-866-CINGULAR D CLICK WWW.CINGULAR.COM D C tate Department and the of international affairs and trade House for delays in the al- at the General Accounting Office. 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Rig"890 N China Lake Blvd.,Ste (805)473-3400A (661)702-1492A (7 3378 Atascadero 8280 EI Camino Real Delano 1328 Main St,(661)721-7115A San Luis Obispo 728 Marsh St f oel-for-food probe killed (805)462-2800A 1720High ch1800GradAve. 395)546-6400^ ,,�aketsfield,4300 Ming Ave. Grover Beach 1800 Grand Ave. 3975 Higue2 St,#102,(805)782-9801 ( 6l l 39 •20QAA (805)474-6744A 11560 Los Osos Valley Rd.,Ste.290 2511 North Chester,(661)393-4646 Lancaster 4355713th St.W (805)544-9400A spokesman of IragiNational Con 32011" ,(661)633-9600 (661)951-9100A A Promenade,491 Madonna Rd. 3945 Hughes Ln.1K,(661)831-9600 44533 Valley Central Way,(661)945-9003 (805)547-840M NOT YET KNOWN grass,told The Associated Press. Valley Plaza Mall,Across from Red Robin 1012 E Ave.J,(661)951-6383 Santa Barbara/Goleta 7127 Hollister A "It's possible that he was (661)831-3916A Lompoc 1620 N H St.,Ste.C #15,(805)9684688AA ATTACK WAS TIED killed because of the investiga- 3720 Cosford Rd.,Ste.A,(661)39M-6777 00A Los sos 10 4 L 3987{Scott$C,(Ste. ,(805)56A 9160 Rosedale Hwy.,(661)588.6777 Ins Oros 1034 Los Crsos Valley Rd. 10211/2 State St,Ste.A,(805)564-335 INVESTIGATION tion,which is a serious issue," 13075 Rosedale Hwy.,Ste.B (805)528-3300A 5768 Calle Real,(805)681-6336A Qanbar said. However, Qanbar (661)588-9800A OroM 1140 E Clark St.,#180 315 Meigs Rd.,Ste.A,(805)966-27261 said it was too early to say 9530 Hageman,(661)588-5665 (805)938-0676A Sarna Clarita 26865 Siena Hwy.,Unit' East Hills Mall,(661)871-5006A Palmdale 1113 W Ave.P,Ste.B (661)298.4611 A ASSOCIATED PRESS whether he was targeted be- 2641 Fashion PI.,Ste.G,(661)872.2047A (661)272-9888A Santa Maria 1832 N Broadway ,GHDAD, Iraq—An Iraqi cause of the investigation. 1656 oak St,Ste.D,(661)323-3223A AV Mall,1233 W Ave.P,(661)265-9424 (805)925-9246A al killed this week in a car The leader of the INC,Ahmad Barstow 917 Armory Rd.,(760)252-3200A 2210 S Bradley,(805)928-91 GOA Bing was in charge of the Chalabi, was instrumental in investigation into allega- drawing international attention For Wireless Service Information:htto.//wwwfaeovlceb/wimlessohone.odl. 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' rai°tn°vernsemem Da c ca An 0 en Letter ronit Ernie �dio s F,rrue&Krrstre I03 LMsdoobn P° 93405 1 San long resident life 2004 d from n'e'I s m the coam not duly t may nor have hear have deep t°°own• t en VerPlacelbut Y° wife,Krisrie,Vesely*1 ts our clearly have a ReSid ts' Mar Iv(y rad I Dear SLO about the San ed bete before mao atilt Ing tha tactics•And v,,bilaccommodatrOn, ve hearaplenty father both'atm unwilling to isinfotmation and feat wtangli agt! ace gill be eats of e San Lu's M .etpl 'You ha randfarhet Luis Obispo I re of m rno{e than 15 Y g San c in tbe.crossa who has ea that the ter:0 straight. love aha share a for ke place has beenn.1So the onl ego c hatlall n o? w°u d 1 eco set the pence tt Ih an Lurs M�in this issue,I arcbehind me the Dova vin expel t e S ante personal interest expeDsive hand will actually enh ere with the Downtown Oto capture speOd'n j treach a° Obispo, d0 not comp will enable S- LO oocl for San Lrus co the Marketplace d stores like them will e wori r have g hole Fo paso Robles and other a The sr coming. of D°wntow Na`"1' Maria, ersonalrty City Old jot Santa erience P 1 1 Target' Circuit out city dl ,multt-e%p ties leaving frien Y alle curtently edescrian eutns or art g chose 1 e m cion• including y tet will not have the theaters, destina employees, �wntown k walk, not a to ti Our ten a tree ands°£Downtown tics• plaza, Marketplace is d reStaura a Mission Luis CO the thous ' wn,San ncown stores�' acces! s. Ij mike the D°wn tk will not have easl who Spend monent Offices,'and°then nd fire protection,senior seNices, „ Luis Ma etP� Center, in gouetnP' a It yL than County Governmentdoing business ors, relies tovide Poli and enabling better 9 e new C0 citizens on to P s1 that the Grty easing congeStjOn also capcace ,ces este sales tax teveet city$e{° . at Prado Road ll' It will g d recreation and otb ock of an overp s pates includeconsrr.neucts$ eople• way. retail lace will and business P nr(O the free er with other sound be a .11 rhe bcess for ap local tesidents a 55 acres of open space adlace is simple•I we made dec p Otis that ted to me e a • ermanentlY pre$ery issue.1411 nre{e wife and I hav d of the land en IcwillP di ana this to know m tev+ar t me. t orys studies ortcinue to ate clou rnunrry P e co be a true a feel free to cp°cat 4 and deba thrive, iOv. v m pleas ,i N easel want SLOB family ar'd out community, om about the San Luis Mat legacy{Ot both to you personally Sincerely' l w00ld be nappy to speak e?s� , ` I r x , D htnie alidio _...� — 1 Y 29m99=39m99 Sale 29.99 Sale 39.99 Sale 39.91, "Squint"' "Desiree" "Jenni" , Assorted colors, Assorted colors. 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I 4 OPINION B61 THE TRIBUNE S A T U R D A Y , U L Y J 31 2004 SANLUISOBISPO.CO; QUOTE-OF THE D AY --`It's-time to-resoive the Marketplace project once and for all and have the coni- munity vote the project either up or down.—Brett Cross, Sax Luis Obispo power centers are built in the property. sane to-kn;They die economi- There are numerous issues, cavy and the whole community that have been,extolled as feels the impactfinancially. virtues of the project or cast as;� Does SIA have.the popula- overwhelming negatives of ,scl tion to support two large box such a massive commercial roTi stores like Home Depot and center.Ifs time to resolve the,ol Lowe's when they are so close Marketplace project once,and E if*ne's a stakeholder to each other? for all and have the community;;i a Frank Dufaurt vote the project either up or ,n Why are the values of.homes San Luis Obispo down. so high in San Luis Obispo. All the issues that are,need-;Iq' Because of the demand to live ed for the community to make„q' here.Why the demand?Be- ( More ag, not pavement an informed decision based on;;�' cause of what SIA has to.offer I call on all San.Luis Obispo the merits of the project are —uniqueness,charm and the city and county residents who readily available in the environ-,ii appeal of our downtown l2e oppose the Dalidio develdp•., mental impact report,econom';i cently SLO was named third of I ment to voice your opposition is reports,and development i the top 10 places to live in the at this Tuesday's City Council agreements• United States and Canada And meeting." betting the community de , a lot of that appeal and charm California is paving over its cide the fate of the Market 4;tl was based on the downtown. rich farmland.As population place project wM also resolve [s< If the downtown suffers eco- nomicallq,then ' grows,we need more farmland, the issue of the project being .o alone living in F SIA is affected anyone as not less:Should we sacrifice built in the county if it is reject . ' our agricultural self-sufficiency• ed by city,given it is very un- wellnot just the downtown and become dependent on for- likely the county.Board of Su- businesses and property own- sign countries for our food sup pervisors would'ignore the Q1ers.We all have an economic ply?Destroying farmland will community's wishes. A interest in the downtown. just abet current market forces The decision for the City I Will the Marketplace hurt -that are beginning this trend— Council on Tuesday should be downtown economically?One Mexican tomatoes,New easy.Put the Marketplace pro-101 doesn't have to look very turd I Zealand apples,etc. ject on the ballot and let the to see what has happened to I also decry the haRnful ef- community decide., 'a other downtowns when large fects this project would have on Brett Cross ' �I -SLO's-small-town character,ex- San Luis Obispo 1 isting businesses;-traffic-flow _ and air quality. -- If you oppose this develop- ment,join me in this pledge:.l will not shop at any store that opens in this center. Johanna Rubba Grover Beach i I , j Put Marketplace to a vote i San Luis Obispo City Council .members will make what many consider the most important decisipn on this community's future character when they de- cide on Tuesday whether"to ap- prove the Marketplace shop- ping center on the Dalidio farm Billboards Waot to see These stores in San Luis Obispo? promote shopping � � � ��� Pp 9. Contact Me ell Ten them to sepporttheSLO centerJ. , - San Luis Marke4la POOL With a decision on the San Luis Marketplace due next week,developers Bill Bird and $ Po property owner Ernie Dalidio are drumming up last-minute ;1 support for the proposed pro- ject. The men have placed two billboards near theDalidio 4: farm nl ���= TRIBUNE PHOTO BY JAYSON MELI San Luis L Obispo Two billboards near the Dalidio farm in San Luis Obispo ask residents to let city officials know that ask that they want more shopping. A decision on the San Luis Marketplace Is expected next week. residents to let — city officials know that they want more shopping. If approved,the Marketplace who paid sev- would include a Target,Circuit eral hunT dollars for the City,Lowe's Home Improve- signs. a just wans.t4�nake ment,Old Navy,a Larkspur Ho- pWpleaware of the project, tel and Tilly's,a youth-oriented j who%-hmlved and that-Ws, retailer.A Whole Foods Market comingtsefore the City Coun- also could be Cil:, added to the Not everyone,however,is project convinced that the shopping Macy's center is right for San Luis pulled out of Obispo.Some downtown prop- the develop- erty owners,city officials and ment,but dis- community members have cussions are raised concerns about the loss ongoing with w of prime-amieulEmal land and several other the center s potential impact on department We just want stores. to make downtown merchants. The signs, The City Council is expected roughly 8 by people aware to vote on the Marketplace Pro- 12 feet and 8 of the - I jest Tuesday night at City Hall, by 8 feet,are 990 Palm St hard to miss. project, —Julie Lynem Motorists can who's see them on Involved and Highway 101 or on Dandio that it's Drive,adjacent coming to the post of- fice. before the "It's some- City Council: thing we de- cided to do to Bill Bird, let folks know San Luis what is going Mmkutplace on,"said Bird, EUCAL SAT , JULY 3, 2004 UFD Marketplace opponents -push Referendum for Marketplace p am asking the City Council to place ketplace for referendum in November , the the Novembelifis r ballot as are> erendum. With only days left before a ber ballot The biggest obstacle to the city de- While proponents of the Mar- ciding has been the county Board of Su- City Council vote on the pro- The council will consider ketplace believe it will bring pervisors.Even though it goes against Posed San Luis Marketplace, the project Tuesday.If the city in much-needed sales tax rev- their own policies,they have threatened some opponents of the project rejected it,the developer could enue,more shopping and the to allow it in their jurisdiction:That are.urging city leaders to let take the proposal to the coun- Prado Road interchange would be the worst of all possible the public decide the issue in ty o ponents contend that it n worlds:the city would get all the costs, November. Osborne said the county harm downtown merchants N, while the county would get the benefit "Rather than speculate would not approve the project and chip away at the city's Only a referendum could remove this about how many people sup- if the voters rejected it open space. huge cloud over our decision-making port or oppose it, with a ref- "Only a referendum could If the City Council approves L' ability.If the city voters approve it,the erendum,we would know the remove this huge cloud over the project Tuesday,the Mar- Project would be allowed to develop in will of the voters with ab- the city's decision-making ketplace proposal will return the city.If the city voters say no,the solute clarity,"said Orval Os- ability," said Osborne, who to the Planning Commission ;1 county supervisors would have to obey borne, a city planning sent a letter to the City Coun- for a review of the develop- % the will of the voters or commit political commissioner and City Coun- cil this week. ment agreement on July 14. suicide. cul candidate. For years,the proposed re- The City Council would con- I hope the council does not think that Osborne and other commu- tail and business park has sider the terms of the deal in they have to decide everything.This is nity members are pushing for been a source of controversy August b one issue best decided by all citizens, a referendum on the Novem- with man in the community. The biggest advantage of a referendum y _ ty —JulieLynem " is the public buy in or acceptance of ►� the decision.A referendum would settle the question with a clarity that a City Council vote never could 1 ' For democracy,fairness and civic uni- `�i ty,the City Council should put the San Luis Marketplace proposal on the ballot in November. - Orval Osborne San Luis Obispo CHRISTINE MULHOLLAND VIEWPOINT het lace isrit d IL 'IL deal �e Marplace he Marketplace,will be the biggest Macy s was coming.The Tribune splashed with me,but the most common is to pre- retail development this town has headlines touting the Macy's store.Not serve that signature piece of beautiful ag6 Tever seen.The fact that the majori- once,but three tunes.As if it were a done cultural al os•a�seerves as farm a farm demon rvests ty of the City Council gave direc- deal.Now,no Macy's.In Arroyo Grande, tion to pursue the project is no reason to there was talk of a Nordstrom's.Then they stration grounds fo��ting� l pchildren speak as if it is a done deal. were told it would be a Target They got a and Cal Poly agricultural The Planning Commission recently re Wal-Mart full-time farmers market The Avila Barn is viewed the environmental study,which If we are going to need a Target,or some often offered as an example:If the property eight Class I,significant and un- other big chain store,it should go on Los owner was willing. own- identifiesbusiness own avoidable,impacts.The commission found Osos valley Road.There are two big Iots in The pert concerns slow-growth and envy there were even more and recommended front of Home Depot and where,Costco will ers,grope minded citizens are real.The the project be denied.The City Council will be.And there is a large lot across the street ronmentally have to decide if the benefit it the project that could be used for future development effort to Save the Downtown,the gem of overrides the problems it will create. before we need more space,for commercial San Luis Obispo,is real.The Marketplace is Regardless of the differences in opinion growth:The infrastructure exists,and the . an extremely complex proposal.The eco- about how much the impact would be on the road has beenowitde pe$�Ne ed widening nomiol' not nicys a to d extremely comPlm e shout downtown,there is certain to be a transfer will help pay the discussion.1he of dollars from existing businesses,many 10- the existing overpass.That is smart growth. public deserves better: cally owned,to the new chain stores. 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E•c yW""�,y a yv„ ,L �FU7•^ U�j• U W J=' ..a•.^� O tU•.X 0 0 a• L, cz ❑ p ice,w °U v7 >, c o a 5 c= E O W O U cd a w U cz.CD A O'cd E 6) y G_ O p L �w m O >, � O. a3i-a�x.a L s. g E m c`d:�' c o� E 30 o-U 0. 0 O y O C 7 O �"'O d co y U =lx Q N a P > o C +•, to O m U. U U �+.� U O U G U! m C a p E ° a , vy;E -da� C 'U a5 �.SE Q• 0 t 0 0 cd"' U .N .. U .o > an8 3m ms L) u o � Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -San Luis Marketplace RECEIVED From: "K M Miller"<kmmiller@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> JUL 0 6 2004 Date: 7/6/2004 12:17 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace SLO CITY CLERK Hello! I wanted to voice my support for the Marketplace shopping center. I have lived here for 4 years and would appreciate the addition of stores like Whole Foods, Old Navy and Target. I do not see the need for Circuit City or Lowe's as there is a new Home Depot and Best Buy in very close proximity. I would like a department store like Macy's (I know they have pulled out of the project) or Nordstrom. I will still shop in downtown SLO as I have some favorite stores and I like the ambiance and the restaurants. Marketplace will enhance the SLO experience and generate even more revenue. Thank you, Kris Miller Gros 932 Robin Circle Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 805-489-5415 805-489-7094 fax 805-710-1692 cell RED FILE MEETING AGENDA - ; rNCIL CDD DIR [ATE ITEM #�Ff ?CAO_ . 'CAO l�FIN DIR � -ACAO SIRE CHIEF 8-AT70RNEY k2-PW DIR i(B-CLERK/ORIG 0 POLICE CHF I 17 DEPT�.EADS. �REC DIR f 2 UTIL DIR -i Fl DIR tin StLl� file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: Beverly Larson<profbev@sbcglobal.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 1:00 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace At City Councilpeople, I am in favor of the San Luis Marketplace. I do not shop downtown SLO because of the conjestion, lack of parking and having to pay for parking when you can find a.spot. I either shop here or over at Santa Maria. You've already quenched the Macy store....I hope Santa Maria gets them. You tried to stop the Home Depot and look at the new tax base that they generated. You are now trying to stop or slow down CostCo. There is a limit to the growth moritorium that you people seem to be in need of. BACK OFF!!!!! Beverly Larson Arroro Grande file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Message Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -San Luis Marketplace From 'Bobbi Stoffers-Akers'<bakers782000@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org Date: 7/6/2004 12:31 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Yes......San Luis needs more affordable shopping choices. Right now we have to go to Santa Maria for this. Why shouldn't we put the money back into San Luis Obispo instead of Santa Maria. San Luis at this time is only catering to the high-end chentel. We need to look at the needs of everyone in the county. I don't believe that the stores that are planned for the Marketplace will have any effect at all with the "Downtown" San Luis stores, because those stores are geared towards different clientele and in return San Luis Obispo will be the ones loosing the tax dollars to Santa Barbara. Let's make the right choice and bring in SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE! Sincerely, Bobbi Stoffers-Akers Arroyo Grande file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Message Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Shopping Center From: "Jill Woods" <j ill@ dewaltgroup.com> To: <slocitycoundil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/200412:36 PM Subject: Shopping Center Dear City Council- I am in complete support of the proposed new shopping center,the SLO Marketplace. Please allow the development of these stores which would so enhance the lifestyle of many central coast residents. If Target, Lowe's and Old Navy were to come into SLO, I would shop in San Luis Obispo almost exclusively. So would most of my 5 Cities and Nipomo friends. As it is, many of us travel into Santa Maria to Target and Costco and this determines the locale of shopping trips. I don't see this as a conflict for downtown SLO because the stores are so different that what downtown offers.I truly believe these additional stores will just be additional revenue. Jill Woods. (805)929.5490 (805) 709.1336(cell) file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -The Marketplace From: Sue Fscalini <suefisk@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 12:42 PM Subject: The Marketplace Dear Members of the City Council, I just wanted to ask you to please let us have the Marketplace. We are tired of having to go to Arroyo Grande and Santa Maria to do our shopping for the things we need. We have lived here all our lives and have always been told to shop downtown. The only stores I shop in downtown are Beverly's Fabric and Ross Dress For Less. For us there is no reason to shop in any of the other stores. The dress shops are aimed toward the younger shoppers. Instead of a big department store that would draw people downtown we have a huge.sporting goods store that is of no interest to us or most of our friends. The new stores that the Copeland project is putting in are not the kind of stores that would get me to go downtown either. Another problem with downtown is the parking. While shopping in Beverly's Fabric a while ago I came out to find a meter maid at my car. She had not started to write me a ticket. I told her I would put money in the meter because I wanted to shop next door at Ross Dress For Less. She told me 3No! You will put money in the meter and leave12 I told her I really wanted to go next door and she said again that I had to leave. I came home and called Keith in the parking department and all he had to say was that 3Well, you didn't get a ticket did you?2 I live here and don't want to go downtown because of things like this. Downtown caters to the tourists rather than the local residents and if they treat the tourists like they treated me I. don't think they would be in a hurry to come back. We need the kind of stores the Marketplace is planning on putting in and if we don't get them here we will still have to shop out of town. Saying no to the Marketplace is not going to get us to shop downtown! Only a different group of stores and no meter maids will get us to shop down there. Sue and Al Fiscalini 1269 San Mateo Drive San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 543-9626 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}n0001.HTM 7/6/2004 CYDNEYHOLCOMB 905 594 0368 07/06/04 03:09pm P. 001 Residents for (duality Neighborhoods P.O. Box 12604• San Luis Obispo,CA 93406 RECEIVED RED FILE JUL U 6 2004 - MEETING AGENDASLO CITY CLERK DATE ITEM #�L _ 4?'C0UiJCIL /CDD DIR CAO idFIN DIR it ACRO :GFIRE CHIEF DATE: July 6i 20042-ATTORNEY .�PW DIR TO: San Luis Obispo City Council CLERK ORIG GPOLICE CHF DE T HEADS 2'REC DIR VIA: Fax to 781-7109 . y UTI D'IR RE: Meeting Date: July 6, 2004 _ CI,, Item * PH 1 ----- CONSIDERATION OF A FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR) AND COUNTY TAX SHARING AGREEMENT, AND APPEAL OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S REJECTION OF AN ANNEXATION, PREZONING, INCLUDING PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE RETAIL COMPONENT, GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT, USE PERMIT, AND RELATED ACTIONS, FOR THE DALIDIO ANNEXATION/SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE DEVELOPMENT (ANNX/GP/R/PD/U/ER 108-02); 2005 DALIDIO DRIVE. Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council, RQN has reviewed the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the above-entitled project with respect to its impacts on the City's existing residential neighborhoods. We have identified the following areas of concern: • Eight (8) Class 1 (significant and unavoidable) impacts to Air Quality, Noise, Agricultural Resources, Cu/tura/Resources and Trak which will require your council to make a Statement of Overriding Considerations that the benefits of this project outweigh its unavoidable adverse environmental impacts; • The proposed project is inconsistent with City General Plan policies LU 1.4 and H 10.1 in that it would create the need for more than 700 new housing units. This will widen the gap between housing demand and housing supply; • Impacts to adjacent and other neighborhoods, specifically with respect to increased traffic, cut through traffic, air pollution, and noise; • Failure to discuss the cumulative impact of this project and `other" projects; • Failure to adequately discuss the growth-inducing impacts of this project; • Failure to evaluate the construction impacts of the Prado Road interchange; CYDNEY HOLCOMB 60S S94 0365 07/06/04 09:06pm P. 002 I ` July 6, 2004 THE DALIDIO ANNEXATION/SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE DEVELOPMENT Page 2 • LU Policy 1.14 requires new development to pay its own costs (public facilities and services). We wonder if the costs charged to this developer for the proposed project and the Prado Road interchange will be sufficient to maintain the relatively high levels of service currently enjoyed by City residents; and, • We are also concerned about the practicality of an agreement which essentially subsidizes the developer's 52% share of the $22 million Prado Road interchange. We have also reviewed the City's General Plan Land Use Element for background on community preferences: "As voters, the people of San Luis Obispo have spoken clearly and consistently on environmental protection and quality of fife Issues for the past 25 years. "Citizens spoke equally clearly when polled by the City in 1988 as part of the current Land Use Element update. The 585 poll respondents placed quality of life and environmental issues at the top of their concems. Ninety percent of respondents listed the natural environment as their top quality of life concern. Asked, in an open-ended question, the City's greatest problem, the top response (42%) was excessive growth. (The next largest response, at 159a, was traffic). Asked, also in an open-ended question, the City's greatest strength, 5396 of responses concerned environmental quality and sense of community. "Asked what reductions in quality of life they were willing to accept in return for greater economic growth, in the following areas a majority said"none" 1)air pollution, 8396; 2) increased trahrc and tratflc noise, 67%, 3) development on peaks and hillsides, 669o; 4) development on farmland and ranch land, 51 5) development harmful to creeks, 67%; 6) overall pace of life, 51%. "Asked to pick a growth rate from listed categories, 85% of respondents picked categories ranging from none (1596) to slower than the state and county (5196) to no faster than the county(1996).'[Land Use Element, p.43. Subsequent City surveys conducted in 2000 and 2002 have reaffirmed these choices.. This project is inconsistent with City General Plan Goals and Policies and in opposition to the above-stated community values. Therefore, we respectfully request that you deny the Dalidio Annexation/San Luis Marketplace Development . Sincerely, ] dnemb Chairperson, RQN Keith Crowe, PE (805) 464-0978 P. 1 Keith V. Crowe, P.E. RECEIVED Consulting Engineer RED FILE SLO CITY CLERK - MEETING AGENDA DATE ITEM # ( ►2 _J . fir"COUNCIL , ?CDD DIR July 6, 2004 ✓CAO �2�FIN DIR J %ACRO ;-FIRE CHIEF Honorable Mayor and City Council ATTORNEY ZrPW DIR City of San Luis Obispo 1,2'CLERKIORIG POLICE CHF 990 Palm Street ❑ D-UT HEADS ,Z-REC DIR San Luis Obispo, Ca 93401 i �— ,2-UTIL DIR RE: Comments on Drainage Section of"Final EIR"for Dalidio Property. Honorable Mayor and City Council; I am a Professional Engineer registered in the State of California. I have significant experience in floodplain management and drainage—and the computer models used for their analysis. I was asked by Jan Marx, Vice President of Citizens for Planning Responsibility, to review the drainage section of the referenced environmental impact report and related documents. Even though the time available to review to documents was very short, I have come to the conclusion that the EIR (and related documents)fall short of the standards required for such a document and do not provide an independently verifiable picture of the drainage and flooding situation surrounding the project Very specifically: 1) The Professional Engineer's Act of the Business and Professions Code-section 6735 a) requires that all plans, calculations, reports etc. include the name and registration number of the responsible engineer and be signed and sealed by him/her. The Final EIR and the base report"Local &Cumulative Hydraulic Impacts Analysis—San Luis Obispo Marketplace Area Annexation, Phase 1, the Dalidio Property" do not include the name of the responsible engineer and is not signed or sealed by a registered professional engineer. The letter dated March 17, 2004 revising the report and calculations referenced above have the name of P.O.Box 832•Atascadero CA 93423-0832•Phone:(805)464-0975•E-Mail: KVCrowe@Charter.net Keith Crowe, PE (805) 464-0978 p. 2 i Keith V. Crowe, P.E. Consulting Engineer a "hydrologist". There is no indication that he is the responsible engineer and the letter is not property sealed with the stamp of a registered professional engineer. 2) The base report for the Environmental Impact Report "Local & Cumulative Hydraulic Impacts Analysis—San Luis Obispo Marketplace Area Annexation, Phase I, the Dalidio Property" (a part of the EIR by reference) contains only results and conclusions. The amending letter of March 17 also contains only results and conclusions. There is no data presented that can be used to independently verify these results and conclusions. Typically, results of the computer models used to arrive at the results and conclusions are presented in the appendices to the various documents. In this case the computer results are probably voluminous. However, because the engineer(assuming it is prepared by an engineer) claims to have used the"standard models"for the watershed master plan, simple presentation of the data sets used in the models would be enough to allow independent verification of the results and conclusions. These data sets would verify that reasonable "modeling" of the post-development conditions is used to arrive at the results and conclusions. Without this information there is no way to independently verify the basis of the findings. 3) The referenced letter(page 3"Loss of Floodplain Storage") minimizes the impact of fill by stating that the fill is located above the flooding in the computer model's "reservoir." 1 am not convinced that so-called reservoir storage is the only issue here. First, when the reservoir is not full then a stream or a creek's floodplain flow is a possible source of flooding. While this may not be an issue with the Prefumo Creek floodplain, in my opinion it is a very likely issue with flooding that originates on San Luis Creek San Luis Creek has historically left its banks between Marsh Street and Madonna Road. Water flows across the freeway and through the Madonna Inn Parking lot and is directed to a culvert under Madonna Road and eventually getting back under the Freeway and back to San Luis Creek. However, the culvert entrance cannot accept all the water generated during large flood events. Water tops Madonna Road and travels overland across Madonna Plaza and in the general direction of the Dalidio property. In my opinion, there is a good chance the source of flooding shown on the County's Flood Information Rate Map and designated as an "A"zone is from this overland flow—not from Prefumo Creek as implied in the report. This flooding is also P.O.Box 832•Atascadero CA 93423-0832•Phone:(805)464-0975•E-Mail: KVCrowe@Charter.net Keith Crowe, PE (8051 464-0978 P. 3 Keith V. Crowe, P.E. Consulting Engineer shown on the City's Flood Information Rate Map and designated as Zone "AO" — meaning there is shallow"overland flow" flooding with a depth of 1' (in this case). Because the City's FIRM shows a designated flood zone (AO)this designation was the result of a detailed study—and not the "broad brush" study implied in the EIR document. 4) According to the letter of March 17 "Increased Impervious Surface Area" (page 3) says "The low magnitude of the predicted increase in 100-year peak flow rate shows that buildout of the watershed is LIKELY (emphasis added) not going to increase runoff rates in Perfumo Creek significantly." The use of the word "Likely" makes me believe the engineer(if an engineer dd the work) is not sure of the results of his/her own model. If it is likely not going to increases runoff rates then this leaves open the possibility that it will. Does the model predict it will or will not increase runoff rates? This should be a yes or no answer—not a maybe answer. 5) Again from the same paragraph of the same letter "The reason the increase is RELATIVELY (emphasis added) low is primarily because the watershed above Laguna Lake contributes so much of the flow in Prefumo Creek...." Relative to what? From the perspective of one point of view the impact may be relatively low. From the perspective of another point of view the impact may be relatively high! If my house was one-inch from flooding in the predevelopment condition then adding a relatively small 1"to the flood level would be a relatively high impact! While the conclusion may actually be correct—we don't know! There is no data presented to independently verify the conclusion. 6) Again referencing the same paragraph "...and secondarily because the soils in the watershed are clayey. They have high runoff rates when fully saturated, such as during a 10-year or larger stone, and conversion to urban land use does not result in especially large increases in runoff rate." There are two problems with this comment. First, the models used for the analysis include temporal (time dependent) considerations. Typically, an "antecedent moisture condition" (a measure of soil saturation)that reflects a partially moistened soil condition—not a saturated soil condition is assumed at the beginning of the storm event. Therefore, urbanization of the watershed could very well have an impact on the watershed dynamics. Second, numbers reflecting the difference between P.O.Box 932•Atascadero CA 93423-0832•Phone:(805)464-0975•E-Mail: KVCrowe@Charter.net Keith Crowe, PE (805) 464-0978 p. 4 Keith V. Crowe, P.E. Consulting Engineer various soils and urbanized land are readily available. Is the"conclusion" based on clayey soils in an undeveloped portion of an urban setting or tilled soils in an agricultural setting? There is a significant difference between the two— particularty on very flat ground. The analysis should present the numbers to support the stated conclusion. 7) Referring to the section of the same letter called"Loss of Floodplain Storage". The original errors in determining floodplain storage are very significant errors. Are there any other errors? Without the data sets used to develop the various models there is no way to independently verify the model results. You know what they say about computers....garbage in -garbage out. Without knowing the quality of the input data there is no way to reach a conclusion about the quality of the results. The purpose of any environmental impact report is to expose possible problems before the problems are created or exacerbated. Keeping basic analysis information "close to the chest" defeats the purpose of the reports because the conclusions become unverifiable. Hand-waving, while impressive to some does not stand up to the scrutiny of thorough technical analysis. I see this report as a lot of conjecture based on unverifiable analyses. The document should not be approved until if can stand the rigors of a technical review. Sincerely; 44 % --- Keith V. Crowe, RE, M.S. it it Ur-NO' 31.581 Euplres 12104 yr P.O.Box 832•Atascadem CA 93423-0832•Phone:(805)464-0975•E-Mail: KVCrowe@Charter.net To: City of SLO, City Council,aw Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 1 of 19 RECEIVED 7-06-2004 JUL 0 6 2004 To: SLO CITY CLERK City of San Luis Obispo including City Council and Planning Commission From: Michael C. Sullivan RED FILE 1127 Seaward Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 -- ME ING AGENDA (805) 545-9614 � DATE ITEM #W _ RE: Deficiencies of environmental review,Inconsistencies of project with General Plan; and other issues related to Dalidio/San Luis Marketplace Annexation and Development Project Abbreviations CEQA-California Environmental Quality Act EIR-environmental impact report ircouvcl� CDD DIR GL -CEQA Guidelines /CAO .G FIN DIR LOVR-Los Osos Valley Road ACRO Tj FIRE CHIEF LUE -Land Use element(of General Plan) a'ATTORNEY 2'.w DIR CLERK109IG EJ POLICE CHF OS-open space 0 DgPT HEADS 0FIEC DIR OSE- Open Space element(of General.Plan) '� �} Zz TILnR PC-Planning Commission SLO- San Luis Obispo SOC - Statement of Overriding Considerations TIF-Transportation Improvement Fund 1. Statement of Overriding Considerations is not supported by fact,as required by CEQA. The Statement of Overriding Considerations (SOC)must be supported by substantial evidence in the record. CEQA GL 15093(b); GL 15091 (a)(3); GL 15091(b). The Planning Commission (5-26- 2004)correctly noted and agreed(4-2)that various reasons stated in support of the SOC are not based on fact. Planning Commissioner Michael Boswell (5-26-04) noted several instances in which the purported"benefits" of the project were not really substantiated by fact. For example, Mr. Boswell noted that although the project would result in more jobs,the net effect would be a"jobs/housing" imbalance which contradicts General Plan(Land Use element)policy 1.4 ("The gap between housing demand(due to more jobs and college enrollment)and supply should not increase.") The City has also failed to make the specific finding required by CEQA GL 15091(a)(3). That finding states: "Specific economic,legal, social,technological,or other considerations, including provision of employment opportunities.for highly trained workers, make infeasible the mitigation measures or project alternatives identified in the final EIR." GL 15091(a)(3). The environmental documents fail to adequately explain why the alternatives (especially alternatives 6 and 7)were rejected. Various statements in the SOC(Dalidio project, staff report, City Council 7-06-2004 at p. 1-99) are false. Some examples: I To: City of SLO,City Council,anu-Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan' RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 2 of 19 (1) "The annexation will enable the City to achieve its General Plan goals." This is clearly false because the proposed project is inconsistent with the General Plan in various ways. (a) The project will result in an imbalance in the jobs/housing ratio, a violation of Land Use element policy 1.4. See Planning Commission testimony, 5-26-04; See letter from Michael Sullivan to Planning Commission for hearing of 5-26-2004, at p. 3, comment PC-39,PC-50, noting that Growth Inducing Impacts of EIR state that about 734 new housing units would be needed to accommodate jobs created by project. (b) The project fails to include the approximately 50%dedication of on-site open space required by Land Use element policy 1.13.5E: "Each annexation shall help secure permanent protection for areas designated Open Space...E. Dalidio area properties... shall dedicate land or easements for the approximately one-half of each ownership that is to be preserved as open space." Instead,the City has avoided this specific requirement and has provided only 44.8 %for on-site open space rather than the required 50% dedication of on-site open space. As a result, there is a deficiency of about 6.8 acres of dedicated on-site open space. (Calculation: 131 acres total site area* (50 %-44.8 %)=6.8 acres.) City invokes the more general policy(LUE 1.8.2) which allows other properties with prime agricultural land (i.e., those not considered in Land Use Element policy 1.13.5)to use off-site dedications of open space,or other methods,to protect prime agricultural lands. In the context of the Dalidio project,this is improper. The City's incorrect interpretation of these two conflicting LUE policies leads to an internal inconsistency within the Open Space element. The more specific standard(50 %open space,as given in LUE policy 1.13.5E)should take precedence over the more general policy(LUE policy 1.8.2). (c) The project is inconsistent with other parts of the General Plan, as outlined in the letter of Michael Sullivan(5-17-2004)to Architectural Review Commission. See City Council staff report, 7-06-2004,p. 1-90- 1-93. These include: (1)Open space element policy 1.A.3 (OSE 1994,p. 65)which encourages commercial development on existing commercial property(Promenade,Madonna Plaza)before development of prime agricultural land Inconsistent, because this alterative(Alt. 6)was given in the EIR but was ignored or rejected. (2) Open space policy for preservation of souther portion of Dalido property entirely in agricultural use(OSE 1994,Policy LA.1, at p. 65). Inconsistent, because much of this souther part of the site would be used for non-agricultural uses such as grandstands, pavilions,roadways, parking lots,etc; (3) Requirement for protective easements in creek areas (OSE 1994, p. 25, para. 3.A). Inconsistent, because specific easements are,to my knowledge,not yet assured through project conditions or other means. (4) Inappropriate types of structures(e.g. roads,buildings,etc.)within open space area near creek corridors which should be preserved in essentially a natural state (OSE 1994,p. 22, para. 1.A.). Inconsistent, because project proposes certain kinds of structures(e.g. roadways,parking lots, active recreation uses e.g. soccer field with grandstand)which are not appropriate open space uses. See OSE 1994, Appendix A,Definition of Open Space, which states that open spaces are areas that remain predominantly natural or undeveloped and do not include "active recreation" uses like sports fields. To: City of SLO,City Council,aaa Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE:. Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 3 of 19 (2) "The annexation will allow for the future development of the site,which will... "...enhance the City's tax base..." Although the city's tax base could potentially be improved in the long term, there is no discussion of the potential negative fiscal impacts caused by the financing plan for the US 101/Prado Road interchange. In that scheme,the city's net realized tax base would likely be less than optimal because of the diversion of tax money to help pay for the interchange over a long period of time(about 10 years). Also,there is no adequate discussion of the financial costs and obligations associated with the project,such as the necessity for additional police and fire protection,the potential need for additional sewer and water capacity,the direct or indirect impact on funding for other transportation projects,etc. especially in conjunction with cumulative growth forecasts. CEQA requires that if fiscal outcomes could have indirect physical impacts(e.g. traffic congestion),then those fiscal impacts should be analyzed. CEQA GL 15064(e). However,the City has failed to analyze such potential impacts. "...create more jobs..." The discussion of the Planning Commission(2003-2004 hearings, especially 5-26-2004) was that the majority of jobs in the shopping center would be low paying and would probably not provide a living wage to a sole wage eamer. The draft EIR was modified to include new language(Dalidio FEIR, p. 6-1 -6-2)that states that the generation of about 1666 new jobs would cause the(unmet) need for 734 housing units. The Planning Commission, and others(including me)believe it is this fast that will lead to the jobs/housing imbalance and an inconsistency with LUE policy 1.4 (provide jobs/housing balance). The net effect is a detriment to the city,not a benefit. ".... improve City traffic circulation..." This claim is clearly false. Although project proponents claim that the proposed US 101/Prado Road freeway interchange would improve cross-town circulation(from Madonna Road to Broad Street,via Prado Road),this benefit is offset by the significant permanent congestion and Class I environmental impacts(which cannot be mitigated fully)that will occur at various locations close to the project site. There will be significant deterioration of City traffic circulation at locations such as Madonna Rd. /Los Osos Valley Road intersection with Level of Service F(FEIR, p. 4.10-28), congestion on US 101 (Impact T-8, FEIR, p. 4.10114),and congestion and delays on Dalidio Drive/Prado Road and US 101 near the project site(Impact T-13,FEIR, p. 4.1049). "... create permanent open space." As stated elsewhere in this letter,the amount of open space proposed to be dedicated at the site does not meet General Plan requirements. There is significantly less than the required 50%open space at the project site. At 50 %dedicated on-site open space,the 131 acre site must provide about 65.5 acres of on-site open space. Instead,the proposed project only provides about 44.8 %open space on-site(about 58.7 acres)which is about 6.8 acres less than the amount of open space required on-site. In addition, as noted in Michael Sullivan's letter of 5-17-2004 to Architectural Review Commission(City Council staff report 7-06-04), certain non-open space structures (parking lots, roadways, pavilion, soccer field with grandstand, etc)would be inappropriate uses for the open space area and would be inconsistent with the city's definition of open space(farming and grazing,creeks, marshes, watershed, floodplain, scenic resources, plant and animal habitat,historic and archaeological resources, passive recreation areas) (Open Space element, 1994, p. 2 and Appendix A).. To: City of SLO,City Council,aw Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullioa11 RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 4 of 19 Most importantly,the City's goal of preserving open space is internally inconsistent with the land use proposed for the Dalidio site. Open space policy LA.3. (OSE 1994,p. 65)pertains to the Dalidio property. This policy advocates that the city "consider a transfer of commercial development potential from the Dalidio site's commercial area to the Madonna Plaza and Central Coast Plaza sites. Such a program could(a) form one viable shopping center versus three largely independent centers, and(B)allow additional prime farmland to be preserved as agriculture." (Open Space element, 1994, p. 65). This proposal is similar to Alternative 6 given in the Dalidio FEIR,p. 7-18, "Incorporation of the commercial component into the San Luis Obispo Promenade shopping center." Yet the City has rejected this viable alternative(Alternative 6). The same goal of open space protection could be served by Alternative 7(reduced commercial footprint) seen in the Dalidio FEIR, p. 7-21. As Planning Commissioner Michael Boswell pointed out(5-26-2004 hearing), a slower-paced phasing of the project, with a smaller commercial footprint initially,would be one way to more intelligently stage the commercial development incrementally,but it would still result in significant impacts on agricultural lands. As the FEIR notes,Alternative 6 is the one environmentally superior alternative which meets both the commercial development goals of the project proponents and the agricultural open space protection goals of the City. By rejecting Altemative 6 and Alternative 7, the City has failed to adequately protect agricultural open space. (3) "The annexation will ensure that the property is developed in the City." This is really no benefit to the city; it is certainly not an overriding consideration. Practically, development of the Dalidio parcel can only occur in the City. Development under County jurisdiction would be most unlikely because of the lack of essential services (water,sewer). It is possible to annex the land and develop it in a manner that is environmentally superior, such as with Alternative 6 or Alternative 7 of the Dalidio FEIR. (4) "The project will provide high quality new commercial uses that will complement the commercial development already in the area." Planning Commissioners and others have noted that the proposed project is highly automobile dependent,with a sea of parking(in excessive amount)and little in the way of pedestrian-friendly design or appealing architecture. The project as envisioned now is more like a 1960s style collection of big boxes with a big parking lot. There is not "high quality" in this current proposal. 2. The final EIR must not be certified yet. Various deficiencies in the final EIR and in the responses to comments found in the draft EIR indicate that the final EIR must not be certified yet. The EIR.should be recirculated. (CEQA 15088.5. Several reasons.are given below: (a) A feasible project alternative or mitigation measure considerably different from others previously . analyzed would clearly lessen the environmental impacts of the project,but the project's proponents decline to adopt it. CEQA GL 15088.5(a)(3). This alternative is the "phased" development scheme proposed by Planning Commissioner Michael Boswell (5-26-2004,Dalidio project hearing). This alternative would allow a smaller commercial area initially, with potential additional commercial use development over time. This proposal has several advantages. (a) The initial impacts on agricultural open space would be substantially reduced, and it would be much more likely that viable agricultural operations could continue at the project site(Dalidio land). (b) The traffic impacts would be substantially reduced because with a smaller amount of commercial development there would be less "gravity" effect(lure of customers). (c) The present shopping needs/desires of the community Y To: City of SLO,City Council,anu Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 5 of 19 could be met within the limited footprint of the smaller commercial area. Additional commercial area could be "phased in" as consumer demand increases over time. (d) A smaller project might obviate the need for an expensive freeway overpass. (b) The responses in the Final EIR do not adequately address certain key environmental issues or fail to explain adequate mitigation measures, as outlined in part 3 below. Certification of the final EIR is improper where the final EIR has not been completed in compliance with CEQA. CEQA GL 15090. (c) A project's EIR should not be certified if the proposed project is inconsistent with the General Plan. See Curtin(2003)at p. 24, "Vertical consistency" of general plan.. In addition,the Subdivision Map Act requires consistency of a proposed project with the General Plan,and a Specific Plan requires consistency with the General Plan. There are various examples(discussed within this letter and elsewhere)that show the proposed project is inconsistent with the General Plan. 3. Responses to comments on the draft EIR were inadequate and do not meet CEQA requirements. The City has failed to meet its obligation under CEQA to respond adequately to the significant environmental issues raised. The evaluation of and response to comments from the public (or other persons or agencies)do not meet the requirements of CEQA Guidelines 15088 (Evaluation of and Response to Comments.) CEQA Guidelines 15088(b)states, The written response shall describe the disposition of significant environmental issues raised (eg. , revisions to the proposed project to mitigate anticipated impacts or objections). In particular, the major environmental issues raised when the lead agency's position is at variance with recommendations and objections raised in the comments must be addressed in detail giving reasons why specific comments and suggestions were not accepted There must begood faith, reasoned analysis in response Conclusory statements unsupported by factual information will not suffice CEQA Guidelines 15088(b) There are numerous instances in the responses in which the above requirements of CEQA are not met. Some examples are given in Table 1,below. Table 1 -Analysis of deficiencies in response to comments for draft EIR Comment Commenter Comment Response in final EIR Why response is inadequate in final EIR PC-9 Eugene Jud The whole concept The Master EIR for the RESPONSE DOES NOT ADDRESS THE of Prado Road from 1994 Land Use and NEED for early and comprehensive review Los Osos valley Circulation element of the entire project(Prado road in its Road(Madonna update analyzed three entirety),particularly in its context as a new Rd?)to Broad potential alignments for route for Highway 227,and in the context of Street has never the extended roadway recent(since 1994)traffic increases from been addressed in (Prado). Environmental various newer projects such as Home Depot, an EIR,nor review for the Prado Road Costes,Marganta(Aitpo t Specific Plan,etc. discussed by the norther alignment -The proposed roadway for the new public as a whole included a study of the Highway 227(Prado Rd)is a public project concept,and this is current alignment. and must have environmental review at the unfair and violates To date,the project earliest feasible time. CEQA Guidelines th CEQA. description for e Prado 15004(b)(1). This requirement has not been Road alignment and met. interchange has not -Segmented enti bvirmewd review has changed substantially occurred for the Prado Road project. To: City of SLO,City Council,aau Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 6 of 19 since the year 2000. -For 6ainple,the Prado Road northern alignment environmental review of 2000 considered the short(about 1 mile long) segment of Prado Road -Another environmental review(Margarita/ Airport FPEIR 2004)has occurred for the Prado Road segment within the Margarita Area. -Another environmental review(Dalidio FEIR 2004)pertains to the Prado Road segment from Madonna Road to the South Higuera Street but ignores the other segments of Prado Road(from South Higuera St.to Broad St) The City Council(4-20-2004,Bus 3)also considered another segment of Prado Road (from US 101 to South Higuera Street) and the staff report stated"this project will require at least an initial environmental study and possibly a focused environmental impact report." (City Council 4-20-2004, Bus 3,at p.3-9,Attachment B,Prado Road Bridge Widening). There has been no recent(since 1994) environmental review to consider the whole of the project. -Significant additional sources of traffic have been added since 1994,so the earlier cumulative traffic impact analysis(City of SLO,FEIR 8/1994,Land Use Element/ Circulation element updates)is outdated and inadequate. The City has stated or implied(e.g. Planning Commission Dalidio project hearing,5-26-2004)that the 1994 FEIR for "Land Use Element/Circulation Element updates"provides adequate environmental analvsis of the Prado Road corridor. That EIR included a statement of overriding considerations for traffic impacts. (See also Council resolution 8332,8-23-1994). But the information in that 1994 EIR is outdated and inaccurate,so a revised traffic analysis (and a new environmental document)is now required for the Prado Road project For example: The 1994 EIR states,"Although periodically congested near its intersection with Madonna Road,Los Osos Valley Road generally experiences free-dowing traffic with an LOS of A or B." (1994 FOR at p. 6.3-17). With the Dalidio project now proposed,and the extension of Prado Road cross-town from Broad Street to Madonna Road,the Dafidio FEIR(2004)predicts those conditions will deteriorate to Class I traffic impacts at Los Osos Valley Road at Madonna Rd. The 1994 EIR states that Prado Rd"does not currently extend across to the Broad Street area" (1994 FEIR,p.6.3-18) But that has changed with the adoption(200 1)of the northern alignment by the City. To: City of SLO, City Council, anu Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivad' RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 7 of 19 The 1994 FOR when prepared did not have the final Margarita/Airport environmental studies(completed with the 2004 FPEIR)which gave information about increased traffic demand due to the expansion of development in the Margarita area,Airport area,and Orcutt area. Since Prado Road(the new route for Highway 227)is a public project,its environmental impacts must be evaluated as early as feasible. CEQA Guidelines 15004(b)(1). This requirement has not been met. Instead,the City proposes a series of subsequent,and segmented,environmental analyses(such as the one discussed for Council hearing of 4-20-2004 for the segment from US 101 to South Higuera Street). -Thus,the City should require preparation of a supplemental or subsequent EIR to analyze the Prado Road corridor in its entirety(from Madonna Road to Broad Street)with currently available data and in its context as a proposed state highway. PC-9 Michael Sullivan Amount of on-site Land Use Element policy Land Use Element(LUE)Policy 1.8.2 is (See also letter open space is 1.8.2 permits development inconsistent with LUE Policy 1.13.5(E) 12(1)F from inadequate(less of prime agricultural land which requires dedication of approximately Michael than 50%on-site; if off-siteag land is one-half of each ownership to be preserved Sullivan.) instead,it is preserved The amount of as open space(in the Dandio area). Policy approximately 45% on-site open space can be 1.8.2 is a general policy while Policy on-site. The exact reduced from 50% 1.13.5(E)is a specific requirement for the percentage of onn because some off-site Dalidio area LUE section 1.13.5 site open space may agricultural open space is specifically applies to protection of open be different with the preserved space"within the amrexation area." Thus, modified site plan Policy direction clearly intends that 50%of recently(5/2004) open space be preserved at the Dalidio site proposed to the annexation area not off-site. LUE Policy Architectural 1.13.5(A)allows off-site open space Review dedication"in the hills." But LUE Policy Commission. 1.13.5(E)does not mention any provision for off-site dedication. PC-12 Michael.Sullivan City did not give Alternative 6 is potentially The proposed project is also in the flight adequate reason for inconsistent with 1973 path and it,too,would put high rejecting Airport Land Use Plan concentrations of shoppers in overflight Alternative 6. because it would result in zones. The EIR should not simply dismiss a high concentration of Alternative 6 but should provide a full shoppers in overflight analysis of it. zones,where land uses are restricted. PC-24 Ira Winn Alternative An alternative project site The information in the response is false downiown site is not evaluated because the response is conclusory and not based (Bank of America/ the project site is large on fact.The suggested alternative site Shell station) enough to accommodate downtown(Monterey at Santa Rosa)could should be changes that might result accommodate a significant amount of considered. from the implementation commercial space. The site would have of any of the project significant environmental advantages alternatives. No other because it avoids the destruction of prime comparable site is farm land The site could better help meet To: City of SLO,City Council,anu Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 8 Of 19 available to the applicant the City's need for more housing by means where the project of a mixed-use project. The project could be objectives... could be coordinated with a regional transit center accomplished. which would help alleviate the severe traffic problems associated with the proposed Dalidio site. PC-17 Brett Cross Traffic on The traffic problem is Mitigation measure T-12(a)proposes Oceanaire St north mitigated mitigation that goes into effect one year of Madonna Rd. after fiM project occupancy. The EIR will become severe. claims that unknown future mitigations might reduce traffic impacts to less than significant levels. "Mitigation measures consisting only of further studies,or consultation with regulatory agencies that are not tied to a specific action plan,may not be adequate and should therefore be avoided." Bass(1999),p. 112. The proposed mitigation is speculative and has no listed performance standards,does not specify the details and responsibility for financing or enforcement or monitoring,and is not known to be feasible. The proposed (deferred)mitigation does not meet the requirements of CEQA Guidelines 15126.4 (Mitigation). PC-39 Planning Growth inducing A new paragraph has been The growth-inducing impacts have not PC-50 Commissioner impacts need to be added to the Growth been properly evaluated regarding their Cooper(PC-3) evaluated. Inducing Impacts section potential for significant effects on the and Boswell of the draft EIR It states environment directly or indirectly,as (PC-50) that job creation would required by CEQA Guidelines 15126.2(a), result in the need for 734 Guidelines 15126. For example,the induced housing units and could need for 734 additional housing units(and increase pressure for their related impacts)has not been additional housing addressed. development and/or tend to drive up housing rices. PC-53 Planning General Plan(Land The addition of The concern of Commissioner Boswell commissioner Use)policy 3.7.10- Alternative 6, about the LUE Policy 3.7.10 and its Boswell Madonna Road Incorporation of the relation to Alternative 6 has not been Center-"The city commercial component addressed If the city does not investigate will investigate into the San Luis ways to encourage more intense commercial ways to encourage Promenade Shopping development now,at this critical juncture more intense Center,is intended to when the city is considering the Dalidio commercial fulfill this requirement. project,when will the city ever fulfill this development requirement of the General Plan? This within,and more investigation must be done now,while cohesion between, altemative development options are still the existing available. To postpone this investigation shopping centers on means that the City has ignored its own Madonna Road" General Plan. Boswell felt that this policy needs some discussion on how it might impact Alternative 6. PC-60 Planning Bulk/size of The comment was Mr.Daulton explained a greater commissioner. proposed addressed during the maximum is allowed with Planning Aiken structures will hearing. Commission approval; but such exceed city size approval has apparently not been limitations. discussed or approved. By PC To: City of SLO, City Council,ana Planning Commission. From: Michael Sulliv" RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 9 of 19 PC-68 Planning When will the PC The comment was THESE RESPONSES DO NOT commissioner or any City body addressed at the ANSWER THE QUESTION! It is Osborne evaluate Prado hearing. A response is evident that the city has never done an Road as a whole? provided in the public environmental review on Prado Road as hearing comments: a whole. The recent(since 1994) environmental review done so far Deputy Dirctor relates only to certain segments of the Whisenand explained road but not to the road as a whole. The that Prado Road and Circulation Element review of 1994 is Prado Road alignment outdated and does not consider have both been significant new sources of traffic such reviewed on numerous as Costco or Orcutt Area plan. occasions. Deputy -A public project like the Highway 227 Director Bochum added (Prado Road)amendment must be that about 23 hearings receive early and comprehensive review have been held on the and must include cumulative impacts. Prado Road alignment. Yet,this public project(the new He noted that the Highway 227 alignment,which is the recommendations made same as the new entire length of Prado by staff and Road),has ngt received the"early implemented by review"required for a public project by Council only detailed CEQA Guidelines 15005(b)(1). I out the area between (Michael Sullivan)have complained of Sacramento Drive and these deficiencies in a letter for the freeway. Planning Commission hearing of 3/24/2004 for the Margarita/Airport project. The environmental review of Prado Road in its entirety continues to be a segmented process which violates CEQA. The best solution is to provide a supplemental or focused EIR on the entire Prado Road/Highway 227 project in relation not only to Dalidio environmental review but also to Margarita/Airport Specific Plan/Environmental Review. Such review should also be related to the identified traffic impacts of other major projects such as Costco and Margarita/ Airport Specific Plan. PC-72 Planning Regarding growth The comment was The statement of Mr.Daulton is false. Commissioner inducing impacts addressed during the There is no evidence that the 1994 Land Osborne -Did the 1994 hearing. A response is Use Element(or the 2002 Land Use Land Use element provided in the public element)adequately addressed the make the hearing minutes. growth inducing impacts of this specific determination that project(Dalidio Marketplace). In fact, the project is not Mr. Daulton responded the recent addition of growth inducing considered yes,that is part of the impacts to this current(2004)final EIR growth-inducing? argument. includes newer information on jobs/housing balance never considered before 2004. Letter 2-B Calif.Dept.of Dalidio EIR does Prado Road interchange This information is misleading. Prado Transportation not provide is not considered a interchange is indeed considered adequate level of mitigation measure for mitigation for the Dalidio project. In environmental traffic impacts but is fact,the City Council has stated that the analysis for Prado part of the project Dalidio project cannot proceed without Road interchange. 1 description. I the interchange.. To: City of SLO,City Council,anu Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan" RE: Dalidio"Marketplace'project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 10 of 19 A Mitigated The.single EIR for The response ignores the Cal Trans Negative Dalidio serves as EIR comment that the Dalidio EIR does Declaration still for the Dalidio project not provide an adequate level of needs to be and the Prado/101 environmental analysis for the Prado completed for interchange. Rd/101 interchange. Prado interchange. Letter 3-C Air Pollution Pedestrian Increased pedestrian The response indicates that the Control Dist. circulation plan is use of the project would Pedestrian Circulation plan can help unclear. generally offset a alleviate or mitigate the traffic impacts. portion of projected Yet the Pedestrian.Circulation plan has vehicle use and not been adequately described in this associated air EIR. This makes no sense. CEQA contaminant emissions requires a full discussion of possible generated by the mitigation measures. The Pedestrian project. Pedestrian Circulation plan is one form of issues will be addressed mitigation and therefore must be as part of the Pedestrian included in the EIR. Circulation Pian required to be prepared for the project. Letter 4-A County of The Agricultural Commentor's The mitigation measures section states SLO,Dept of Commissioner's opposition to the that no measures are available to fully Agriculture Office strongly project is noted. mitigate the loss of prime agricultural opposes this Project and cumulative land. This is misleading because it project due to the impacts on agricultural incorrectly implies that the amount of conversion of 60 resources are described open space(for ag use)as proposed at acres of prima ag in detail in Sec. 4.6 of the site is the maximum. In reality,the soil to non-ag the draft EIR amount of open space could be uses, potential increased to provide better protection impacts related to - for ag land. conflicts between Several options exist to fully or partly the proposed mitigate this loss of prime farm land: development and (1) The amount of open space proposed remaining ag is less than 50%(only about 45%)and uses,and the this violates the Land Use element resulting pressure Policy 1.13.5(E)(Amount of open space for firture in Dalidio area should be about 501/o) conversion of and Policy 1.8.1 (Requirement for adjacent prime ag agricultural protection). if the Dalidio land. project is approved,the City should bring the plan into consistency with the LUE Policy 1.13.5(E)to provide the full 5001a of open space(at the site)for ag use. (2) Alternative 6(move some or all of the proposed commercial use onto existing commercial properties at the Promenade and/or Madonna Plaza) would eliminate the loss of ag land significantly or completely. Land use conflicts between ag and commercial/residential uses have not been adequately mitigated. Mitigation Measure AG-2(a)recommends a 100 ft. buffer. This conflicts with the minimum buffer of 200 to 500 feet To: City of SLO,City Council, anu Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 11 Of 19 recommended by the County Dept of Agriculture. Also,the proposed 100 ft buffer is inadequate near the proposed residential use area. Letter 4-E SLO County Open space Measure AG-1(c) The General Plan envisions(and Dept of dedicated off-site requires off-site requires)on-site preservation of about Agriculture should have dedication of 20 acres 50%of land area as open space. Off- productivity ffproductivity of similar overall site dedications are beneficial,but equivalent to that agricultural suitability. cannot compensate for the minimum of Dalidio site. requirement of 501/o open space on-site (i.e.,at the Dalidio property). See Comment PC-9 above. Letter 6-C LAFCO LAFCO has None of the requested An analysis of the project economic requested various information items not effects in regard to infrastructure items of found in the EIR will be must be included in the EHL What is information provided in the EIR. the actual prediction for costs to the needed for An analysis of the City for lost(or gained)net revenue and LAFCO review of project economic how does this affect the City's projected the Dalidio effects in regard to costs for infrastructure(water supply, annexation. infrastructure is not sewers,major traffic improvements, provided in the EIR. freeway interchanges,etc.)? These economic impacts can have indirect impacts on the environment because a deficiency of funding(for infrastructure)can lead to a deficiency of level of service of infrastructure. For example,a shortage of infrastructure funds could lead to more traffic jams if there is not enough money for road improvements for various projects in the city. What are the short term and long term fiscal implications of the proposed funding scheme for the Prado/101 interchange? How might this affect the ability of the City to provide infrastructure? This information is crucial. Letter Michael Amount of The response is that the The interpretation of the response is 12(2)-F Sullivan proposed on-site OS policy 1.13.5 inconsistent with the plain language of open space permits the substitution the General Plan. Land Use element dedication is of some off-site open policy 1.13.5E requires Dalidio area significantly space dedication in properties"shall dedicate land or lower than 50% place of on-site open easements for the approximately one- and therefore is space dedication. half of each ownership that is to be inconsistent with preserved as open space." The OS Policy legislative intent of this policy was to 1.13.5E. preserve significant portions of the Dalidio site as working agricultural area. This interpretation is also supported by LUE policy 8.8 which states that in the Dalidio-Madonna- McBride areas the City"intends to preserve significant parts of this signature working agricultural landscape at the.southern gateway to San Luis Obispo."- Conversely,the To: City of SLO,City Council,ana Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 12 of 19 legislative intent was not to allow an escape from this requirement by substituting off-site OS dedications for on-site OS dedications. The specific requirement for"approximately 500/o" open space at the Dalidio parcel(Policy 1.13.5E)may not be evaded by the more general Land Use element Policy 1.8.2 which allows off-site OS dedications for development of prime agricultural land in areas other than the areas specifically mentioned in the standards for open space given in Policy 1.13.5. Dalidio FEIR at p.CR-139 states that 58.67 acres of OS is dedicated on the 131 acre site. This amountsto 44.8%. The required amount is 50%times 131 =65.5 acres. Thus,there is a deficiency of (65.5 - 58.67)=6.8 acres of required open space on the Dalidio site. Letter Michael Traffic study area (1) Potential traffic There is no numerical traffic data to 12(2)-J Sullivan is too small. impacts were support the City's contention that there Therefore,traffic anticipated to be could be no significant traffic impacts impacts are not concentrated closer to beyond the chosen limited traffic study adequately the Dalidio site. area The city's response is just a guess addressed. that impacts in outlying areas would be (2) Impacts on traffic negligible because the impacts would be on US 101 south of spread out in the areas located outside LOUR would be the limited traffic study area. The mitigated by Mitigation proposed project with 600,000 sq ft of Measure T-7,which commercial use is the largest includes a southbound commercial development ever built in auxiliary lane on the City,and will likely cause Highway 101 between significant traffic impacts outside the Prado Rd and LOUR. limited traffic study area. For example, Auxiliary lanes are about 12%of project-generated traffic proposed south of volume will be on Prado Road. See Prado Road as part of FEIR at Figure 4.10-15. This traffic the future LOVRIUS onto Prado Road will potentially cause 101 interchange. significant impacts in the Prado Road corridor(Margarita area)and beyond (e.g.Broad Street corridor near Broad/Prado intersection). However, the City has ignored these potential impacts,claiming(without evidence) that traffic beyond the limited study area would simply dissipate. (See,for example,Planning Commission hearing minutes, 5-26-2004.) While it is likely that the direct impacts from the Dalidio project would dissipate at some distance from the project,the impacts would certainly not disappear along Prado Road,which receives 12%of project To: City of SLO,City Council,ano Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan' RE: Dalidio,"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 13 of 19 traffic,or along Los Osos Valley Road west of Madonna Road, which also receives 12%of project traffic. (Dalidio FEIR at Fig. 4.10-15) The project will also exacerbate the traffic on south-bound 101 south of Los Osos Valley Rd.,impacting a highway which,according to the Costco EIR, will need an extra freeway lane within 10 years; this impact is not analyzed. The EIR should broaden the study area (as advocated by traffic engineer Eugene Jud). Obviously,the traffic impact study for the Dalidio project has failed to include some of the"minimum contents of traffic impact study report"required by the California Department of Transportation. (See Dalidio final ETR, Appendix A, of"Guide for the Preparation of Traffic Impact Studies" within the Appendix A,2003 Notice of Preparation and Comments on the 2003 Notice of Preparation.) For example, the City's defense of its very limited geographical scope of traffic study area does not include"clearly stated assumptions"about traffic on Prado Road. (2) The Costco EIR(2003)stated in the Cumulative Traffic Impacts section that "widening of US 101 to provide three southbound through lanes south of LOVR is required under 10-year cumulative conditions to achieve acceptable traffic operations." (Costco draft EIR(3/2003),p. V-88). The Costco project was not required to implement or pay for these lane improvements. The Costco EIR stated that these improvements were necessary because of cumulative projects including the Dalidio project. Yet now the City claims the Dalidio project has no responsibility for the needed lane improvements. The response also evades answering the question of improvements needed south of LOVR, focusing instead only on the proposed improvements(auxiliary lanes)north of LOVR between LOVR and Prado Rd. 12(2)L Michael Some of the Response is that"active This would be inconsistent with Sullivan proposed uses recreational uses"(such Open space policy for preservation of within designated as a soccer field/sports southern portion of Dalido property open sace areas track withgrandstand) entirely in agricultural use en Space 1 - i To: City of SLO,City Council, ana Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan` RE: Dalidio"Marketplace'project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 14 of 19 would be might be considered element, 1994,Policy 1.A.1,at p.65). inconsistent with consistent with Open Inconsistent,because much of this definitions of Space policies of southern part of the site would be used Open Space given General Plan. for non-agricultural uses such as in the General grandstands,pavilions,roadways, Plan Open Space parking lots,etc; The amount of element. agricultural open space is further diminished by the"no farm area" southwest of the proposed"affordable housing area"(City Council staff report 7-06-2004,p. 1-114)and this also is inconsistent with OS Policy 1.A.1. One of the site plans(City Council staff report 7-06-2004,at p. 1-113)depicts a proposed road very close to Prefumo Creek at the western corner of the Dalidio property. This would be inconsistent with the requirement to preserve the creek setback area and other sensitive habitat.(e.g.the eucalyptus butterfly habitat)as open ace OS PoliLA.2 . 12(2)-0 Michael Amount of land Approximately 52 acres The agricultural commissioner had Sullivan available for is available for ag use; recommended at least 200 ft.buffers agriculture is this is considered(by between agricultural and other uses likely to be too the current farmer)to (commercial,residential). Has this been small for viable be adequate for viable calculated into the net acreage agricultural use. ag operations(row remaining for agricultural use? What crops). about the proposed open space uses (roads,parking lots,Chinese garden, race track oval/viewing stand with soccer field)that will encroach on available row-crop acreages? What about the proposed"no farm" area adjacent to the proposed low-income housing? All these uses will subtract acreage from the net acreage available for production farming. Such a reduction in land available for farming would also be inconsistent with mitigation measure AG-1(c)which requires that"cropland production shall have preference over all other open space uses." The EIR must evaluate the net amount of viable ag land remaining to determine if the proposal is consistent with General Plan policies. 12(2)-P Michael Proposed non- Mitigation measures Bio 1(a)proposes that Laguna Lake Sullivan agricultural open BIO 1 (b), I (c), 1 (e) park may contain appropriate habitat for space uses(e.g. and 3(a) proposed for transplanting the Congdon's tar plant. racetrack,road, the project would also However,that strategy was used grandstand, apply to these(open recently(for Home Depot project)and parking lots, space)alteratives. it failed---Essentially all the tar plants Chinese garden, in the enclosed(fenced)areas at Laguna etc.)near Lake had not survived. (Personal Prefumo Creek observation of Michael Sullivan, can have impacts 1 1 4/2004 . The mitigation proposed is 1 To: City of SLO,City Council, aha Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 15 of 19 on sensitive speculative and unclear and lacks biological standards to ensure success. This is resources. inadequate under CEQA. Bio 1(b)requires 200 feet buffer (radius)from great blue heron nest sites. The setback around great blue heron roosting sites shall be 50 feet. Bio 1(e) requires 50 ft setback from Monarch butterfly habitat. Bio 3(a)requires setbacks from creek of 35 ft measured from top of bank or edge of riparian vegetation,whichever is further. Some of the proposed open space uses would intrude into these buffer areas. The conditions for project approval should, to be adequate under CEQA, require that all such man-made structures or areas should be outside the various buffer zones. 12(2)-Q Michael Easements as a "This policy is an This interpretation makes no sense, and Sullivan condition of advisory policy and failure to require the open space discretionary and only mandates easement is inconsistent with the OS development easements as a element. proposals shall be condition of approval required in creek for structural additions OS element 1994 at p. 25,Policy 3A, corridors and or new structures within states,"Easements as a condition of creek setback creek corridors and discretionary and development areas. OS creek setback areas. approvals shall be required in creek element 1994,p. Therefore,the corridors and creek setback areas only 25, para. 3.A. dedication of easements for structural additions or new would only be required structures,not for accessory structures if structures were to or tree removal permits,and in a encroach into the creek manner consistent with the acquisition corridor or setback area, policies contained in Chapter IV of this which is not proposed element. If a creek is located within an as part of the project. open space parcel or easement, allowed Nevertheless,the City uses and maintenance responsibilities could condition the within that parcel or easement should be project to dedicate an clearly defined and conditioned prior to easement for the creek map or project approval." corridors and setback areas." An open space easement is by definition an area in which structures are prohibited, in order to preserve the area for a specific single use, such as for access or for open space,etc. A dedication of easement is required to protect a sensitive habitat area. It is understood that no structures would be allowed within the easement area. But structures would be allowed outside the easement area. That is the case in this project,and that is why the easements are required"for structural additions or new structures." Asa general policy, the city will(D)"preserve other properties received as open space To: City of SLO,City Council, azia Planning Commission: From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace'project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 16 of 19 (through easement or dedication)as open space consistent with the specific plan or easement language approved by the city." OS element-1994,p. 90, General Policy 1D. Thus,the City has failed to abide by the requirements for open space easements as a condition of discretionary and development proposals. 12(2)-T Michael Proposed Refer to response PC- Mitigation measure AQ-2(a) Sullivan agricultural 31. That response (Dalidio final EIR,p. 4:3-11)deals only, buffers are states that a 100 foot with energy efficiency standards and probably buffer is specified in mentions nothing about agricultural insufficient; they mitigation measure AQ- buffers. The response is nonsensical should be at least 2(a). and inadequate under CEQA standards. 200 ft. The county agricultural commissioner had recommended a buffer of 200 to 500 feet. Dalidio FEIR p.4.6-5. The City's contention that a 100 ft buffer would be adequate(as stated in mitigation measure AG-2(a))is not supported by any logical facts in the record. In addition,the proposed buffer of 100 ft would be inadequate for the proposed residential land use(low-cost housing)which does not offer the same kind of barrier as a commercial building. Thus,the mitigation as proposed is inadequate under CEQA. 12(2)-V Michael Analysis of Refer to response PC- The final EIR added new language Sullivan growth inducing 39. Response PC-39 stating that the project would contribute impacts is acknowledges that there 1,666 new jobs,would increase inadequate. will be a growth housing demand in the city by 734 Project will cause inducing impact and a units,and will indirectly generate jobs/housing jobs/housing imbalance population growth in the area. Since imbalance,which causing the need for this will cause a significant increase in is inconsistent 734 housing units. the jobsthousing ratio,the project will with LUE Policy be inconsistent with LUE policy 1.4 1.4. which states that the gap between housing demand and supply should not increase. 12(2)-X Michael Project alternative Refer to responses PC- Response PC-12 claims that alternative Sullivan 6 provides 12 and PC-74. 6 is potentially inconsistent with the advantages such 1973 Airport Land Use Plan because it as additional would result in a high concentration of opportunity for shoppers in overflight zones,where housing(mixed land uses are restricted. residential/comm ercial uses)and Response PC-74 states that alternative 6 protection of may be infeasible from a land use prime agricultural policy consistency standpoint without land. the adoption of an ALUP amendment. Alternative 6 would partially fulfill the objectives in that it would provide additional commercial development To: City of SLO, City Council,ariQPlanning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 17 of 19 within the city. Dalidio FEIR p. 5-17 states that the. proposed project site is within airport restriction zone 5,overflight zone, where shopping centers are considered compatible,and multi-family housing is considered conditionally approvable, subject to Airport Land Use Commission review. The Airport Land Use Plan is being revised in 2004. Alternative 6 would provide for additional commercial development in the Promenade shopping center and/or, the Madonna Plaza shopping center. The Madonna Plaza shopping center is further away from the overflight area and is perhaps in a safer zone. The Promenade area is also laterally further away from the flight path than the proposed Dalidio project site. Thus, there seems to be no reason to reject the alternative 6 based on overflight safety concerns. In fact,the Promenade site, and especially the Madonna Plaza she, would probably be safer than the proposed Dalidio site. 4. Some of the proposed mitigation measures and/or mitigation monitoring proposals are inadequate under CEQA standards. (See,eg.,CEQA GL 15126.4(mitigation)and CEQA GL 15097(mitigation monitoring).) Table 2-Deficiencies in mitigations or monitoring as pro osed Mitigation Deficiency in mitigation Deficiency in mitigation monitoring Noise N2(a) Simply contributing a"fair share" to noise There is no post-construction reduction will not necessarily have a monitoring to ensure that noise significant effect on noise resulting from reduction has been effective. the project. The measure does not specify which specific measures will be appropriate for this project situation and therefore the wording is too vague. Bio 1(g) The plan does not prevent active uses within the proposed permanent open space area along Prefumo Creek. For example, there could be a soccer stadium with viewing stands adjacent to this sensitive habitat. In addition, a road will pass nearby and will have significant amounts of traffic. To: City of SLO, City Council,and Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 18 of 19 AG 1(b) Will the SLO City Public Works Department provide water at current rates into the future indefmitely? This is not stipulated. If not, this measure is not feasible. AG 1(c) The measure proposes an agricultural Monitoring "plan" is same as easement over the remaining on-site mitigation(i.e., establish an agricultural parcel. However,there will easement). There is no monitoring potentially be interference with of the effectiveness of the easement agricultural use,for example,by in providing viable agriculture! incompatible housing development, and inadequate(only 100 ft)buffers). Some ag land is lost adjacent to housing area in "no farm" area. Cropland shall have preference over all other open space uses, supposedly, yet there is the possibility of other non-agricultural uses e.g. soccer field with vievAng stand, Chinese garden, parking lots, road, etc. AG 2(a) The agricultural commissioner recommended at least 200-500 ft buffer rather than the minimal 100 ft which is ineffective especially near proposed housing.on site. PU 4(b) Mitigation is improperly deferred. There Monitoring of solid waste reduction are no standards for effectiveness of in not a continuing process and this mitigation stipulated. means the proposed monitoring is ineffective. T 12(a) Mitigation is improperly deferred. What if the traffic situation deteriorates on Oceanaire Street within 5 or 10 years.... Is the applicant still responsible for funding mitigation implementation? If not,then who would be responsible? 5. The proposed Prado Rd/US 101 freeway interchange requires a separate environmental analysis and document(e.g. EER or Negative Declaration). Mr. James Kilmer of the California Department of Transportation has stated that the draft EIR does not provide an adequate level of environmental analysis for the Prado Road interchange. (Dalidio 2004 FEIR at p. CR-54). The response(Dalidio 2004 FEIR at p. CR-56)claims that the interchange is not considered a mitigation measure for the project, but rather apart of the project description. This is false. The interchange is part of the project description but it is also part of the traffic mitigation. For example,with the addition of the project(shopping center and interchange), the level of service for Prado Rd/US 101 northbound ramps is improved(mitigated)from LOS D to To: City of SLO,City Council,arta Planning Commission. From: Michael Sullivan RE: Dalidio"Marketplace"project. For City Council hearing of 7-06-2004 Page 19 of 19 the improved LOS C. (Dalidio FEIR 2004,Table 4.10-15). Also, earlier staff reports and hearings had indicated that the project could not work without the interchange in place to mitigate traffic concerns. 6. Consideration and discussion of alternatives to the proposed project is deficient. Several significant alternatives exist and these could significantly reduce the environmental impacts of the proposed project. These are Alternative 6 (use existing adjacent commercial land for denser commercial infill)and Alternative 7(reduce the size of the commercial part of the project). The City has not given convincing reasons for rejecting these alternatives. In addition,Planning Commissioner Michael Boswell (5-26-04)noted another alternative similar to Alterative 7 whereby there would be "phasing" of project implementation with a smaller commercial "footprint" in the beginning phase, with subsequent commercial development to be regulated based on market demand and based on the ability of the City to provide services and public works improvements. This latter alterative should be included in the EIR discussion. 7. The proposed financing plan for the Prado Road/US 101 interchange sets a very bad precedent. Similar private developments which might also request similar assistance from the City for financing of major infrastructure projects. Infrastructure costs should, whenever possible,be financed by private entities rather than through City assistance. Michael C. Sullivan 7-06-2004 Attachments Att. A-Excerpt, Costco/Froom Ranch draft EIR(2003)—traffic References Books Bass,R. (1999). CEQA deskbook. 2nd ed. Point Arena,CA: Solano Press Books. Curtin,D. (2003). Curtin's California Land Use and Planning Law. 23rd edition. Point Arena, CA: Solano Press Books. Remy,M. et al (1999). Guide to the California Environmental Quality Act. 10th ed. Point Arena, CA: Solano Press Books. Documents D-1: City of SLO (06 Jan 2004). Council agenda report. Discussion and direction regarding proposed terms of tentative development agreement for the San Luis Obispo Marketplace project. Costco/Froom Ranch — Traffic/Circulation /¢T r• C. U.S: 101 Segment Levels of Service 000 Year Cumulative-Condition) Cumulative condition traffic volumes on U.S. 101 north and south of LOVR are summarized on Exhibit l (refer to Appendix G). In addition to adding trips generated by the cumulative projects to:U.S. 101, existing U.S. 101 volumes were grown at a rate of 1% per year for 10 years to account for through traffic growth on U.S. 101. Under 10-year cumulative conditions, the freeway segment levels of service on U.S. 101 north and south of LOVR remain within acceptable:operating ranges except southbound segment south of LOVR,which operates at LOS E during the weekday PM peak hour. Widening of U.S. 101 to provide three southbound through .lanes south of LOVR is required under 10-year cumulative conditions to achieve acceptable traffic operations. d Intersection and Roadway Levels of Service Impact and Mitigation Discussion Intersection levels of service for the 10-year Cumulative Condition are shown in Table V-6, with inclusion.:of :mitigation proposed for the previous development scenarios. Previously recommended mitigation measures that were included in the level of service calculations in Table V-6 are as follows: LOVR/Garcia Drive: prohibit left.turns from Garcia Drive to eastbound LOVR and provide a connection between.Garcia Drive to the LOVR/Main Project Driveway intersection. LOVR/Auto Park Way: signalization. LOVR/Calle Joaquin North: signalization;relocate Calle Joaquin South to Calle Joaquin North. LOVR/Southbound and Northbound U.S. 101 ramps: Coordination of Caltrans and City signals- and ignalsand extension of off-ramps. . HigueraNachellprohibit left turns from Higuera to Vachell and from Vachell to Higuera; extend'Buckley Road.tc Higuera Street. TR Impact 9 _ Addition of project-generated traffic-would contribute to several study area intersections operating at LOS E or F under 10-year Cumulative Conditions. After mitigation, this impact would be considered significant but mitigable(Class II). As shown in Table V-6, under 10-year Cumulative Conditions, deficient traffic operations will' occur at the following intersections:. • LOVR/Madonna Road(PM: LOS E); i DRAFT Environmental Impact Report V-88- Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-marketplace project From: <CGarcia227@aol.com> JUL 0 E 2004 To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> SLO CITY CLERK Date: 7/6/2004 1:46 PM Subject: marketplace project To all City Council members: Please vote in favor of the Marketplace Project.We are long time local family&business owner. We would much rather shop locally and give our money to our own area,but at times that hasn't been possible because of the lack of shopping.We mainly go to Santa Maria& Paso which has a Target&Circuit City.We could really use a Tillys&Old Navy so we wouldn't do our back to school shopping in Santa Barbara.There would be more selection here. I know if the people of SLO County could vote for the project it would win hands down. Please don't do the people of SLO a disservice&vote against the project. Sincerely, Cathy Garcia t_;ouivClL'�- CAO 02-IOCDD DIR - SIN DIR RED FILE f�gCAO FIRE CHIEF)IEFH1IATTORNEY ME ING AGENDA cFWDI pC D °T FADS ?'REC DIR DATE pt ITEM #�� � l� •°`➢ ?�`UTIL DiR file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-RE: San Luis Marketplace From: <HUSTMB@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 1:39 PM Subject: RE: San Luis Marketplace Dear City Council Members, I have been a resident of SLO County for over thirty years and have a special.love for the area and the city of San Luis Obispo. In brief, IAM IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE PROJECT However, it is important that you understand that it is with full thought and research that I support this decision and feel the need to express a few thoughts. Downtown will not suffer from this addition to the community. Those of us who shop SLO, NEED MORE CHOICES AND VARIETY to keep us from shopping out of the area. As a busy individual,parent, and business person I look to meet the majority of my shopping needs in the most economical,practical and efficient manner. Downtown SLO does not address the needs of our everday lives. The downtown parking structures do not allow easy access for short periods of time and when use is attempted are not often available—especially during summer, holidays or Cal Poly festivities! The parking meter limits are too short in areas downtown to allow us to even complete a transaction without running to and from the car to avoid a ticket. Most of the downtown currently provides specialty shopping in boutique type stores(mostly with boutique prices!), and an array of restaurants. Yes, I still shop the downtown and enjoy it and encourage it for visiting friends and family--but not for the most common of shopping priorities. I could go on with many more reasons to support my decision,but will limit it to those expressed in this letter. PLEASE listen to the needs of your community. YES TO THE SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE! Thank you for your time and consideration. Jean Hustead hustmb@aol.com file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\LocaI%20Settings\Temp\GW 10000I.HTM 7/6/2004 Whole Foods & Old Navy bldg requirements and nice trees Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -Whole Foods & Old Navy bldg requirements and nice trees From: <NBlackburn@slocoe.org> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004"1:34 PM Subject: Whole Foods &Old Navy-bldg requirements and nice trees Dear San Luis City Council Members: I would love to see Whole Foods come to town and if they are far enough across town from New Frontiers, I think the two could sustain just fine in the same community. Old Navy is always good fora great deal but since we already have the GAP, I don't think it's entirely necessary. As for Lowe's, I wish we'd had the choice before Home Depot but now that HD is here, I don't think we need both when we have Miner's Ace in many of the towns. Tilly's I am not familiar with but if it's a restaurant,can we scratch it? We already have Applebee's,Tahoe Joe's and Denny's and it seems that San Luis'tourism is better off if newcomers are forced to go to the locally owned restaurants so that they have something special to go home.and talk to their friends about. If these shops all come as a package,I understand and I suppose that such a development is inevitable here. With that, I would love to ask San Luis City Council to really look to other communities such as Napa, Danville,Santa Barbara for building requirements and signage that are low profile and made to suit the architectureal style of the town. Given the trees in the Danville Costco parking lot,that store is great. Napa has a whole Long's Drug/Office Max center that because of the architectural style,it's really not difficult to digest. It's amazing. I hope that you, making decisions on behalf of us; require trees that provide a sense of place such as Oaks, Redwoods; Sycamores,etc.-rather than rows and rows of palm trees that don't provide shade and simply get tall. As such projects go forward,please remember,these stores are going to make a ton of money here and to require them to do extra in order to be here is not going to make them go away but it will keep San Luis as unique,as possible in this era of big,big stores. Thank you for your time and for soliciting our opinions and comments. -Nikki Blackburn,homeowner and lover of San Luis Obispo County file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil From: <lauriebaldwin@charter.net> To: <slodtycouncil@slodty.org> Date: 7/6/2004 1:08 PM Dear council, Please consider the Marketplace as a good thing for SLO. I know that many are not in favor but as a consumed do feel that it would help the city of SLO to have it. I for one, would come down more often if there was a Costco, this would also cause me to shop downtown more often because I would be shopping the downtown stores as well(I love Ann's and we are no longer able to shop there in Pasoj also would spend more time at some of my favorite restaurants in SLO)as it is now, I drive all the way to the Costco in SM from Templeton, then never have enough time or energy to hit SLO on the way back. If we had a Costco, Old Navy, etc. in SLO, I would definitely be shopping in downtown SLO much more frequently. Thank You, Laurie Baldwin 805-610-7115 www.lauriebaldwinsells.com lauriebaldwin@charter.net file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1,HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE From: <hustmb@charter.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:26 PM Subject SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE I have been a county resident for 27+ years. This is the first time I have contacted the city council to express my opinion. I feel strongly that you decide YES to the SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE project!. Thank you for your consideration. Floyd Hustead file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - San Luis Marketplace From: <Sportswidow25@aol.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:30 PM Subject- San Luis Marketplace YES YES YES YES YES to the San Luis Marketplace Project file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 L Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Re: SLO Marketplace From: <Isbel12@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 3:07 PM Subject: Re: SLO Marketplace Dear SLO City Council, This is a YES vote for the SLO Marketplace. I leave San Luis regularly to shop at Target and would absolutely love an Old Navy. Both of these stores offer nice clothes/products at reasonable prices,unlike MANY of the dowtown merchants. Probably because they are small business owners and probably because of the cost of rents downtown,clothing and products are significantly higher. There are times when I would seek these specialty stores out as well, but would rather stay local those times when I'm looking to shop for everyday items. Let's not forget the environment either. San Luis prides itself in being an evironmentally-conscious town,so how about the gas and energy used by so many who travel so far to shop in these various stores. Please don't let the downtown developers interfere with this project. Having this competition will only make sure their merchants provide that much better of a service. Nothing wrong with that. Let's not make downtown a monopoly for shopping. Patricia Johnson A.G. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\L.ocal%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: Amy Mcqueen<amy@am-cs.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:54 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace YES,YES,YES,we want the Marketplace!!! We have lived here(in Paso Robles)for nearly 2 years,and when we first moved,there was talk of the Marketplace being completed within the year!!! We don't understand the delays,and don't understand the merchants in the downtown area being so worried about the loss of business! The Marketplace will bring business to SLO,and all it's areas-NOT take it away!!! Sales tax revenue will be a huge boon,especially in THIS economy!! The types of stores scheduled for the Marketplace in no way compete with those in the downtown area. Students,tourists and everyday folks support the downtown. Mostly everyday folks will support the Marketplace,too!!! It will be wonderful to NOT have to drive so far to do our routine shopping,from both an environmental perspective,and a money saving perspective(look at what gas is currently costing us!!!)!!! YES.YES YES FOR THE MARKETPLACE!!!! Sincerely, Amy McQueen file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -Vote No On Marketplace From: SFryer<suzannesjnk@earthlink.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> rt-CEDate: 7/6/2004.12:49 PMSubject: Vote No On Marketplace IL 0 SLO CITY CLERK City Council City of San Luis Obispo Dear Sirs and Madam: Vote no on the Marketplace project. Mr. Kotin may want San Luis Obispo to be a regional destination for Big Box shopping, but the price we as residents will pay in exchange for the revenue generated by such a development is far too great. If our City cannot continue to thrive unless we pay developers to locate big box stores here, havenRT"t we taken the first step down a slippery slope that will inevitably bring WalMart to town? Sometimes the Council must make difficult choices. This is a development that only adds value if it carefully designed to be unfriendly and poorly planned. The decision to deny this project should be an easy one. I have lived in San Luis Obispo since 1984 and encourage the Council to vote no on the Marketplace. Sincerely, Suzanne Fryer COUNCIL i DD DIR ICAO SIN DIR ACAO -FIRE CHIEF - .,'ATTORNEY dPW DIR RED FILE y CLERK/ORIG °OUCE CHF MEING AGENDA L- QT7 EADS YREC DIR � . �/u nL DIR D.LJE ITEM #21± 1 1 — jilDlil file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - marketplace From: "C.M. Flaherty" <cflahrty@thegrid.net> To: <slodtymuncil@slodty.org> Date: 7/6/2004 1:53 PM Subject: marketplace As a concerned citizen and voter I would like to strongly urge the city council to vote NO on the marketplace. I believe it absolutely will destroy the downtown vitality and make SLO look just ANYtown USA to visitors. As a shop manager I continually hear the lament from returning tourists about how eroded this area has become. I thought we cared about slow and careful growth. Please do not let this go through.Thanks for your attention. Sincerely, Claire Flaherty file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Re: Proposed Marketplace Project:No Thanks From: Ben Biesek<che_is_me@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 1:50 PM Subject: Re:Proposed Marketplace Project:No Thanks Members of the SLO City Council: My name is Ben Biesek.I am 22 years old and a life-long resident of San Luis Obispo.I love this town. I think it is a great community to live in,and I enjoy the"small-town feel" that it has.One of the aspects of this town that has always been a selling point is that it is nothing like Los Angeles or San Francisco,the 2 major metropolises-which book-end our town.This town(and its people)have always prided itself on the fact that it has remained small,kept big box stores out,resisted growth as much as possible;and as a result, maintained its charm. I feel that San Luis Obispo does not need the Marketplace project,and that it would only serve to turn San Luis Obispo into something that this town is not.The fact is that we do not need the Marketplace.My family has always shopped locally,and we have never once thought that we needed more shopping.I have never once thought that we needed more"big-box" stores. I enjoy driving by on the 101,and seeing the rows of green,with the trees in the background. I think that itis beautiful land.What would you rather see-lush green land,or big box stores? We do not need more development in this town,lest we destroy San Luis Obispo's character by turning it into just another California town flooded by big box stores. Please vote against the proposed project Thanks very much for your time. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Ben Biesek Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo!Mail - 100MB free storage! file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 1 SLO Citycouncil-No On The Marketplace From: <COYWSPORTS®aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:12 PM Subject: No On The Marketplace City Council City of San Luis Obispo Dear Sirs and Madam: Please vote No on the Marketplace project. Once entitlements are granted,everyone acknowledges that the City will not be able to sufficiently regulate the tenants and types of stores going into the project. Good intentions to protect the Downtown will not be enough. With Downtown tenants soon to bear some of the burden of the costs of earthquake retrofitting,this is a project whose time has passed. Vote No to protect our Downtown. COY WINN Employed in Downtown San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Vote No on the Marketplace From: <Ruthysbirds@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:20 PM Subject: Vote No on the Marketplace City Council City of San Luis Obispo Dear Sirs and Madam: The value of property and quality of life in San Luis Obispo are largely the result of good planning by past and current City leaders, creating a uniqueness valued by citizensand visitors alike. Visionary amenities and features like Mission Plaza,tree lined streets, pedestrian friendly shopping,the.unique Madonna Inn,the Performing Arts Center and Cal Poly,preservation of historic homes,and the open space needed to appreciate scenic hills and valleys,are what makes this town what it is today. Mr.Bird's proposed development is not the result of good planning and we will all suffer from its inevitable results. Don't knuckle under to the intimidation. Vote No on the Marketplace. Sincerely, Employed in Downtown San Luis Obispo Ruth Chapman-Porter file:HC:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -San Luis Marketplace From: <PrenFam@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:21 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace This resident emphatically does not support the marketplace proposal despite the hard core press of the developer. Can you say Gap, Home Depot, New Frontiers and Best Buy? Mr. Bird would have us believe we dont already have these shopping options. With the exception of Target we have gained quite a bit of retail development of late. I am particularly struck how little the city will gain in tax revenue from these venues. If we.have to have development in this area lets consider other options...multiple family residences perhaps. I know it's been said a million times before but we are on the verge of destroying what makes this area so attractive to many. Sincerely, F. Prentis file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -Vote No on the Marketplace From: <tom@copelandpropertles.com> To: <sloatycouncil@sloaty.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:57 PM Subject: Vote No on the Marketplace We urge you to vote NO on the Marketplace. Jim and Tom Copeland file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Against Dalidio Project From: "Brandy Relis"<brelis@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:47 PM Subject: Against Dalidio Project SLO City Council: I am a home owner in the city of SLO and I am against the development of the Dalidio Project. I think this project would endanger the businesses downtown,impact traffic and ruin the small town attractive nature of SLO. It would be wonderful to use that land as open space or a large park area or leave it in agriculture. Sincerely, Brandy Relis 2936 Rockview Place SLO,CA 93401 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Opposed to the Market Place Development From: <EJVSLO@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:46 PM Subject: Opposed to the Market Place Development Dear Mayor and Council Members. I would like to register our family's opposition to the Market Place Development on the.Dalidio farm. This is an unnecessary shopping center which largely duplicates stores that we already have. The Market Place will have a highly detrimental effect on downtown businesses,which will ultimately hurt San Luis Obispo economically. Additionally.we cannot afford to lose any more of our highest quality agricultural soils. We are completely opposed to the Market Place development. Thank you for taking our opinions to heart and we encourage you to vote against this project. Eva and Samuel Vigil San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Against Dalidio Project From: "Elaine Genasci" <egenasci@charter.net> To: "SLO City Council' <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 2:45 PM Subject: Against Dalidio Project SLO City Council: I am a home owner in the city of SLO and I am against the development of the Dalidio Project. I think this project would endanger the businesses downtown, impact traffic and ruin the small town attractive nature of SLO. It would be wonderful to use that land as open space or a large park area or leave it in agriculture.. Sincerely, Elaine Genasci 2936 Rockview Place SLO, CA 93401 Save The Environment, Plant A Bush Back In Texas! Vote For Kerry in November 2004! file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-(no subject) CEIVED From: <DiamondGirl805@cs.com> JUL 0 6 2004 To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> LSLO CIN CLERK Date: 7/6/2004 3:26 PM Subject: (no subject) I fully support the idea of those new stores coming to SLO. My family and I always have to go to Santa Maria for Target, or Circiut City. I think that adding those stores with and Old Navy and Tilly's will provide a better variety of clothing that the other stores that are in SLO or out of the area. This new shopping center is a great idea and i don't see why it shouldn't happen soon.Thank You. Sincerely, Shandi Wilson q JOURCIL DD DIM I 'AO 'FIN DIR { J A C A 0 AFIRE CHIEF RED FILE J�ATTORNEY --E� PW DIR ME ING AGENDA �YcLERwoRIo G POIJCE CHF DF CADS O'REC DIR D!AT� ITEM #7PIi1 2 UTIL DIP. file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Locai%2OSettings\Temp\GW)000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 i SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: "WANDA MARSALEK" <wpmars@sbceo.org> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 3:58 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace I support the San Luis Marketplace. file //C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 J SLO Citycouncil-Stores in SLO From: "Elaine Borden"<ElaineDBorden@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 4.09 PM Subject: Stores in SLO I would like to see the following stores in SLO—that way I can buy locally and not travel out of town: Lowe's Whole Foods And I am still waiting for Costco! I love Home Depot. A Wal-Mart and K-Mart would be great also. AND, I still shop Downtown and the Plaza. Elaine D Borden Now Is The Time 1 m ' A Business Services Company PO Box 6605 Los Osos, CA 93412-6605 Email: ElaineDBorden@charter.net Phone: 805-441-4051 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Build San Luis Marketplace From: "Kris Dilworth" <kdilworth @charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 4:17 PM Subject: Build San Luis Marketplace Ernie is not going to go away,ever,so the land will be developed. It is much preferable that the project be built under the control of the City than the County. An attempt to acquire the land as open space failed. You have two contradictory studies about the possible impacts of this project,one funded by the property owner and one by downtown businessmen.The fact that they come to different conclusions reaffirms that you can prove anything with a study.More important are the controls that the City will have in place to control what types and from where business move into the Marketplace.A public referendum is a.bad idea.Council members were elected to make the tough as well as the easy decisions.You've done all of the homework,you should vote. Niel and Kris Dilworth 1197 Lexington Court San Luis Obispo,CA.93401 file://C\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil From: "Paul Bonjour" <paulbonjour@msn.com> To: <slocitycou ncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 4:25 PM I live at 1582 Oceanaire Dr and I strongly support the Dalidio project and Mr Dalidio's right to select the use for his property. Also if you want to make the down town more viable clean it up. It is dirty and dated. Sincerely, Paul Bonjour file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace debate From: "W. Bordeaux portable-1" <bill@stationengineer.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 4:33 PM Subject: Marketplace debate Please include myself, my wife and three children (ages 4,7 and 7)as in favor of the Marketplace project. We currently have to go to Santa Maria or Paso Robles for the things we need to run our family. We go downtown,and will continue to go downtown for the unique shops and restaurants it offers. Please support this project. Thank you. William Bordeaux Interstellar Communications, Inc. P.O.Box 13057 San Luis Obispo,CA 93406 805-543-6855 www.stationenaineer.com file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 i J Allen Settle-Dalidio Annex/Development RECEI From: macsar<maesar99@earthlink.net> JUL O ���If To: Diane Stuart<dstuart@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 3:06 PM SLO CITY CLERK Subject: Dalidio Annex/Development Re: Dalidio Annexation/SLO Marketplace Development (Item#PH 1) Dear Mr.Mayor and City Council Members, With the multitasking required of city staff and elected officials,occasionally mistakes occur. A plan may look good on paper-- until further research is done.Such is the case with the proposed SLO Marketplace development. The EIR aptly demonstrates that this is not a good location for development. Please deny the project. And,please begin the process for amending the General Plan to specify this area as ag/open space. Thank you for your time and attention, Sandra A.Rowley San Luis Obispo - COUNCIL y!CDDDIR P.S. I would support additional commercial development on LOUR. J-CA0 �f FIN DIR O-ACAO �2 FRE CHIEF 4'?r'ATTORNEY J—tPW DIR -1;�CLERK/ORIG ;POLICE CHF _I DEPT HEADS 2-REC DIR UTIL D;R EED FILE % htt�__. `•!hr ulr __ MF-En ;te' file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 RED FILE IIIIIIIIIII II III 111 I MEETING AGENDA DATE:-�44� ITEM ked N / MEMORANDUM City of San Luis Obispo DATE: July 6, 2004 TO: City Council y VIA: Ken Hampian, CAO FROM: Pam Ricci, Senior Planner{:�P, SUBJECT: Staff Revisions to Exhibit J of July 6, 2004 Agenda Item 1, San Luis Obispo Marketplace Project Councilmember Mulholland has pointed out that as the land use approvals and the Development Agreement (and Special Tax Reimbursement Agreement) are being processed on slightly different time schedules, it is important to ensure that the Developer cannot proceed with development entitlements until the Development Agreement and the Special Tax Reimbursement Agreement have been entered into. Should the Developer fail to enter into the Development Agreement after land use approvals are granted, prior to building permit issuance the City would have the ability to rescind or modify its actions or otherwise amend the applicable zoning and other regulations to ensure the project comported with the parties' understanding. However, a simpler way to protect the City's interests is to add the following new condition number 1 to those listed under Section 3, Conditions,Planning Requirements, of Exhibit J at page 1-208 of tonight's agenda report: 1. As the applicant and the City have been negotiating a Development Agreement and Special Tax Reimbursement Agreement in conjunction with this application, the final development plan shall not be effective until the applicant and the City enter into a Development Agreement and a Special Tax Reimbursement Agreement. Also, while the Development Agreement will make clear that construction of the project may not proceed until certain conditions regarding the Prado Road Interchange have been met; this requirement is not explicitly stated in the proposed land use approvals. Staff recommends that a condition be imposed upon the land use approvals by adding a new condition number 2 to those listed under Section 3, Conditions, Planning Requirements, of Exhibit J at page 1-208 of tonight's agenda report:. 2. Furthermore, construction of the retail and hotel portion othe proje cannot begin until the design has been approved for the P, _do,Roa,- CDD DIR I I.7 CAO FIN DIR r 1i ACAO FIRE CHIEF T-I ATTORNEY PW DIR C CLERK/ORIG Q POLICE CHF I DEPT HEADS REC DIR pi6 UTIL Dig I � 7ib _ r!l hr nr i Interchange, the contract for the construction of the interchange has been awarded, and funding for the interchange has been secured. The above two modifications will result in renumbering of the remaining conditions set forth in Attachment J. The Developer has indicated that it may wish to utilize well water for landscaping and irrigation purposes in certain areas of the project. Staff recommends the addition of the following language to the end of condition 32, Section 3, Conditions,Water, Sewer& Utilities, of Exhibit J at page 1-212 of the staff report: Alternatively,for the commercial component of the project, the developer may propose the use of well water for landscaping and irrigation purposes, provided such a plan meets with applicable City requirements and appropriate agreements are in place in the event that such well water crosses property lines. The reference to the DEIR in condition 37 (Infrastructure Improvements), Section 3, Transportation Related, of Exhibit J at page 1-214 of the staff report, should be changed to reflect the FEIR. 7/6/2009 2:13 PM FROM "=Ax Krieger Consulting TO: +1 (805) 781-7- .9 PAGE: 001 0£ 001 i I RECEIVED RED FILE JUL 0 6 200 ME NG AGENDA SLO CITY CLERK Dan Krieger 662 Islay DATE 11Q ITEM #� San Luis Obispo. California 93401 VDIM(805)543.9611 Fax(805)543.7122 E•malk ekrlagarPdfartarnat akrlagar0c4oV.9du. Re.:Dalidio/San Luis Marketplace Annexation and Development Project July 6, 2004 Mayor Dave Romero City Council Persons John Ewan and Ken Schwartz City of San Luis Obispo 990 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Fax: 805-781-7109 Dear Mayor Romero and City Council Persons Ewan and Schwartz: I am deeply concerned over the direction of the Dalidio/San Luis Marketplace project. I have reviewed some of the work by Palm Springs sculptor Joe Wertheimer. He is a talented artist, but I question the appropriateness of his eight feet tall monumental tributes to Chumash plank canoes (toma/s, or driftwood canoes were common in the Santa Barbara Channel but not among the Obispeno Chumash) and faces of San Luis Obispo founding fathers Walter Murray, Myron Angel and JP Andrews. Rather than create a highly artificial history, we should preserve the real history of the site. The EIR cites the cultural significance of the Dalidio farm complex. The farmhouse itself is a striking example of California rural architecture. What efforts will be made to preserve this priceless gift of our past? How will the developed site recount the presence of the Laguna Race Track, a principal focus of Central Coast entertainment and recreation during the 1870's and 80's? These questions need to be resolved before this 113-acre rural gateway to our city is lost forever. Very truly, - - JUNCIL 2-CDD DIR r -IN DIR GCAO FIRE CHIEF 17ATTORNEY ZPW DIR ,0"CLERK/ORIG ,e'PCLICECHF DPT HEADS f R=C DIR Daniel E. Krieger /,-- C�411,�d ;�'U i IL DIR F; r -- TO: SAN LUIS OBISPO CITY COUNCIL FROM: CITIZENS FOR PLANNING RESPONSIBLY (CPR) RE: FORMATION OF CPR DATE: July 6, 2004 Citizens for Planning Responsibly (CPR) would like to introduce itself. We are a broad- based, nonpartisan, voluntary association of citizens and organizations working together to protect the environment and sustainablequality of life in the City of San Luis Obispo, including preserving the economic vitality of our historic Downtown. CPR's"constitution" is summarized in the Community Values, Preamble, San Luis Obispo's Vision, and Community Goals sections of the General Plan Land Use Element (1994) at pages 3 through 10, attached. These forward-thinking `-`smart growth" community values and principles are not just boilerplate. They are at the heart of the City's General Plan. Unfortunately, the City does not always follow its own most treasured precepts: When the City promotes environmentally destructive development which would weaken these values and principles, CPR stands ready to take action to bring them back to life and fight to protect them. Here are a few especially timely selections from these Community Values and Principles stated in the attached pages of the General Plan Land Use Element (1994). Refusal to trade economic growth for air pollution, increased traffic, traffic noise, development on farmland, development harmful to creeks is stated on page 4. San Luis Obispo should"2. Protect and enhance the natural environment, including the quality of air, water, soil and open space." The City should(page 8) "11.Retain existing businesses and agencies, and accommodate expansion of exiting businesses..." and "12. Emphasize more productive use of existing commercial buildings and land areas already committed to urban development." The City should (page 9) "22. Have developments bear the costs of resources and services needed to serve them, except where the community deliberately chooses to help pay in order to achieve other community goals." Membership of citizens from the business, neighborhood protection and environmental communities and organizations is growing daily. Officers are: President Eugene Jud, Vice President Jan Howell Marx, Secretary Chris Kornblatt, and Treasurer Jean Anderson. , r i SLO General Plan Land Use Element concrete solution. As a result, irreplaceable agricultural land has been lost. This revision proposes solutions to the continued irretrievable loss of this world-class natural asset. Another issue that was less well understood in 1977 is the preservation of important wildlife and native plant habitats; this revision proposes methods to begin preservation of such habitats, including planning based on the identification, mapping and monitoring of the community's existing natural assets. This element is a continuation of the 1977 element; it represents fine tuning rather than a new beginning. Community Values As the 1977 element noted, public attitudes and values are an essential part of what shapes planning documents. The residents of San Luis Obispo have expressed strong community values. For the past 25 years, residents have again and again voiced their desire to preserve environmental assets and control excessive growth. There have been many public votes on such issues, and all have expressed the same set of community values: • In 1972, 70% of city voters rejected by referendum an environmentally- controversial annexation in the Edna Valley, the Danley Annexation. • In June 1978, 62%.of city voters amended the city Charter by initiative to allow voters to vote yes or no on annexations. • In November 1978, when the first Charter-mandated votes on annexations were held, 58% of voters rejected the Foothills annexation, and 56 % the Ferrini annexation. • In 1983, 73% of city voters said the city should protect sensitive hillsides and consider purchasing open space in order to preserve it. • Also in 1983, 69% of city voters said Port San Luis should not be used for offshore oil activities, • In 1985, 71% of voters chose to amend the San Luis Obispo Charter to require that land annexed to the city can only be developed in consistency with the General Plan. • In 1989, 68% of city voters said growth management regulations should apply to all development in the city. • In 1991, 69% of city voters repealed by referendum Council-approved zoning for the Islay Hill/Arbors Tract: 3 j Land Use Element SLO General Plan • Also in 1991, in the midst of the worst drought in history, 56% of city voters said the city should not participate in the State Water Project. • In a 1992 referendum, a.similar percentage of city voters rescinded Council approval for joining the State Water Project. As voters, the people of San Luis Obispo have spoken clearly and consistently on environmental protection and quality of life issues for the past 25 years. Citizens spoke equally clearly when polled by the City in 1988 as part of the current Land Use Element update. The 585 poll respondents placed quality of life and environmental issues at the top of their concerns. Ninety percent of respondents listed the natural environment.as their top quality of life concern. Asked, in an open-ended question, the City's greatest problem, the top response (42%) was excessive growth. (The next largest response, at 15%, was traffic.) Asked, also in an open-ended question, the City's greatest strength, 53% of responses concerned environmental quality and sense of community. Asked what reductions in quality of life they were willing to accept in return for greater economic growth, in the following areas a majority said "none": • air pollution, 83%; • increased traffic and traffic noise, 67%; • development on peaks and hillsides, 66%; • development on farmland and ranch land, 51%; • development harmful to creeks, 67% • overall pace of life, 51%. Asked to pick a growth rate from listed categories, 85% of respondents picked categories ranging from none (15%) to slower than the state and county (51%) to no faster than the county (19%). Despite such consistent and strong expression of community values, there has been continued, incremental degradation of the natural environment expressly valued by residents of San Luis Obispo. The present Land Use Element update must be understood as emerging from the context of the community's past experiences and present attitudes. It is a document that charts a future course of concern with environment, society, economy and quality of life, and responds to the desires of the City's residents. 4 SLO General Plan Land Use Element PREAMBLE TO THE LAND USE ELEMENT We the people of San Luis Obispo hold that we have the right to determine our community's destiny based on our community's values; that the future livability of our community will be driven by historical choices made from day to day, and not by inevitable forces beyond our control; that in an age when the livability of large, urban communities to our north, south, and east is being destroyed by incrementally accelerating environmental degradation and the breakdown of civility, we assert our desire to seek a different sort of future for our community; that, therefore, we direct our elected representatives and civic employees to preserve our community's natural environment and control excessive growth detrimental to the long-term sustainability of the community. SAN LUIS OBISPO'$ VISION Our vision is of a sustainable community, within a diverse natural and agrarian setting, which is part of a larger ecosystem upon which its existence depends. San Luis Obispo will maintain its healthy and attractive natural environment valued by residents, its prosperity, and its sense of safety and community, within a compact urban form. Our community will have a comprehensible scale, where people know each other and where their participation in government is welcome and effective. The general plan outlines basic features of the city needed to sustain our livelihoods, our natural and historical heritage, and our needs for interaction and expression. The general plan is a benchmark in the continuing planning process, reflecting the desires of citizens with different backgrounds to sustain the community's qualities for themselves and for future generations. The City should provide a setting for comfortable living, including work and recreation. The City should live within its resources, preserve the relatively high levels of service, environmental quality and clean air valued by its residents, and strive to provide additional resources as needed. 5 ' I Land Use Element SLO General Plan (This page is supposed to be blank.) 6 SLO General Plan Land Use Element COMMUNITY GOALS Introduction Goals describe desirable conditions. In this context, they are meant to express the community's preferences for basic future directions. In the goal statements, "San Luis Obispo" means the community as a whole, not just the City as a municipal corporation. The statements also indicate what the City should do and what it should influence others to do. The goals state San Luis Obispo's basic positions on the extent, rate, composition, and financing of growth. The following. Growth Management section includes policies and programs which offer more specific guidance on these topics. Later sections, dealing with parts of the City and with land-use categories, give more detailed direction on preserving neighborhoods and designing new development. Approach to Planning San Luis Obispo should: 1. Choose its future, rather than let it happen. San Luis Obispo should be proactive in implementing its vision of the future, and should work with other agencies and institutions to create our desired mutual future. Environment San Luis Obispo should: 2. Protect and enhance the natural environment, including the quality of air, water, soil, and open space. 3. Protect, sustain, and where it has been degraded, enhance wildlife habitat on land surrounding the city, at Laguna Lake, along creeks and other wetlands, and on open hills and ridges .within the city, so that diverse, native plants, fish, and animals can continue to live within the area. 4. Protect public views of the surrounding hills and mountains. 5. Recognize the.importance of farming to the economy of the planning area and the county, protect agriculture from development and from incompatible uses, and-protect remaining undeveloped prime agricultural soils. 6. Protect and restore natural landforms and features in and near the city, such as the volcanic morros, hillsides, marshes, and creeks. 7. Foster appreciation among citizens of the complex abundance of the planning area's environment, and of the need to respect natural systems. 8. Identify, map and monitor our community's natural assets to preserve and protect them. 7 Land Use Element 5LO General Plan Society & Economy San Luis Obispo should be a well balanced community. Environmental, social, and economic factors must be taken into account in important decisions about San Luis Obispo's future. A healthy economy depends on a healthy environment. The social fabric of the community for both residents and visitors must also be a part of that balance. Therefore, complementary to the goals and objectives of this element, the City shall maintain and bi-annually review goals and objectives that promote the economic well being of the community. San Luis Obispo should: 9. Provide employment opportunities appropriate for area residents' desires and skills. 10. Provide goods and services which substantial numbers of area residents leave the area regularly to obtain, provided doing so is consistent with other goals. 11. Retain existing businesses and agencies, and accommodate expansion of existing businesses, consistent with other goals. 12. Emphasize more productive use of existing commercial buildings and land areas already committed to urban development. 13. Provide an adequate revenue base for local government and public schools. 14. Provide high quality public services, ensuring that demands do not exceed resources and that adequatefacilities and services can be provided in pace with development. 15. Cooperate with other agencies in the county to assure that increases in the numbers of workers and college and university students in the San Luis Obispo area do not outpace housing availability. 16. Accommodate residents within all income groups. 17. Preserve existing housing which is affordable to residents with very low, low, and moderate incomes. 18. Actively seek ways.to provide housing which is affordable to residents with very low, low, and moderate incomes, within existing neighborhoods and within expansion areas. 8 SLO General Plan Land Use Element 19. Encourage opportunities for elder care and child care within the city. 20. Enrich community cultural and social life by accommodating people with various backgrounds, talents, occupations, and interests. 21. Provide a resilient economic base, able to tolerate changes in its parts without causing overall harm to the community. 22. Have developments bear the costs of resources and services needed to serve them, except where the community deliberately chooses to help pay in order to achieve other community goals. 23. Provide for high quality education and access to related services such as museums, art galleries; public art, and libraries. 24• Serve as the county's hub for: county and state government; education; transportation; visitor information; entertainment; cultural, professional, medical, and social services; community organizations; retail trade. 25• Provide a wide range of parks and sports and recreational facilities for the enjoyment of our citizens. 26. Retain accessible, responsive, and capable local government. 27. Ensure that residents' opportunities for direct - participation in City government and their sense of community can continue. City Form San Luis Obispo should: 28. Maintain the town's character as a small, safe, comfortable place to live, and maintain its rural setting, with extensive open land separating it from other urban development. 29. Maintain existing neighborhoods and assure that new development occurs as part of a neighborhood pattern. 30. Keep a clear boundary between San Luis Obispo's urban development and surrounding open land. 31. Grow gradually outward from its historic center until its ultimate boundaries are reached, maintaining a compact urban form. 32. Foster an awareness of past residents and ways of life, and preserve our heritage of historic buildings and places. . 9 Land Use Element SLO General Plan 33. Develop buildings and facilities which will contribute to our sense of place and architectural heritage. 34. Develop buildings and places which complement the natural landscape and the fabric of neighborhoods. 35. Focus its government and cultural facilities and provide a variety of business services and housing in the downtown. 36. Provide a safe and pleasant place to walk and ride a bicycle, for recreation and.other daily activities. 37. Be a safe place to live. 10 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-I support the SLO Marketplace From: "SurrmerMersai"<smersai@nlccn.org> RECEIVED To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/200411:11 AM .IUL 0 E 2004 Subject: I support the SLO Marketplace Dear City Council- I am in complete support of the proposed new shopping center,the SLO Marketplace.Please allow the development of these stores which are so necessary to our everyday lifestyle. I don't see this as a conflict for downtown SLO because the stores are so RED FILE different that what downtown offers.I truly believe these additional stores will just be additional revenue. MEETING�(, AGENDAS Please let the stores come(and can you get Macy's back here too?:)) PATE ITEM # P 1 Thank you for your time, '-"T—T� Summer Mersai PO Box 1136 Pismo Beach,CA 93448 %COUNCIL ;LCJD Din 1,reC.AO f FIN DIR fIACAO 0 FIRE CHIEF 1,2.-ATTORNEY ,C PW DIR II,OTLERKIORIG 'C1°OLICE CHF DEPT HEADS LI ,9_C DIR j -n'UTIL P11-1 file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace From: <khutchinson@centexhomes.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 11:11 AM Subject Marketplace Hello, we viewed your add in the paper this past weekend and we would like to express our desire for the Marketplace project to move forward and be developed. We are current residents of Templeton, CA and we have property that we are building on in SLO county within the next year and we would welcome a development like the Marketplace! We do not feel that it would affect the Downtown shops in anyway as most of the shops going into the Marketplace have competitors outside of the downtown area such as Home Depot and Ralph's etc...This project should not affect the downtown business as I feel that all who frequent downtown; do so for the "atmosphere" and/or the convenience of location and being in walking distance of so many residences. We are all for more-shops and developments... as the area grows we feel that the activities, restaurants and shops need to be allowed to come into the area also. Thank you for your consideration in Developing the Marketplace! Sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hutchinson file://C \Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil The MarketPlace. From: Mary Ann Statler<mstatler@pacbell.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 11:02 AM Subject The MarketPlace It's really time to stop bleeding retail dollars from our ciy ( and gas to boot)............... VOTE for the MARKET PLACE. It's NOT going to stop me from shopping downtown. ......... Thank you MA Statler file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW IOOOO1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 f SLO Citycouncii -stores From: "anne7981@netzero.com" <anne7981@netzero.com> To: <slocitymundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/200411:01 AM Subject: stores I say yes to slo marketplace, its about time to get some new stores in our area. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 07/06/04 TUE 10 28 FA% 805 544 4247 CORLISS CAMPBELL g 001 46P I. RICHARD %SCF{MIDT.. C Y Gl.ERtC ;: 1. . .- 112 BroadtStreef,'San Lws Obispo, OA 9 40rs�; {SaS 544-- „< [i S.Q, July 6,2004 Rei Marketplace Ei- . Lack of Cityw de`I' ;A 8> is rcJ�p it ;. 'WD:.DIR ; yLar ori City Council �Gaa =�Rc�tr City af;San Luis Obsipo1.1. ': Amar , �w nor c � o�E- I �OLrc mar Dear Council tulembers." # 'p ° '. . D� .7 . int e'��t r�i n*`l 'This �s an additional tetter an the �n�jderiuy Qt fhe Markel EIR, 4; :ncentrat+ng or}iy on the issue of failure to analyze 1 R rn : . As ska1.ted previously, l have sought 11 at the scopuig and corrmr� 6hr age liar eaI.ch of the; I. Three EIAs on:this project to have,such analyms done, anti the cA.onsuftR,tri#together wrEh city staff have:refusecl Furter compound}rig the rrlatterFthe consultaI [I:as I.cued clearly nonsensical traffic counts on North Broad Street as a rat. nate for n'llot�i4o�ng tide artalysrs, and even afker the obv►ou-error 1.4f those:num6srs uvas.point}l� out, once again t%sed them v1.e1.rtaUm as rat�arfale for riot�loing an aralys,s for th�irjlates# ElR 'SucI.h work ►s either shotddy or dishonest, or.:both, and Is nvxFegaliy su'� .s�rtabie rn ars EIR foga project of.+ scope Furthermore,the cit r counc��should noR and its IlURllmat4lL to s�4IL;?noddy work I. is :,. a e ay, rq a conversa#�on with a friend from Los Osas he pointed cit to rrxe;once aga►n the absurdity and nej�iigenee Involved1. in the city s refusal toiI�lrialyz�s traffic; trnpacts distant from the si#e�such asthose on North Broad Strut (�9�i fri.e..., n#f Wentsometta�ng like this Where"s o, way �n and out of Las Osos - LG, Oros.Va11ey Aoad Theis are about lW0t7 people ur Los Qsos, soon,O be br.bout;:; ,4ao once the: sewer system there is built U, - two yearsAgo tpriarto Du .--. I.Ranc�)ulajnd Fume Depot); my friend said he could drive from "Los OroI.s t9 Madonna;and� teff on Madonna to get into . L. , w�fhout any delay T�aday, w1.ith-sfigiitlymcre ">�ad congestion and The complex multi phase traffic signal at Madonna. he always i;lgetst,, iea$t'one :traffic 5ighal, and the;tnp as subsfanfialiy sCower So, nouy he turns left ; a Foothill,and takes re►ghborhood streets �tVorih,Broad'anI.d Chbrra fo get t► to toy }�r"Hell'he said, "when they bung traffic at LOVR Madonna to stop with�f1his Marke:+.+_ 'a, ev�arybody :from Los Osos w�ii be doing1.that Wd II all be cuter g#hrvu'gh neJghborl'1.¢►pds to;get 'where've wdht go" 1`: `:I. dd&l vai y uiates;my corltent�on'that traffic impact1 .s an Nor#h BrcU �d causetl by - his p f o�ect need to be included n the fNarketl ld El i. -x � Page 1 07/06/04 . TUE 10:31 FAX 805 544 4247 CORLISS CAMPBELL . Ij002 to restate cny:case t 'there is a direct nexus:between the pflarketplace, with its freewaydes+grjed access;and North Broad Impacts,aince the street leads to theft (rhes was stated in more detaih`in earlier correspondence ) There is also direct neKUs of cut through traffic caused by congestion e1' ' here caused by the protect 2 As congestion increases,and traffic saws on Santa'Rosa{Hrghvay i)due to 'ineffective planning#or moving its traffic,a spilt over of traffic to Choirs downtown bound) and North Broad (for downtown bound and freewa�ir bdbad) has occurred 1 have withessed increases In traffic ori North road over the 5ast 32 years as each add+ttonal traffic.signal hats beer+installed on San#a Ros2� 'Thecal a absotu#ely:rio ;reason . beUeve That, absent mitigation,this process w+lGnat be made gorse by Marketplace-caused arterlalcongespon 3 if.the Marketplace is rn fact the regional drawlit s purported to be, Srata Rosa iWi become gndlncked due fo this prolect's.+mpact There will`be tWuo resulting ch8nges;in in-city traffic;patterns in=city downtown qr-cross=town trafirc from Fa;iihiil wii4 avoid Santa:Rosa,:and use.Bro'a dc .orroInstead Second :in-city SLO t'affic bqund #o the Marketplace will.move two blocks overto North Broad and its freevrat/ snap this fnpadt to North Broad U obvious; and must be anal yzed and t>iltitjl0ted through the EiR process for the hCarketplace 4 Analysis of the draw of the Marketplace amplifies these concerns Clearly, since areas:to the north:and south along Highway 1A1 already have a i ample;supply of the:' sorts of big box stores incluciec!in the Maticefplace;they w+Il not,be the'pnmari;drawing are fur the Box Center - 1h Notch Coast Los Osos,Morro Bay, Csyucos, Cambria wAl a the prYmary drawAli of this traffic has t�me'to S O eithe C'vIa Nighway. :(Santa Rosa Street >or Los Osos aIley Rbid 5 As tongestlon ort LOVR:increases- and this 1S acknowledged in iElite ElR traffic wilt be'redtrected.to,other routes My#need's account of hrs own reala;nt dnv[ng changes between Los Osos and SCO validates what had already! been trafidated by city :a origin destination studyin the Broadi.Munay area that:a consid atiFs amount of cut through traffic will tie directed through tlistant 'ty Tte+ghborhoods.as a I�salt of 'congest,on at LOVR/Madonna Thtsimpactto North Broad is.obvtd0b, and;mustbe analyzed and mitigated through Tice EIR process for the Marketpl> ce 6 AS congestion on':Santa Rosa increases,in large psrt driven by ti'l't Marketplace,: North Coasf residents will dog over to North Broad(1 id;hland Norttu;�horro; Broad) to avoid the congestion on Santa Rosa,aracl fo access the freeway viii; Broad this mpact to North Broad is Obvious;and must be`ar}alyzed and mitll�(f tied through the EIli process fcr the Marketplace So,there are`at teasf thrsorete rrnacts to North Broad that=need ,iriah____vsi h related,to displacement#root arterials caused ly Markektplace utlucecl:Traffic congestion 1 Displacement of In-clty traffc that would otherwise rase LOUR or;5anta F3asa 2 Rerouting of traffic from kos Osos daje to Markektplace induced ,itenal Traffic 'Page 2 07/06/04 TUE 10:33 FAX 805 544 4247 CORLISS CAMPBELL Z003 i congestion. 3. Rerouting of Santa Rosa/Highway 1 traffic from the North Coast due to Markektplace-induced arterial traffic congestion. The refusal of the consultant to do such analysis, after repeated reque;;,ts, casts the pall of inadequacy over the EIR's traffic analysis. I do not believe the city_c D or should approve an EIR that is so trans aarently inadequate. In a sense,the city has set itself up for this challenge to the EIR. Had the city not insisted the Marketplace would be such a flaming success and sales trac generator, one might have assumed it would not be such a.traffiic draw. However, givon the city's claim of being the recipient of such lucre from the Box Center's sales tax, It is hypocritical for the city to refuse to acknowledge and analyze the full Impacts of this center. I know you are not hynocrites so you need to have this do. i n corrected. and recirculate the EIR. 11 The Traffic Impacts to North Broad Violate theCity's General P Z- a On their face, such impacts to North Broad violate the city's general plan, and this needs to be acknowledged in the EIR — as a result of careful analysis •- and mitigations jacluded.to remedy the situation. I have in previous correspondence for all the phases of this EIR,as well as in previous correspondence to the Planning Commission and Council, requested specific mitigations, including traffic calming up to Cued including closure of the Broad Street freeway ramps. I incorporate all of this previous explicit correspondence here in lieu of repeating the various rationales and requests in detail. The city's Circulation Element promises traffic volumes on North Broad will be held to 3,000 vehicles per day. Present traffic volumes are in the neighborhood of 6,000 vehicles per day (according to city counts), as documented in the attachment "City of San Luis Obispo, Average Daily Traffic July 18, 2002" So, to conform to the General Plan the clty cannot add additional.traffic on North Broad as it would W ignoring impacts from the Market lace, but,instead should be finding ways to eliminate_ any additional traffic flow stemming E[Qm the Marketplace's impact. Clearly,the unmitigated Marketplace traffic imgacts to North Broad-m►ih;yiolate the city's General Plan. Because of this,the EIR needs to be corrected, and recirculated for additional comment prior to consideration for adoption. III Consultant's Bizarre Rationale for Refusing to Analyz Temic ori North Broad. In effect, the consultant insists that because he doesn't want to do the anlysis and staff Page 3 07/06/04 TUE 10:34 FAX 805 544 4247 CORLISS CAMPBELL Q004 i c � J doesn't want him to do it, he doesn't have to do it. All he has to do, he alleges in his response to my comments, is analyze traffic in the immediate vicinity ol`the Big Box Mall. However, given the fact this mail is a regional draw, that rationale cannot withstand the laugh test. As amply demonstrated above, using only ona street as a test case, the impacts will be huge in other parts of the city. and need to be analyzed. The consultant compounds faulty rationale with falsefacts. My favorite is the statement that there's no problem on [North Broad because at peak P.M. hour we have only 110 vehicles per hour, or fewer than two per minute. Anyone who has ever been on North Broad would know this is nonsense. But it also doesn't meet the third-grade-level math test. Even if we assumed each of the day's 24 hours were "peak" hour; and had 110 vehicles, the max the consultant would admit the street carried would tie, less than half what the city traffic counts document. And there's no way for the cons4iftant to explain the huge discrepancy between this simple,mathematical fact and the (lowball) traffic totals he also includes in his response to my comments. Qlearly. this is shoddy work of a level that it cannotap ss any honest review. In other words, the numbers used as a rationale in the consultant's response to my comments (which are in the back of the EIR) are false. This falsehood, moreover. isn't a new one. It was trotted out in the previous EIR round, and !corrected 'rjhM That correction is a matter of public record.. Yet the consultant fecklessly lsents the same falsehood again, unamended and the correction unacknowledged, =.rice=again justify not examining traffic impacts to North Broad Street. Failure to do required EIR analysts based on a rationale consistinil of 1126 does not produce an adequate EIR. The city should be ashamed of this sort of behavior, and needs to correct it by admitting Its error, doing the requested analysis, and recirculating the EIR for further corrective comment.. As persons of integrity, I call upon the Council to do just that. (I incorporate here by reference all of my previous EIR scoping and reAtew comments, the consultant's responses, and my letters to consultant, staff and decision-makers regarding this matter.) IV. Relationship Between Peak PM Hour Traffic and Daily Counts. Although I'm a planner, I needed help to understand the theoretical relationship between peak P.M. hour traffic and daily traffic (since ifs clearly nothing like 24 x Peak), so i consulted a recognized traffic engineer who told me for a street like North Broad I could approximate daily counts by multiplying peak hour count by 10. If we do that, the consultant's alleged 110 peak hour would translate ir,to an expected 1,100 vehicles per day on North Broad. This is one sixth the acknowledged total. So, presumably, the consultant's peak hour count is about one-sixth the actual. Page 4 07/06/04 TUE 10:34 FAX 805 544 4247 CORLISS CAMPBELL 121005 1 armed myself with athumb counter and on several occasions measured traffic in front of my home during one of the high volume P.M. hours. Based on the ole-tenth approximation, I established counts somewhat higher than measured by the city -- in the 6,000 to 7,000 per day range. Indeed, these turned out to be about 10 limes what the total would be based on the consultant's erroneous peak hour number. In fact, peak hour is at least six times what the consultant claims. This validates the inadequacy of the consultant's faulty and mendacious rationale for failing to do traffic analysis and mitigations for North Broad Street. The.u0shot is that this work needs to be corrected prior to certification of the EIR. V. What I'm Asking the Council to Do. Clearly, this EIR is so poor it is not ready for certification. On the North Broad Street issue alone, it reg iu res Pxgansion to deal with this-set of traffic impacts honestly, and to come up with mitigations to avoid further violation of the General Plan. Clearly, also, this is but one among many faults of the EIR which require it to be partially redone, and considerably expanded prior to consideration of certification. Thus, I ask the Council to.direct staff to accumulate ALL of the criticisms regarding omissions and faulty analysis and inadequacies of the EIR, and to order these Issues to be carefully studied and Included in an expanded EIR, to be recirculated for further public comment and participation. Since the current consultant seems unwilling or incapable of doing this work, you should also consider assigning the rewrite to a more conscientious and competent consultant. Sincerely, L Richard Schmidt PS. As stated above, I incorporate by reference all of my previous coniespondence and written comments on scoping, DEIR review, staff review, and decision--maker review on all three of the Marketplace EIRs as part of this letter to avoid having to spell out in detail points that have already.been.made a part of the written record. .. Attachment: "City of San Luis Obispo, Average Daily Traffic July 18,2002." Page 5 07/06/04 TUE 10:35 FAX 805 544 4247 CORLISS CAMPBELL 006 , I (WOW WA i l Ii JL-7v, z i m: ?.:. . V W, KM N I :,.M*:,- qr r o p 0.05 0 0.05 0.1 Miles N Average Dally Traffic(ADT) WE /\/ACT NOT AVAILABLE Notes: �1-2499 All volumes excluding state routes are all-way N2500-4999 S average daily traffic(ADT),currant through July �SMIO-9999 of 2002.Volumes for state routes are two-way 101100-14999 annual average daily traffic(AADT),provided by151100-19999 Cal Trans and current through 1999. MINVA 20(100-24999 jV100-29999 DClOV-34899 I lhwaylolDate:July 18,2002 .}.R R.Tracks I ; Page 1 of 1 i SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace project RECEIVED AUL 0 From: Donald Pinkel<donpinkel@yahoo.com> L� CITY CLERK To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> .S Date: 7/6/2004 10:35 AM Subject: Marketplace project Dear Members of the City Council, July 6,2004 The various commercial,environmental,and political interests have presented their viewpoints regarding The Marketplace extensively and well. Now is the time for us to demonstrate that the city of San Luis Obispo is a Democracy governed of,by,and for the people of the city.Please submit this proposed project to the voters of this city in the November election. Thank you. Donald Pinkel,MD 275 Marlene Drive,San Luis Obis_po,CA,93405 805 541 5721 Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo!Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. 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All the issues that are need- .q Because of the*dind to 1i;j ed for the community to make ltEce•Vbytbedewan&'Be ' More ag, not pavement an informed decision based on Orr, f°Ox I can on all San Luis Obispo the merits of the project are ' l i mess;charm"ind}te d. city and county residents who readily available in the environ-.ii > Oqt oppose the Dalidio develdp•. mental impact report,econom•• ont' washed tl]3rd 6f ment to voice your opposition is reports,and development d,e top io p)aces to oeIn t'he at this Tuesday's City Council agreements. n LJgited States and dada 9nd ' meeting Letting the community de a lot of*at V4� was based on i#ieTowntown California is paving over its «de the fate of the Market rti t " rich farmland.As population place project will also resolve grows,we need more farmland, the issue of the project being ;t IImnttally,Brea attiyone divl Id not less.Should we sacrifice built in the county if it is reject not the downfovVn ° agricultural self-sufficiency ed by city,given it is very un and become dependent on for likely the county Board of Su- ' attd eign countries for our food sup- pervisors would ignore the We J.d Ia'o,P�1`... em all halve an ply?Destroying farmland will community's wishes. 3j just abet current market forces The decision for the City that are beginning this trend— Council on Tuesday should be downtoiiiecori, ,�, Ong doesn't bade to loo"lr�very��iat`d Mexican tomatoes,New easy.Put the Marketplace pro-_k' Zealand apples,etc. ject on the ballot and let the I also decry the harmful ef- community decide., ' other.downtowaswhen large fects this project would have on Brett Cross SLO's small-town character,ex- San Luis Obispo isting businesses,traffic flow and air quality. If you oppose this develop- ment,join me in this pledge:I will not shop at any store that opens in this center. Johanna Rubba Grover Beach Put Marketplace to a vote San Las Obispo City Council members will make what many consider the most important decision on this community's future character when they de- cide on Tuesday whether to ap- prove the Marketplace shop- ping center on the Dalidio farm Billboards , Want to see TWO stores i' in San lois Obispo? promote shopping, - y i4 ntactte StD iib 611119BU SLO center �t, p : a.:�,teis Ya�ei�ia epruje�t With a decision on the San Luis Marketplace due next week,developers Bill Bird and property owner Ernie Dalidio " are drumming up last minute; support for the proposed pro- _ ject. The men have placed two billboards nearthe / Dalidio J`R farm VUZZLip t' �" T UE PHOTO BY 3AYSORWIrLO t, 0 spo San s I :1Vro billboards near the Dalidio farm in 58ti Lyls Qbtspo aA residents to let City Offlclali kpcw !_-that they want more shopping. A decislbn oXi thm fan fulls-jAB[kefPlace iscpected'next Vreek.- residents to let city officials know that they want more shopping. If approved,the Marketplace who paid sev- would include a Target,Circuit eral h—�dollars for the City,Lowe's Home Improve- signs.mWe lust want to make ment,Old Navy,a larkspur Ho- pZptemware of the project, tel and Tilly s,a youth-oriented who%-inv6ived and that-if's retailer.A Whole Foods Market ; comingbefore the City Coun- also could be cil." added to the Not everyone,however,is project. convinced that the shopping Macy's center is right for San Luis pulled out of Obispo.Some downtown prop. the develop .y erty owners,city officials and ment,but dis- community members have cessions are j raised concerns about the loss ongoing with of prime #taal land and several other 'We Just want the center's potential impact on department stores. to make downtown merchants. The signs, The City Council is expected roughly 8 by people aware to vote on the Marketplace pro- 12 feet and 8 of the - I ject Tuesday night at City Hall, by 8 feet,are 990 Palm St hard to miss. project, —Julie Lynem Motorists can who's see them on involved and Highway 101 or on Dalidio that it's Drive,adjacent coming to the post of- fice. before the "It's some- City Council: thing we de- cided to do to Bill Bird, i let folks know San Luis what is going Marketplace on,"said Bird, L`' v` L SATURr.AY, JULY 3 , 2004 Marketplace opponentsush Referendum for Marketplace p , am asking the City Council to place for referendum in November , the t'ontheSanLuisMarketplace project on the November ballot as a ref- erendum. .$, The.biggestobstacle to the city de- With only days left before a ber ballot While proponents of the Mar- riding has been-the county Board of Sur City Council vote on the pro- The council will consider ketplace believe it will bring pervisors.Even though it goes against posed San Luis Marketplace, the project Tuesday.If the city in much-needed sales tax rev- I their own policies,they have threatened some opponents of the project rejected it,the developer could enue,more shopping and the to allow it in their junsdtchon•That are.urging city leaders to let take the proposal to the coun- Prado Road interchange, op- would be the worst of all possible the public decide the issue in ty. ponents contend that it will , worlds:the city would get all the costs, November. Osborne said the county harm downtown merchants r whsle the county would get the benefit. "Rather than speculate would not approve the project and chip away at the city's Only a referendum could remove this about how.many people sup- if the voters rejected it open space. huge cloud over our decision-making port or oppose it, with a ref- "Only a referendum could If the City Council approves ability If the city voters approve it,the erendum,we would know the remove this huge cloud over the project Tuesday,the Mar- project would be allowed to develop in will of the voters with ab-' the city's decision-making ketplace proposal will return i the city.If the city voters say no,the solute clarity,"said Orval Os- ability," said Osborne, who to the Planning Commission �1 county supervisors would have to obey M borne, a city planning sent a letter to the City Coun- for a review of the develop the of the voters or commit political co r. .ssioner and City Coun- cil this week. ment agreement on July 14. y made. cil candidate. _ For years,the proposed re- The City Council would con \ I hope the council does not think that Osborne.and other commu- tail and business park has sider the terms of the deal in they have to decide everything.This is nity members arepushing for been a source of controversy ugust one issue best decided by all citizens. A The biggest advantage of a referendum a referendum on the Novem- with many in the community. —Julie Lynem is the public"buy-in"or acceptance of the decision.A referendum would settle Q the question with a clarity that a City Council vote never could. For democracy,fairness and civic unr ty,the,City Council should put the San Luis Marketplace proposal on the ballot in November. Orval Osborne San Luis Obispo CHRISTINE MULHOLLAND VIEWPOINT �e Mct&tp 1 ace isn't a done dead he Marketplace will be the biggest Macy's was coming.The Tribune splashed with me,but the most common is to pre- retail development this town has headlines touting the Macy's store.Not serve that signature piece of beautiful agri- Tever seen.The fact that the majori once,but three times.As if it were a done cultural p Imagine ri, a farm that demon- ty of the City Council gave direr- deal.Now,no Macs.In Arroyo Grande, tion to pursue the project is it reason to there was talk of Nordstrom's.Then they stratlon grounds fo�visiting es choolpl�th'en speak as if it is a done deal were told it would be a Target They got a and Cal Poly farmers The Planning Commission recently re-. Wal-Mart. fiill-time farmers market.The Avila Barn is viewed the environmental study,which If we are going to need a Target,or some often offered as an example.If the property identifies eight Class I,significant and un other big chain store,it should go on Los owner was willing. avoidable,impacts.The commission found Osos Valley Road.There are two big lots in The concerns of downtown business own- rs,slow-growth and envr there were even more and recommended front of Home Depot and where Costco will ers,property owne the project be denied.The City Council will be.And there is a large lot across the street rotunentallY minded citizens are real.The have to decide if the benefit of the project that could be used for future development effort to Save the Downtown,the gem of overrides the problems it will create. before we need more space for commercil San Luis Obispo,is real.The Marketplace is- Regardless of the differences in opinion growth:The infrastructure exists,and the an extremely complex proposal.The eco- about how much the impact would be on the road has been widened.New development not are extremely complex.We should of try downtown,there is certain to be a transfer will help pay for the planned widening not try deserves better. dumb down the discussion.The of dollars from existing businesses,many lo- the existing overpass.That is smart growth. public de tally owned,to the new chain stores. 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E 3 � 3� v vC1 Ua 0cs _ Paid Advertisement mr Ernie Dalidio An Den Leiter ro Ernie 8t Kriscie Dalidio Madonna gd.GA 93405 lw Lids Obispo reside°t 1�nlifelon8 munity X004 ve heard from me' the com duly 3•' ton SID Restderres Luis MarketPlace, butMY wife,Yoe 2.1LCn t adVe{5ely am�etaeeP o>u Lown arty have a Dear e. anYrl"n8 that d 4eac tat d ahila'Commoaation, eche San bete before m tics.Pn bear Plenty abna both farmed f and fach l am unwillin8 t° acion ao ,Losling, sshr sibas mp{e than 15 t the San Lo s wracig Masttai hc. will e v,ho e gra dfacher San Lu Obispo' e of xn is share a love for n cau8hc in the, ividua.1 who bas idea tha`o et the record sttarg and t earn also the only chat all Supp ,Mould li be k The Luis Marketplace has e I efforts Downtown.' 8 t in this issue, behind m nce the town e3cpenence. m Persnnab and exPensrve resew a will acoially en1v1 ere with the DOvan ,L to captures nd 9-0 treat 5 Obispo, to rkeLPlace do nos comp a ill enable S p for San lru the A''a ds and stores like them in8 d ocher ctcies- of Dow°town We wnnc have The scores co Whole EpOPaso Robles an • pldNa`7' Maria. ersonality 'Latget,Grtcuic CiT city fox Santa multi_experience P • currently leaving our edesexian friendly+ ox as galleries. se c center will not have«��cheacets'rnu5eums tnuxist destination. loyees.lnDo in Otho town emP w an per a creek lace is not and restaurants. • p'a'w' ds of Dnwn a Mission Sark'Lets Macketp the th°esan stores e Dow°town have easy access to l sn Downtown like the t who S?end m ces,and others. senior services V1,111 n ter, The SanLu s bfarke�vetnment Ge basin ss iin 8°vernment ofb vide police and fire Ptnteccion, �. at the new CO its citizens dorn8 relies nn xn cion and a°ablin8 better to p also captures 1 tax revenues that the GitY rad°Road.easio8 c°n8es and other city services. enerace sal at p Lt will 8 an oVerpass parks and recreation coon of lace will iocleae ab�siness people.op the freeway other teca i ri The keep en ace adlaceot to parrot with Mat r all local xesrd 1 want to be a at will leave a L$ 5pe access for a 55 acres of°Pen sP is simple'. ade decisions ch ted to me. aootly ptesery mtere5� d 1 have m eland encrus d deba a pd'cant to know o be a cru steward of ch co contact me. It will Penna to are clue • tovio8 ..pleasefeelfree an thti numerous studio to tontine toout commentry,p MarketPlat . r SL a the San LOIS areas I fo both per joOIiLPeak co you personally about legacy E0 Sincerely. l would be bspPy t°s Ernie Dalidio ,Q TARGET 1LD NAVf ' lm�+av&rg�oa�e IAC WHbLE MODS Doyou want these stores in San Luis Obispo . Foen years laterand evei)d shopping usvd leavingSan Luis Obispo. Its time for the SLO Marketplace. It will work well with Downtown SLO. ao Residenal ant totNAr Let the SLO City Council know by July 6th that you support the SLO Marketplace. WRITE.•San Luis Obispo City Council 990 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 CALL- 781-7100 EMAIL:slocitycouncil@slocitgorg N,'. c O: 'O N N y,._.u N ti A.°4a. C- G N N... O Ow p'C 4m v - 4) NT �).0 L: N � Nw >» Nv N J. AwCC. :v U0 ,pG ; oo�.....- O0 "�:; ;ympN-pN N: '7• �.°C ni D.N+ o O yy meq..... 'Oc3 V uc mp N... 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With housing being so expensive, we need affordable shopping in SLO. We rarely, if ever shop downtown. We often travel to Santa Maria to shop at Target and Costco, or Arroyo Grande to shop at Walmart. We would love to see a Target and Old Navy here. We also feel that it would expand job opportunities for young adults in our community. Please consider our viewpoint. Thank you very much, Martha and Don Dutcher Jr. I j CCU .I CDD DIR ICAC FIN DIR ACAO FIRE CHIEF ATTORNEY PW DIR CLERFVORIG POLICE CHF Dr�pT HEADS REC DIR _ Y'_— UTIL DIR I- �—h ❑ HR DIR RECEIVED JUL 02 2004 SLO CITY COUNCIL , file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/2/2004 Page 1 of 1 Shelly Stanwyck - San Luis Marketplace From: <mmerrell@calpoly.edu> MEETING AGENDA To: <sstanwyc@slocity.org> DATE ��0 ITEM #0�/ Date: 7/2/2004 2:50 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace I chose to move to San Luis Obispo twenty five years ago. My wife made that her goal when she first visited at age twenty three but didn't make it until she was thirty nine. We have lived in Laguna Lake and now Edna Islay. We feel growth has been successfully managed. Part of that formula is progressiveness. The Marketplace will be the right services in the right place. We would like to drive from our home to there on Prado. Nothing would ever stop us from frequenting our unique downtown. Don't hold the Dalidios hostage to a lustrous past. Michael &Debra Merrell 844 Alyssum I COUIvCI CDD DIF �- CAO PIN DIR i ACAO FIRE CHIEF 1 ATTORNEY PW DIR CL_RK/ORIG POLICE CHF 6 7 DEPTEADS REC DIR Jr I - B. JTIL DIR RECEIVED JUL 0 2 2004 SLO CITY COUNCIL file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Locai%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/2/2004 RED FIl Page 1 of 1 i MEIN�G ACacNDA D1 Shelly Stanwyck - Dalidio project --,TE ITEM # n�f From: "Debbie & Jim Fauria" <fauriafamily@netzero.net> To: <sstanwyc@slocity.org> Date: 7/2/2004 2:17 PM Subject: Dalidio project My family would just like to go on record as saying that we support the Dalidio Project. Debbie and Jim Fauna I {� c°uNci�DIRR FREIVED I ACA°A0 FIRE CHIEF 2 2004 � ATTORNEY PW DIR G CLERK ORIG POLICE CHF COUNCILI M DE,,PT HEADS REC DIR �} UTIL DIR file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/2/2004 Page 1 of 1 SILO Citycouncil - Market Place/Dalidio Project RED FILE From: Brett Cross <brettcross@charter.net> MEETING AGENDAL To: <letters@thetr-ibunenews.com>, <slocitycouncii@slocity.org> D�y�-I ,'6 ITEM # �'Jnf Date: 7/1/2004 1:11 PM Subject: Market Place/Dalidio Project San Luis Obispo City Council members will make, what many consider, the most important decision on this community's future character when they decide on Tuesday whether to approve the Marketplace shopping center on the Dalidio farm property. Thee are numerous issues that have been extolled as virtues of the project or cast as overwhelming negatives of such a massive commercial center. The decision will be one of the most difficult that. Council members have had to face. The question is should the City Council make the decision given the importance of the decision and very divided community interests. I believe it's time to resolve the Marketplace project once and for all and have the community vote the project either up or down. All the issues that are needed for the community to make an informed decision based on the merits of the project are readily available in the EIR report, economic reports, and development agreements. Letting the community decide the fate of the Marketplace project will also resolve the:issue of the project being built in the County if it is rejected by City given it is very unlikely the County Board of Supervisors would ignore the community's wishes. The decision for the City Council on Tuesday should be easy. Put the Marketplace project on the ballot and let the community decide. Sincerely, Brett Cross brettcross@yahoo.com 1217 Mariners Cove San Luis Obispo, CA 544-7379 � .CAO CUNCIL uCDD DIR LFIN DIR '1-ACAO FIRE C i -ATTORNEY PW DIR IEF �LERK/ORIG - POLICE CHF i �- O-DEP�EADS REC DIR n UTIL DIR J 11Fi rill, RECEIVED JUL 0l 2004 SLO CITY CLERK file:HC:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%o20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/1/2004 — Page 1 of 1 ' Barbara Ehrbar Contact Us Form MEETING AGENDA From: slo-dty-website@slodty.org DATE '� 6 ITEM #�_ To: <behrbar@slocity.org> Date: 7/2/2004 12:50 PIA Subject: Contact Us Form ******************************************************************************* Name: kathy jones Address: 5752 salisbury lane City:. san luis obispo State: ca Zip: 93401 Phone: 805 5471709 Fax: email—from: dnkjones@charter.net Message: San Luis Obispo City Council. I am sending this message to let you know that I am totally in favor of the Marketplace. I'm offended by all the people, mostly men, who want me to think that our downtown provides all the shopping I will ever need.This is ridiculous. We need more stores, especially a Target. I would like to see one of the property owners,or yourselves drive downtown with three children under six, park, and do all of your shopping in our downtown. With a limited budget! I recently was sitting with my six year old grandson in front of Jamba Juice eating our lunch when the conversation at the next table from 3 young men turned very loudly to the subject of oral sex. Needless to say,I immediately got up with my grandson and left. We then passed a homeless person begging in front of the Gap. Our downtown is not the paradise we all think it is. Yes, I enjoy going with my husband, brousing through Barnes and Noble, eating dinner and going to a show.But our downtown.is not my shopping destination. In fact one of the first things I do When we are traveling is go shopping! I love SLO, and I think our downtown is unique, but I definitely think we could use more shopping. I applaud the way the Marketplace has,stuck in there. I hope you will approve this much needed asset to our community. Thank you for listening to me. Sincerely, Kathy Jones Y. 7 1 CDD DIR C Ou FIN DIR ! CAO FIRE CHIEF =E1 ACRO PW DI ATTORNEY POLJCE CHF CLERl4ORIG REC DIRI1-1 DEPT HEADS 11T1L DIESI i — file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Loeal%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1:HTM 7/2/2004 Page 1 of 1 Shelly Stanwyck - San Luis Marketplace From: "Hathaway, Dan" <DLHy@pge.com> RED FILE wyc@sloci or > To: <sstan tY• MEETING AGENDA 9 D.=�I'E 6 0 Date: 7/2/2004 4:06 AM ITEM # Subject: San Luis Marketplace Dear Ms. Stanwyck, I am writing too you to give my full support to the San Luis Marketplace. The Marketplace will be a very big positive. I have lived in San Luis for more than 45 years and in the same house near Laguna Lake for the last 19. I have many family members that live in the county and have many friends and co-workers that live in the area as well. Almost all of us agree that The San Luis Marketplace will be a good thing. One of the major arguments against this project is that.it will kill the downtown. I.disagree. When driving through the downtown all I see are.eating places and specialty shops that don't have what I want or need. And when you add the traffic problems, the difficulty in parking problems, the sidewalk-wrongway bicylist problems, well, there just is no need to shop there. It is much more convienent to drive south to a Wal-Mart or K-Mart or Costco to get what I want and need. I am not alone in feeling this way. There are many that just don't see. shopping as a social event. All we want to do is to go to a store, get what we need, and then move on-- keeping it all simple and quick. The point is, there is a whole bunch of business that the downtown is not going to lose, because it never had it.in the first place. The San Luis Marketplace would allow our tax dollars to stay in San Luis. I understand that there are some things happening in the downtown area that are supposed to be good. The Copeland projects for example. I will assure you that this will do nothing to alter my shopping habits, or those of most of my family and friends. This project can do little to solve the problems that plague the downtown area. Will it make parking easier? Will it keep the bicyclists off the sidewalks? And won't it actually make traffic worse, by tempting more people to drive on the already trecherous roads to get to these new shops? And will any of these new shops offer the goods and services that I want or need? I am not optimisic. I am not alone in feeling this way. So, again, I am strongly in favor of the San Luis Marketplace as are most of my friends and family. It will give us a chance to get the goods and services that we need without having to South. But ultimatly, if it is not built, it won't really change much for me. I will continue to shop to the south for the things I need. I am not alone in feeling this way. Dan Hathaway San Luis Obispo 1 COUNCIL - CDD DIR CAO FIN DIR - ACAO FIRE CHIEF ATTORNEY T PW DIR CLERKIORIG E POLICE CHF j n;--PT 'HE,ADS J REC DIR [ l 6 i UTIL DIR file://C \Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW IOOOO1.HTM 7/2/2004 Page 1 of 2 FIEL;, rILE SLO Citycouncil-We support the San Luis Marketplace MEETING AGENDA 7tiT7 O From: "Scott LeMiere"<slemiere@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/2/2004 8:16 AM Subject: We support the San Luis Marketplace CC: "Alan Strasbaugh"<Alan@Strasbaugh.com>, "Angela Amato"<amamato@calpoly.edu>, "Matthew Lemiere" <mlemiere@surewest.net>, "Max Riedlsperger"<mriedlsp@calpoly.edu>,"Max Tuman"<tmanfoto@aol.com>; "Mike Cope"<epiproduct@aol.com>;"Gretchen LeMiere"<ingoodtaste@charter.net> To our esteemed city council members: As local business owners and parents of two young children, we wholeheartedly support the development of the San Luis Marketplace. We love SLO and living here but we are constantly shaking our heads at the amount of money we are forced to put into surrounding cities to stay in business. There is such a thing as good development and this project is it. There are two resources that are precious to all of us, money and time. I'm sure I don't need to go into all of the ways this project helps us all with both. Obviously, It will also bring much needed jobs and tax revenue to our town. I believe there are four of you that honestly believe your job is to do what's best for your city and its residents. This is a chance to make our jobs, life and community a little bit better. Please take advantage of this opportunity. �(cey�I eh�.wP Respectfully yours, � CC'LDiN c,--)D D I CAO FIN DIR Scott & Gretchen LeMiere I ACAO FIRE CHIEF I ATTORNEY PW DIR Owners CLERK'ORIG POLICE CHF In Good Taste Catering & The San Luis Bay Cafe , ! DEP T -ADS P.=c Di, i T✓i -;I r (We are in no way affiliated with or have ever met the Dalidios or Bill Bird.')== Billboards promote shopping, SLO center The Tribune With a decision on the San Luis Marketplace due next week, developers Bill Bird and property owner Ernie.Dalidio are drumming up last-minute support for the proposed project. The men have placed two billboards near the Dalidio farm in San Luis Obispo that ask residents to let city officials know that they want more shopping. If approved, the Marketplace would include a Target, Circuit City, Lowe's Home Improvement, Old Navy, a Larkspur Hotel and Tilly's, a youth-oriented retailer. A Whole Foods Market also could be added to the project.. Macy's pulled out of the development, but discussions are ongoing with several other department stores. The signs, roughly 8 by 12 feet and 8 by 8 feet, are hard to miss. Motorists can see them on Highway 101 or on Dalidio Drive, adjacent to the post office. "It's something we decided to do to let folks know what is going on," said Bird, who paid several hundred dollars for the signs. "We just want to make people aware of the project, who's involved and that it's coming before the City Council." Not everyone, however, is convinced that the shopping center is right for San Luis Obispo. Some downtown property owners, city officials and community members have raised concerns about the loss of prime agricultural land and the. center's potential impact on downtown merchants. file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW)000O1.F TM 7/2/2004 Page 1 of 1 Shelly Stanwyck- San Luis Marketplace From: "D.Bordeaux" <D@bordeauxfamily.com> RED FILE To: <sstanwyc @ slocity.org> ME NG AGENDA Date: 7/1/2004 6:26 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace D• ITEM # A# As a resident of San Luis Obispo I would like to cast my vote for the Marketplace. I am an avid shopper, but it seems I always have to go to Santa Maria or elsewhere to find what I want for my family at reasonable prices. With 3 young boys, who are growing faster than my pocketbook, I regularly find myself at Target in Santa Maria or Old Navy in Goleta because of their fair prices and quality merchandise. I do not shop downtown SLO for my family,with the exception of Ross. I cannot afford it. I do, however, frequently take guests to stroll through the area. Please allow the Marketplace to be built. I know I will be a frequent customer to the retailers there and would like the relief from traveling. Denise Bordeaux ow COUNCI CDD DIR - A0 FIN DIR ATTI GORNEY FIRE CHIEF i R�J DIR i CLERIGORIG POLICE CHF I DE,I EADS RSC DIR �l UTIL DiR file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/2/2004 San Luis Marketplace _ Page 1 of 1 Shelly Stanwyck -San Luis Marketplace RED FILE From: Randy Betz <RBetz@cuestatitle.com> MEETING AGENDA � To: "'sstanwyc@slocity.org"' <sstanwyc @ slocity.org> ITEM #fL= Date: 7/1/2004 5:16 PM JDATE� Subject: San Luis Marketplace Shelly Stanwyck, Please accept this as evidence of my support for the approval of the San Luis Marketplace project. I firmly believe the benefits that the development of that site will bring to the residents of San Luis Obispo far outweigh any of the other impacts deemed by some to be negative. As a resident in development off Tank Farm Road I am well aware of the need for another east-west crossing of Hwy 101 as well as an extension of the same to Hwy 227 eventually. Thanks Randy Betz 4442 Poinsettia St. San Luis Obispo CuUNC L _ CDD DIR j - CAO FIN DIR I. ACAO FIRE CHIEF ATTORNEY 11 PW DIR I CLERK/ORIG POLICE CHF DEPT ' E,ADS PEC DIR UTIL DIR — file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/2/2004 Page 1 of 2 Shelly Stanwyck - San Luis Marketplace Project RED FILE From: SLO-BRO<slobro93401 @yahoo.com> MEETING AGENDA To: <Sstanwyc@slocity.org> D!-�TE ITEM # 1�4L Date: 7/1/2004 4:30 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Project 1 ! Stuart K. Hannah 3860 S. Higuera St#A-7 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (805) 544-2884 Thursday, July 01, 2004 ATTENTION: SLO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS Dear Shelly Stanwyck, I am sending this letter in support of the San Luis Marketplace project. I am a 42-year-old veteran of San Luis Obispo and have looked at this project in its entirety. I think that the design and layout fits within the style of San Luis Obispo. I know that we are a no growth town, but unfortunately we are growing. I spend more money in Santa Maria, "SANTA BARBARA COUNTY;' than I spend in my own community, only because we do not have the type of stores that meet my shopping needs. I know one of the big controversy's that is being looked at is the downtown area being hurt by the shopping area being built. My input states that the downtown has its own charm and character and is a thriving tourist, student, and community attraction. We have a very nice down town that has been serving this community since I was just a child. It has always been the main attraction of San Luis Obispo. I doubt that this will EVER change. Part of the plan with the San Luis Marketplace is the interchange at Prado and 101. This is an extremely needed interchange with or without this project. Because it is part of the Marketplace plan, I think that this would be the best financial move for the city to gain this interchange that will eventually have to be put in place as San Luis Obispo grows even more. I do believe in limits and growth concerns, and yes I think that this project fits perfectly into our growth plan. AAd�p Ti � � Dlr; Please feel free to contact me for any questions. 1_I COUI.�,I- CDD P CAC FIN DIR AC AO FIRE CHIEF Respectfully, 4 ,4TT0RNEY PW DIP, CLERKiORIG POLICE CHF Mr. Stuart K. Hannah DEPT '-E-ADS- FEC DIP UTIL DIP, Do you Yahoo!? file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/2/2004 Halderman Photographs Page 1 of 1 RED FILE Ken Schwartz-Save Dalidio ME ING AGENDA From: "Halderman"<ahmm@thegrid.net> To: <dromero@slocity.org>,<jewan@slocity.org>,<cmulholland@sloeity.org>,<kschwartz@slocity.org> Date: 7/1/2004 5:19 PM Subject: Save Dalidio Dear Council Members, I am deeply concerned with the Dalidio Development Project. As a resident of the area to be developed I believe that using this open space for big box retail stores and for roadways will seriously effect our neighborhood. Traffic will congest our streets and surround our neighborhood. I am also afraid that such development will decrease home prices in our neighborhood and make it difficult for homeowners in this area to sell their homes. Who would want to buy a house surrounded by big box stores? We have already endured the birth of Home Depot, the widening of Los Osos Valley Road, and the housing development on Froom Ranch. We still await the arrival of Costco. Hasn't our area been through enough? Please help our neighborhood remain a neighborhood. Vote NO on Dalidio Sincerely, Maureen Manion Ce CDD DIR cou,�cr D CAO FIN DIR ACAO =IRE CHIEF i A70RNEY PW DIR I CLERK'ORIG POLICE CHF i D=pT BEADS RHC DIR UIILDIR file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/2/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: <mhelper@ ix.netcom.com> MEETING AGENDA / To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> ®ATE ITEM #�_ Date: 7/1/2004 8:36 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Dear City Council Members: I am writing to ask that you delay or vote down the Dalidio project at this time. The economic impact of the council's new proposed retrofit program has not been factored into the studies. If the city passes it proposed retrofit program in August the 100 or more businesses in downtown that will be directly affected will be hit very hard. Do not make hasty desicions on issues that could have the most dramatic impact on our community in haste. Thank you, Michael Helper owner Photography 101 Dia I CAO cDDFIN DIR I ACAO FIRE CHIEF ATTORNEY PW DIR L CLERK/ORIG POLICE CHF L J DEPT H"u;DS REC DIR � UTIL DiR file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/2/2004 Pagel of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace development MEt-T NG AGENDA From: "slokarg" <slokargC�email.msn.com> �� To: <slocitycdunciI@slocity.org> C�."aTE 6 ITEM #, Date: 7/2/2004 9:06 AM Subject: Marketplace development Dear City Council, Let Santa Maria and Paso Robles have their big boxes. SLO's greatest asset is its downtown.And regardless what its promoters say the Marketplace will adverse affect the downtown area,just as Home Depot has already closed the hardware stores(Wisberg's, Quaglino's). Do not approve the Marketplace. Robert Karger 25 Buena Vista Ave. SLO —� /' CDD Dlri COUNCIL FIN DIR CAO FIRE CHIEF ACA0 LI ATTORNEY PW DIR CLERKIORIG POLICE CHF LI DEPT.kEADS P,EC DIR r 1I U1U_DIR file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/2/2004 Page 1 of 2 Keh Schwartz- Dallidio property more valuable as a farm! RED FILE From: Eric Michielssen <webmaster@clarkvalleyfarm.com> DATEITEM To: <dromero@slocity.org>, <jewan@slocity.org>,<kschwartz@slocity.org>, <cmulholland@slodty.org> Date: 7/1/2004 5:32 PM Subject: Dallidio property more valuable as a farm! We are losing prime farmland to development at the rate of thousands of acres per day. Where will your food be grown? How secure will your food supply be if itis shipped in from South America? Please see what the people of Santa Barbara and Goleta did to save the last farm in their city area...please visit their web page at www.fairviewgardens.org People in SLO want to do this but Dallidio will not sell to any group that wants to save the property. He wants to make a huge artificial profit based only on the conversion of ag land to commercial. This is NOT a land rights issue--his land has been zoned ag for decades and his right is to farm the land...not cover it with parking lots and box stores. Why not put any new buildings and projects on the Madonna property on LOVR next to HOME DEPOT...along with Costco...those are negating the sales tax leakage that you've been worried about....the study that was done by the Bird group/and City? is out-dated and does not adequately account for the cumulative effects on downtown retail with the addition of Costco and other stores on that site. And what about the new buildings on Prado and South Higuera...they also will affect the downtown.... Do you want a strong and vibrant downtown. Mr. Schwartz, you should be a strong advocate of downtown after all your work and vision and energy that went into Mission Plaza and the downtown. I am an organic farmer and work to provide low income, affordable housing....the jobs/housing balance is important to the whole county....with more commercial and more jobs in SLO you are just making the problem 1 , worse...the workers in these stores will not qualify for SLO City housing...they will be more commuters; G\,Loin promote commercial growth in the outlying cities and "0 Fi oIR reduce the inflow of traffic into SLO. C] ACAO FIRE CHIEF y [ ATTORNEY PW DIR CLERWORI3 POLICE CHF As a new organic farmer...but I grew up in a farming , H Dg REC D1 CEP family in Watsonville........I have.studied the i _�/, UTiL DIR production of food in the US...we are too dependant on ✓- r -Jul. transportation to supply our food. We must develop and - `- maintain local food supplies...it is now a security file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\l oval%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/2/2004 Page 2 of 2 is5ue...when you take land like Dallidio's out of production...you will cause an environmental impact you haven't even considered yet....your EIR is flawed in that respect....security of the food supply! Maintenance of prime AG land.....how do you mitigate that? Please vote responsibly...not based on faulty financial smoke and mirrors by profit-hungry developers.They don't care about SLO...only about fattening the wallets....Thank you for your attention and time. Sincerely, Enc Michielssen www.clarkvalleyfarm.com ERIC MICHIELSSEN www.clarkvalleArm.com REMEMBER—GMO FREE SLO !!!! SEE---www.calgefree.com for more info www.escoslo.org file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/2/2004 Page 1 of 2 Dave Romero -The Dalido Project RED FILE From: Richard Phillips <rich20@charter.net> MEETING AGENDA To: <dromero@dsan=luis=obispo.ca.us> DATEI&L ITEM #_A�� / Date: 7/1/2004 6:08 PM Subject The.Dalido Project CC: <Coundl@slodty.org>, <behrbar@slocity.org>, <miranda@ecoslo.org>, <Letters@thetribunenews.com> Dear Mayor Ramero, I am home owner on Oceanaire Drive and wish to register my opposition to the Dalidio Property Development. I voted for you in the last election because I felt you had a community spirit to keep San Luis Obispo a charming well managed city we can all be proud of. I will be deeply disappointed if you vote this 600,000 square foot shopping mall into existence. I understand the need for progress, but don't you think we have enough?If you add the 600,000 square feet of shopping to the approximately 525,000 square feet of shopping just across the street you get 1,1250,000 feet of shopping, not including the parking. Isn't this a bit excessive? Isn't.there something better we can do with this marvelous piece of property? Mr. Mayor, look deep inside yourself, shut your eyes for just a moment, then take a mental walk along the Perfumo Creek and think about what is at stack here. Better yet take a moment of your valuable time and walk along the access road and experience it for your self. Look up and out, then think about what you experience here in this little bit of nature right in the middle of the urbannia. You can build a shopping center, tear it down and build another, but you can never put back a cherished piece of agricultural land or open space like this. If you disrupt the ecosystem that surrounds this wonderful area you evict the wild life residence of herons, egrets, raccoons, and foxes. Yes Mr. Mayor we have a family of foxes that live along that creek and what a shame to evict those crafty creatures. When is the last time you saw a real fox?You should see them dart about the eucalyptus trees in the early morning, super alert, tail as long as their entire body. They stop to peer at you when they sense your presence, then only their eys follow your every movement until they fell. safe to go about their daily routine. Its a tremendous experience. You think those foxes and other wild life are going to hang around after you put in your Shopping Mall, Roadway, Affordable Housing and Office �j� _ Space. I don't think so. roU VI ? ODD DIR How about those magnificent eucalyptus trees, how many of these age old CAO FIN DIR friends are you going to cut down for this addition of concrete and ; F i ACAO M FIRE CHIEF stucco, we call progress? Those tall trees took decades to evolve and I ATTORNEY PW DIR it is home to owls, hawks, blue jays, orioles and other wonderment's of CLERKlORIG POLICE CHF nature. Once its gone, its not coming back. F L DEPT HEADS r 1 REC DIR _la ] IJTIf_DIR I ask you Mr. Mayor, is it really worth the extra sales tax generated r_1 _j✓_� _�.7 D" for the city? Do we really need this extra shopping? Can't you find it in your self to stand up and do something much more important in your life than to be the just another mayor that voted for more urban expansion. Hey, maybe the shopping mall, office space, roadways, file://C;\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/2/2004 _ Page 2 of 2 1 affordable housing will come to fruition regardless of what some of us are doing. But if you vote against the development, your going to be a much bigger hero for standing up to protect an environmental ecosystem than just being, "The City Mayor. You will do something very special by preserving some historic buildings, some open space, some clean air and yes Mr. Mayor you will preseve your own personal dignity. Its up to you to decide how your legacy will read? I urge you to stand tall and vote against the Dalido Development. To the rest of The City Council of San Luis Obispo, I challenge you all to think about what you are really doing here with your valued vote: Stand up to the issue of so called progress and "Just Say No!" Thank you for your valued time, Richard Phillips 1954 Oceanaire Drive file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/2/2004 RED FILL: MEETING AGENDA V T '. b D ITE!✓ #PI Q Al Lipper 585 Luneta Drive San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 r sloca@lipperfamily.org (805) 544-4636 City Council of San Luis Obispo 990 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 July 1, 2004 Dear City Council Members, I am writing to express dissatisfaction of bringing big box-type stores into the city of San Luis Obispo. I teach Industrial Technology at Cal Poly as well as own and operate a local engineering firm in town, Injection Logic. The attractive charm and beauty of this once-small town is fast-diminishing, and it can't be replaced by what destroyed it. When people visit San Luis Obispo,they tend to like it. So when they relocate here from wherever,they don't understand that by bringing in the conveniences they believe they are missing, they are transforming this place into what they just left behind. It's like littering on the highway. You need to leave something just as you found it to preserve it for someone else. As far as progress goes,the only ones really benefiting from these endeavors are the developers themselves. After they leave, what have they really given us? In our throw-away age and mentality, they give us more stuff we don't need, products we don't use, and pollute the fresh air and fresh scenery we once had. What's more important here, more stuff to cram our over-full homes with,spend money we don't have in the first place, or enjoy free beauty and nature to nurture ourselves? Which lasts longer and has the greatest potential to affect our lives? Our town already is jam-packed with conveniences we aren't using to their fullest potential. With ever-growing internet shopping, we need to ask ourselves is more really better? The customer service on both online and in box-type stores are about the same—zero. Towns, even small towns, never stand still. They evolve with the community around them. How they grow and change is up to us. We choose which way our loved land will change with us. It's important not to stay stuck somewhere. I am proud of some of the changes San Luis Obispo's members have made. Introducing more chain stores into our town is not one I would recommend for the general welfare of the community. aI _hk . I n �7- CDD DIR RECEIVED M CAO FIN DIR JUL O 2��4 ATCHIEF ATTORNEY FIRE TORNEY PW DIR CLERKiORIG POLICE CHF SLO CITY COUNCIL i L DEPT ' EADS REC DIR UTiL DIR Jiz n �✓1 i.-� i.II 1 �l Who will work in these new chain stores? What types of skills(or lack thereof) do they require? Are they high or low paying positions? And where will these employees live? Can they afford to live in town next to their job? (Probably not.) Developers are NOW types of people. They see something,they want to make a profit now. They aren't concerned with the long-term effects of their projects, so we need to be cautious. How will this impact our way of live, our desired way of life? Is this something we really want for ourselves? What types of people, both customers and employees, will the chain stores attract? As you are representatives of the people, little people like us, I am writing to be sure you are aware and informed of one point of view we hold dear. We can build stores and replace old shops with new ones. What we can't replace(and perhaps can't afford to lose in the first place) is the natural environment we bulldoze over that contribute to the peace and beauty of the town and the personal attention and charm small stores provide us with. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Al Lipper - RED FILE - MEETING AGENDA July 1,2004 DATE -14 ITEM # P/// Tylor Middlestadt Executive Vice President Associated Students Inc. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Office: 756-1293 Mayor and City Council City of San Luis Obispo 900 Palm Street San Luis Obispo CA 93405 Concerning the Marketplace Project Dear Mayor Romero and Distinguished City Council Members, It is not often that I find myself so inclined to write a letter of concern to the city, but the upcoming SL Marketplace and Prado Road Projects undoubtedly warrant such action. In respect for your busy schedules, and the amount of correspondence you're surely receiving regarding this matter, I have summarized my letter into the following six bullet points: • We must preserve our downtown economy. o The magnitude and location of this commercial development project threatens to divert a large percentage of business away from the downtown. • We must preserve our spirit of community. o San Luis Obispo is known and loved for its small town feel, and thriving spirit of community, this project could forever alter that image. • Prime agricultural land is few and far between,and must be preserved. o Less than 1%of the available agricultural land on the central coast is considered prime, and this project will destroy many acres of that valuable natural resource. • We must set trends for sustainable development. o The SLO City Council must stress the necessity of environmentally responsible planning and development to preserve our natural and energy resources and to accommodate future growth. The SL Marketplace project EIR is not a complete and accurate analysis of the environmental impacts and future consequences of the development and does not fully comply with CEQA. • The Cal Poly community supports sustainable:development& responsible planning. o ASI,the Academic Senate,University President Warren Baker, and numerous faculty, staff,and students support sustainable development. • The Mayor and City Council of SLO should pass the vote to their citizens. o A decision should be postponed until a ballot measure can be voted on,and citizens can decide for themselves how they wish to see their community develop. The Cal Poly Perspective: As the Executive Vice President of ASI at Cal Poly, I must speak briefly on behalf my student body. At Cal Poly we're experiencing the development of a strong sustainability movement which endeavors to improve our way of life such that we are more self-sufficient :? COUNCIL T3 ' CDD DIR j i U CAO FIN DIR =RECEIVED I U ACAO L FIRE CHIEF ATTORNEY T PW DIR 1 CLERK/ORIO , POLICE CHF 1 7 D5PT H DS REC DIR I I T� UTIL DIR environmentally responsible,and conscious of the impact of our ways of life. The following actions have been taken by the campus community in support of sustainable development: • Academic Senate and ASI resolutions in support of Cal Poly signing the Talloires Declaration,an international accord among distinguished world universities setting a standard for sustainable development and environmentally responsible education within the institutions. • President Warren Baker made Cal Poly an official signatory of the Talloires Declaration. • The Academic Senate resolution in support of sustainable transportation. • ASI resolution regarding sustainable campus development. • ASI resolution in support of a CSU Sustainability Policy. • Students created a campus chapter of the California Student Sustainability Coalition. • The CSSC created the RenewCSU campaign for clean energy and sustainable development in the CSU,and is now part of a nationwide student and youth movement for clean energy. • Cal Poly and the Campus Sustainability Initiative hosted Amory Lovins and David Orr as keynote speakers encouraging environmentally responsible development. • In September,we will invite Will Toor,mayor of Boulder,CO, and chair of the environmental studies department of UC Boulder,to speak on our campus, and hopefully to the civic community as well about the dire need for sustainable development and transportation in this day and age. Overall, we are witnessing a growing trend of people becoming conscious of the impacts of their way of life on the environment,and are now more concerned with finding solutions to environmental problems than ever before. The SL Marketplace project,as shown in the EIR, creates many problems,and offers few if any solutions for our environment. Students enjoy the downtown,and they would rather see it thrive and expand rather than have another large retail center that does not offer the dynamic experience provided by our downtown. My fust concern is for the well being of our cherished local economy comprised of many small businesses residing in the downtown area. Approving the SL Marketplace project would be a slap in the face to the local downtown businesses that for years have nurtured the development of our unique,friendly downtown atmosphere. This new development project threatens to push them out of business. This is a risk is unnecessary and should be avoided. Sales tax dollars should not drive this decision and easy access to the proposed `big box' stores can be found easily by simply driving 20-30 miles north or south on highway 101? `The leaking of our sales tax' has been sufficiently contained already by the recent Home Depot and Costco developments. The San Luis Obispo downtown community is very rare. Our downtown is the gemstone of our city, and the catalyst for the thriving spirit of community this small town enjoys. You don't have to travel far to find a city that has already sold its `soul' to the big box developers with the end result being the loss of community,and death of their downtown. In addition,the marketplace project contradicts the goals of our land use element and the clear, measurable objectives of the circulation element, pg. 10 about future(use of alternative transport modes)modal split of transportation in the city of SLO. My hometown, Albany, OR, is nothing but big boxes,fast food chains, and large industrial factories. It's roughly the same size as SLO,yet it is largely void of a cohesive community spirit. This is in large part because there is no place for the community to interface outside of a large store, or the local mall. As strange as it sounds,a large part of our community spirit has been cultivated through the act of walking. Walking through downtown,window shopping, stopping into a small cafe, listening to an open mic,and randomly running into old and new friends. These are the benefits of our downtown that are indefinitely at-stake with the upcoming SL Marketplace proposal. Thousands of SLO residents love it here because of the small town feel,the nice downtown,and the fact that it doesn't have all the clich6 big box stores. Many of these people are either unaware of the SL Marketplace project, or are unable to find time to write a letter or attend a meeting to voice their concerns. For this reason,if the SLO City Council cannot see it in their interest to reject this project immediately,I strongly urge them to postpone any action until the matter can be placed on the ballot in November where all citizens can be informed,and have a chance to make their own decisions about the community in which they live. My second concern is regarding the urban development of prime agricultural land resources. We are part of a world community and are not isolated from the problems of scarcity that are increasingly degrading the quality of our world environment. As such, we must make decisions that are in the interests of the world community, not just our own municipal bank accounts, or those of property owners or developers. Weare approaching a pandemic shortage of cultivatable agricultural lands capable of providing food to the current world population. If we don't think about the future now, when will we start? We must preserve this valuable resource, and IF we annex the Dalidio property,we should do so responsibly and zone it as agricultural open space,not under the pretense of economic development that is more likely to cripple the local economy. The Dalidio property is comprised of some of the best soils in California. The Cropley Clay.Complex soils are among the richest and most rare in the state,and are only found in 0.8%of our county's agricultural land,and only 9.6% of that small percentage is considered prime. California is rapidly developing prime agricultural land,which is only 12%of our available agricultural land. Most of this land is found on the Central Coast where our mild climate allows us to raise many valuable crops,whereas the harsh central valley climate cannot support such crops. All of this information should have been provided to the city council in the draft EIR,but unfortunately the document failed to mention the rare value,and extreme importance of the prime soils on the Dalidio site. It is clear that the Dalidio land is an invaluable agricultural resource to our county,the state,and the world,and this should warrant some level of effort on the part of the city to preserve what is left of the State's prime agricultural land. My final concern is that SLO is not applying principles of sustainable development and responsible planning. The EIR for this project neglects several important considerations and reveals many severe implications this project would have on our environment. Appealing the Planning Commission's wise decision to reject the project,and certifying the EIR would not reflect responsible planning. We must plan and develop responsibly such that our livelihood is not at stake when our fuel finally runs out. We must reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and manufactured goods. We must cultivate a way of life,and a community that is conducive to the culture,in which we wish to live, which is peaceful,abundant,and healthy. The SL Marketplace is yet another roadblock on this path towards sustainability for the following reasons: • It is a car-oriented development and does not respect the need for equity in the modal split of local transportation. • Its poor site location requires the majority of SLO residents to drive 2-5 miles to reach their desired location,furthering our dependence on fossil fuel. • There is no safe path of access to the site for pedestrians from the downtown and local residential areas. The site is surrounded by freeway interchanges, 5-7 lane arterial thoroughfares,an extremely dangerous and narrow overpass,and does not provide adequate safety measures for pedestrian crossings;or for disability access from other regions of town. • The placement of`big box' stores in our small town economy induces the need for manufactured products shipped from hundreds or thousands of miles away,that are largely made of toxic plastics and chemicals,are designed to be disposable or obsolete in a matter of years, and for the most part will end up in landfills in a matter of months or years. • There is no room for a community in a development such as this where people are fighting vehicles for the right of way, with no gathering spaces, little to no affordable or market rate housing,and minimal social/entertainment hubs. Conclusion: In accordance with the many points mentioned above, I strongly urge the Mayor and City Council of San Luis Obispo to reject the Dalidio project in its entirety. Please do not appeal the planning commissions rejection of the project. Please do not certify the faulty draft EHL Please do not annex the Dalidio property UNLESS it is zoned as agricultural open space. Vote with your citizens, support the way of life they want to continue,and do not approve a project of this nature and magnitude because whether or not you want it to, it WILL set a trend of`big box' development, and in the future,the right decision will be even harder to make. Be strong NOW; Support the citizens of SLO,and VOTE NO! Respectfully, Tylor Middlestadt ASI Executive Vice President Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo RED FILE - ME ING AGENDA RECEIVED ATE IT # JUL 0 2 2004 Al & Aurora Lipper 585 Luneta Drive LC CIT( COUNCIL San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 slo@lipperfamily.org (805) 544-4636 City Council of San Luis Obispo 990 Palm Street /u _ 4c� San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 'J CGUNC1 , CDD DIR CO FIN DIR f - ACAO FIRE CHIEF July I, 2004 ATTORNEY PW DIR ' CLERK/0RIG POUCE CHF I D T„HEADS REC DIR 15 Dear City Council Members, UTIL DiR HR D!R We are writing to express concern regarding the additional introduction of big box stores into the area of San Luis Obispo. We have lived in San Luis for twelve years and work in the community as professionals. Al )kvns and operates an engineering firm in San Luis Obispo. In addition,we both teach technical Courses at Cal Poly. We have conducted a detailed study (data sources cited in appendix) on the short and long teen impacts of bringing big box stores into communities similar to San Luis Obispo. In light of the current issue regarding the consideration of"The Marketplace", we believe you may End the following data of particular interest. We have compiled die following facts that are especially relevant to this issue. I. A comprehensive statistical study shows the effects of big box stores becomes apparent five to ten years later,when the newness and freshness has worn off, leaving 40% vacancies,weak traffic flows, and slum-like appearances. (Source: Measuring the Economic and Sociological Impact of the Me a-Relail Chains on.Small F_nlerprise in Urban, Suburban, and Fjo-al Communities) 2. The state of Iowa lost 300 grocery stores, 560 grocery stores, and 300 building supply stores in a ten year period following the introduction of big box-type stores. (Source: The Care Aguirnsl Spund) 3. On average, a 150,000 sq. ft. big box store costs the city$70,200 per year more than it will bring in revenue. A specialty retail store brings the city $326 tax income per 1000 square feet of store. A business park yields $112 tax income per 1000 sq. ft., a hotel $35 tat income per 1000-sq. ft., fast food restaurant creates a $5,168 per 1000 sq. ft. net city deficit, a big box retail store creates a$468 net city deficit per 1000 sq. ft. Big box stores have the largest square footage. (A typical big box store brings the city $554 per sq. ft per year in tat revenue, but costs die city $948 per sq. ft. per year in associated expenses, including police services and public works resulting in a net loss for the city). (lischler&Associates: A Fiscal /nrpuct Slrrdy of Bi g Box Slorej) . Reference item #9 below. 4. Chain stores contribute far less to the local economy than independent businesses. They do add retail sales, shopping options, new jobs and tax revenue. They also take away business from other stores, eliminate jobs from other businesses and encourage the degradation of community "downtown" areas. An average of 84% of revenue shifted away from locally-owned businesses in a typical town once Wal-Mart opened. A new Target Page 1 of 4 ' I 1 NI provided an average of 177 new jobs at the cost of 148 lost jobs when Target opened. However the jobs gained were typically low wage/low benefit jobs where those which were lost had provided higher wages and more benefits. (Source: Big Box Sludy). As such low-income jobs become necessary,low-rent housing districts or slums develop to provide for these worker's needs. 5. Chain stores spend only 15% of their revenue in the state — 85% of chain store revenue leaves the state immediately. Locally owned businesses spend over 70% within California. Local stores keep profits circulating within the local economy. They also support a variety of other local businesses: banking locally, advertising on local radio, use local accountants and printers, etc. Chain stores centralize these functions at a remote head office, keeping local investment and spending minimal. The favor national radio advertising, big national banks, and most of that income dollar leaves the community immediately. (Source. The Economic Impact of Locally Onined Businesses vs. Chains. A Case Sludy) G. Big box stores lower the value of other commercial and residential property in the long term (5 — 15 years), reducing public revenues. They also require the use of public tai support for revitalizing rundown core areas that they created. (.Source: The Case Against S J�rcrnd) 7. Big box stores do not intend to compete: they aim to be the only game in town. Big box stores will initially sell products well below acquisition costs to force local merchants out of business (Wal-Mart opens by selling a gallon ofmilk for 250). A chain store canafford to operate a new store at a loss,while local merchants cannot. Once big box stores eliminate local competition, prices start to rise. Target, Home Depot,Lowe's and WalMart vary their prices by region as much as 25°h,. ( orure. The Homelou n Advantage (y Stacey Mitchell) 8. Chain stores tend to close up when economic conditions become unfavorable. They are often used as medium-term investments (5-15 years), which economically consume a community that they initially appeared to support. Once the surrounding community has been "used up", they abandon the location. A Target in Iowa closed after only six yews. There are 330 abandoned Wal-Marts nationwide and over 4,000 abandoned shopping malls in America. Local stores can be firmly rooted in the community and are unlikely to move away and do their best to weather economic storms. (Source: The Care Againsl S rarvlJ 9. The fiscal benefits of big box stores are lower than they first appear. The additional tax revenue generated by the big boli stores will detract from existing businesses elsewhere in the city. (Source: Big Box Study: Prepared fortiie Brrsinesr Council of Orange Corrnly) Bigbox stores set the stage for higher taxes on community residents by creating developments that are costly to serve: requiring new roads, water, and sewer burdens, additional police protection, and other public services. (Source: Measuring the Economic and Sociological Impact of the Mega-Relail Chains on Small Enlerprise in Urban, Suburban, and Rrrral Comnurnilies). Reference item #3 above. 10. Two nationwide hardware stores (one is Home Depot) control 31% of the national hardware market. This generally implies the elimination of any locally-owned hardware ,stores in a region. (Source: The Homelou n Adaurrlage try Slacg Milchell and The Case Against .S�rnndJ I 11. The shift from local to absentee-owned stores means that business decisions are no longer made locally by members of the community. Decisions which impact the community are not made by people who have a person�d interest in the community. (Source: The/nrpact of Chain Stores on Community—2000 APA Proceedings) Page 2 of 4 12. Local merchants generate substantially greater net local and tax revenue income than chain retailers (only 15% of chain revenue remains in the state, mostly as payroll). Local merchants spend a much larger potion (70%) of total net revenue on local labor, they keep their profits in the local community, and they provide strong support for local artists and authors, creating further local economic impact. (Source: Economic Impact Analysis: Local Merchants res. Chain Retailerr) 13. A new Wal-Mart opens every day during the year 2004. Wal-Mart currently holds 7% of a $1.4 trillion retail market. (Source: The Case Againit Sprawl) A common strategy used by Wal-Mart is to take over existing box stores (i.e. Target, K-Mart, etc.) and convert them to Wal-Mart supercenters. This often avoids the need for much of the approval process normally required for a Wal-Mart to enter a community. Wal-Mart supercenters are often conversions of existing discount retail stores. The City Council should carefully consider the possibility of the future conversion to a Wal-Mart, and any following negative economic, fiscal, or land use impacts;when approving big box discount retail projects. (Source: BiS Box Study: Prepared for the Business Corrncil of Orange Coarnty) 14. America has more shopping malls than high schools. When 5,900 California teenagers were asked what their favorite activity was, over 65% said: shopping. Conclusions and Recommendations: Based on the aforementioned data, it is apparent that while big box stores seem to promise increased economic growth for a community, this is only true for the short term. In the longer term (5— 15 years) big box stores typically create economic deficits for the community in which they reside, destroy local businesses and significantly degrade the social character of these communities. Big box stores (Target and K-Mart stores especially) also provide footholds for supercenterssuch as Wal-Mart to make their way into our community with minimal effort. Please review the documents referenced in the appendix for additional details on these impacts,above and beyond those presented here. Based on die data contained in this report and the above conclusions,we ask that you carefully consider these potentially serious impacts before deciding on the present issues concerning"The Marketplace". Thank you for your time. Sincerely, 0 Aurora and Al Lipper Page 3 of 4 Appendix References I. \,Ieasuring the Economic and Sociological Impact of the Mega-Retail Discount Chain on Small Enterprise in Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities (Executive Summary only—full report over 250 pages long! This report is the one used most in lawsuits.) (LALww.lawn-i-,tll.com/rp-,L/M-,L;hil,,.Iitm) 2. Big Box Sprawl (And How To Control It) (www.nationaltmst.org/issues/smartgrowth/hig_box sprawl.pdt) 3. The Economic Impact of Locally Owned Businesses vs. Chains: A Case Study (w-W%-V-newrules.org/retail/midco-,ist,;rudy.p-dt) 4. Local Ownership Pays Off for Communities (reclalmdemocracy.org/independent—business/local ownership—pays.html) .5. Virginia Policies that Contribute to Sprawl: An Agenda for Change (vww.nationaltrust.org/issues/prince -reporr.pd� 6. Fiscal Impact Study Shows Big Box Stores Net Loser for Town (www.sprawl-busters.com/search.phn?readstory=1146) 7. Preservation and Revitalization: Sprawl Connections (wtiow.smartgrowthamerica.org/preservation.h rml) 8. The Case Against Sprawl (ww�v_spawl-husters_.c_om czaseagrainsts.rawl html) 9. Better Models for Commercial Development (www.conservationfund.org/?article=2011) 10. Better Models for Development in California (www.conservationfund.org/?article=2011) I I.Inglewood Voters Say NO to the Walmartization of America: A Report of Victory (Lxav�v.ufcw770.org/walm-,irt.litm) 12. The Economic Benefits of Parks and Open Spaces: A Study (wyvw.tpl.org/content documents/tx H-GBenefits.pol) 13. The Big Box Study Prepared for die Orange County Business Council: Executive Summary (this full report over 120 pages long!) (www.coaliriont1c.org/bia box study.htm) 14. The Impact of Chain Stores on Community - 2000 APA Proceedings (www.asu.edu/caed/proceedings00/N,IITCHELL/mitchell.h rm) 1.5. 1_.conomic Impact Analysis: Local iiklerchants vs. Chain Retailers (1, -, v.civiceconomics.com/]Tamar Retail Analysis Executive Summary.pdo 16. The Impact of Big Box Retail Chains on Small Businesses (%v-,vw.msuhilling;a.edu/c-,icr/bix%201)()x`/`20repnrt.htm ((lick on the above);)ebsile links forThe docnmenls lined.) Page 4 of 4 1 ED FILE RICHARD SCHMIDT MEETING AGENDA A„ _ IT€ISI 4 1291 112 Broad Street, San Luis Obispo, X3405 (805) 544-4247 July 2,2004 10 CO' ;L I] CDD SIR L' CAC LT FIN DIR City Council Re: Marketplace Mall ACAO ATTORNEY I;,, FIRE PW DCHIEF City of San Luis Obispo D CL.dRIU0RIG POLICE CHF O DrPT -i EADB41 REC DIR Dear Council Members: CI _1°l6 RTIC Dari r 4 I-in DIn urge you to disapprove the Marketplace project. There are so many reasons you should reject this proposal, I can but list a few here. Short of that, if you are absolutely blind to the design welfare of this community and are determined to move ahead, I urge you to postpone granting any development entitlement for the very important reasons indicated below. 1.This is quite simply an awful project. I've seen good shopping malls. I've seen mediocre shopping malls. I've seen bad shopping malls. This blight is positively the WORST MALL I'VE EVER SEEN.Anywherel And in our townl Have we taken leave of our senses? Just how awful, in only one of its awful aspects,the Marketplace will be was painstakingly explained last week by the city's economic consultant. Meaning to contrast it harmlessly to downtown, Mr. Kotin said the Marketplace will be pedestrian unfriendly. It will be so pedestrian unfriendly, he went on,that shopers will have to drive from Target to Lowes. It will be, he said, a place nobody will want to linger. And my mind was churning as I heard this: •This is absolutely crazy. Why in the woruld would we want to design and build such an awful place in our town? • How in the world does such an awful place contribute to reinforcing the uniqueness of our special place?A uniqueness every one of you has pledged to protect?A uniqueness every one of you has said you understand and value?Why?Why?Why? •The city's General Plan is based on concepts like pedestrian-friendly layout and minimizing driving.We've always insisted in the past that additions to the city incorporate features to promote those ends.What part of this awful Marketplace development contributes to promoting those ends? It doesn't. It is entirely autocentric, as Kotin pointed out. 2. The scale of this project.Is awful, and is completely inappropriate to San Luis Obispo. It is a completely different scale from anything that exists here at present. It will destroy both our image, and our sense of being a uniquely and sensitively scaled town.The Marketplace is the product of a total lack of design sensitivity to anything other than greed. One council member's fascination with the"granddaddy of all power centers"in Tustin is inappropriately used to justify the Marketplace in our town. Have any of the rest of you visited that dreadful place? I have. Once. I'll not go back. It makes the overwhelming Gilroy factory outlets seem sweet and gentle by comparison. It is a total jangling assault on the senses, it is inhuman, Its very existence Is a crime against humanity. People shop in such places not because they want to, but because they are given no alternative.Why would we want such a place to be the model for anything in San Luis Obispo? How would it shape our humanity?Alienation,or involvement and gentle appreciation of the good life?This Is a very serious Issue of commnity quality and our psychic legacy to future generations seemingly being Ignored. A shopping center!"SII be scaled to a community's unique sense of Itself. Faced with pressure for a suburban mail, look what Santa Barbara did. Paseo Nuevo.A wonderful,fun, humane place. It complements, not obliterates, the city's sense of scale and quality of life. It works with, not against,the historic downtown. Why do we remain so design insensitive when we have such an appropriately sensitive example so close at hand?Why do we look to the spra`wr�,C3rartga-Qoucttrfor justification for what's done here? None of this makes any sense. JUL 0> 2004 Page 1 SLO CITY COUNCIL 1 3. The fiscal rationale for the city's promotion of the Marketplace is a financial house of cards resting upon quicksand. it Is utter economic nonsense,and fiscal Irresponsibility. A."Leakage"is nonsensical mythology trotted out whenever convenient. It is a concept with little merit. I "leak"all the time, as one day I shop in SLO, another in Pismo, another in Sacramento,another in Paso,another in Santa Maria, etc.We all do this. It works in every direction. People from Santa Maria,believe it or not, leak to SLO,though you'll never hear the apostles of"closing the leakage"mention that demonstrable fact.We all leak to mail order and intemet sales. We shop where we want to shop at a given time. We will continue to do so no matter what we have in SLO.Shopping is not a rational geographically-determined activity. Leakage will not go away, and probably will not lessen,with construction of the Marketplace. No planning decision should be based on a concept as leaky as"leakage.w B. No new money will be allocated to shopping in the broader community simply because the Marketplace Is built.There is only a fixed amount of money spent on shopping. The city naively believes it can draw in money being spent in other jurisdictions. In the process, if this actually happens, it will hurt those other jurisdictions.They will react in kind, building new malls to draw back the`Yost"sales.This is a competitive race to the bottom. Malls thrown up just to draw traffic off the freeway to an anonymous,unpleasant place,don't live for long. As long as you're competing In the freeway-oriented mass mall market, In the long term you'll be a loser. Dead malls and dead box stores litter the California landscape.Today's sales tax marvel becomes in a short time tomorrow's community blight. Until you realize,as Santa Barbara did,that you can only win in the long term by promoting something uniquely vauable to people and their experience of life,you'll be a loser. How long will the Marketplace thrive? Mr. Bird's last venture here thrived for two or three years.Then it became a corpse littering our retail landscape. It, like the Marketplace, had nothing of lasting value to offer to the human experience. C. The sales tax justification for the city's promoting the Marketplace Is thus very unwise fiscal policy. The city ties itself financially to a development that will not prosper in the long term. How long does the city tie itself to this development?20 years?30 years?The public does not know because entitlements for development are being considered prior to completion of a development agreement which would enumerate the financial entanglements of the city with the developer. What we do know is that it is naive to believe, given the cycle of prosperity for such developments,that the sales tax Income flow will last long enough to pay off the obligations the city assumes. D. Finally, since the people are being told we have to endure this awful development so the city can be enriched by its sales tax revenues, it will probably come as a big surprise to the public to learn that the city proposes to rebate to the developer up to 50%of those tax revenues for an indeterminate, but lengthy, number of years.This Is the sort of"economic development"arrangement podunk towns In the rural South make with developers because they are so desperate they feel they must. San Luis Obispo is not desperate.This town Is one of the most desirable places on the face of the earth to develop.We do not need to ape our lessers In the rural South by entering into this sort of hypocritical and silly agreement with a developer. It is an irresponsible giveaway of public funds. Furthermore, it directly violates the general plan's dictum that development shall pay its own way. 1 call upon the council to terminate all consideration of this tax rabat -to the developer. 4. The council is extremely unwise to consider approving Marketplace land use entitlements prior to consummating Its development agreement. Once entitlements are granted,you cannot haft this development.Yet you still have not tied down the details of who is to pay for what, how, and when--that will be in the development agreement and accompanying Mello Roos District creation. What if negotiations break down between now and when you consider the development agreement?What N the developer decides he has what he wants—entitlements—, and just pulls out of those negotiations?What if the Mello Roos District creation is successfully challenged?Can you trust that any of this will not happen?Yet once you've granted entitlements,the project can proceed. Page 2 The developer is only charged with paying for a portion of the overpass(based apparently upon a very lowball cost figure experts say could actually be twice as much as publicized by the city).After receiving entitlements the developer could cut the city a check for that amount and demand construction permits.You'd lose in court if you resisted, and you'd be on the hook for the remainder of the cost of the overpass,which the EIR requires be built. Doing this would amount fo financial malfeasance on the part of any council member who voted for such an arrangement, and there are heavy personal financial sanctions for malfeasance of office. Don't put yourselves— and the city's taxpayers--in this dangerous position. Don't approve entitlements before you have a development agreement In front of you. 5. 1 fail to comprehend how you can responsibly enter into long-term financial arrangements with a developer who has stiffed the city under other agreements in the recent past. Why Is this not fiscally reckless and Irresponsible?As a taxpayer, I am very concerned what you may be getting all taxpayers into with this sort of arrangement. 6. In conclusion,there Is a way out of this mess that should lay the issue of developing the Dalidio farm with a shopping center to rest once and for all. Here is my suggestion. This oroiect cuts to the heart and soul of what this community is and what its values are. This is too important a community issue to be decided through private negotiations with a developer and perfunctory and well-stage- managed public hearings and backscenes maneuvering. The people should be heard from directly. if you will not simply reject the Marketplace, please do the following: A. Continue the items to a date uncertain.. B. Place two items on the November ballot: 1. Shall the city approve the Marketplace mall.Yes or No. 2.Shall the city designate the general plan land use for the Class 1 prime farmland between Madonna Road and Highway 101 as conservation open space/agriculture?Yes or No. When the people have spoken, any action you take in concert with their decision will be justified. Thank you. Sincerely, 9iaXL9C11(1 Richard Schmidt P.S. Let's set the record straight on whose fault the failure of Mr. Bird's previous mall might have been. Propagandists for the current project would have the world believe the city made it fail. This is revisionist history. For the record, as you can see from the attached New York Times article shortly after that project's approval, Bird's people were trumpeting far and wide the brilliance of their anchor plus hotel scheme.They said it was"on the leading edge,"and"We're sure it is[a good idea]."You'd not be telling the Times this sort of thing if you believed your center was doomed due to something done in advance by the city! Note the absolute hubris expressed in the article. Compare that to the hubris of the current application. Sounds pretty much the same. Remember what happened last time. Why will an awful race-to-the-bottom out-of-community-character project fare better this time? You can save this community from another disaster by just saying NO to this project. 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All postcards will be placed in the Council reading file should Council Members choose to review each card individually. JC Rrc .LHi� Dear City Council Members: Enough is enough.I am tired of traveling to '7,.. Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop.San Luis Obispo � 7 4rket residents want reasonable access to stores like Target, Old Navy and Whole Foods.Please move forward with the San Luis Marketplace now. Signature Name. "nT�4 r-o&AAVQ ) Address: V A And at.1, city.• ala� n UK]03H say3�1dd0 �H030r1Od CIH07iHTIC Fill]Md AENK.LLV d31H0 a&i 0:'Cy HIa Nid 210� Hla Caa # Dear SLO City Council Members: — 7/1/2004 Enough is enough. 1 am tired of traveling to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop. San Luis Obispo residents want reasonable access to stores like Target, Old Navy and Whole Foods. Name City Comments 1 Marilyn Cargill Arroyo Grande Work and shop in SLO z Rosalia Vega Arroyo Grande 3 Brian Bowen Arroyo Grande 4 Jeff Silva Arroyo Grande s Peggie F. Vance Arroyo Grande s Katy Crownover Arroyo Grande 7 Sarah Tomasetti Arroyo Grande s Rick Pierce Arroyo Grande s Ben Thompson JArroyo Grande 10 Gloria Lawaf Arroyo Grande 11 M. Krause Arroyo Grande 12 Rolland L. Bruntz Arroyo Grande 13 jAngela Maresa-Boyle Arroyo Grande 14 Ja Boyle Arroyo Grande 15 Tom Hopkins Arroyo Grande 16 Radel Vola Arroyo Grande 17 William Rasey Arroyo Grande 18 Margaret Allan Arroyo Grande 19 Natividad S Vela Jr. Arroyo Grande zo Janice Bruntz Arroyo Grande 21 Bob Keeffe Arroyo Grande 22 Dennis Allan Arroyo Grande 23 Laurie McHale Arroyo Grande 24 Charles R. McHale Arroyo Grande zs Jeannie Keeffe Arroyo Grande 26 Darcy Murphy Arroyo Grande 27 Robert M. Murphy Arroyo Grande 2e Vincent Allan Arroyo Grande 29 Julie A. Dodson Arroyo Grande 3o Diane Franeis Arroyo Grande 31 Christine Lee Berichor Arroyo Grande 32 Michael F. Cannon Arroyo Grande 33 Jackie Moore Arroyo Grande 34 Tom Holbrook Arroyo Grande 35 Nina Jones Arroyo Grande 36 Mary Jean Cruiets Arroyo Grande Work in SLO. 37 Robyn L. Ulber Arroyo Grande 3e BarneyR. Northcote Arroyo Grande 39 Karl Hovanitz Arroyo Grande 4o Heidi Henson Arroyo Grande 41 Gloria Northcote Arroyo Grande 42 Cherie Krauk Atascadero 43 Marcella Tate Atascadero Work in San Luis Obispo 44 Scott Holden Atascadero 45 Shelby Hoffinan Atascadero 46 John Thomas Atascadero 47 Yun-M. Bang Atascadero i Dear SLD City Council Members: — 7/1/2004 Enough is enough. I am tired of traveling to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop. San Luis Obispo residents want reasonable access to stores like Target, Old Nary and Whole Foods. 48 Sara Christian Atascadero 49 Mark Chastain Atascadero so Elzena Thomas Atascadero Work in SLO and do all my 51 Clover Robinson Atascadero shopping there. fiz 1 Donna Goebel Atascadero 53 Anita White Atascadero 54 Jean Ingram Atascadero ss James Waver Atascadero 56 Laurie Thomas Atascadero 57 Laura Murphy Avila Beach sfi lWyatt Mezlo Avila Beach ss Fank Mello Jr. Avila Beach 6o Harold Martin Avila Beach 61 Nadine Martin Avila Beach 62 Richard Neumann Avila Beach 63 Kathleen Brown Cambria Shop in SLO! 64 James R Adams Cambria 6s Tim Winsor Cambria 66Katie Winsor Cambria 67 Helen Reis Cambria 68 Al La ins Cambria 69 Michael Beauchamp Cambria 70 Caryle D. Kuykendall Cambria 71 Thomas S. Watterson Cambria n Wayne Waldrip Ca ucos Shop in SLO! 73 Sharon Waldrip Ca ucos Shop in SLO! 74 Lori Parsons Ca ucos 76 Michael L. Parsons Ca ucos 76 Ralph Wessel Ca ucos n Evelyn Wessel Ca ucos 78 Bill Hand Ca ucos 79 Christine Peterson Ca ucos 8o Barbie Molnar Ca ucos 81 Tina Abercrombie Creston 82 Harry R Clark Grover Beach 83 Michael Rubinson Grover Beach 84 Ron Arnoldsen Grover Beach es lYanis B. A uilera Grover Beach 86 Ismael Aniza Bautista Grover Beach 87 Debbie Phenicie Grover Beach 8 Carla Snowden Grover Beach 89 1 Laura L. Kennedy Grover Beach 2 i Dear SLO City Council Members: V 2004 Enough is enough. I am tired of traveling to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop. San Luis Obispo residents want reasonable access to stores like Target, Old Navy and Whole Foods. How can they say, stores like Target would hurt the downtown? There is no similarity between the downtown stores and Target. Madonna Plaza has not hurt the go Sharon Adams Grover Beach downtown. 911T. Maxwell Keller III Harmon 92 Mike A. Galvani Harmon ss Becky Keller Harmon 94 L. W. Schaefer Jr. Los Osos ss Christina Eggman Los Osos ss John O'Connor Los Osos e7 Linda Kirn ILos Osos SLO needs additional shopping!! My wife and I currently shop at Target and Walmart in Paso ss Joseph R. Decker Los Osos Robles. ss Bob Osborn Los Osos ,00 Ken Rhodes Los Osos ,o, Veronica McLain Los Osos 102 Kathleen Torcaso Los Osos ,o3 Mark Torcaso Los Osos ,o4 Deborah Myers Los Osos ,os Herbert McEllen Los Osos ,os Linda Mueller Los Osos ,o7 M. Simkins Los Osos Will bring more money to SLO- ,os Brenda Sue Stewart Los Osos great idea, make it happen! ,og Bree McCool Los Osos „o Mike Mobley Los Osos ,,, Jacquelyn Kinavey Los Osos 112 W. Doug Ruoff Jr.. Los Osos 113 Carolyn Barenz Los Osos 114 Carolyn McCall Los Osos „s Vicky Mobley Los Osos „s Chris Mastin Los Osos 117 Peter Ward Morro Ba 11e Richard Cobbs Morro Bay Attempt to do my shopping in SLO „g Kevin Pisor Morro Ba 120Melissa Harris Morro Ba 121 1 William Pisor Morro Ba 122 Toni Pisor Morro Ba 123 Ben Ma eda Morro Ba 124 Arthur Pisor Morro Ba 12s Dian Axelson Morro Ba 126 Dawn Borst Morro Ba 127 Delien Brencart. Morro Ba ,2e Jefferson L. Anderson II Morro Ba 3 Dear SLO City Council Members: 711/2004 Enough is enough. 1 am tired of traveling to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop. San Luis Obispo residents want reasonable access to stores like Target, Old Nary and Whole Foods. 129 Amalia A. Mason Morro Ba ,3o Matthew Funkelton Morro Ba 131 Pat Garrison Morro Ba ,32 Carla Borchard Morro Ba ,33 Lori French Morro Ba 134 Kathy Hendrickson Morro Bay 13s Bill Maddox Morro Ba 136E. Arbogast Morro Ba ,3i Ashley Victor Morro Ba 13a Robert Victor Morro Ba ,3s Melody Burns Maddox Morro Ba 14o Josephine U. Sihota Morro Ba 141 IJanet Whitlock Morro Ba ,42 Constance H. Preston Morro Ba ,43 Monica Ohlhausen Morro Ba ,44 Ron McCutcheon Morro Ba ,4s Aimee Lee Mendonca Morro Ba ,4a Shannon Marley Morro Ba 147Elaine Giannini Morro Ba ,4a Peter A. Hendrix Morro Ba 149 Hayley Borchard Morro Ba ,so Steve Victor Morro Ba ,s, Ellen Pool Morro Ba I go downtown 1-2 times a year. But travel to Santa Maria way more than I should have to. Downtown is not family friendly! Parking meters are obnoxious! And we need more selection for 152 Jeanine Victor Morro Bay children's clothes shopping 153 Stephanie Thies Nipomo 154 Veronica Flores Nipomo ,ss Martha Molina Nipomo ,ea W. Caspar Nipomo 157 Billie Perez Nipomo ,sa Kim Rugg Nipomo 159 Steve Severanu Nipomo ,ao I Laura Slaughter Nipomo 161 Linda Taft Oceano 162 Laura Tuchten Paso Robles Work and do most of my shopping 163 Gill Holden Paso Robles in SLO- more shopping needed! 164 Brent Holden Paso Robles ,as Doug Delross Paso Robles Enough non-sense! ,sa Tedd Perry Paso Robles 167 Jack Foster Paso Robles ,sa Irvin B. Eastin Paso Robles ,ss Frank Uribe Paso Robles 4 Dear SLO City Council Members: — 7/1/2004 Enough is enough. I am tired of traveling to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop. San Luis Obispo residents want reasonable access to stores like Target, Old Navy and Whole Foods. no Monika Smart Paso Robles 171 Suzi Thomas Paso Robles ,7z Mark Korenko Paso Robles 173Fren Lanson Paso Robles i74 Mary Fester Paso Robles ,7s Allen Mills Paso Robles ns Robert Whiltington Paso Robles 177 Danielle Chabot Paso Robles 17e Ben Mills Paso Robles 179 Barbara LoCoco Pismo Beach ,so Joseph LoCoco Pismo Beach 181 Ken Keller Pismo Beach ,a2 Bonnie Keller Pismo Beach 183 Dorothy Gearhart Pismo Beach ,s4 Teresa M. Bruce Pismo Beach Work in SLO. ,es Scott Bruce Pismo Beach ,as Mar aret Budd Pismo Beach ,s7 Kathleen Ramirez San Luis Obispo 188 Gregory Morris San Luis Obispo ,as I Deiondre Tafolla San Luis Obis o ,so Michael Morris San Luis Obispo 191 Charles Haley San Luis Obispo 192 Anette Moerman San Luis Obispo 193Steve Soderstrom San Luis Obispo 194M. Vieira San Luis Obispo 195Elizabeth A. Clark San Luis Obispo 196Estelle Balatti San Luis Obispo 197 Gerda Culwell San Luis Obispo ,se William W. Detering San Luis Obispo ,ss Anne Slate San Luis Obispo zoo Robert H. Grant San Luis Obispo 2o, Dale Price San Luis Obis o 202 I Alexa Owens San Luis Obispo 2w Merl n Van San Luis Obispo zoo Tom Jefferis San Luis Obispo We want to shop in SLO! los Sherw Porter San Luis Obispo los Peter Colombo San Luis Obispo 207Jean Seitz San Luis Obispo Zoe Rhonda Mayeda San Luis Obispo los Henry S. Cattaneo San Luis Obispo z,o G..Hueschel San Luis Obispo 211 Stephen Watson San Luis Obispo 212 Pat Koehler San Luis Obispo 213 Preston Collie San Luis Obispo 214 Ep Dunati San Luis Obispo z,s Loren Birra San Luis Obispo This has been held up too_ long! 216 Joshua Peet San Luis Obispo 217Mary Ann Birra I San Luis Obispo 5 Dear SLO City Council Members: - — 7/1/2004 Enough is enough., I am tired of traveling to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop. San Luis Obispo residents want reasonable access to stores like Target, Old Navy and Whole Foods. Ridiculous length of time dragging 216 Jean Mavoni San Luis Obispo this out! 219 Fkaren Gallagher San Luis Obispo 22o Randy Pybag San Luis Obispo 221 Dana R. Hartwell San Luis Obispo 222 Jack Dewar San Luis Obispo 223 Richard F. Pando San Luis Obispo 224 Zeta Du Barry San Luis Obispo 225 Maria D. Sweasey San Luis Obispo 226 Kathie Haley San Luis Obispo 227 Katie Hopkins San Luis Obispo 22s Michael Frucht San Luis Obispo 229 Dorothy E. Pate San Luis Obispo 23o David R. Alford San Luis Obispo 231 Andrew Cone San Luis Obispo 232 Felton Ferrini San Luis Obispo 233 Kathie Williams San Luis Obispo 234 Don Williams San Luis Obispo 235 Hal Sweasey San Luis Obispo 236Kevin D. Morris San Luis Obispo 237 Cathy Le Moine San Luis Obispo 23e Ross De Chombson San Luis Obispo 239 Lee Balatti San Luis Obispo zoo Albert M. Siornetta San Luis Obispo 241 Timothy Romano San Luis Obispo 24210. 42 O. Magallanes San Luis Obispo 243 Shirani Ranasin he San Luis Obispo 244 Greg Somers ISan Luis Obispo 245 Susan A. Cueto San Luis Obispo 246 Andy Schuler San Luis Obispo 247 Julie Schuler San Luis Obispo 248JArny Golladay San Luis Obispo 249 Gladys L. Swanson San Luis Obispo 25o Fred P. Ratliff Sen. San Luis Obispo 251 Barbara Haut San Luis Obispo 252 Rob n Adams San Luis Obispo 253 Jeanne Potter San Luis Obispo 254 Zelda Erden i San Luis Obispo 255 J. H. Lewis San Luis Obispo 256 B. A. Mavino San Luis Obispo 257 Dennis Howland San Luis Obispo 256 D. D. Kine San Luis Obispo 259 Ken Demor San Luis Obispo 26o Kathy Eppright San Luis Obispo 261 Megan Lillich San Luis Obispo 262 Michael Laidlow San Luis Obispo 263 Shelli Thompson San Luis Obis o 264 Jennifer Pitts San Luis Obispo 6 Dear SLO City Council Members: 7/1/2004 Enough is enough. I am tired of traveling to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop. San Luis Obispo residents want reasonable access to stores like Target, Old Navy and Whole Foods. 265Patsy Pando San Luis Obispo 266 Carrie Lane San Luis Obispo 267 Janet G. Dieli San Luis Obispo 268 Nelda Atchisow San Luis Obispo 2ss Janice Somers San Luis Obispo 27o Melissa M. McGann San Luis Obispo 271 David Cannon San Luis Obispo 2721 Laura Stevens San Luis Obispo 273 Nan Salmon San Luis Obispo 274 Lean A. D'Ambrosio San Luis Obispo M Steven Soenke San Luis Obispo rrs Mary Ann Scalise San Luis Obispo 277 Bonnie Blanchard San Luis Obispo 27SIClayton E. Fluctt San Luis Obispo 279 Sandy Morris San Luis Obispo I have lived here all my life -46 years. I really want this shopping project passed. It crazy to drive 30+ miles for decent shopping. 280Linda Schmid San Luis Obispo Also the overpass is a great idea! 281 Jeanette Hammitt Clements San Luis Obispo 282 John Kerr San Luis Obispo 283 Scott Wall San Luis Obispo 284 Matt Arnold San Luis Obispo tae Lisa Toke San Luis Obispo My wife drives to Santa Maria to Target all the time.We would love to save the drive and have one in 28s John W. Evans San Luis Obispo town. We need this Prado Road 2e Dan Hutchinson San Luis Obispo Interchange. About time you did what is right. 14 years are not only ridiculous but disgraceful. 82 years mature, and seen what you outsiders have 288 Jose h J. Navoni San Luis Obispo done! 289 Rosemary Jordan San Luis Obispo 290 Melvin A. de la Motte Jr. San Luis Obispo 291 Juanita Sheam San Luis Obispo 292 Joanne A. Burke San Luis Obispo 293 AI Kelley San Luis Obispo 2941 Lynn Kelley San Luis Obispo 29s Nicole Faubion San Luis Obispo 29s Judith Loa San Luis Obispo 297 Robert Hather San Luis Obispo 298 Walt Potter San Luis Obispo 299 Ray Bikenly San Luis Obispo 300 Kenny M. Smith San Luis Obispo 3o, Ter N. Taylor ISan Luis Obispo 7 Dear SLO City Council Members: — 7/112004 Enough is enough. I am tired of traveling to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop. San Luis Obispo residents want reasonable access to stores like Target, Old Navy and Whole Foods. 302 Jamie Wright San Luis Obispo 303Mary Daily San Luis Obispo 3o4 Theresa Peters San Luis Obispo 3o5 Ronald Peters . San Luis Obispo m6 Per C. Mathiesen San Luis Obispo 3o7i Isabel A. Scott San Luis Obispo we B. MacGrebor San Luis Obispo 309 Walt Behn San Luis Obispo 310 Diane Behn San Luis Obispo 311 Marie Savier San Luis Obispo 312E. Eppent San Luis Obispo 3131 Ruth Nimeh San Luis Obispo 314 Kevin D. Williams San Luis Obispo 315 Max Jordan San Luis Obispo 316 Emily Schwartz San Luis Obispo 317 Don L. Hathaway San Luis Obispo 318 Barbara Navoni San Luis Obispo 319 Rosemary Jordan San Luis Obispo 3201 Kelly A Pando San Luis Obispo 321 Mare Barinka San Luis Obispo 322 Mark Wheeler San Luis Obispo 323 Carol Hathaway San Luis Obispo 324Kelly L. Williams San Luis Obispo 325 Nancy A. Blell San Luis Obispo 326Tim Tryon San Luis Obispo 327 Rosa Sutton San Luis Obispo 32e Betty Ellison San Luis Obispo The Prado overpass is badly needed-Whole Foods and Target 329 Christine Kaminski San Luis Obispo would be great! 33o I Misha McCann San Simeon 331 Patrick H. Clarke San Simeon 332 Bonnie Bardin Santa Margarita Come to SLO to shop! 333 Bill Mello Santa Margarita 334 Mia Lenn Santa Margarita 335 Gordon Gearhart Santa Margarita 336Ada Zelis Santa Maria Work in SLO. 337 Derek Banducci Shell Beach 33e Tenaya Gregory Shell Beach 339 Wilbur W. Hartzell Jr. Templeton Sao Ron Head Templeton 341 Mavis M. Hartzell Templeton 3a2 Yanese Drena W. Templeton 343 E. Malifont jUnknown 8 San Luis Marketplace Project Page 1 of 1 I Shelly Stanwyck - San Luis Marketplace Project From: Shelley Sandoval <shelley.sandoval.jvyh@statefarm.com> To: "'sstanwyc@slocity.org'il <sstanwyc@slocity.org> RECEIVED Date: 7/1/2004 11:13 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Project .JUL 0 1 2004 Al n CID( CLFR� We support the SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE PROJECT!!!!! We would like to see this approved and underway. This project would keep a lot of our money in the city and county. Shelley& Lee Sandoval 1620 Lima San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 �OUPJCIL _ CDD DIR � CAO uFIN DIR I 2"ACA0 Fet FIRE CHIEF RED FILE !.e-ATTORNEY Fc PW DIR F---CLEAK10RIIGg Z'POLICE CHF MEETING AGENDA I ❑ FaT�IYN , R.0 DIR O�.�TE ITEM # D� U IL DIR file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW100001.HTM 7/1/2004