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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07/06/2004, AGENDA (3) oy\ A <PA�4- T � o c-<:L (f�s fo n RECEIVED JUL 2 2 1004 ULUU SLO CITY COUNCIL Christine Mulholland San Luis Obispo City Council San Luis Obispo, California July 20, 2004 Dear Ms. Mulholland, Your stand on not wanting San Luis Obispo to turn into another big city like Los Angeles or much of Orange County is commendable. We have relatives who live in Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties, and we hate to make the trip to the city because of the traffic and "city attitudes"; however, we love our relatives and like to see them as often as possible. The last thing we want is for San Luis Obispo to become like Southern California. We do have some concerns regarding the proposed Marketplace development. The first issue I should like to address is competition with the downtown businesses. When we moved to San Luis Obispo, we bought a refrigerator at Holser & Bailey on Monterey St. They are gone. We used to shop downtown at J.C. Pennys, Sears, Larson's Village Squire, Farmers Hardware, Green Brothers Clothiers, Riley's, Hanna Hardware, Graham's Art Store, Sinsheimer's, Warnes Paints, Idler's, Carpenter's Rexall, Mission Office Products, the Hallmark Store, and Universal Auto Parts. All of these businesses are gone. With the exception of the three that have moved out of the downtown area, the rest are gone. They have been replaced by businesses that do not carry what we need. The point here is that downtown no longer offers what we are looking for. We still buy furniture from Davidson's, and we still patronize Marshall's Jewelers and Jim's Campus Camera and a few others, but as I walk down the streets of downtown, I wonder who buys a lot of the things displayed in many of the stores. It seems to me that the downtown district is now aimed at tourists and college students rather than local homeowners. The second issue I should like to address is that of meeting the home maintenance needs of local homeowners like myself. If we had not purchased our home back in 1971, we could not afford to live here. Our income is such that we might even be able to qualify for "affordable housing", so I can speak from the viewpoint of those who are the ones you are concerned about who need afordable housing. When something breaks or needs repairing, such as a lawn sprinkler or leaking faucet, or a light fixture needs replacing, or other small home repairs, I can't afford to hire a professional and pay the going rate for minor repairs. I do them myself. Where do I go for the materials I need? It's to the hardware store. I used to buy a lot at locally owned hardware stores, but after I discovered a $4.00 difference in price on a $20.00 item, I hesitate to buy very much at the "local" store. Yes, I shop at Home Depot out of necessity, and I look forward to having a Lowes store here. If and when the property in front of Home Depot is developed into either housing or small commercial, we probably won't even notice the Home Depot building. Same goes for the proposed Costco building. The same is probably true of the proposed San Luis Marketplace. The proposed stores are the type that homeowners like me need. l This past Saturday, we attended the SLO Blues baseball game. The lady in front of us was telling .her friend, "I guess I'll have to go to Santa Barbara. I like to buy locally, but the local stores just don't have what I need. I've looked in all of them." From the people I talk to, this seems to be a pretty common situation. So, our tax dollars go elsewhere and benefit other cities. Please consider these points as you vote on various growth issues facing San Luis Obispo. No, we do not want another L.A. or Orange County, but we do need to meet the needs of local homeowners, especially those of us who do not have a lot of disposable income. Thank you for your consideration. Leaving a good portion of the land next to the freeway as open space will still provide the ambiance of a rural community. Thanks for listening. Sincerely, Stan Thompson 1759 San Luis Drive San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 544-7031 E-mail: Stanthomps@aol.com Page 1 of 1 i� SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace From: "Jeanne Eggert" <mjdg@charter.net> n n To: " Mr. Ken Schwartz" <slccitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/17/2004 10:55 AM co �_ , n Subject: Marketplace _ - '�" Jeanne Eggert . 4661 Snapdragon Way .l San Luis Obispo, CA 934011 July 2, 2004 = �� 111 II�iCC..JJ Mr. Ken Schwartz 990 Palm St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 i Dear Vice Mayor Schwartz: I am asking you to vote no on the Marketplace: Being raised in SLO and living here I have seen it changeso 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!1!1! f 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%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/19/2004 i July 14, 2004 RECEIVED O � JUL 1 7004 City Council Members L��1� l� SLO CITY COUNCIL, Re: Approval of Marketplace While we don't live in San Luis, we truly appreciate the beauty surrounding this county and would hope that it doesn't become like other cities in this country. In the 70's and 80's I worked in the Savings and Loan Industry. Pomona was my first experience into poor planning. The major shopping mall was all boarded up with very few stores hanging on. Permission had been granted to build a new enclosed mall some five miles away. Guess where the shoppers went? The Pomona mall was just a few years old! Then there was the Santa Monica Mall. It fell on the same fate. It took some 20 —30 years to reinvent itself to what it is today. There are some beautiful, functioning cities that have resisted big box stores. Then there are major cities that have fallen into city flight. Salt Lake City is now full of banks and office complexes. Any semblance of shopping and downtown "fun" has moved up to an enclosed mall by the Mormon Temple. Of course, everyone loves to walk downtown and shop in Detroit and Los Angeles. Closer to home, Camarillo had the climate of the Riviera, had the richest most beautiful soil and farmland anywhere. The topsoil will never be replaced, the hardtop and buildings have raised the temperature and smog level and the beauty of the area as been severely compromised. Gilroy is pretty sad as well. Let's hope that the approvals of sprawl and Big Box stores will not compromise this beautiful area, all because some people want to shop as big and as close as they can and with a few short sighted individuals giving thumbs up! cc: Copland's Downtown Development E fi onmen/tal Defense Center Al and Janice Vercoutere 6650 San Anselmo, Atascadero CA. 93422 JPage 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-To Christine M. 1 From: <SLOJane@aol.com> JUL i � 2004 To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> SLO CITY CLERK Date: 7/11/2004 6:01 PM Subject: To Christine M. Dear Councilwoman Mulholland, Thanks so very much for your efforts in saving our town from the Marketplace.You are the only one who saw the intrusion and shame of it all.Anyway, I am on your team. If you get any more information on stopping the Marketplace,please keep me informed. Does anyone know Dr.Devenchenzo(Spelling?) He is the dentist who owns the successful Avila Barn and Gopher Glen Apple Orchard.Can't he be approached to buy the Dallidio farm and put Farmers' Market there? I am just dreaming, but what a nice dream it is.The Marketplace is my worst nightmare. Don't give up.And please stay on the concil.You've got my vote.We need people like you! Regards, Jane Nichols San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/12/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Too Bad, So Sad From: <SLOJane@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/11/2004 5:53 PM Subject: Too Bad, So Sad Dear Mayor Romero,Vice Mayor Schwartz and Councilman Ewan, How terribly disappointing that you voted to approve the Marketplace. In my own conversations with local citizens, I have yet to find a person who was for it.Alas, I hope you blow all your money at Target and all your free time in traffic.Goodness,we've yet to get a WalMart here.Where are you putting that? In the Mission Plaza? Yes, I suppose there was some"backlash"when the Madonna Plaza was built years ago.Anyone recall it was a big empty failure that had to be tom down and built all over again? How soon you forget.The new stores will absolutely kill the downtown. It's very sad you all sold out to be like everytown U.S.A.Oh goodie,we are getting to be more like Santa Maria every day. I am sorry to be so bitter,but I am and oh so very disappointed and sad. Jane Nichols San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GWj00001.HTM 7/12/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Cttycouncil - Marketplace From: Walt Gonyer<waltllll@webtv.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/11/20043:45 PM Subject: Marketplace Thank you for approving the development of the Marketplace. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/12/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -The Marketplace From: Lynn <grammalynn8@sbcglobal.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/10/2004 9:57 PM Subject: The Marketplace I am in favor of the Marketplace. I don't drive out of town, and have to do most of my shopping on line or in catalogs. Would love to have more choice. I am an old lady; I don't need any more " cutesy boutequies."These are mainly for the kids and on one block of Higuera there are at least three. They all sell the same things!! How can they stay in business??? Lynn Ekegren file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/12/2004 _ . O Page 1 of 1 J SLO Citycouncil. - Marketplace From: "Jeanne Eggert' <mjdg@charter.net> To " Mr.Allen Settle" <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/9/2004.2:18 PM Subject: Marketplace Jeanne Eggert 4661 Snapdragon Way San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 July 2, 2004 Mr. Allen Settle 990 Palm St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Dear Settle: 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%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/12/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace From: "Jeanne Eggert" <mjdg@charter.net> To: " Ms. Christine Mulholland " <slocitywuncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/10/2004 5:52 PM Subject: Marketplace Jeanne Eggert 4661 Snapdragon Way San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 July 2, 2004 Ms. Christine Mulholland 990 Palm St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. Dear Mulholland: 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 7/12/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Dissappointed From: <Ccdusoleil@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/9/2004 7:21 PM Subject: Dissappointed To Whom it May Concern, I am writing this email to express two feelings towards the SLO Marketplace passing. My first feelings are that of gratitude to Christine for actually understanding the community and voting against this issue. My second feeling is that of total disappointment on the passing of this Marketplace. I feel that the other gentlemen didn't take into consideration those that expressed their feelings against it. From what I've gathered,numerous people wrote in as did come to speak at the meeting against this.proposition. I find it interesting that Mr.Settle didn't vote since he had property near the suggested rsite. Well,as a homeowner right next to the site I think that.he should have voiced some concern for those of us that didn't want this.to go forward. I find it only fair that this being such a large issue that has brought about such controversary be included on a ballott.for all of San Luis Obispo.residents to get their final say. Please re-consider this to actually be a project that"the people"want and not just the 3 voting. Sincerely, Cindy Mayr file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/12/2004 _ 11 Page 1 of 1 l J SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: <Packertl@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil®slocity.org> Date: 7/8/2004 9:59 AM Subject: Marketplace What an incredible disappointment that even the SLO City Council goes blind in the glare of tax revenue "headlights". Why is it not obvious to you that the thousands of California cities which have chased sales tax revenue before you are no better off financially than SLO is now?All they've actually delivered to their residents is a cityscape of stop lights, eyesore overpasses and a lifestyle their residents now long to escape. Nowhere has sales tax revenue ever delivered the financial nirvana developers conjure in the minds of city council members -and SLO's result will be no different. The image of "moth to flame"could not be any more appropriate. And please don't forget the huge sums many cities are how spending to recreate the downtowns they gave away 30 years ago. (I have personal experience as a business owner in 2 of them.) It can happen here too.And as long as you allow yourself to think, "Downtown's OK-so we can afford to challenge it some more"you are guaranteed eventually to damage it and reclamation will be dear. It is only a meddling fool who believes his endless fussing with things will actually improve them. It takes courage and vision to leave success alone. SLO is uniquely successful in it's current format. It not perfect and you will not make it so. Much more likely is that your well intentioned efforts will actually have the opposite effect. I ask you to reconsider how much you feel you must do. The best course, when you are blessed to be starting with a proven winner, is to nurture and protect the things that made the winner- not veer off-into risky experiments however hopeful you may be. Congratulations to Christine Mulholland for her courage and leadership. it seems that she alone has learned the lessons taught by other California cities and works to avoid making the same mistakes. Thanks for everything, Christine. Terry Packer file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/12/2004 USA1Q ©' 1 � 3c U S A �a 9'r CO'Loft/z�8i/Lo its VSA 5L 0 `2m ° orae inx 9laaire�. 5riinkivav 990�o/dr+wd `,.Pan- m�Sb^•"9840Y usnld ratificationoftool tile 12 amendments 3c'U SA ( ` — �at� .bzoft/e�$i/Lof�;�y{it� - �S G� J: l• i� 1` I t i t r t ' 1 r@, b eweaa 91r�m�STioafbm 990 AA Name: Jessica Ridout Address: 465 Abramson rd City: Templeton State: Ca Zip: 93465 Phone: 310-946-1999 Fax: email from: pookmasterflex@hotmail.com Message: Hi there, I am e-mailing in response to a sign wanting to know if I opposed/approved of the son luis market place project. I love the small town feel of son luis obispo and I love our downtown shopping center. I would hate to see it suffer, however, I do realize there is a tremendous need for affordable shopping choices in the city. Growing up here I know what it's like to have to buy all your school clothes at ross and Gottchalks. Both places are a wee bit out of date for fashion minded young people. Also,the "cool" clothes you can find downtown are much too expensive for most of your middle class families and struggling college students. I know that these two groups of people are not going to by clothes downtown. If there is not affordable clothing options in San luis, than people will just drive north or south to the bigger cities, either way, people are not going to go to the overpriced downtown. Thanks for listening. Hope this is fowarded to the appropriate committee and is helpful. Jess file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/8/2004 C C owu cel �� Marketplace ap ro.ved SLO CITY COUNCIL Dave Ken John Ewan Romero Schwartz I have always dreamed of living in Santa Maria, Salinas or Glendale for that matter. Finally my dream might be realized. And I will not have to move an inch or pay moving fees. Thank you, thank you so much! P.O. box 14016 San Luis Obispo California 93406 /vc , JULY 7, 2004 / L /r MAYOR DAVE ROMERO 990 PALM ST. SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401 HONORABEL MAYOR ROMERO AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL: HAVIND LISTENED CAREFULLY TO SEVERAL SPEAKERS ADDRESS THE PROS AND CONS OF THE PROPOSED MARKET PLACE PROJECT. SOME SPOKE ELOQUENTLY AND WITH CAREFUL THOUGHT AND CONSIDERATION. BOTH SIDES, I FELT, WERE WELL REPRESENTED. HOWEVER, IT IS MY PERSONAL OPINION THAT SEVERAL CITIZENS OF OUR COMMUNITY WERE NOT PRESENT TO VOICE THEIR NEEDS. THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE"LOW-INCOME"JOBS ARE THE MAJORITY OF THIS COMMUNITY. I KNOW MANY COULD NOT AFFORD TO LOSE THE 3-6 HOURS OF PAY IT WOULD TAKE AWAY FROM A PAYCHECK TO ATTEND THIS COUNCILS SESSION. IT IS MY OBSERVATION THAT THE VOICES HEARD LAST NIGHT WERE THOSE OF THE AFFLUENT PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY THAT ARE ABLE TO AFFORD THE HIGH COST OF HOUSING IN OUR AREA AND/OR THE ADVANTAGES OF SHOPPING OUSTSIDE OF OUR LOCAL SHOPPING AREA. SUCH VACATIONS AND TRIPS ARE A LUXURY FOR THOSE OF US EARNING HOURLY WAGES THAT BARELY ALLOW US TO MEET OUR BASIC NEEDS. PAM A STRUGGLING MOTHER OF 2 CHILDREN WHO LIVE IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS. WE MOVED TO THIS AREA AS A MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILY WITH A JOINT ANNUAL INCOME OF 11OK. WE CAME TO SAN LUIS OBISPO FOR A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR CHILDREN. I BELIEVE THIS TOWN IS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE YET IT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT FOR ME AS WELL AS MANY SINGLE-PARENT HOUSEHOLDS TO AFFORD TO LIVE HERE. PAM FORTUNATE TO HAVE A SECURE JOB WITH A WONDERFUL COMPANY IN A SERVICE-ORIENTED FIELD. I EARN $12/HOUR AND RECEIVE ALIMONY. ALL THIS AND I STILL AM UNABLE TO AFFORD THE HIGH COST OF HOUSING. AND QUITE FRANKLY, CANNOT AFFORD TO SHOP AT GOTTSCHALKS. SO, IN MY OPIONION A TARGET WOULD BE A WELCOME ADDITON TO SAN LUIS. I ALSO BELIEVE WE HAVE THE DEMAND FOR AN OLD NAVY. I WAS A SUPPORTER OF COSTO COMING TO OUR AREA AND I HOPE THAT WILL COME TO FRUITION SOON. I PLEAD WITH YOU AS YOU MAKE YOUR DECISIONS TO PLEASE CONSIDER THE MANY ECONOMIC BENEFITS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOUR DECISIONS CAN IMPACT. REGEI�!�� --� J�Id �J i)<<V� SLO ,, I THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS LETTER AND FOR YOUR CONK- UED SERVICE TO OUR WONDERFUL COMMUNITY SINCERELY, BASMA KASIM 1017 SOUTHWOOD DR. #E SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401 RECE�J _ - - JUL 0 9 2004 - � �� �� '7 9 -o a Y COUNCIL zk �- - - , . J_, . �. - - . . .� , �\ � � - � , RECEtIV=D _ v'UL 0 9 2004 N7 CIL SLO 0IIY CCU /7L"ex 56 j Page 1 of I r-, SLO Citycouncil -RE: The Marketplace From: <BarryKSLOC@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/7/2004 5:46 PM Subject: RE: The Marketplace Council Members: You should obtain a copy of the tape from last nights Council Meeting. I must complement all involved. It is the best visual of a civilized meeting I have seen the City ever has had. The subject was charged and important to all but from beginning to end it was an example of The proper way the act. Everyone, on Both sides, acted well. When it got to you four all gave good presentations. Both for and against. It was a heavy subject but you did very well the whole night. Thank you for doing a great job. All four of you. Please thank the Staff, also, for their good job too. Their presentation was done very well. � e` Now we are left with the details. Keep on top of the project for us. It bears �U1 watching all along the way. They have made promises to all of us. With the retrofit coming upon us we must do everything possible to ease C� the burden as much as possible. After all, no one asked for that burden, but, it is for the safety of all of use. Any way, thank for last night. Barry Karleskint barryksloc@aol.com 623 Jeffrey Drive San Luis Obispo, CA 93405-1021 805-543-4060 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/8/2004 Page I ofi� SLO Citycouncil -SLO Marketplace From: <Bbl3022@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/7/2004 10:35 PM Subject SLO Marketplace I am all for the proposed shopping center. Not only will it attract shoppers to stay local, but it will help those who do travel so far for the planned stores of the marketplace. It will ad so many new jobs and increase revenue in a county that it is lacking jobs so heavily. Being a younger college student looking to enter a career in the business field, it almost seems to be a no-brainer in adding some life to SLO. Thank You, Brandon Lambert file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/8/2004 !* Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-The Marketplace no From: <Alababs2@cs.corn> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/7/2004 7:16 PM Subject: The Marketplace Honorable Members of the City Council: First,we congratulate you on allowing last night's meeting to run its course.That marathon was heroic,on your part! And now—please add the voices of my husband and me to those who strongly oppose the Marketplace. Enough of big boxes! Most of the businesses Dalidio hopes to attract are duplications of what we already have.And soon Madonna is coming down the pike with his/her batch. Please-don't even think of jeopardizing downtown. Listen to your own Planning Commission. Listen to the eloquent Jerry Moore of the Environmental Center. Listen to the people. If you are still having difficulty weighing the pros and cons,put it to a vote of the people. Respectfully yours, Barbara abd Alan Frank 2725 Augusta Street San Luis Obispo,CA 93401 544-7930 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%o20Settings\Temp\GW}0000LHTM 7/8/2004 Page I of O �I SLO Citycouncil-The Marketplace project From: °rhonda mayeda" <rmayeda @charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 717/2004 7:40 PM Subject: The Marketplace project Hello, Just heard the news that the project was voted in. Good for you! I live in Morro Bay and work in San Luis Obispo. I have always felt the project would complement and NOT detract from the Downtown. Plus,the Prado interchange is a huge need. Has anybody checked out the vibrance and excitement of what is happening in Paso Robles downtown? Paso also has big stores,yet the downtown is thriving...despite the earthquake. Today, I had some time off. My husband and I drove to Paso downtown for lunch at Panolivo,shopped downtown at a couple of antique stores,and then shopped at Target before coming home. We would have preferred to have done the exact same thing with a shorter driving distance to SLO,but alas, no Target. Maybe by next year,we will be able to have lunch at Novo,stop at the Gap AND Target before going home. Thanks for listening. Rhonda Mayeda file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/8/2004 RECEIVED JUL 06 2004 SLO CITY CLERK July 6,2004 Dear Mayor Romero, As residents of San Luis Obispo for 29 years,we have watched the growth of our small town over the years. Downtown has now become a vibrant area full of wonderful shops and good restaurants. We are proud to have SLO be our home. At this time,we are very concerned about the development of the Dalidio Farm. The following are some of our concerns about the proposed center. 1) a very negative impact on downtown businesses could result, 2) a big box mall takes away from the pedestrian friendly ambience of our city, 3)traffic problems will arise from the project, and 4)the project is in conflict with our General Plan because less than half of the farmland will not be preserved. There also seems to be too many unanswered questions about actual costs to our city,and therefore we hope that you will vote to keep our city unique and people friendly by voting against this project. i Thank you, Sincerely, AM" Marlin and Cindy Vix 1787 Conejo SLO rCAO iG CDD DIR�p ACAO ,Z FIN DIR FIRE CHIEFr3 ATTORNEY LX�PW DIR fCLERK/ORIG ' POLICE CHF ❑ D�FP.T HEADS- REC DIR - GUTIL DIR RED FILE M ING AGENDA DA-E710; ITEM # 1 RECEIVED JUL 0 6 2004 SLO CITY CLERK i Dear Council Members: I have been following San Luis Obispo City matters for over 25 years. In all that time I don't believe the Council has EVER approved a project that has received eight Class One Impacts(unavoidable and unmitigateable)that accompanies the Marketplace proposal (The Planning Commission report tacked on two more Class One impacts for a grand total of ten.) when it voted against the Marketplace project last month. I'm sure someone from City Staff, the Chamber of Commerce, or this Council will correct me if I'm in error but I don't believe that any project in the history of this City with this many Class I impacts has EVER been approved.by the-City. As we are hearing this evening, environmentalists, many downtown merchants, students at Cal Poly, and residents of local neighborhoods have risen up in opposition. I urge the Council to vote"no"on Marketplace or vote in favor of a referendum letting the people decide the fate of this project. Home Depot, Costco, Marketplace and now a report in the local paper that"about 36 acres the Madonna family property off Los Osos Valley Road...could be developed as a shopping center." To continue, "The development of the property would add another large commercial project to an area that's already seeing explosive retail growth." Two commissioned reports agree that the downtown will take a hit if this project reaches fruition. The only difference between is how large the hit will be. n Our City is at a crossroads. Anyone running for the Council in November will have to explain his or her vote this evening. There will be no'ducking this issue. I'd like to say that Marketplace will be put to rest tonight. Alas, it will not, certainly not if the Council approves the measures before it. Sincerer Richard Kranzdorf Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil From: "Alex Gough" <adoberealty @ charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 6:05 PM Dear Council: I'm not able to make Tuesday's Council meeting,so here are a few points about the Dalido/Marketplace decision. It's clear you've been getting a lot of pressure from both sides on this issue. Ernie Dalidio and Mr. Byrd are solidly behind growth and expansion,and as a businessman, I have to respect that point of view. It is also clear,that some favor the project because if it had been approved it would have expanded sorely needed city revenues. But I am confident that you do not want to go down as the City Council that kicked off the decline of the downtown. It's well known that Downtown San Luis Obispo is now a model of downtown success across the country.A year rarely goes by when we don't appear on some new"Best of" list. Some years more than one list-maker looks our way. The Downtown has been a virtual incubator for successful businesses, many of which have gone on across the West,a few even across the country.Our farmer's market is famous.Accolades have poured in and awards have been won. It hasn't always been that way.The downtown has been on the ropes before,and like Mohammed Ali in Zaire all but counted out.Wise decisions saved the day.And you and your council predecessors have largely been architects of that success,coupled with enormous commitment from local business families. Surely you don't now want to be remembered as the Council that killed the goose that laid the golden egg. This is a critical time in the evolution of the downtown. The economy has been lackluster, but the earthquake really has us all shook up.Already,the seismic retrofit is causing rumbles,and soon the disruption and costs of the retrofit will hit the downtown nearly as formidably as any foreseeable earthquake. And you've been considering a major new project on the edge of town? Ask yourselves this: If stores move out(as has already happened)and shops close down,when storefronts are boarded up,will tourists continue to flock in? Will they continue to drive from hundreds of miles away to see Home Depot and Costco? How will that effect tax revenues and bed tax? If we give up on the Downtown how will we then be any different from thousands of towns across America with decaying cores ringed by shopping centers?You don't have to go far to find out..Drive to Santa Maria,or virtually any town in the San Joaquin Valley.Go to the Midwest,or Texas;try Lafayette, Louisiana,where you have to work at finding the downtown,charming though it once was. Our Downtown needs your support at this critical point. I think you know that,and I am confident that you will make a wise decision Tuesday night. Alex Gough The Sauer-Adams Adobe file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Is 0 SLO Citycouncil SLO Marketplace From: "SIEGRID FENN" <setfenn@msn.corr> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 3:47 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace Dear members of the City Council No, I do not support the selected stores that are proposed for the Dalidio property. The stores are not only off-brands, but their products duplicate.those of other stores already in SLO. We have the new Home Depot hardware store just 1/2 mile away, Best Buys deals with the same products as Circuit City, and we have several health food store. I have no idea what the other two stores sell, and I probably don't need it. Target's product are covered by K-mart and Wal-Mart in Arroyo Grande as well as by our local shops and drug stores. Even worse than duplication is the fact that these stores are to be built on prime agricultural land. That is such terrible waste of the earth's resources! Why not give the Dalidio family land in a part of the city where agriculture is not practical and allow this property to continue to feed humanity? I strongly believe that this matter should be voted on by the residents of San Luis Obispo. It is too important a matter for a small number of representatives to vote on for the rest of us. Thank you for keeping these thoughts in mind at your meeting on Tuesday. Sincerely, Siegrid Fenn 1236 Drake Circle San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 P.S. I live closely enough to be adversely affected by the increased traffic that has already developed as a result of existing shopping malls in the same area. file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SILO Citycouncil - No on Marketplace From: "Constance Thomas" <conniethomas@msn.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 3:18 PM Subject: No on Marketplace We already have stores that specialize in those things: Circuit City=Best Buy Whole Foods=New Frontiers Lowes=Home Depot Do we want to put them out of business, too? Constance Thomas San Luis Obispo file:HC:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace From: <Rayabirch@aol.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slacity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 2:31 PM Subject: Marketplace Council Members Ewan and Schwartz, Please just say NO to the Marketplace proposal. This may be your last chance to preserve this City as an unique place for quality living. The alternative may be degading the city into just another city, USA. Raymond Birch file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Dalidio property From: Anne Sinsheimer<annesins@charter.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 2:25 PM Subject Dalidio property Dear Friends, With Costco pending and Home Depot, we do not need any more big box stores here. Why can't the city arrange(I do not say buy.) forpurchase of this property. It could be used for auto dealerships, housing and some open space. Sincerely, Anne Sinsheimer file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 2 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace-Something to think about From: Leon&Susan<ljam@bigfoot.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 1:45 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace-Something to think about Dear City Council Members, I have a question. What is the difference between Lowe's and Home Depot;Circuit City and Best Buy;or a Trader Joes/New Frontiers Market combo and Whole Foods Market? An analysis of the needs served by these stores may prove that probably 99%of the items at Lowe's can also be purchased with a 5 minute drive to(the currently existing and much disputed)Home Depot as well as 99%of the items at Circuit City may be purchased at(the currently existing)Best Buy superstore. The same comparison of product availability would appear to be true for Whole Foods Market and products at the(currently existing)Trader Joes and New Frontiers Market. (I have shopped at ALL the stores MANY times in the past so I speak from experience). Are there enough clothing stores for people to buy clothes of style existing in San Luis? Is it really necessary to increase the options for consumers with a choice between a local merchant's establishment and brand name department stores(many of which already exist)? Are there really enough dollars to go around to support the locals,while allowing the dominant,larger big box store(with the advantage of discount buying power)to siphon off those dollars?Since they have already decided to put a Costco in SLO,what is the REAL purpose of having a Target? Is it really necessary to disrupt the natural atmosphere of the quaint town of SLO with more big box stores that simply offer what already exists,purveyed by locally owned businesses?Could perhaps the only convenience be saving a consumer the 5 minute or less drive to get to the existing stores mentioned above? I understand about the tax revenue structure and how this will help the"town coffers"but if people REALLY wanted all these stores,they would live in Fresno where housing is VERY cheap and every store you can imagine is on every street comer. (Incidentally,they are the second most polluted city in the state(I believe).Ever wonder why??. Take a visit to Fresno before you sign the deal.I lived there 25 years ago and it was a real nice midsize town. The"edge"of the city is now the center of town.) When city council members say things like"It will make things difficult for the smaller businesses but they can survive the onslaught of the big box stores.",it says to me that you don't understand the concept of small business. Small businesses are supposed to grow and give the owners and employees more opportunities to improve their lifestyles,not to simply survive whatever is thrown upon them by their city council until they totally give up and close the business. This is not supposed to be a war where the most powerful and richest contender wins. This type of thinking smacks of Darwinism,or,survival of the fittest.The fittest would definitely be a huge chain store not completely dependent upon locally generated income.A large department store would easily be able to undercut local merchants as they are privy to advantageous purchasing power through their mega financial resources generated by an entire chain of stores. I had a business in the LA area for 15 years but the big box stores(who concentrate only on price and not service)made it very difficult to compete. Unfortunately,my business wasn't one of the ones that"will survive the onslaught of big box stores". I had "survived"for 15 years until my income began decreasing from the"corporate competition"with unlimited budgets and buying capabilities. How long do you SERIOUSLY expect these small stores to"survive"??? Have you ever tried to compete against someone(physically or mentally)who is much larger than you?? Would you go to a weight lifting competition against Governor Arnold Schwarcnegger? Would there be ANY chance you would"survive"the contest? It doesn't mean you are a"loser or a quitter". It simply means that the playing field is stacked AGAINST you. Does the concept of"peers"mean anything? These stores are not similar entities or peers,only in that they sell items to the public! Don't try to make it sound like small business owners are "whiners". How would you like it if we"hired"different city council members that had a hundred times more money to spend on campaigning to get elected than you did and got rid of you because you didn't have as big a campaign coffer,even though you were more honest or better understood your constituency because you are a local? Would you be"losers"or would you think the playing field was stacked against you in the election,and there was nothing you could do,financially, about it? These are points that the city council should take into consideration when you think about offering every big box store who asks, a piece of our town. Would it do any good to mention the amount of space taken for parking lots and widened roads to accommodate more traffic?As SLO offers a very healthy environment at present,the environmental impact formerly mentioned should be considered. Widening the EXISTING roads(or increasing the size of the EXISTING parking lot,if necessary)where the EXISTING stores are might be a better solution than paving more farmland/nature.With amendments to the current situation, residents could get to existing stores more quickly and not need one"down the block,or on every corner"from them. They will still spend nearly the same amount of money and the city will still collect a large amount of taxes.You are the ones who are making this a"war';not the small business owners or the residents of SLO. How many "Residents want it" if they REALLY knew the REAL consequences of all the big box stores in their town? Sometimes the picture is much bigger than "just another place close by to shop with more parking". Sincerely, Leon Jamele file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 C` SLO Citycouncil-Maarketplace From: "Lorraine Bailey" <Ibailey0306@earth[in k.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/20041:21 PM Subject: Maarketplace Please count me as being against the above. We have adequate shopping already and our downtown/uptown is very important. True Value was a casualty of Home Depot,to give only one example. Everyone thinks SLO is so perfect and then they come to town and try to change everything. Please give.this your consideration. Sincerely, Lorraine Bailey file://C:\Documents%20and%o20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-The Marketplace From: Janet E White<jemwhite@juno.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 12:38 PM Subject: The Marketplace NO,THIS FAMILY OF EIGHT DOES NOT WANT THE MARKETPLACE. We do not patronize the new Home Depot and will definitely boycott any new behemoths that might be built in SLO. J White SLO file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -SLO Marketplace From: "jim and pat reed" <jwrpnr@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 12:43 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace Do we°want these stores in SLO"? NOM Please resist the urge to continue chasing the never-sufficient sales tax revenue and do what's right to at least help from turning SLO into just another place to shop. Quality of life is not just about ever more places to buy the same stuff.. Thank you, Jim and Pat Reed file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 C Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - marketplace From: Kristin Righetti <krighett@calpoly.edu> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 12:14 PM Subject: marketplace To the members of the SLO City Council, I would just like to say that I do not.support the Marketplace plan. A much better location for such a development is adjacent to Home Depot, Costco, etc. where the visual impact is lessened. Please try to preserve the Dallidio farmland. It is a treasure. Kristin Righetti San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 - � Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -Vote NO on Marketplace From: "Ann F. Maliszewski" <afmal@hotmail.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:53 AM Subject: Vote NO on Marketplace CC: <afmal@hctmail.com> Please vote to keep SLO the beautiful and unique small city that it is. We don't need another cookie-cutter city along the Central Coast. If people need their fill of chain stores its a short drive to Atascadero or Santa Maria. Keep SLO appealing. Please vote NO on the Marketplace expansion. --___----------------------------------- Ann F. Maliszewski, Ph.D. Email: afmal@hotmail.com file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycoundl -Two votes AGAINST the MARKETPLACE From: <ulund@calpoly.edu> To: <slocityoounal@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:53 AM Subject Two votes AGAINST the MARKETPLACE My wife and I would like to register two opinions against the development of the Marketplace with you. We strongly opposed the Home Depot and Costco construction, and don't see the need to continue defacing the city/county with more box stores. Please oppose the construction of the Marketplace in your decision on Tuesday. Ulric Lund &Nina Schleicher SLO Residents and Voters file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW10000LHTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-(no subject) From: <Oakmede@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.orp Date: 7/5/2004 7:46 AM Subject: (no subject) DO NOT BUILD THE MARKETPLACE. Thank you,Helen Anderson, SLO file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: <Cats00077@cs.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 6:56 AM Subject: Marketplace I strongly do not want the Marketplace to go in. I lived in Yakimg Washington which had a beautiful downtown. Shopping centers went in around the town and the stores and customers migrated to them. The downtown section became mostly empty and the town became a husk of a city. I do not want that to happen to SLO. We do not need the extra stores. Let's support the ones we have. Linda Burke,PO Box 2233,Avila Beach 595-2704 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 10000LHTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 r SLO Citycouncil - NO ON MARKETPLACE!!H'I'!! From: <Winnal0@aol.com> To: <sloatycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 3:17 PM Subject: NO ON MARKETPLACE!!!!!!!!!! ABOSOLUTELY VOTE NO ON THE SLO MARKETPLACE. IT IS COMPLETELY OUT OF ORDER FOR THE CITY OF SLO. USE YOUR HEADS NOT YOUR POCKET BOOKS. THE ARUGUMENT FOR CITY TAXES IS NOT VALID.THANK YOU. EDWINA OLT, BUSINESS OWNER SLO. file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 ^ � Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace=NO From: <mognett@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncit@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 3:07 PM Subject: Marketplace=NO Dear Council members: I am writing to you on behalf of myself and my family.There are rive voting adults in our three generation household all of whom urge you to vote NO! on the"Marketplace project and all other Mall and "Big Box"projects.Downtown SLO is a special gem that must be protected at all cost.Some say "San Luis Marketplace" will hurt downtown;some say it won't but none can see the future.If we go ahead with all these big shopping projects and downtown dies there will be no fixing it.We caste here from a big city environment(LA)where everything was paved for a hundred miles and downtown was a scary place(particularly at night)that I had not been too in twenty years.It is scary to think that some of that could follow us here. We urge you,don't take a chance with downtown SLO.It is far too valuable an asset to risk. Sincerely, Frank Mognett file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 40 0 Page 1 of 1 SLO Gtycouncil -San Luis Marketplace From: "dixon moore" <dmoore@fix.net> To: <slodtycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 2:43 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace I agree, I think we should have every big damn name in retail invade our little bit of paradise. Lets just make San Luis Obispo like every other damn town in America and build one new retail mall on every darn corner. No, we don't need a Target, Lowe's, Circuit City, or Old Navy. Why is it in this country that we can't drive another block or another mile to shop? Is it strictly that we're a bunch of lazy asses? That's part of it, but the. real reason is greed. When a developer can make a bunch of money renting out retail space to large chain stores and convinces the local municipality that they can add a bunch of sales tax money to their coffers. Lets work as a region rather than pit one town against another and try to preserve some of the unique ambiance that we have here on the Central Coast. Dixon Moore file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 10 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: Bobby&Anita McKee<thelosososmckees@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 2:46 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace We DO NOT WANT the SLO Marketplace. We feel that we have enough shopping for the amount of people living here. Once COSTCO comes into San Luis,there will be very few people going out of town to do their shopping,and that is OUR OPINION. Bobby and Anita McKee thelosososmckeeds@yahoo.com Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!Mail is new and improved-Check it out! 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: "Robert Dunn"<robert.dunn@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 11:11 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace To the SLO City Council: This is a vote against the San Luis Marketplace project. Whether you're the landowner, developer or the tax collector (property and sales) decisions like this are based on the money to be made. The property owner and lucky heir isn't fooling anyone with his self-serving rhetoric about caring for community and being a conscientious steward of the land. I don't blame Mr. Dalido, if it were my deal I would do the same thing, but his agenda is transparent. Just for once, Council members put the greed motive aside. Consider the real long term obvious negative effects if you approve the shopping center...unmanageable traffic that will continue to get worse, loss of green space, hypothetical negative for downtown commerce, additional commercial ugliness in the community and a "me too" kind of mentality, i.e., do we want to look like Salinas and Santa Maria? I know you have thought of these things, we provide our humble 2 cents for reinforcement. Respectful ly, Robert and Dominique Dunn PO Box 2124 Avila Beach 93424 595-2411 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 • Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace From: Barbara Freeman <barb712@webtv.net> To: <slocitymuneil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 10:46 AM Subject: Marketplace To the City Council Members, I am a newcomer to San Luis Obispo having recently moved her from Corona, Ca. I have seen what big stores have done to a downtown area.Since large chain stores have come in, Corona no longer has a downtown shopping area, even with a population now over 130,000. Please do not let another mall come to this delightful area and ruin your beautiful downtown,which I'm afraid may happen. Barbara Freeman 1360 Alder St. San Luis Obispo, Ca. 93401 805-782-9084 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 JUL-04-2004 23:25 Jan 8055412239 P.01/01 July A 2004 265Albertt)dve San Luis Obispo CA V3405 Dear Members of the City Council 1 write to oppose the Bird-Dalidio shopping center pmjai bdure you on July 6 2004. There are many reasons why this is a bad l►rujcar,why if bas been rejected by the City Planning Commission,and why citizens have)won hauling it for the last ten.year%. I wish here to raise only one set of m1rh eeasuw- '1Lc project violates this prin6l)le stated in out General Fists"Have developmcuds bear the costs of resourcev and wivitzs needed to serve them,except where die community deliberately chooses to help pay in order to achieve other community goals,"(L E.p.8 Comtmunity Goals 422) '11is project,whose p iivary benefit is the landowner and developer's rMancial gain, depciads on the taxpayer's xi i1>lunt. Tie project,we are told.Cannot go forward without a freeway btcrchangc built esPaHlly w funnel traffic to it. The iuta Wm,*,c is to be funded by the City putting up(me halfof the cost by floating a bond and by refunding the dcvcloper for half of 1►tx ludf Lust with sales tax refunds. Taxpayers,whose money will lay interest on the bond,:caul mmsumets whose stoney will be paying sales tax—often the same people—will he snlvFk izing seventy five percent of this traffic funnelling construction pwim-L In addition to violating the principle of the general plan cited above,such a sweethmo deal is an insult to ci67Avx% The overpass is without value to the city. Cal Trans has Inug insisted that no uve rpaxs should be built in this location bemuse of its proxirai ty to the existing interchan gft at Madonna and Los Osos Valley roads. A large overpass improvement is nee irxl HI Lus 0909 Valley Road to alleviate existing traffic congestianu and to provide the lmxis for a musdble ring road around the city. Now is need atPra,lxs Road. Sin y' Ste Marx TOTAL P.01 Jul 04 04 12: 43p Peg 858-456-6679 Md-a vk#vvick-Lam 7 F/ - 650 skyline Drive Sas Lab Obispo,California 93405 July 2,2004 Dear Mayor Romero and City Council Members, The future of San Luis Obispo is in your hands and is in everyone's hearts. The futures development,including the Los Osos Valley interchange,the proposed DalidiolMarketplace project and the proposed prado Road will change the face of the southern part of town and the lifestyle of the people who live here forever. I applaud the careful planning of the Los Osos Valley Road interchange. I have submitted in past Council meetings and under separate cover my thoughts on the Daiidio project This note is to nurture the development of the future proposed Prado Road. Before any more action is taken,please take the time to stake out the proposed future Prado Road between the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields and the South Hins Mountain base.This is about a half a mile Of proposed asphalt. The request has also been formally made by both EcoSLO and the Sierra Club. This request is based on the facts that: 1) There have been many changes in regard to land use.(MASP April 2004). There are now neighborhoods where there used to be open space parkland. 2) A proposed road coming out of those neighborhoods will create a stop light on Hwy 227-Prado Road at Broad Street new the fields. Our sports community deserves to see how the proposed Hwy 227-Prado Road will affect their playing fields.The road is permanent It will be there for 50 to 100 years.It will dtastically alter the aesthetic appearance of the sports fields and present dangers to the players on the fields. 3) The EIR did not adequately disclose to the citizens all the environmental consequences of building Hwy.227-Prado Road,a 4 land state highway at that location. 4) Staking out the road would allow the citizens the opportunity to visualize the road.I believe that all viable alternatives for Prado Road were not presented to City Council for their consideration.Staling it out would allow for appropriate consideration of connecting this portion of road to Santa Fe, rather than Broad Street. Please feel free to contact me at 805-441-5818 or at milavu@homaO.com. S" ' ly, i 1 r� Mild ujovich-La Barre Jul 04 04 12: 44p Peg 858-456-6679 �om�rc� 79i- -71 -7a July 2,2004 Dear Mayor Romero and San Luis Obispo City Council Members, This letter is to ask that you take a serious look at the EIR for the Marketplace project-It does not appear to be certifiable. Section 4.60(2)of CEQA states: The purpose of an EIR is.to inform the tnrblic.and its nsible officials of the environmental canseQue<►ces of their decisions before then are made.CE A is pacmi6ally an environmental disc! stue statute and the EIR is the method Of disclosure.It demonstrates to an aptuehensive citizenry that Y and considered the ecological;'^Tlications of its action. There is an apprehensive citizenry"in San Luis Obispo that is questioning the adequacy and.ft111 disclosures of the subject EIR. One prime example is in the Circulation Section of the Marketplace EIR.Tbat section is not adequate in it's environmental impact analysis because: 1. Page 4.10-31 of the EIR the tett reads' "...report based on assumption that Prado Road will be 2 lanes..." This statement alone should disqualify the entire circulation section!Prado Road has been a controversial subject for years.It is proposed to be 4 lanes eastward to Broad Street It has made newspaper headlines.There are tons of letters down at City Hall,including a City Prado Road Binder. How could any FIR consultant not know about Prado Road being designated to become State Highway 227—a 4 lane road? How could any EIR consultant base a report or comprehensive traffic analysis for the Marketplace project on a 2 lane Prado Rd"assumption"? An assumption is not the substantial evidence needed to base the circulation environmental impacts of the Marketplace project 2. The circulation section of the EIR does not discuss the following: a. Traffic impacts of Prado Road directing traffic into the Margarita neighborhoods- b. Traffic impacts from the Prado Road interchange to the Broad Strt;ditWo Road intersection. c. The innumerable impacts of Prado Road as a track route and truck traffic being directed onto the Prado Road'interchange. 227 d. Impacts of Prado Road becoming State Highway e. Impacts of Prado Road being 4 lanes,not 2 lanes. f. Impacts of feeder road being developed to connect with Las Osos Valtey Road- 3. Page 4.10-53,I question the passage"...to mitigate,applicant shall redesign the project..." Where there is smoke there is fire.This EIR has a lot of smoke.Please seriously consider CEQA's attempt to have an EIR become the instrument that Protects the environment through a report that is adequate,substantially evident,and fully disclosing.Please question the Marketplace EM now. :i4S y, . Vt �,.�,� LBS Jovtc -La Barre 6line ve San Luis Obispo,California 93405 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Fw: Dalidio property development From: "Wren Mead" <k-wren @charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/3/2004 12:08 PM Subject: Fw: Dalidio property development I am resending this message since it is up for vote this Tuesday.John, I think the outcome will be up to you so I'm hoping that you will act to preserve our paradise without paving it over. ---- Original Message---- From:Wren Mead To: slocitycounciI@slocity.org Sent: Tuesday, June 01,2004 1:59 PM Subject: Dalidio property development Dear Council Member, I am opposed to the proposed project by Bill Byrd on the Dalidio property. He had his chance in SLO many years ago when he built the Central Coast Mall and in the end, he went bankrupt.We should remember that what he planned and built did not succeed and has all been tom down and replaced with the exception of the two anchor projects. I don't know why he feels he must come back to our area to build...he needs to stay in S.California and blight his own backyard. Ernie Dalidio deserves to be able to sell his land,certainly,but please don't let it be built with more chain stores, making us like Everytown,USA.San Luis doesn't have the road infrastucture to support them and the when and how they would be built and financed is questionable. I hope that you will decide that Mr.Byrd needs to take his building elsewhere and rethink how that space could be developed in a more responsible way. Thank you for your consideration. Karen Wren Mead 805.544.3063 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Barbara Ehrbar-Contact Us Form From: slo-city-website@slodty.org To: <behrbar@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 6:12 PM Subject: Contact Us Form ******************************************************************************* Name: Polly Elam Address: 1188 Lexington Court City: San Luis Obispo State: CA Zip: 93401 Phone: 805-544-5279 Fax: 805-786-0915 email from: pollyelam@aol.com Message:. This email is directed to the city council in response to the question in the ad from The Tribune—Do you want these stores in San Luis Obispo? While the question suggests an affirmative response I want to go on record against the proposed shoping center SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE. As a recent resident, one of the things that drew me to San Luis is the beautiful city that reflects "small town" and individual enterprise and shop keepers. Lets keep this feature in tact. Our down town merchants took a risk and helped build this lovely city long before the big stores were ever interested. Let's not drive them away with unfair competition and turn our downtown into a boarded up slum. I can drive north a few miles if I want to shop at Target. We already have a large home builder's supply store nearby. We have empty stores located in other shopping centers that will accommodate Circut City and Old Navy. Plan wisely. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to oppose the proposal. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace From: "Jeanne Eggert' <mjdg@charter.net> To: " Mr. Dave Romero" <slodtycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/3/2004 7:00 AM Subject: Marketplace Jeanne Eggert 4661 Snapdragon Way San Luis Obispo, G4 93401 .July 2, 2004 Mr. Dave Romero 990 Palm St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Dear Romero: 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%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -We oppose the San Luis Marketplace] From: Max Riedlsperger<mriedlsp@rain.org> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/2/2004 8:07 PM Subject: We oppose the San Luis Marketplace] Dear members of the City Council We see no compelling reason, other than the opportunity for Bill Bird and Ernie Dalidio to make pots of money, to go ahead with the Marketplace. Circuit.City and Lowes simply duplicate the kind of shopping already available at Best Buy and Home Depot-and the latter will place even more stress on venerable SLO establishments like PHIC and Farm Supply. . I can understand the desire of many in the community for Old Navy and Target, and we personally would welcome a Whole Foods, but it would seem that they could be placed along LOVR in front of Home Depot and where Costco will be. The dueling reports regarding the impact on downtown leave us in doubt about what the impact might be; however it seems foolish permit this development which is unnecessary and which might indeed hurt downtown. Respectfully yours, Max and Deanna Riedisperger Max Riedlsperger Department of History Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Phone: (805)756-5706 Office (805)543-0717 Home Fax (805)543-0337 Home file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 JUL-05-2004 02:50 Jan 8055412239 P.01i09 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 sustainable quality 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 tight 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 Maras, Secretary Chris Kornblatt, and Treasurer Jean Anderson. Diane Reynolds - Marketplace Project Page 1 From: <m-boswell@calpoly.edu> To: <khampian@slocity.org>, <dromero@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/04 11:23AM Subject: Marketplace Project Please insure Council Members have paper copies at the meeting. Thank you. Dear Council Members: I am opposed to approval of the San Luis Marketplace in its current form. I want to make clear that I am not anti-growth, nor am I opposed to the ultimate development of the Dalidio property as designated on the land use map. I do believe that the TIMING and DESIGN of the current proposal is not in the best interest of the city and should be denied or tabled for further work. I am going to focus on the timing issue, but I want to briefly mention the design issue. As proposed the Marketplace project does not meet the intent of the large-scale retail ordinance we passed only last year.The intent of the design guidelines was to protect the small town character of the community by designing structures that were human-scaled and promoted pedestrian activity. I am aware that The Downtown Association does not want"another downtown"but I think we can do better with the Marketplace design. It currently looks and feels like an enormous big box. Concerning timing, I believe that you should approve a phased project wherein the project would be built out over a 10-15 year time frame.The applicant, and possibly staff, will likely tell you that this is impossible. DO NOT believe them.They Will say that it doesn't pencil out,that the interchange financing wouldn't work, etc., but phasing of development is a common development strategy all over the country and it can certainly be made to work here. It may cost a bit more and take a little more effort, but Marketplace could be phased and I think it would provide a win-win for the city and the developers. So, why should it be phased?Three reasons:jobs-housing balance, water availability, and downtown impacts. I'll explain each. First, the Marketplace,project will have a significant negative impact on the city's jobs-housing balance. I don't need to tell you that affordable workforce housing is the city number one problem and that part of the problem is our high ratio of jobs to housing.This project will create over 1,600 new jobs, most of which will be filled by workers out of town as stated in the EIR. Moreover, these service workers will need housing in the most difficult price range in the city. If we made a very conservative assumption that 1/3 of these new workers would want housing in the city then that is over 500 homes; over half of what we will add by building out the Margarita area. I believe it is highly irresponsible to build this much commercial space when we have such a significant jobs-housing imbalance. By phasing the project over time,we would allow housing to develop that would partially mitigate this impact.A final word on this point: the land use element pre- figured this problem and included a provision for controlling the rate of non- residential growth. Since the council has not acted on this provision, it is appropriate—and consistent with the general plan—to invoke the intent now by requiring phasing. Diane Reynolds - Marketplace Project _77Page 2 i Second,the impact to water supplies COULD be a problem.The Marketplace project will require allocation of over HALF of the remaining allocation for expansion areas.This would leave so little.water remaining that we could not build out the housing portion of the.Margarita area. This would be a disaster. I understand that city staff has been working on obtaining the Dalidio property water, but it is not clear where we stand on this and the EIR is highly skeptical of developing this water.The water issue should be fully resolved before you approve this project or you will risk making the most perverse planning decision in city history by allocating our precious little remaining water to commercial rather than residential where it is most needed. By phasing the project we could time it so that phases of the project came on-line as we developed new water supply. Third, the impacts to the downtown economy have been hotly debated and there is significant uncertainty even in the two economic studies. In situations of Uncertainty it is best to apply the"precautionary principle"which in this case I believe means bringing new commercial on-line in increments rather than all at once.What if the dire predictions are right? Do you want to risk what has been identified as one of the best downtowns in America? I support the Marketplace proponent's theory that downtowns evolve and survive, but I think the"adaptation"theory only works when the shocks are gradual. Adding 650,000 sq.ft. of new commercial space all at once is not gradual and may be too large of a shock for the downtown to handle.These days mountain climbers regularly summit Mt. Everest by employing a technique of gradual acclimation to the wonderfully adaptable human body, but if you took someone from sea level and suddenly dropped them at the summit they would die in a few minutes. Give the downtown a chance by giving it the time to adapt. I am out-of-town and thus unable to attend the meeting. Please consider the option of delaying or phasing the development of this project. Good luck! Sincerely. Michael R. Boswell Planning Commissioner Michael R. Boswell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor&Graduate Program Coordinator City& Regional Planning Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Phone: (805) 756-2496 (voice) 756-1340 (FAX) E-Mail: mboswell@calpoly.edu http://www.calpoly.edu/-mboswell/ CC: <jlowell@slocity.org>, <dreynold@slocity.org>, <JMandevi@slocity.org>, <cmulholland@slocity.org>, <asettle@slocity.org>,<jewah@slocity.org>, <schwartz@slocity.org> JUL-05-2004 02:50 Jan 8055412239 P.02/09 SILO Genemi Plan Land Use Element concrete. solution. As a result, irreplaceable agricultural land has been lost. This revision proposes solutions to the continued irretrievable toss 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 Jurie 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 JUL-05-2004 02'51 Jan 8055412239 P.03/09 Land Use Element SLA 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, A JUL-05-2004 02-51 Jan 8055412239 P.04/09 SLO General Plan Und 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'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 JUL-05-2004 02:51 Jan 8055412239 P.05/09 Land Use Element SLO General Plan (This page is supposed to be blank.) F JUL-05-2004 02:51 J n 8055412239 P.06i09 i • 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 JUL-05-2004 02:51 Jan 8055412239 P.07/09 ]Land Use Element SLO 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 goads 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 adequate facilities 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 wgrkers 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. 0 JUL-05-2004 02:51 Jan 8055412239 P.08/09 SitA 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 tate 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 countys 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 re$idents' opportunities for direct - participation in City government and their sense of community can continue. City Form San Luis Obispo should. 26. 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. . Q JUL-05-2004 02:51 Jan 8055412239 P.09/09 Land Use Element SLO General Plan 33. Develop buildings and facilities which will contribute to out 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. TOTAL P.09 07/04/2004 09:48 8056874156= JANA ZIMMER PAGE 01 ZIMMER & MARCUS, LLP SAN2640UTAI3ARRARARA,CA WE CA 93105 Nom (805)563-1591 JAMA ZIMMER fax(805)687-415f> ANDREA M. MARCUS 0na?immcr@cmLnet ` RICHARD C.SOLOMON OfCoumel anarcama=sLvv@co:_nct rsolomon2@cwLnet July 4,2004 City Council City of San Luis Obispo 13y FAX 781-7109 and e-mail Re: Dalidio Marketplace Our clients, Citiiens for Planning Responsibly,have requested that we comment on the legal sufficiency of the supporting documents for the proposed Dalidio Marketplace. Among the documents we have reviewed are the Final EIR, comment letters from the public. Staff reports and attachment for the Planning Commission hearing of May 26,2004, Council Agenda Report for the City Council Meeting of July 6,2004, and Council Agenda Report for the Council Special Meeting of June 28,2004. Many of the legal issues have been raised in comment letters during the process. The following merit special attention. 1. General Plata inconsistency The Planning Commission concluded,correctly,that this project as proposed is inconsistent with the General Plan. As such, it cannot be approved. The CAO argues, in his recommendation.to the City Council, that the Council has discretion to `interpret' the policies to allow this project without amending the General Plan. The report misstates the language of LUE Policy 1.13.5E in contending that approximately 50%of the Dalidio property should be preserved. In.fact, this policy is set forth in mandatory terms and expresses a standard, not a `guideline'. The Policy states, "Each annexation shall help secure permanent protection for areas designated Open Space,and for the habitat types and wildlife corridors within the annexation area that are identified.arc identified in policy 6.1.1 Policies concerning prune agricultural land shall apply when appropriate. The following standards shall apply to the indicated areas: 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." Page 1 of 6 07/04/2004 09:48 8056874156_ JANA ZIMMER PAGE 02 This language is set forth in mandatory terms and it is not ambiguous or subject to interpretation. Moreover,to the extent that the CAO contends that other policies present a`competing' policy [e.g. 1.8.2] with Policy 1.135E,basic rules of statutory construction require that the more specific policy controls. The proposed project does not propose the approximately one half acreage of the ownership required for preservation. Offsite `preservation' is not contemplated within the express language of the policy.Families Unafraid to Uphold Rural etc. Co=v. Board of Supervisors f1908)62 Cal.App.4th 1332, 1335, 1339-1341 [74 Cal. Rptr. 2d 1]. This issue presents a question for `de novo'judicial review. The Planning Commissionwas also correct in its determination that the project is inconsistent with other provisions of the General Plan relating to annexation as a growth management tool and jobs/housing balance. Still other inconsistencies are identified in previous correspondence from members of the public, and are incorporated by reference herein. 2.Adequacy of the EIR In addition to various issues raised by commentors,the City has failed to comply with CEQA for the following reasons: 1. The EIR fails to identify the growth inducing impacts of the project as Class I, significant and unavoidable. The EIR concedes that the number of jobs generated by this project will result in a need for over 700 new housing units,which,based on the disparity in wages (low)and housing costs (high) cannot feasibly be created. 2. The ETR fails to adequately discuss cumulative impacts to public services,including water resources, wastewater, and solid waste disposal. It is not sufficient to assert that the existing infrastructure can accommodate this project. The issue to be evaluated in the ETR is the impact of this project in combination with the impacts of other projects. The EIR does not provide adequate information on these issues,nor does it demonstrate that the mitigation measures proposed will address these impacts. 3. The project's solid waste generation of over 5 tons per day is not adequately mitigated through the measures proposed and should be considered a project specific Class I impact. The mitigation measures are not enforceable,nor do they contain any measure or performance standard in terms of reduction of solid waste to supporta finding that the impacts are reduced to a level of insignificance. 4. The EIR fails to identify the project's clear inconsistency with Community Design Guidelines as a significant effect. In addition,the building area which is being proposed is in excess of zoning ordinance requirements. Therefore,the project will have a Class I impact with respect to local plans and policies. 5. In many instances, both the project specific and the cumulative impacts need to be called Page 2 of 6 07/04/2004 09:48 8056874156_ JANA ZIMMER PAGE 03 out as significant and unavoidable and the findings and the documents do not clearly do so. See,e.g. Agriculture. The document acknowledges 700 acres of agricultural land will be removed through General Plan buildout. This amount is increased by the 60 acres to be removed by this project. This impact is significant both as a project specific and a cumulative impact. 6. The mitigation measures for removal of riparian vegetation and wetland appear inadequate to reduce the impacts to less than significant levels. Particularly with respect to wetlands,where over 90%of the wetlands in California have already been filled or destroyed,the lack of specificity and the deferral of delineation and the fact that there is no measure that clearly prohibits removal of wetland, or other performance standard, make it impossible to determine whether the impact will be significard and unavoidable. 7. The inadequacy of the buffer from agricultural uses is not identified as a significant effect in terms of land use conflicts. The Agricultural Commissioner recommends between 200-500 feet of buffer area. While the project purports to propose a 100 foot buffer, in fact there will be human/agricultural activity interaction within all but 30 feet of that buffer because it is improperly defined to allow parking areas. There is no basis in the evidence to authorize reduction of the recommended buffer. 8. The EIR fails to discuss the impacts of the proposed Development Agreement,which.is also a discretionary act which is integrally connected with the project and its direct impacts. The impact of vesting entitlements for an extended period of time has not been addressed. In addition,the EIR does not require, as mitigation for traffic and circulation improvements,that the Prado interchange actually be built. Any approval of annexation, zone change and project entitlements must be expressly contingent on the execution of a Development Agreement which unequivocally allocates to the Developer the obligation to actually construct these improvements. The current approvals are structured in a manner which would allow for future modification or deletion of conditions which currently purport to require a contract for the improvements prior to building permit. Therefore,the Council should defer consideration of the other legislative approvals until it considers the Development Agreement and should make it clear that it will not override the impacts of this project witless there is an enforceable commitment to construction of the necessary infrastructure to serve it. 9. The impacts of the construction of the Prado interchange,which, standing alone would be a major public works project, have not been addressed. This is described as a component of the project,and evaluation of this component cannot be deferred. CEQA requires analysis of the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of a project;as well as the impacts of mitigation measures. 10. ,The ETR should be recirculated because of the identification of Class I impacts which Page 3 of 6 07/04/2004 09:48 805687415F- JANA ZIMMER PAGE 04 were not recognized as such in the Draft EIR. 14 CCR 15088.5. Likewise,the public has not bad an opportunity to review and comment onthe data supporting the change in impact levels from Class 1, unavoidable,to Class Il, mitigable for the hydrology/flooding impacts. Moreover, there is no data or evidence to support a conclusion that, even if the project specific impact hydrology is mitigable,that the cumulative impact is also less than significant. Given the nature of cumulative impacts, it is quite possible that a project will not have a site specific impact, and nevertheless contribute to a cumulative problem. 1.1. The mitigation/monitoring program is inadequate in that the time for performance of critical mitigation measures is in numerous instances tied to project occupancy rather than issuance of building permit. Suppose this Developer, who has a spotty financial history, goes bankrupt and the project is taken over by financial institutions. It is highly unlikely that with a built out project, occupancy would be withheld pending compliance with these conditions. 12. Reliance on the General Plan EIR is inappropriate in many respects. First,the fact that the City adopted overriding considerations.in the General Plan EIR for certain issue areas does not excuse its obligation to make such findings and statements of overriding considerations again in connection with this approval. The City is not allowed, in approving a later project that has significant unavoidable impacts, to forgo making a statement of overriding considerations specifically tied to that project.The requirement of a staternent of overriding considerations(Pub. Resources Code, § 21081)is central to CEQA's role as a public accountability statute; it requires public officials, in approving environmentally detrimental projects,to justify their decisions based on counterbalancing social, economic,or other bene fts,and to point to substantial evidence in support. Guideline Section 14, § 15152, subd. (f)(3)(C)has been invalidated by the Court of Appeal for precisely the reasons present here: an agency apparently could adopt one statement of overriding considerations for a prior,more general FIR, and then avoid future political accountability by approving later, more specific projects with significant unavoidable impacts pursuant to the prior approval. Communities.for a Better Environment v. Secretary of Resources (2002) 103 Cal App 411'98. 13. The City has not adequately referenced or incorporated the information relied on from the General Plan EIR and has not demonstrated that this project is consistent with projections in that plan. There is no evidence that the cumulative traffic impacts of this project have already been adequately addressed under 14 CCR 15130(d) and (e). The annexation `contemplated' in earlier planning documents (or considered in earlier negotiations to which the public was not a party)was considerably different from the project as now proposed. The eailier documents considered only 40 acres of the property for General Retail. The current project proposes 48.7 acres retail,plus 8.1 acres business park,plus 3.3 acres for housing. The earlier documents specifically contemplated that approximately 50%of the Dalidio property itself be preserved for open space. The current proposal offers less than the 65 acres required by the Land Use Element policy. Page 4 of 6 07/04/2004 09:48 8056874156_, JANA ZIMMER PAGE 05 As stated above,the Land Use Element policy specifically applicable to this property does not authorize off site conservation, and would prevail over any more general provisions. Finally,with respect to traffic impacts,it is not at all clear that the EIR adequately considered the impacts of projects in the proposed annexation area, and the City has failed to adequately explain the geographic scope of the area affected by cumulative effects and provide a reasonable explanation.for the geographic explanation used as required by 14 CCR 15130(b)(1)(B)(3); the project EIR does not explain how or whether assumptions in the buildout.have been borne out over the decade since the General Plan update was adopted. 14. The proposal to include an affordable housing component has not been analyzed for its environmental effects. Furthermore, the letter from Cannon Associates admits that this 'mitigation'/alteinativewould require discretionary permits and additional environmental review. Insofar as its viability to partially mitigate the growth inducing impacts of the project,the Cannon letter notes there is no developer and no real commitment to perform. Construction of this affordable housing is not a condition of the development approvals. Thus, as a project component,its environmental effects are not analyzed; as a mitigation. it is not shown to be feasible. 15. The visual resources/aesthetic impacts of the project,including the alteration of existing natural features and rural character of the site, and the views from Highway 101 are not adequately mitigated. Site specific architectural details are irrelevant to the impact of views from the scenic highway. A Class I impact under CEQA.mandates a finding of policy consistency under the General Plan. 16. The City has not adequately considered the economic effects of the project under 14 CCR 15131, and has failed to adequately consider, under Policy 3.1.3 or in its findings why the proposed uses could be developed in existing retail areas. The Kotin report has failed to refute the assumptions underlying the KMA conclusions regarding negative effects on the downtown retail community from the Marketplace project,if approved. Among other things,the Kotin report conclusions rely on a tenant mix proposed for the Marketplace which the City has no authority to regulate. Accordingly the Kotin report does not constitute substantial expert evidence to support a finding of no adverse impact. 17. The proposed findings are inadequate, in particular with respect to findings on alternatives. I£, as here, any of the project's significant environmental impacts will not be avoided or substantially lessened by mitigation measures,the agency must before approving the project, make written findings that the project alternatives are infeasible. (§ 21081,subd. (a)(3); Guidelines, § 15091,subd. (a)(3).)The agency's findings must also describe the specific reasons for rejecting the alternatives identified in the EIR. (Guidelines, § 15091,subd. (c).)And the findings must be supported by substantial evidence in the record. Q 21081.5; Guidelines, § 15091, subd. (b).)Under CEQA,the public agency bears the burden of affirmatively demonstrating that,notwithstanding a Page 5 of 6 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -San Luis Market Place From: <steve@srhopkins.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/20047:10 PM Subject: San Luis Market Place Dear City Council, Please note that I am opposed to the San Luis Market Place project. As a consultant with a national organzation, I have traveled all over the United States. It was sad to see that each small city and town seemed to look like one another......all comprised of the same strip shopping. centers and chain reataurants. SLO was the exception.....so much so that I moved here from Atlanta, Georgia. SLO is unique because it strives to keep the downtown active and vibrant. It has a charm all its own, a charm that should be preserved. I am in favor of attracting new retail opportunities to SLO, but in a manner that perserves and enhances the downtown. These is ample space and opportunity to have many of these new retailers to position themselves in the downtown market.There is no reason SLO could not adopt a plan similar to State Street in Santa Barbara....this would benefit everyone. I think it would be a shame to see a strip shopping center similar to the WalMart center in Arroyo Grande be built in SLO. Additonally, there is no reason to add big box stores that duplicate what is already here.....we have Gap, Home Depot and Best Buy. Why do we need Old Navy, Lowes, and Circuit City. Please make the right choice and chose in favor of downtown development. Keep SLO unique. Steven Hopkins 1606 Huckleberry lane San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 805-782-9121 frle://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 07/04/2004 09:48 8056874156 JANA ZIMMER PAGE 06 project's impact on the environment,the agency's approval of the proposed project followed meaningful:consideration of alternatives and mitigation measures." (Mountain Lion Foundation v. Fish& Game Com. (1997).16 Cal.4th 105, 134 (65 Cal. Rptr. 2d 580, 939 P.2d 1280].) 18. The Responses to Comments,particularly with respect to the inadequacy of the traffic analysis,the failure to address regional and neighborhood cut through traffic impacts, are not adequate. 19. As pointed out elsewhere,the Statement of Overriding Considerations is not supported by any substantial or relevant evidence. 3. Use Permit,Development Plan Because the project poses unavoidable significant effects in numerous issue areas, and it violates one or more General Plan policies,the findings required to approve the preliminary development plan and use permit cannot be made. e.g. incompatibility with surrounding uses, health,safety and general welfare, adequacy of the site to support the development. In summary,this project cannot lawfully be approved as currently proposed. Thank you for the opportunity to comment. Very Truly Yours, Zim er& Marcus, LLP By J immer Page 6 of 6 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace: NO From: "Rebecca Wright"<rwright@kcbx.neb To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:13 PM Subject: Marketplace:NO I am a resident of San Luis Obispo,and I live in the vicinity of the proposed Marketplace. I would like to comment on an aspect of the proposed Marketplace that I have not yet seen addressed.It is that the Marketplace is a threat not just to downtown,but also to any independent retail business owner in San Luis Obispo.This is because an independently owned business cannot withstand the economic downturns that happen from time to time and still make enough net profit to continue operating and living in this county. A large corporation does not need to earn the income month after month to afford to live in our beautiful but expensive area. A large corporation in contrast can weather economic hard times and is not dependent upon the business climate of one(or a cluster)of small communities.The playing field is not level for both businesses to compete. A larger corporation, with headquarters elsewhere,does not see how its presence affects a community,nor does it have any vested interest. I am opposed to the Marketplace for every reason that has been voiced.I do not want to see our rural character changed by the development of this incredibly fertile farmland.There are other options. Rebecca Wright Catherine's Cuisine Cooking Service 596-0324 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -slo marketplace From: Catherine Baynham <raybay@slonet.org> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 7:38 PM Subject: slo marketplace I do not want the slo market place. I do not need more chain stores. I like the small town, independent stores. I really like the agricultural view from Highway 101. Please continue SLO's history of agriculture and small town atmosphere. Please don't let us become another LA or SF style suburb. sincerely, Catherine Baynham Morro Bay file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\L.ocal%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - San Luis Market Place From: <steve@srhopkins.com> To: <slocitycounal@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 7:10 PM Subject- San Luis Market Place Dear City Council, Please note that I am opposed to the San Luis Market Place project. As a consultant with a national organzation, I have traveled all over the United States. It was sad to see that. each small city and town seemed to look like one another......all comprised of the same strip shopping centers and chain reataurants. SLO was the exception.....so much so that I moved here from Atlanta, Georgia. SLO is unique because it strives to keep the downtown active and vibrant. It has a charm all its own, a charm that should be preserved. I am in favor of attracting new retail opportunities to SLO, but in a manner that perserves and enhances the downtown.These is ample space and opportunity to have many of these new retailers to position themselves in the downtown market.There is no reason SLO could not adopt a plan similar to State Street in Santa Barbara....this would benefit everyone. I think it would be a shame to see a strip shopping center similar to the WalMart center in Arroyo Grande be built in SLO. Additonally, there is no reason to add big box stores that duplicate what is already here.....we have Gap, Home Depot and Best Buy. Why do we need Old Navy, Lowes, and Circuit City. Please make the right choice and chose in favor of downtown development. Keep.SLO unique. Steven Hopkins 1606 Huckleberry lane San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 805-782-9121 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: "Michael Gunther" <mgunther@resultshq.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 7:21 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Dear City Council members, I am opposed to the San Luis Marketplace being proposed. San Luis Obispo has maintained its unique downtown over the years and I believe that the Marketplace will have a negative impact downtown. We are already seeing the impact of the Madonna Plaza remodel on downtown—sales tax dollars for downtown retailers decreased as Madonna retailers sales tax revenue increased. My out of town visitors often comment on how great downtown SLO is because we have strived to keep our downtown thriving and alive -Since so many downtown areas of other cities have go by the way side as big box retailers pull business away from the downtown core. Do we really need another home repair store?—we have already seen the impact on the smaller merchants from Home Depot's entrance into the market. Our focus should be on how we attract the quality merchants we want in the downtown sector of our city—Los Gatos, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, etc. are just a few examples of cities that.have focused to keep their city an attractive and thriving center. Please vote NO against the Marketplace. Michael Gunther President 805.541-9040 Collaboration UC file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GWj00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil From: "Alex Gough" <adoberealty @charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 6:05 PM Dear Council: I'm not able to make Tuesday's Council meeting,so here are a few points about the Dalido/Marketplace decision. It's clear you've been getting a lot of pressure from both sides on this issue. Ernie Dalidio and Mr. Byrd are solidly behind growth and expansion,and as a businessman, I have to respect that point of view. It is also clear that some favor the project because if it had been approved it would have expanded sorely needed city revenues. But I am confident that you do not want to go down as the City Council that kicked off the decline of the downtown. It's well known that Downtown San Luis Obispo is now a model of downtown success across the country.A year rarely goes by when we don't appear on some new'Best of"list.Some years more than one list-maker looks our way. The Downtown has been a virtual incubator for successful businesses,many of which have gone on across the West, a few even across the country.Our farmer's market is famous.Accolades have poured in and awards have been won. It hasn't always been that way.The downtown has been on the ropes before,and like Mohammed Ali in Zaire all but counted out.Wise decisions saved the day.And you and your council predecessors have largely been architects of that success,coupled with enormous commitment from local business families. Surely you don't now want to be remembered as the Council that killed the goose that laid the golden egg. This is a critical time in the evolution of the downtown. The economy has been lackluster, but the earthquake really has us all shook up.Already,the seismic retrofit is causing rumbles,and soon the disruption and costs of the retrofit will hit the downtown nearly as formidably as any foreseeable earthquake. And you've been considering a major new project on the edge of town? Ask yourselves this: If stores move out(as has already happened)and shops close down,when storefronts are boarded up,will tourists continue to flock in? Will they continue to drive from hundreds of miles away to see Home Depot and Costco? How will that effect tax revenues and bed tax? t If we give up on the Downtown how will we then be any different from thousands of towns across America with decaying cores ringed by shopping centers?You don't have to go far to find out.Drive to Santa Maria,or virtually any town in the San Joaquin Valley.Go to the Midwest,or Texas;try Lafayette, Louisiana,where you have to work at finding the downtown,charming though it once was. Our Downtown needs your support at this critical point. I think you know that,and I am confident that you will make a wise decision Tuesday night. Alex Gough The Sauer-Adams Adobe file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 J SLO Citycouncil- Marketplace From: <Dalypearl@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 6:58 PM Subject: Marketplace To City Council Please vote NO on Marketplace Development. Concrentrate on downtown development. Thank you. Kathryn Patterson 216 Daly Avenue San Luis Obispo,CA 93405 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Allen.Settle-Dalidio/San Luis Marketplace From: "D.&E.Dollar"<ddollar@pacbell.net> To: Allen Settle<asenle@slocity.org>,Christine Mulholland<cmulholland@slocity.org>,John Ewan<jewan@slocity.org>, Dave Romero<dromero @ slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 8:32 AM Subject: Dalidio/San Luis Marketplace City Council, I urge you to support the SLO Planning Commission's decision on the Dalidio property.The Planning Commission made the right decision for the right reasons. Reject the Dalidio proposal. There are two things I would add to the Planning Commission's decision: 1.This proposal is dividing the community_-it would make for winners and losers,we do not need that type of situation. It's real obvious by the Macy's flap-some people were all supportive for a Macy's,then Macy's pulls out.It's all about money and will continue to be-not about the quality of our town/community.Let's not forget that. 2.The equation of the County Board of Supervisors is.changing significantly-let's not play the"county will approve it"card. Furthermore,the environmental issues with the site will preclude septic and other issues. Have a good Fourth of July :-) Don Dollar SLO 781-0118 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 2 Allen Settle- Proposed SLO Marketplace Development From: "Kent Hafliburton"<khalliburton@yahoo.com> To: <dromeo@slocity.org>,<cmulholland@slocity.org>,<jewan@slocity.org>,<kschwartz@slocity.org>, <asettle @slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:34 AM Subject: Proposed SLO Marketplace Development San Luis Obispo City Council Members: My name is Kent Halliburton. I live at 1414 Santa Rosa and am the manager at Muzio's Grocery located at 870 Monterey Street. Working as a downtown employee has encouraged me to speak out about the proposed Marketplace development. I strongly oppose such a development for the following reasons: 1) The quaintness and attraction to San Luis Obispo comes from its small business environment. It is what attracts people to the downtown area. By developing a host of big, generic, corporate businesses on the outskirts of town, San Luis Obispo will become more like Anytown, USA. If we allow the city to become like every other city,through developments such as the Marketplace, what could be the possible attraction for tourism?Our differentiation and uniqueness is what continues to make San Luis Obispo unique. 2) 1 believe that the businesses brought in would hurt the downtown. I've read in the paper that each set of developers, Downtown and Marketplace, have independently assessed economic reports that prove both of their positions on development of the city. As a resident and downtown employee, I can only speak on the condition of personal experience. Quaglino's True Value Hardware Store went out of business shortly after the arrival of Home Depot. Now there is no current business in that location.To me,that is a microcosm of what occurs as more box stores are developed: small businesses are unable to compete. Any downtown business that will compete with one of the box stores will probably not make it. If the Marketplace is developed,the downtown business landscape will be irrevocably altered. 3) 1 oppose the destruction of valuable farmland for the benefit of more consumerism. As the proposal stands right now the, the agricultural land use would be drastically reduced to 24 acres. I believe that our economy in the future is going to need more open farm land to survive and the trade off of arable land for consumerism is the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot for a couple hundred dollars: we'll benefit in the short term, but in the long term it will just wind up hurting us. 4) The alternative portion of the Council Agenda Report(pg. 17) suggests that the Marketplace may be voted down if"the proposed timing for annexation and development is premature given market conditions and current development levels." I cannot speak on "current development levels"but I do believe that market condition will not exist in the relatively near future to pursue developments such as the Marketplace due to Peak Oil concerns. "Peak Oil" is an event that will occur in the foreseeable future: All oil production follows a bell curve, whether in an individual field or on the planet as a whole. On the upslope of the curve,production casts are significantly lower than on the downslope when extra effort(expense)is required to extract oil from reservoirs that are emptying out. Put simply:oil is plentiful and cheap on the upslope, scarce and expensive on the downslope. The peak of the curve coincides with the point at which the world's endowment of oil has been 50%depleted. "Peak Oil"is the industry term for the top of the curve. Once the peak is passed, oil production begins to go down while cost begins to go up. In practical and considerably oversimplified terms, this means that if 2000 was the year of Peak Oil, worldwide oil production in the year 2020 will be the same as it was in 1980. However, the world's population in 2020 will be both much larger(approximately twice)and much more industrialized than it was in 1980. Consequently, worldwide demand for oil will outpace worldwide production of oil by a significant margin. (hftp://www.lifeaftertheoi[crash.net/PageOne.htm1) As the costs for oil continuously go up,the feasibility of developments such as the Marketplace will become difficult. I encourage all of the council members to research the possibility of Peak Oil because as Matthew Simmons, an energy advisor to President Bush states when asked about public discussion of Peak Oil, "it is past time.As i have said, the experts and politicians have no Plan B to fall back on. ff energy peaks, particularly while 5 of the world's 6.5 billion people have little or no use of modem energy, it will be a tremendous jolt to our economic well-being and to our heath -greater than anyone could ever imagine." For these reasons, I discourage the council members from the Marketplace development. Sincerely, Kent Halliburton 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: "Bruce Dwyer"<bdwyerslo@earthlink.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 9:35 AM Subject: Marketplace City Council City of San Luis Obispo Dear Sirs and Madam: I urge you to vote no on the Marketplace project. I have lived in San Luis Obispo since 1985 and have owned a retail business,Pacific Water Gardens,since 1996. My business is not in Downtown;but it is likely that it would be one of the merchants that Mr.Kotin acknowledges would be"adversely impacted"by the new Marketplace development. I can complete with large volume retailers on price. I can beat them on service. I cannot compete with them on name recognition or advertising budget. While many of my customers are from out-of-town, I could not survive without local support. If I was not here, however,out-of-town visitors would not make similar sales at Big Box stores. They already have those at home. As a result, without my business and other unique local businesses similar to mine, there will be sales lost to this community. And equally important, a little bit more of what make San Luis Obispo unique,will also be lost. Maybe the lost sales will be "found" at the Marketplace. If we lose our unique community, we will never be made whole again. Protect our community. Vote no on the Marketplace project. Sincerely, Bruce Dwyer ---Bruce Dwyer ---bdwyerslo@earthlink.net --EarthLink: The#I provider of the Real Internet. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 2 SLO Citycouncil - Dalidio Property/SLO Market Place From: Shirley Keif<sskeif@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:56 AM Subject: Dalidio Property/SLO Market Place Council Members, I am opposed to the Dalidio (SLO Market Place) development for the following reasons: (1) Retrofitting downtown buildings will increae the expenses of downtown business owners whether they are owners or renters of their business buildings. The increased costs will affect their abilities to show a profit and stay in business. (2) Competition -good and bad! Several long-time business owners have decided, as they chose to retire, to close their businesses instead of selling them: Quaglino's Ace Hardware, Ogden's Stationary, Mary Ann's Hallmark, and Hills' Stationary and Office Supply Store. I suspect the owners felt the opportunities had diminished because of Home Depot or Staples and Borders. I also suspect Staples and Sears have been hurt by Best Buy. Earthling Book Store (a successfulstore in Santa Barbara) ran into trouble because of retrofitting its building and because of the coming of Barnes &Noble to SLO. Did we really need a Barnes and Noble AND Borders as competition for our small independent bookstores? I believe only one independent remains. Is there now more competition or just a replacement of independents with big box stores with buying power to stock their stores more cheaply? (3) More employment of minimum wage earners to staff these new stores and hotel will being more traffic onto the freeways coming into SLO. At current housing prices and rents these workers will not be able to live here. Impacting our freeways will create another problem. (4) The development as planned is too big. I like Lowes better than Home Depot but we already have Home Depot. People will continue to shop at nearby Target Let's get through this retrofit ordeal by supporting stores - its a good chain. I'm willing to shop at our downtown. Bed, Bath, and Beyond and Mervyn's with their similar merchandise because they are here. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Thank you for serving our City. We have a wonderful downtown. On the street recently Sincerely, Shirley Keif I heard visitors comparing us favorably with Carmel. WHATEVER, they are both unique. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -SLO "Marketplace" From: <SumacBie@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slodty.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:56 AM Subject: SLO"Marketplace" Dear San Luis Obispo City Council Members; I would like to weigh in on this issue as being OPPOSED to convertng the Dalidio agricultural property into yet another shopping mall. I have shopped in San Luis Obispo for the last 25 years-10 more than the 15 quoted in the advertisement lamenting shoppers leaving town for their"needs". In all these years, amazing as it may seem, I have found (almost)everything I need right here! It is disingenious to say the SLO Marketplace will not take dollars from the existing stores downtown and around town—it will. Do we have any loyalty to those already here?Are those new, extra stores ones we can do without? Absolutely. San Luis Obispo has an opportunity to buck the trend and be progressive thinking in how we choose to develop. We have great and creative minds here. When everyone else has bought every little thing they could ever want, we will have fresh produce from our own.land to share across the table as we sit and discuss our lives. Sincerely, Susan Biesek 2929 See Canyon Road San Luis Obsipo, CA 93405 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)OOOOl.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Dalidio From: "mpowergiacoletti"<mpowergiacoletti@prodigy.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:43 AM Subject: Dalidio The phrase"growth is inevitable" is an unthinking,defeatist cliche which is, inch by inch,destroying the beauty and integrity of San Luis Obispo. If"room"for growth is provided, inevitably growth will occur. In a planet that is overwhelmed,we need to say"enough is already too much." We hardly need to do more consuming and expanding. A large number of county residents are completely dismayed with the"more is absolutely essential"mentality. Myself, David Olson, Kathleen Talmadge,Gloria Smith, Laurel Stewart,Andrea Giacoletti, Pat Ray, Maggie Power,Sam Giacoletti,and countless others,think that the Marketplace is not only unnecessary but bad policy. Please say no,or postpone the issue,as Mr.Osborne has suggested,for a referendum. Thank you, Mary Giacoletti file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycotmcil-San Luis Marketplace From: belinda kein<bjkslo@sbcglobal.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:54 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Dear City Council Members: Regarding the recent ad in the Tribune(Sunday,July 4,2004)placed by the developers of the San Luis Marketplace,I am writing to voice my opposition to the the proposed San Luis Marketplace. San Luis Obispo does not need another retail mall. Our precious and unique downtown must not be threatened or in any way compromised by a string of chain retailers. Our community would benefit little monetarily in the way of taxes but it would lose a great deal in every other way. Please vote NO on the proposed San Luis Marketplace. Thank you. Sincerely, Belinda J.Kein and Thomas Halpin 1797 Tonini Drive SLO,CA 93405 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: "Joe and Tori" <joeandtori@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/200410:40 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace I moved from Southern California to enjoy the open space up here... not to shop, I can do that elsewhere! You do NOT have my support for the San Luis Marketplace. V.Gonzalez file_//C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 r SLO Citycouncil - No on Marketplace From: Tony Hertz <mail@tonyhertz.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slodty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:08 PM Subject: No on Marketplace I do not support the Marketplace. I've lived in SLO since 1975 and value the small town atmosphere. Raise the Bed tax and Property tax for more local income. People and visitors will always come to this area as long as it retains its small town flavor.The Marketplace is a step away from that. Tony Hertz file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Thoughts on the proposed SLO Marketplace.... From: <Ccdusolei]Oaol.com> To: <slocitycouncil®slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:25 PM Subject: Thoughts on the proposed SLO Marketplace.... To Whom it May Concern, I am writing this letter to voice my concern about the proposed SLO Marketplace. As a homeowner on Oceanarie Drive in Laguna Lake (directly next to the area proposed) and also a new business owner in downtown SLO I am strongly against this. I have seen studies on how the "big box"stores brought in wouldn't be in direct competition with the downtown stores but I think with all the ongoing construction that would be just one more reason for people not to venture downtown. But mainly I'm speaking as a homeowner with property that would be directly effected by this development. We have been homeowners for almost three years now and chose that location due to the nice neighborhood,the tree lined streets, the open space around the neighborhood and not too much traffic. So far we've seen over 200 trees chopped down (an entirely different project),the traffic dramatically increase with the opening of Home Depot and the building of numerous homes on the corner of Madonna Road& Los Osos Valley Road. I can only imagine how the traffic would increase with the development of this additional shopping center. I understand that we need to get money spent back into SLO but do we really need a Loe's when Home Depot is just 2 minutes away? A Circut City when Best Buy is in the next shopping center? A Whole Foods when there's a Trader Joe's less than 5 minutes away? I think that the redundancy of these businesses is a joke. I urge you to consider the homeowners that chose their houses for the lack of traffic on their streets that are now seeing more and more speeding cars trying to cut through due to delays in their travels. I thank you for your time and hope to attend the meeting tomorrow night. Sincerely, Cindy Mayr file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouserCL.oval%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -Objection to proposed SLO Marketplace From: <dilevison@netscape.net> To: <slodtycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 11:04 AM Subject Objection to proposed SLO Marketplace I do NOT support the proposed SLO Marketplace because: (1)The traffic in the Laguna Lake area has already become unreasonably congested, and the proposed commercial development will exacerbate an existing problem; and (2) Your decision amounts to a choice between either preserving the ever-decreasing productivity of agricultural land or enabling further elimination of productivy and beauty in order to pay homage to the ever-increasing drive for acquisition of money and/or additional unnecessary "things." Diane Levison 1268 Drake Circle San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 Switch to the New Netscape Intemet Service. 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Download now at http•//channels.netscape.com/ns/search/"install.jsp file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\L,ocal%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Shelly Stanwyck- SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE From: Cindy Wood<cmktwood@onemain.com> LJUL 0 6 2004 To: <sstanwyc@slocity.org> CITY CLERK Date: 7/3/2004 10:28 PM Subject: SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE Shelly Stanwyck, I would like to express my support for the San Luis Marketplace project. I am a single mother and have resided in San Luis Obispo for nearly nine years now and would like to see more shopping available to us in San Luis Obispo outside of the downtown shopping experience or driving to Santa Maria and Paso Robles. It is an inconvenience to have to leave town to shop for everyday items. Not to mention the revenue that San Luis Obispo would benefit from more local shopping. I feel that people would shop in San Luis Obispo if they had more choices. I love downtown and still like the experience of a special trip to downtown with my daughter, but really feel we need more choices. So I feel the San Luis Marketplace would benefit everyone in one way or another. Sincerely, Cynthia Wood 3960 S. Higuera San Luis Obispo, Ca. 93401 OUNCIL TCDD DIR CzFIRE+�aAC CHIEF RED FILE ATTORNEY 9Fw DIR -- MEETING AGENDA ,0 CLERK/ORIG Z?OLICE CHF 1 Gl DET EADS e REC DIR DINE ITEM #2� 1 .moi UTIL DIR +i y %SHR DIR- -_ _ --_ to LY RECEIVED JUL 0 6 2N4 ISLO CITY COUNCIL file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Shelly Stanwyck - San Luis Marketplace Project From: Phil Konan <philko@sbcglobal.net> To: <sstanwyc@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 7:14 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Project I heartedly support the subject project. No more out of town shopping trips. Especially to Target. Establishing a retail identity, not only for the city, but for the area. Keeping sales tax money at home, and bringing in more from outside. But a major point, which seems to have been overlooked in most discussions, is the Prado Interchange. Traffic on South Higuera/Tank Farm Road/LOVR worsens weekly. The proposed extension of Prado to Broad may relieve Tank Farm Road traffic, but can only aggravate the already undesirable conditions on South Higuera and LOVR by directing more vehicles to South Higuera with no place to go. This is chaos waiting to happen. In the interest of solving problems rather than worsening them, I strongly encourage you to support this project. BTW, for a major part of my life I have been self employed, and have owned, operated and managed a small retail business. I've always believed that creativity, imagination and perseverance were the foundation of small business. This is the only area that I have lived in where political favoritism seems to be part of the formula. Sincerely, Phil Konan 3960 S. Higuera St. #142 SLO "Act when it is beneficial; desist when it is not." The Art Of War "Resist if you will; the cycles always win." philko F REC.;EIVED IJUL 0 G 20'4 ILC C17 COUNCIL file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Shelly Stanwyck San Luis Marketplace From: Wally&Lois Dunn <wallylois@webtv.net> To: <sstanwyc@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 1:15 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Shelly Stanwyck ..........writing in support of the Dalladio project ......have live in SLO for the 14 yrs and agree that we need this proposed improvement to not only give the inhabitants the ability to shop in SLO but to bring travelers like my family who go to Cosco etc to get their needs at best prices ......have never met Ernie but talked to him and have worked with Bill Bird over 20 yrs ago in LA when we were involved in building major projects there together ......very capable and will do a great job like Madonna .....the added income to the city is needed and eliminates more parking problems in the downtown area which is bad enuf now Ernie has done a job in presenting the advantages of the Markeplace which I agree with and hope the city will approve Wally Dunn RECEIVED 7 JUL 0 6 2004 ISLO i\D Y COUNCIL file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00002.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 n Shelly Stanwyck- Support for Marketplace project From: <BonzoL@aol.com> To: <sstanwyc@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 2:43 PM Subject: Support for Marketplace project I have been a resident of San Luis Obispo for 8 years, and I strongly urge the city planners to support the development of the Marketplace project. The economic vitality of this community is dependent upon economic growth,whether the "no growth" advocates like it or not. All of the studies have been done and re-done, either the city does the development or the County will. It is time to move forward! Please express my opinion to the City Council members. Thank you. Sincerely, Bonnie L. Lauer 525 Via Laguna Vista San Luis Obispo, CA FR-1-(7,�IIVJED�� IUL 0 6 M- 4 CIN COUNCIL file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Shelly Stanwyck - Contact Us Form From: slo-city-website@slocity.org To: <sstanwyc@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 3:08 PM Subject: Contact Us Form ******************************************************************************* Name: ed conway Address: 45 mariposa drive City: san luis obispo State: ca Zip: 93401 Phone: 544-0809 Fax: email_from: slofirst@sbcglobal.net Message: I support the new San Luis Marketplace Project. Just got in from Santa Maria about an hour ago where I shopped. RcCElVE jUL 0 6 2C�+ SLC CITY COUNCIL. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00002.HTM 7/6/2004 Page l of 1 Diane Stuart - Contact Us Form-- From: orm-From: slo-city-website@slocity.org To: <dstuart@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/200412:33 PM Subject: Contact Us Form Name: Antoinette Osweiler Address: 216 Via San Blas City: San Luis Obispo State: Ca Zip: 93401 Phone: 805 5430202 Fax: email from: tw6788@aol.com Message: I SUPPORT THE SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE RECEIVED JUL 0 u [004 SLO CITY COUNCIL file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\dstuart\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 _ Page 1 of 1 Diane Stuart - Contact Us Form' J From: slo-city-website@slocity.org To: <dstuart@sloci ty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 1:56 PM Subject: Contact Us Form Name: Barrington Dymott Address: 525 Via Laguna Vista City: San Luis Obispo State: CA Zip: 93405 Phone: 543-6711 Fax: 543-7310 email_from: bonzol@aol.com Message: I am writing this e:-mail regarding to express my support for the proposed Marketplace development. I think this is a. well planned development that will only benefit the community. Please allow the development to go forward. RECE!VED sUL 0 6 2004 . SLO CITY COUNCIL file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\dstuart\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Diane Stuart - Contact Us Forth From: slo-city-website@slocity.org To: <dstuart@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 6:12 PM Subject: Contact Us Form Name: Barbara Mckee Address: 1595 Los Osos Vly Rd. #76 . City: Los Osos State: Ca. Zip: 93402 Phone: 805-528-6206 Fax: email from: babsmckee@netzero.net Message: After reading the ad in the tribune I would like to state that I would approve of the San Luis Marketplace. Living in Los Osos is quite a trip to Santa Maria or Paso for these stores. Thank you. =RECEI file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\dstuart\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}OOOO 1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Shelly Stanwyck - Contact Us Form From: sio-city-website@slocity.org To: <sstanwyc@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:59 PM Subject: Contact Us Form ******************************************************************************* Name: Cheryl Kallman Address: 253 Country Club Dr City: Avila Beach State: CA Zip: 93424 Phone: Fax: email from: ckavila@aol.com Message: Please,... I would like to see the San Luis Marketplace become a reality. RECEIVED JUL 0 6 2004 SLO CITY COUNCIL file:!/C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW IOOOO1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 I SLO Citycouncil Market Place From: Frank-Louise Delia <dandyducks@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 3:47 PM Subject: Market Place Please approve Frank F Delia, Los Osos Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.corh/new mail file: /C \Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SILO Citycouncil - market place From: "howard fester" <hlester2@charter.net> To: " Mr. Dave Romero" <slodtycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 2:32 PM Subject: market place howard lester 697 piney way morro bay, ca 93442 July 5, 2004 Mr. Dave Romero 990 Palm St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Dear Romero: Please support the above. Thousands of us, each month travel to Santa Maria and Santa Barbara, using thousands of gallons of gasoline and spending large sums of money, out of our County. Thanks, Sincerely, Howard W. Lester 805772-2087 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -I support the development of the SLO Marketplace. From: "stevegervais" <stevegervais @charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 2:51 PM Subject: I support the development of the SLO Marketplace. I have read articles and editorials in support for SLO Marketplace and articles and editorials in opposition of the SLO Marketplace. I supportthe development of the SLO Marketplace. I believe the restrictions placed on the SLO Marketplace developers will help protect the core downtown stores. I would like see our county receiving tax revenue that these stores will produce. Steve Gervais 346 Village Glen Drive Arroyo Grande,CA 93420 (805)473-8282 e-mail:stevegervais@charter.net file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 i SLO Citycouncil From: "renee waters" <reneejwaters @earth link.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/20043:14 PM Dear City of San Luis Obispo, Please assist our community by making it easier to allow retail stores such as Target,Lowe's,Old Navy,Costco,etc.to join our growing area. We are in desperate need of stores such as these to recieve less expensive resources for items our families. These stores offer items that others do not and at prices families can afford. It will bring many additional jobs for people in the area and tax money for the city. Please help your community by allowing them into San Luis Obispo. Renee Waters reneewaters @ earthlink.net file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 2 SLO Citycouncil-RE:The Marketplace From: <BarryKSLOC@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 2:30 PM Subject: RE:The Marketplace To Council Member: Even before the 1990s we embarked on the journey with the Dalidio family which is only eclipsed by the Los Osos sewer. The issue now is joined, on both sides, by people with money interests promoting their financial prospects. The truth is that The Marketplace WILL affect the downtown. It also true that the lack of The Marketplace will also affect the downtown. San Luis Obispo's dominance as the retail hub Of the area is being assaulted by the Five Cities area; by Paso Robles; by Santa Maria. Leakage is turning into a steady flow. Our unique downtown has beaten off this attack- until now, but it can not go on. Our downtown is a wonderful place for tourists and college students, but it does not cater to the everyday needs of the family. We can still have the downtown area which will continue to draw those people, but we can even draw more to family-oriented stores that are slated to be in The Marketplace. These families are now traveling to Santa Maria and Paso Robles. Our City's only chance is to fulfill an area expectation that San Luis Obispo is the place that provides a variety of shopping values to all shoppers. San Luis Obispo could have everything from boutiques to department stores; in a very unique setting,that the family can afford and enjoy. It will enhance the City's ability to provide service to it's population because of the increase in sales tax revenues and keep these same revenues from leaking to Paso Robles and Santa Maria. Years ago, when I (Barry)was on the Planning Commission, I stated (over and over)that we should buy the Dalidio property if we didn't want it to be developed. It's just too late to do that now. Do what is right and approve this project now. It is fair to all concerned. Sincerely, Brenda and Barry Karleskint barryksloc@aol.com 623 Jeffrey Drive file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 -- J SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace Project From: Brian Caserio <sideoff@slonet.org> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 1:47 PM Subject: Marketplace Project Dear SLO City Council, As your decision on the SLO Marketplace project draws near I would just like to cast my vote in favor of the project. To me your decision boils down to being able to draw this type of development within the city limits where it belongs and can do the most good, versus allowing it to grow out of control just outside of the city limits. A vote against the project, which I consider infill, would be a green light for land owners to try to avoid dealing with the city at all in the future. I have lived in SLO county for almost 25 years and at this moment find myself in Durham, North Carolina for about 6 months. Here, an area with some similarities to SLO, there are shopping centers every two or three miles all around the outside of the city. They definitely lost the battle to keep these important areas in sensible places. The result is sprawl and traffic that is uncontrollable due to this growth pock-marking the landscape so far from the city center. You have the opportunity, right now, not to make the same mistake. Several other reasons I support this project are: 1. The Prado road overpass is sorely needed, and this is the quickest and most feasible way to make it happen. 2. I have a 3 year old son and stores like Target are very useful and economical places to shop, as they is for most families. And as these stores exist in both Santa Maria and Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo is losing a lot of shoppers to these areas, which you already know. I am not a big fan of big box stores and will not shop at WalMart, but of all of them Target is the cleanest and best run. 3. As designed, within the city, this shopping center will have the best architectural design with the lowest"ugly big box" impact possible. It will actually look nice, not just plopped there like Home Depot on Los Osos Valley Road. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Brian Caserio Cambria, CA file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}0000I.HTM 7/6/2004 Support the SLO Marketplace please. .... Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Support the SLO Marketplace please...... From: Bill Pisor<bpisor@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 1:53 PM Subject: Support the SLO Marketplace please...... Hi We urge you to support the SLO Marketplace at your meeting on Tuesday! We have to travel out of town to do some of our shopping and would like to keep our dollars in SLO. We still like shopping downtown as well so don't see the conflict as reported in one of the reports commissioned by the downtown association. Thank you, Kevin Pisor Melissa Harris file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: <Terrywhift@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 1:25 PM Subject: Marketplace Hi! I am a Pismo Beach resident. For what it is worth: I go to downtown SLO very frequently for eating and shopping. I also go to the big boxes on Madonna Road. They are destinations that have different purposes for me. I think the Marketplace is a good idea for SLO. Also,we currently go to Santa Maria to go to Costco usually twice a month. Sincerely, A.Terrence Whittaker file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 10000LHTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: <Lahbeach@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 1:41 PM Subject: Marketplace I am in favor of the Marketplace going forward. The downtown of SLO is unique,chaarming,full of character and that will continue to draw people to it. The average SLO Co. resident does not shop there. I bring my company there, I will eat there and go to movies there but I do not°shop°there. I would definitely shop at the stores suggested as tenants of the Marketplace. If the City does not want this project, please annex it to the County,we need the sales revenue. Thank you. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: <WERPARKER@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 12:45 PM Subject: Marketplace We want to spend our money in SLO,not Santa Maria. VOTE YES for the Marketplace. 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: <RylanSport@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 12:53 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace I wanted to drop a line and say that I support the addition of the San Luis Marketplace to our retail arena. The location is good, the services are needed,and the county will benefit from the tax dollars. Please consider the needs of the community and approve this freeway-close development. Thank You Lisa Bush file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of i SLO Citycouncil - SLO Marketplace From: "jeanne james" <jnejmes@hotmail.com> To: <slocitycounal@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 12:55 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace Dear City Council Members, I have been a SLO county resident for 23 years. I would like to see my sales tax revenue stay in this county by allowing more quality chain stores to build in the city of San Luis Obispo. I support the.SLO Marketplace, will shop there, and will continue to shop in downtown SLO also. Please support this project, and help the city of San Luis Obispo provide the goods and services its citizens deserve. Thank You, Jeanne R. James Atascadero Get tips for maintaining your PC, notebook accessories and reviews in Technology 101. http://sMial.msn.com/tech/technologyl0l.armx file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: "Bob and Judy Wilson" <bobandjudy4@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Dater 7/5/2004 1:01 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace This is to let you know that we support the SLO Marketplace. We do a lot shopping at Wal-Martin Arroyo Grande&Santa Maria. Let's keep the dollars here.Thanks! file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -San Luis Marketplace From: "Jeanne Lukes" <jbltml20@earthlink.net> To: "SLO City Council' <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 1:05 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace I feel that the worry that the Marketplace will hurt the sales downtown is unwarranted. I asked several of my senior citizen friends where they shopped and none of them mentioned downtown. Downtown is for the tourist with its boutique shops. I go very rarely to shop in the area, once in a while to Copelands to buy tennis shoes and to the jewelers for watch batteries and that is the extent of my downtown shopping. We need a really good department store like Dillards or Macys and the fact that Macys has withdrawn is very disappointing. The Dalidio property is in an area where any kind of spraying is probably prohibited. Surrounded by private homes,the property should be allowed to be developed. I have lived in SLO for 42 years and certainly do not want our area to be another LA,but I do think that this property should be allowed to be developed. Jeanne Lukes 176 Del Norte Way San Luis Obispo CA 93405 805-543-0313 Jeanne Lukes 'bitml2O@earthlink.net Why Wait?Move to EarthLink. file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Market Place From: "Mary Jane Riley"<mjriley@onemain.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/20041:13 PM Subject: San Luis Market Place Yes, I want the MARKET PLACE here in San Luis Obispo. I am 70 years old and still drive to Santa Maria two or three times a month to shop. I was looking forward to Macy's but will settle for another like store. Thank you for telling me and others how to(easily) let you know by putting the ad in the Tribune. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: "Natalie M Dorris"<natal ie @j acknat.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 1:16 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace We want the marketplace! SLO needs more shopping! We take our hard earned money out of the county on a regular basis to purchase the goods and services we need. Why loose those sales tax dollars due to an "arrogant not in my town attitude"? We need this center and we will support it along with the downtown center. Maybe if there were more than over priced home furnishing stores and dress shops on Higuera&Monterey you would not have to worry this shopping center affecting the precious downtown area. Put in a Nordstroms downtown and see how it affects all the other business! I want a Macy's or Nordstroms department store in this county. There is no high end clothing shopping with great customer service. I am in my late twenties and all of the stores in our area cater to the slinky-clad college students or the wealthy middle-aged women! There is no reason we can't have high end shopping like every where else in this state and still keep our SLO way of life! Natalie Dorris Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system(http://www.grisoft.com). Version:6.0.712/Virus Database:468-Release Date:6!27/2004 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-\Make MarketPlace a GOM From: Sharen Bloechl<vonrund@pacbell.net> Date: 7/5/2004 12:34 PM Subject: \Make MarketPlace a GO!!! CC: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Help keep tax revenue dollars in SLO NOT Santa Maria!Except for certain stores and shops like Pendelton[and next year at Talbot's],I don't shop downtown-most of the stores cater to the younger crowd and tourists.Whichever way you look,north or south, east or west,the downtown core has many spots which will continue to draw people to it. Plus,55 acres of green space along 101 will still keep the basic comfortable feeling that is uniquely SLO. Besides,doesn't the Dalidio property have deep wells?This is a great resource too! Sharen Bloechl Atascadero 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: "The Asp's"<smartasp @charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 12:37 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Gentlemen: My wife and I feel the Marketplace will be an asset to the community and will not distract our enjoyment of the downtown businesses. Thanks! Wayne Asp file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLID Citycouncil -Marketplace From: "Janet' <Janet936@Charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 12:37 PM Subject: Marketplace Yes,yes,yes!! We want these stores and especially Target if nothing else. I am a senior citizen and there is nothing in the downtown my generation need or want... Please-we travel to Santa Maria or Paso Robles now and would welcome the convenience here... Janet Stahl San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycoundl -.I support the SLO Marketplace From: Brian&Stephanie Tippitt <downstairsdesign@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slooty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:57 AM 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. My family and I moved here from LA 5 years ago and we still do the majority of our shopping when we go back to LA for visits. I have young children and I go to OLD NAVY in Pasadena every time I'm there. I also shop at Target in Santa Maria all the time (as do all of my friends). If we had one here locally, all the revenue that now goes out of town would come into San Luis Obispo. 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. Please let the stores come(and can you get Macy's back here too? :) ) Thank you for your time, Stephanie Tippitt 749 Highland Way Grover Beach, CA 93433 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-marketplace From: "Craig Cramer° <Cramer_Craig@msn.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:03 AM Subject: marketplace We have lived in the City of San Luis Obispo since 1940 and request you vote yes on the Marketplace. Craig Cramer, Martha Cramer, Michael Cramer 1510 Chorro Street, San Luis Obispo, California 93401 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-stores From: Dinesh B Patel<neshrag@sbcglobal.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:05 AM Subject: stores i am in favor of the stores to come to the SLO area,i have been waiting for 4 years for costco to be built,and i was so happy to hear that they were going to break ground in may 2004,and again disappointed. as you may know as fast as the slo county has grown,and continues to grow,i live in morro bay,and i hate to drive 45 miles to get certain things like target has,we need more options,let SIO grow.. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-GO SLO Marketplace :-) From: <JSaputo728@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/200410:16 AM Subject: GO SLO Marketplace :-) Hello, Being a wife and mother of two young girls, I would like to let you know that I DEFINITELY support the SLO Marketplace. I have been waiting for years for a Target and Old Navy to come to SLO. However, I don't understand why Lowes has to come in since we have a new Home Depot right across the way or a Circuit City since we have Best Buy right there too(this is where it becomes ridiculous and gives nonsupporters a good argument). How about a TJ Maroc, Nordstroms Rack, Pottery Barn,William Sonoma,Coffee Bean,Spaghetti Factory, Mimi's Cafe etc.? Being originally from Orange County, I feel that the SLO residents who do not support the Marketplace have NO idea what they are missing. They need a taste of the good life,some fantastic new stores and good family restaurants. Thank you, Jana Saputo(Shell Beach,CA) file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\L.ocal%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -San Luis Marketplace From: Walt Gonyer<waltllll@webtv.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:26 AM Subject San Luis Marketplace I am a lifelong resident of San Luis Obispo and am a strong supporter of the development of the new Marketplace. I am tired of traveling out of town to Santa Maria to shop leaving all of those tax dollars in Santa Barbara County. It's time that we wake up to reality and join the 21st Century. Yes! Yes! Yes! I want the new Marketplace to become a reality. Please vote Yes. Thank You. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: "Maria Troy"<mdtroy@hotmail.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:28 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace I am in favor of having the San Luis Marketplace. We lose plenty of revenue having to go to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to shop. By having the Marketplace we would save on gas money,time and the tax revenues would stay here where they can be used in our community. Thank you, MNaria Troy 1716 Southwood Drive San Luis Obispo,CA. 544-6841 MSN 9 Dial-up Internet Access helps fight spam and pop-ups—now 2 months FREE! file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: "Shrader" <fognet3@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/200410:31 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace CC: "Carolyn M Smith" <fognet3@charter.net> In responce to the advertisement in The Tribune on Sunday,July 4,2004-Do you want these stores in San Luis Obispo? We definitely do support the SLO Marketplace. Carolyn and Mel Shrader file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - SLO Marketplace From: <swissgab@charter.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:32 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace I am totally supporting the SLO Marketplace. I think it's a great idea. Brings a lot of new jobs to the area and more stores to shop at. Hope it will get approved. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouacil - Re: Marketplace From: <BLUE22633@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:32 AM Subject: Re: Marketplace I am writing to let you know that I am in favor of the proposed Sal Luis Marketplace. Everyone I know goes to Costco and Target in Santa Maria, spending their money in that county. as well as using precious gasoline and increasing the air pollution in the process. I don't think these stores would create a significant competition for the small businesses in SLO, as most of us are already shopping in these stores, but still patronize the local shops whenever possible. San Luis shopping is frequently frustrating for those who are not well-to-do college students. It's hard to find clothing for the mature figure, and the department stores here are limited and expensive. Since living in SLO County is becoming more and more expensive, I feel it is the responsibility of the Council to provide more affordable and varied shopping for those of us on a budget. Thank you, Sylvia Leap file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - SLO Marketplace From: "Kathy Forgie" <khforgie@msn.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:36 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace Please count this as one more voice in favor of the SLO Marketplace. People, particularly visitors and their hosts, come downtown for the ambience and unique shopping experiences. I cannot see that businesses proposed for SLO Marketplace would displace business downtown any more than Mervyns or Sears displace shoppers from Ross, or Big 5 displaces shoppers from Copeland's. Law's Hobby and Beverly's have not been displaced by Michael's in the Marigold Center, because each offers something unique that Michael's doesn't offer. It's all about special niches, something downtown merchants excel at. And customer loyalty also deserves some consideration. When I need sport's gear, I shop Copeland's and not Big 5, because personally, I prefer the selection and customer service I receive there. Price is rarely the consideration, though I think downtown merchants are very price savvy. Please consider SLO Marketplace. Farmland surrounded by hotels, shopping malls, car dealerships and subdivisions, which is what exists now, looks pretty disjointed -- not exactly calendar material. If the City of SLO had wanted to preserve that farmland serenity and vision, then past City Councils should have prevented all that exists there now from being built in the first place. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE From: "Penny Handel" <rosepointe@digitaiputty.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:52 AM Subject: SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE My name is Penny Handel and I support the Marketplace. Isn't it about time that we join this century? I shop downtown now and will continue to do so and feel that the Marketplace will only add to the advantages that are already here in SLO. Lets support the MARKETPLACE !! Penny Handel Arroyo Grande file:HC:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-stores From: °Diane" <knighthock@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/200410:53 AM Subject: stores My husband and I want a TARGET store...................................... Tom and Diane Hocking Shell Beach,Ca 93449 file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 C SILO Citycouncil - Marketplace....... From: "theioox6@netzero.net" <thezoox6@netzero.net> To: <sloatycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:03 AM Subject. Marketplace....... Please, please bring the marketplace to San Luis. Allow San Luis to grow in this regard. -I.agens 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: "Lynda" <lyzzard@wildmail.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:04 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace San Luis needs the marketplace...bring the revenue back to SLO. Vote yes on the market place !!!! Maria Marichalar Good People. Great Causes. Get Connected on Caret Connect: http://www.care2.com/ao/z/C2Connect 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: <Stevenhandel1@aol.com> To: <slodtycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:06 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace I would love to see this project come to our city. We need the retail companies that will be available to us. I don't think this the Marketplace will take away any sales in the downtown area. Sincerely, Steven Handel Arroyo Grande file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycoun©1 - Marketplace From: Patti Youngclaus <pattin2wine@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:13 AM Subject: Marketplace Dear City Council, I would love to see the Marketplace in San Luis and it would not change my shopping in downtown. The downtown shopping is very different.from what is planned for the Marketplace. I currently drive to Fresno or Santa Maria to do most of my shopping at this time. Thank you, Patd Youngclaus Vista Ceek Vineyards Paso Robles Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://prromotions.yahoo.com/new mail file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Support for San Luis Marketplace From: <Stanthomps@aol.com> To: <Slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/200411:24 AM Subject: Support for San Luis Marketplace Please vote in favor of the San Luis Marketplace. I believe the opponents to this are a small,very vocal minority, many of whom are not homeowners.Thank you. Stan Thompson 1759 San Luis Drive San Luis Obispo 544-7031 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 10000I.HTM 7/6/2004 Please Support the SLO Marketplace! Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Please Support the SLO Marketplace! From: Bill Pisor<bpisor@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:33 AM Subject: Please Support the SLO Marketplace! My wife and I urge you to support the SLO Marketplace at your meeting on Tuesday! We are tired of having to travel out of town to do some of our shopping. We still like shopping downtown as well so don't see the conflict as reported in one of the reports commissioned by the downtown association. Thanks for your time..... Bill & Toni Pisor file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Yes on SLO Marketplace! Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Yes on SLO Marketplace! From: Bill Pisor<BPisor@kingsburg-elem.kl2.ca.us> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:37 AM Subject: Yes on SLO Marketplace! Please support the SLO Marketplace when you vote on Tuesday. I would like to be able to buy most of my purchases in SLO instead of out of town! Thank you, Art Pisor file:/1C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace opinion From: John P Cole<jpmccole@sbcglobal.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:52 AM Subject: Marketplace opinion Dear council members, My wife and I would like to have you count us on the side in favor of the Marketplace development. Thank you John and Margaret Cole file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO market place From: <NORLANP@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:58 AM Subject: SLO market place I would like to put our vote or voice in to approve the stores in the Marketplace. I think it would be an added contribution to the city. It would also give the older people here in San Luis Obispo a place to shop. One that doesn't cater to the younger population. Also I think you should go ahead and let the Cosoo get started. There are no Red Legged Frogs in that ditch. There were none found and they worked around the problem when they put in the Home Depot. Why spend the money again on the impact reports. It would just bring in more money to the city and County. Just think of the amount of taxes are going to Santa Barbara county and the City of Santa Maria. People from Paso and Atascadero would come here to shop instead of going all the way to Santa Maria. People from San Luis would stop going to Santa Maria too. So please get all these stores going and keep San Luis money here in the City of San Luis. Thank you Betty J Peterson a property owner for over 50 years. 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: "Bill Rasmussen" <bill@strokesgolfshop.com> To: <slodtycoundl@sfocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 12:11 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Dear Councilmembers: My name is Bill Rasmussen and I am the owner of a relatively new small business called Strokes Golf, located in the SLO Promenade. I would like you to know that I support the SLO Marketplace development. I strongly believe that the mix of stores planned for this development will be a significant draw of shoppers who are currently going to Santa Maria and will not adversely affect the Downtown businesses. The development also provides a strong balance of commercial, open space, and needed residential. The owner/developer has been more than generous in working with the City to develop a project that SLO should be proud of...and I would like to urge your support of this project. Thank you. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 i ! � SLO Citycouncil RE: SLO Marketplace RECEIVED From: <bpatti@co.slo.ca.us> To: <slocitycoundl@slodty.org> AUL 0 6 2004 Date: 7/6/2004 10:41 AM Subject: RE: sl_o Marketplace SLO CITY CLERK We have a beautiful downtown and that will never go away........tourism will always florish here in this county. We need more shopping choices. I love to go downtown and enjoy the ambiance the downtown holds, but seldom buy anything. I hope the council will also support the Marketplace project. I file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -YES to the Market Place From: <MaryinPismo@aol.com> To: <slodtycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:12 AM Subject: YES to the Market Place The county is sprawling. Let's keep the tax dollars here. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: Richard Maize<rmaize@sbcglobal.net> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:16 AM Subject: Marketplace Why do we need the Marketplace? Let me tell you..... Downtown SLO is unique in every way. I enjoy doing down there and shopping. The food is fantastic and the atmosphere is quaint. BUT.... I have small children that have continuous needs. I go to Santa Maria all the time to shop at Target for the kids and my household. That is tax dollars SLO is missing out on. How many other family do the same thing. ALOT!!! What about the employment opportunities. SLO is lacking in that department. More and more family's are moving to this area yet they still go out of the county to do their shopping for the kids school clothes and the misc.household items. Chery Maize Los Osos file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: <STaylor871 @aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil®slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:24 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace To: All City Council Members My husband and I support The Marketplace being built. Too bad,we've already lost Macys. Please vote in favor of The Marketplace. foe & .94& 74*&n ATOP file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-MarketPlace From: "Mary-jo Seymour"<flyingpigsl39@msn.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:29 AM Subject: MarketPlace San Luis Obispo City Council, Tomorrow,Tuesday,please be sure to vote in favor of the MarketPlace. Competition is needed in this city,for the good of the consumer.We need choices from HomeDepot and Gottschalks. The stores proposed for the MarketPlace,would NOT hurt Downtown SLO,because they are not the same type of stores. Downtown is for the tourists! We locals need a place to shop-with choices! Thank you. Maryjo Seymour Avila Beach file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Market Place From: "Grahame"<res6mvca@verizon.net> To: <SLOCitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:50 AM Subject: San Luis Market Place In response to the ad that ran in the Tribune, here are my feelings: I live in Santa Maria and work in San Luis Obispo County. I often shop in San Luis Obispo County and would welcome the San Luis Marketplace as well as many others like myself. I trust that your city council would do the right thing and allow this well thought out project to take place. With the price of housing and the job wages not increasing, families in San Luis Obispo County need to have access to more "affordable"shopping. Or, the City Council can decide not to do this and have people spend their precious gas money, buy in Santa Barbara County and have places like Santa Maria benefit from the tax monies just because some of the people from SLO do not want things to change. I personally do not find myself shopping in downtown, one reason is the high priced stores and secondly because of the lack of parking. Good luck with your decision and I know this most be a difficult one for all of you. S.G. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - San Luis Marketplace From: 'Renee Morton" <mortonr3@earthlink.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:56 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Yes, I want those stores in San Luis Obispo! Competition is a good thing and these stores wiLL help to keep consumer dollars in the County. Thanks, Renee Morton Avila Beach mortonr3gearthli nk.net file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 - U SLO Citycoundl - Marletplace From: "Rebecca Davidson" <radbeachl@msn.com> To: <slodtycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:01 AM Subject Marletplace By adding these wonderful business'to the community you stimulate the economy and allow job opportunities for many of us out of work. All of these stores would be most welcome, especially to most of us who have relocated from the Bay Area and look forward to a wonderful wholesome grocery store not to mention the affordable shopping at Old Navy. PLEASE CONSIDER ALLOWING THESE FOLKS IN OUR COMMUNITY! WE ALREADY SCREWED UP WITH MACY'S. Rebecca file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: <NJLeichter@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/20049:09 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace I SUPPORT THE SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE. I live in SLO County and I want places I can shop so I don't have to go to San Francisco, Los Angeles or Santa Barbara to spend money. Nancy Leichter Morro Bay, Ca. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouserV.Ocal%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: "don savitt" <pismoclan®earthlink.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:14 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace To City Council Members, Please vote in favor of the proposed marketplace for downtown SLO.As a resident of Pismo Beach, I'm tired of traveling to Santa Maria for products and establishments that are needed right here in SLO.The need for competition is a neccessary part of life and a need for more varieties in shopping is a must. The need for larger merchandisers along with the small MAMA&PAPA stores is a good combination for all merchants. Again I employ you to vote for acceptance of this long needed marketplace. Thank you, Don&Mitzi Savitt pismoclan b earthlink.net file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil Re: San Luis Marketplace From: <RAndrewsl l @aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:21 AM Subject: Re:San Luis Marketplace We wish to express our support in favor of the San Luis Marketplace project. The time is right to take this positive and forward thinking step and action. Most sincerely, M. Richard and Joyce J.Andrews 5884 Tamarisk Way San Luis Obispo,California 93401 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycoun©1 -Yes on San Luis Marketplace From: Kathie Haley <kbhaley@charter.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:30 AM Subject: Yes on San Luis Marketplace Dear Council Members, It's time to capture the lost revenue that is being spent in areas out of the City. The San Luis Marketplace will add needed tax dollars to the City's budget. The Marketplace DOES NOT conflict with the downtown of San Luis---these are two separate entities. The shopping offered by the Marketplace will fill a void currently in San Luis Obispo. The City has bent over backwards for Tom Copeland. It is time the Dalidios are allowed to develop their land. The plans for the Marketplace need to go forward NOW. Sincerely, Kathie Haley San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 _ Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: Bridget Bogust<bbogust6@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:38 AM Subject: SLO MarketPlace Dear SLO City Council, I support the development of the SLO Marketplace. I want my money and accompanying taxes to stay in SLO. Currently I go to Paso or Santa Maria. This is a great opportunity to bang an infusion of money into our local economy. I'd like to see our embattled schools benefit from this development via specific store programs and increased tax revenue. Sincerely, Bridget Bogust 598 Avalon St. Morro Bay,Ca Bridget M.Bogust Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!Mail Address AutoComplete-You start.We finish. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -SLO Marketplace From: Teresa George <safeharborall@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:44 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace Dear SLO City Council Members: I am strongly in favor of the development of the SLO Marketplace. I believe that it would be an excellent addition to the local economy and provide needed stores in the local area. Currently, I have to travel to Paso Robles or Santa Maria for shopping and would like to see my tax dollars stay in my local community. I urge you to vote in favor of the SLO Marketplace. Sincerely, Dr.Teresa M. George 598 Avalon Street Morro Bay, CA 93442 Teresa M. George, Ph.D. Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobi le.yahoo.corh/mai ldemo 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: "Karen"<kjh2213@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:49 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Council Members: I very much support the SLO Marketplace. I live in Arroyo Grande which is of equal distance to SLO or Santa Maria. Since Santa Maria has Target and Circuit City, I primarily chose to drive there for ALL of my other shopping needs. If SLO were to build the Marketplace, I would not only shop there but it would be more convenient for me to continue on to other stores in the SLO area for additional shopping. Karen Harris Arroyo Grande,CA file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE From: <Tony13ianco@aoI.com> To: <slocityoounciI@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:53 AM Subject: SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE I AND MY FAMILY WOULD INCREASE OUR SHOPPING TRIPS TO SAN LUIS FROM BIWEEKLY, PRIMARILY TO TRADER JOE'S, AND THE BOOKSTORES TO AT LEAST WEEKLY WITH THE ADDITION OF WHOLE FOODS,TILLYS, AND LOWES. THESE ARE THE MAJOR DRAWS TO GET SHOPPERS TO SLO FROM THE NORTH COUNTY. THE NEXT THING WE NEED IS A COSTCO. IF YOU DO NOT GET THIS TYPE OF SHOPPING IN SLO WE WILL NOT HAVE A REASON TO VISIT YOUR CITY. THIS TYPE OF STORE GETS US INTO TOWN TO THE BOOKSTORES, RESTAURANTS, FURNITURE STORES THAT ARE UNIQUE TO SLO.THE REGIONAL STORES ARE THE DRAW FOR THE SMALLER MERCHANTS. IF YOU DONT OPEN THE SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE,THERE WILL BE A "NORTH COUNTY MARKETPLACE." file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of I SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: "George Shyavitz"<shyavitz@earthlink.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 7:35 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Enough delays! Approve the "San Luis Marketplace". It will bring much needed shopping options and competition to San Luis! ************************************** George E. Shyavitz 8560 Corriente Rd. Atascadero, CA 93422 (805)462-9244 eMail: shyavitz@earthlink.net file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -slo marketplace From: <BKSFLEMING@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 3:58 PM Subject: slo marketplace San Luis Marketplace is an essential addition to our community. I am the at home mom of two young children and have to spend my money wisely. Places like Target and Old Navy enable me to buy quality items at a low price. Lowes selection is hugely different from Home Depot and we are currently remodeling our home therefore buying outside SLO County for that also. Please help the young crowd who have been able to buy a home here to keep them. I spend thousands of dollars a year outside SLO County and am tired of it. Please, please, OK the marketplace. It is what residents want! Kristina Fleming 7305 Santa Ynez Atascadero, CA 93422 file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil- marketplace From: <helenseavey@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 4:43 PM Subject: marketplace CC: <helenseavey@charter.net> Yes„we need the Marketplace in SLO. I am a Senior citizen with a large family,4 married children, 13 grandchildren and 4 greatgrand children. I do a lot of buying and beleive me there is no place in the down town of SLO to shop for what I am looking for except Barnes and Noble. The down town is great for taking my guests.. The resturant are wonderful. The mission is a place for all of us to be proud of and for attending Mass and the Farmers Market can't be beat but that is it. I shop at Mervyns,Sears and Gottschalks. And if i can't find it and any of these stores then I come home and go through all my mail order catalogs. I can truthfully tell you,that Old Navy and Target will not detract from down town SLO.What they have to offer can not be found in down town SLO. My friends feel the same way I do. Many got to Santa Barbara to shop and we shoud not have to do that. We would all like to keep our sales tax in this county where we live. WE NEED THE MARKETPLACE IN SLO. Thank you for your time. Helen Seavey, Morro Bay file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: 'Bruce"<bhulin@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 4:56 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace My husband and!live in the Laguna LakeJCuesta Highlands area. We enjoy the open spaces as well as the near-by shopping. We feel that the SLO Marketplace would be an economic boost to San Luis. /personally am tired of driving to Paso Robles or Santa Maria to shop at big name stores. Nothing can compare to downtown SLO and it will never lose local dollars. Please consider supporting the SLO Market. Sincerely, Bruce and Shirley Hulin file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -SLO Marketplace From: "Henric Szopinski" <r3mcrew@hotmail.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 5:02 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace My vote would be a definite YES on the Marketplace. We would love to have this development here as well as the Costco. We have been wanting a Target for the last 12 years. To this day we drive to Santa Maria or Paso especially for Target. We do not feel it would interfere with the vitality of the downtown commerce as we go to downtown for its own specialty stores, but when we want household goods, sundries, etc., it is Target or Walmart that we drive to. You shop at downtown or Target for entirely different reasons. They do not conflict. We have spoken with countless friends who agree with us, but we don't know if they will contact you. Nonetheless, we wanted to let you know our feelings. The Marketplace would be a wonderful addition to this community and there is a definite need for this type of retail development. YES on the SLO Marketplace! Thank You, Wanda Szopinski and Family MSN 9 Dial-up Internet Access helps fight spam and pop-ups— now 2 months FREE! http://join.msn.click-url.com/golonm0020036lave/direct/OI/ file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - In favor of SLO Marketplace From: "Joseph Timmons" <timmonsjc@msn.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 5:28 PM Subject: In favor of SLO Marketplace Hi . . .please pass to the Mayor, and city council members. My wife, Joyce and I are in favor of the SLO Marketplace being built on the Dalidio property. We are registered voters and live in the city of San Luis Obispo and would ask you to vote in favor of the project. Thanks, Joe Timmons Joseph C Timmons 1643 Carla Court San Luis Obispo CA 93401 805 541 9331 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: "Margaret Arich" <arich8@msn.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 5:29 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace We support the SLO Marketplace and hope it is not delayed further. This location would save us from traveling to other places for these merchants. Parking would be easy and traffic would not hinder other merchants in the area. Also, we cold do our shopping on the way from the airport. Gerald and Marge Arich 580 Spanish Trail Arroyo Grande, CA. 93420 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -san luis marketplace From: "Michelle Blodgett' <michelleblodgett78@hotmail.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 6:21 PM Subject: san luis marketplace This email is in regards to the shopping center involving Old Navy,Target, Lowes, etc...The city of San Luis Obispo really needs these stores...and it is my belief that it will not jeapordize business from downtown. I am hopeful to see these stores in the.future in SLO. Thank you, Michelle Blodgett Get tips for maintaining your PC, notebook accessories and reviews in Technology 101. http://special.msn.com/tech/technoloqy101.armx file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 7 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Obispo Marketplace From: "Steve" <stevejr@tcsn.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 6:28 PM Subject: San Luis Obispo Marketplace Without having stores such as Lowes,Target,and Old Navy we often find ourselves venturing out of the county to seek a better selection for merchandise. I don't feel this will impact any of my downtown shopping. Also, I feel this will help improve the quality of customer service from similar-type of stores. Thank you,Steve MacElvaine Jr. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 10000I.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-YES!!! From: "Larry& Kathy Pennington" <Inkpen@hotmail.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 7:50 PM Subject: YESM Dear Council Members, Yes,a thousand times yes,for the San Luis Marketplace. Sincerely, Larry Pennington 440 Corrida Dr SLO 546-0880 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000OI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycoundi -SLO SHOPPING From: <geea ntiques@earthlink.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/4/2004 10:09 PM Subject: SLO SHOPPING SIRS THIS IS TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I SUPPORT THE SAN LUIS MARKET PLACE. I LIVE IN CAMBRIA AND DRIVE TO PASO ROBLES, ATASCADERO OR SANTA MARIA TO DO ALL MY SHOPPING. I RARELY GO TO SAN LUIS OBISPO FOR SHOPPING BECAUSE IT DOES NOT HAVE THE STORES I FREQUENT----TARGET, WALMART, COSTCO, K-MART AND HOME DEPOT. I TOTALLY BY PASS SLO—I EVEN SHOP AT TRADER JOE'S IN ARROYO GRANDE--BECAUSE IT IS JUST OFF THE FREEWAY. DO YOU REALLY THINK OUR TAX $S AREN'T GOING OUT OF THE COUNTY???GET REAL. WE NEED DECENT SHOPPING IN SLO. THANK YOU JEANNIE LANTRIP CAMBRIA file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: Marlene Logan<m.logan@earthlink.net> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 11:32 PM Subject: Marketplace I am in support of the San Luis Marketplace for the simple reason that it gives us more options of places to shop without having to go south to find things that we don't have here. I am a senior and have no reason to go downtown as there is nothing there for me. The majority of the stores cater to the young people and as I don't drink, the many bars do not interest me. Many of my senior friends feel the same way. Please vote in favor of the Marketplace. Thank you very much. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-A vote for San Luis Marketplace From: Mary Brady<mbrady@pacbell.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 3:09 PM Subject: A vote for San Luis Marketplace CC: <mbrady@pacbell.net> TO: SLO Council Members FROM: Mary Lou Brady 34 year resident of SLO city I would like to request that the Council seriously consider allowing the San Luis Marketplace to be established. I visited the downtown area again two weeks ago to verify the fact that while it is certainly a nice area, it is not suited for those who are over the age of thirty or are tourists. Handicapped and elderly have no place to really park conveniently downtown,but need to walk from a parking space they are even lucky to find. Also,most of the shops downtown are either for the younger generation or,as I stated above,for the tourist. Please,seriously consider the new marketplace, and know that the stores that are listed as being a part of the marketplace,will in no way take away from or impact downtown. Thank you for your time in reading this. Sincerely, Mary Lou Brady file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: Sandy Lidia<klidia@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 3:16 PM Subject: Marketplace We want you to know that we support the Marketplace. Sandy and Lary Lidia Avila Beach Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?Yahoo!Mail has the best spam protection around http://maii.yahoo.com file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\L.ocal%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-(no subject) Alll®IA From: <DAFMF@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 714/2004 2:49 PM Subject (no subject) Sirs: I definitely would like to see the Market place approved.I'm tired of having to drive out of town to find a place to shop that I can afford. I think it would be a big asset to you and to us to allow this development to take place.Thank You Martha A.Field file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 J SLO Citycouncil - The Marketplace From: "Darlene A. Bik" <dbik@bik.com> To: <sloci tycouncil@sIocity.org> Date: 7/4/200411:15 AM Subject: The Marketplace My husband and I fully support the Marketplace. Please approve this project for the city of San Luis Obispo. Darlene A. Bik file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Fw: San Luis Marketplace From: "Sandi Griffen" <sandigriffen@msn.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 11:51 AM Subject: Fw: San Luis Marketplace -----Original Message From: Sandi Griffen To: www.slocitycouncil@slocityorg Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace I am all for the new Marketplace. I travel to both the north county and to the south to shop where these stores have locations. It would be great to keep that money in SLO. Thanks file:HC:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouserU,ocal%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE From: "kenneth reichert"<kendeer @charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 12:11 PM Subject: SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE Slo City Council Members I realize that I cannot vote for(or against)the SLO city council members,but in truth I vote against SLO every time I go to Santa Maria,as I did yesterday when I went to Target and then to Gottschalks in the mall. If a referendum were taken among us five cities residents the San Luis Marketplace support would be overwhelming!! PS-I cannot understand C.Mulholland's negative position. Judging solely from her clothes,(Unfortunately,this is catty)I doubt that she has ever been in Anne's,Victoria's Secret,the Gap or any other downtown store. We have and undoubtedly will continue to do so -Marketplace or not. K.E.Reichert file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - SLO Marketplace From: Donna n Berg <1uv2linedance@webtv.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/4/2004 12:11 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace I support the SLO Marketplace. Donna Berg 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: "Cynthia Scott"<cindy@messy.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 12:59 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Dear City Council Members, I am writing to you, in hopes that you will support the increased shopping at the Marketplace. I think that the downtown will not suffer but actually there will a distinction of shopping. Those who like the quaint— ambiance of downtown—the strolling about in search of great dining, entertainment and socialization VS the more accessible quick shopping that the new stores would provide. By having the option—yet the distinct variety—keep jobs here and have less driving to other areas- I think the citizens of SLO would be better served. At present the thought of searching for parking downtown and then carting purchases around is frankly discouraging at best. I end up going on the internet or waiting to leave the area for any serious shopping. San Luis Obispo is very a special place and yes we all want it to stay this way. As a home owner and soon to be business owner, I have come to know that-Competition is a good thing it creates an attitude for improvement towards customers and the community. I often struggle to find what I need to maintain my home and yard-with the local small business owners. Please consider my thoughts and concerns. Thank you Cynthia Scott 340 Montrose Drive San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 805-547-9426 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: "maria ponce"<mariaponce@tcsn.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 1:18 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace I hope you will give approval to the proposed SLO Marketplace, I am a 40 year resident of the city of SLO and have seen many changes downtown. It is a pleasure to walk around town,I enjoy the Plaza,the art placed around town,the great restaurants and the giftshops.Since we lost our beloved Riley's,Montgomery Wards,Penny's and numerous other small stores that provided the residents with every day merchandise it appears that the existing stores cater to tourists and college students.I very seldom spent any money downtown other than in restaurants,I can find no pleasure in having to go to Santa Maria to find what I am looking for.The Marketplace would fill that need, I am very sorry that Macy's.Dept.store pulled out due to the impossible restrictions put on it. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SHOPS DOWNTOWN DO NOT CATER TO RESIDENTS,WE NEED THE STORES IN THE MARKETPLACE,IF YOU WANT OUR MONEY TO STAY HERE. SINCERELY M.PONCE file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Market Place From: "Deronda Burdette" <camtmom@aol.com> To: " Ms. Christine Mulholland " <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 1:41 PM Subject: Market Place Deronda Burdette 1645 EI Caserio Ct San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 July 4, 2004 Ms. Christine Mulholland 990 Palm St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Dear Mulholland: The Market Place gets my vote. My reasons 1. If we do not get the Old Navy in SLO I like everyone else who's family want Old Navy merchandise will contintue to shop out of SLO to get it. So that is money going out of SLO and not money taken from down town SLO. I do much of my families (my older children who need Old Navy clothes for our grandchildren)when I travel. 2.Target also will continure to be a store I will shop out of SLO. Also no money taken from SLO because what I purchase at a K mart, Wal Mart and Target I will not look for in down town.SLO. It would not be there. 3. As for Lowes, Curcuit City and Whole Foods Market they will not change my way of shopping I will continue to shop, Vons,Trader Joes, PHI Do it Center. So not allowing The Market Place after all the invester have done to tried to meet the councils demands would serve no purpose as to keeping my money in the downtown SLO area, because like so many other shopper of the stores that are schedule to be in the Market Place we will continue to shop out of SLO. Which is really not:my first choice. I like keeping my dollars local if possible. However sometimes the decision of the city council makes it not an option. Sincerely, Deronda file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Market Place From: <SLODonna@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 2:30 PM Subject: Market Place Hello; 1 have been a resident of San Luis Obispo County since 1972. 1 fully support the Dalido project known as the Market Place. I do not feel the Market Place project will detract from the "boutique" type of shopping in the downtown area. I do not shop downtown because / don't buy from boutique type stores and parking is so inconvenient. l would rather spend my money here in San Luis Obispo but usually have to drive to Santa Maria or Paso Robles or out of the area. Another reason I support the project is because the Prado Road overpass is necessary to take some of the traffic pressure off of Madonna Rd. and Los Osos Valley Rd. Approve this project so it may proceed. Sincerely, Donna Nord P.O. Box 381 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -Yes we want the SLO MARKETPLACE From: "Izp@charter.net' <Izp@charter.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 2:41 PM Subject: Yes we want the SLO MARKETPLACE This would be a wonderful addition to the city of SLO. It is a great idea to have these stores at the.marketplace. Yes to the SLO MARKETPLACE. file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycwuncil -San Luis Marketplace From: Bruce Houseman <bruce@slonaz.org> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 10:51 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace We would like you to approve the San Luis Marketplace project as soon as possible. It would add some much needed choices to our local shopping, and it would make it possible to do almost all our shopping here in San Luis Obispo. If anything, we think it would strengthen downtown because friends would meet in SLO fora day of shopping, lunch, etc., instead of gathering in AG or driving to Santa Maria. We hate having to drive over the grade or to Santa Maria to visit Target and other stores which they have and we do not, and it makes it impossible to run a quick errand there or pick up something on your lunch hour or on your way home from work. Please vote to approve this project. Bruce, Linda, and Katie Houseman San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 O Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - SLO Marketplace From: 'Bonnie MacGregor" <BeeJMacG@msn.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/200411:04 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace I saw the ad in the paper and wanted to voice my support for the new stores. I am a resident of San Luis Obispo city. Regards, Bonnie Jean MacGregor file://C`.\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of I SLO Citycouncil -I Support the Marketplace From: <bon3210@juno.com> To: <slodtycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 6:37 AM Subject: I Support the Marketplace To the Members of the San Luis City Council: I hereby voice my support for the Marketplace, and urge you to listen to other citizens who wish to incorporate it in our community. Very truly yours, Bonnie Wollam 3057 S. Higuera #233 San Luis Obispo CA 93401 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 0 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: "carea"<carea@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 7:17 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace We need the Marketplace so we do not have to drive out of county for shopping choices. Competition is good for everyone. We support the SLO Marketplace. CA& FJ, Grover Beach 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: "Kay Baker" <kaybob@thegrid.net> To: "SLO City Council' <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 7:44 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Please support the proposed SLO Marketplace plan. Kay Baker kaybob@thegrid.net file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: "Linda Kral" <LDKRAL@peoplepc.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 8:18 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Dear City Council Members: I would just like to give you one family's viewpoint regarding the San Luis Marketplace controversy. My family,in which I will include my daughter,her husband and three children,live in Arroyo Grande and Santa Maria respectively. We all moved to the Central Coast from the Fresno area a little more than 5 years ago. It may sound ridiculous,but probably,other than fiends and family,the biggest void in our life(especially my daughter and her family)is that there is not an"Old Navy°store anywhere in the area. In my husband's point of view(he's Mr. Handyman),this area needs some better competition for the Home Depot stores. Lowe's would fill that bill. None of us spend time shopping in downtown SLO. First of all,one has to pay to shop there(parking fees),and secondly,none of the shops currently in the downtown area fill our needs as shoppers. Frankly,we cannot afford stores such as the GAP,and other locally owned men's and women's clothing stores. We frequent the downtown area mainly for its large variety of restaurants. Currently, I travel to Santa Maria to spend my money at Target,Circuit City(have bought several electronics items there)and Costco. Once the Costco,Target and Circuit City stores open up in SLO, I will be able to spend my money in SLO county which benefits our family's life in SLO County. Tax dollars are being sent to Santa Barbara County on a daily basis. We need those tax dollars in our county. This county will suffer more from the loss of those tax dollars as time goes on and Santa Maria grows both in homes and shopping conveniences. We urge you to approve the San Luis Marketplace. Jim&Linda Kral Protected by a Spam Blocker Utility for Outlook° Click here to protect your inbox from Spam Outlook'is a registered trademark of Microsofl*Corp. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of I SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: <Bjhorton2747@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 9:02 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Please vote yps on the San Luis Marketplace. Bill and Karen Horton file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -SLO Marketplace From: G K Howard <gkhoward@charter.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 9:08 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace Hi, We are in favor of the Marketplace. We travel to Santa Maria and Paso Robles to shop at Target and other stores. We also spend money on restaurants in those areas and we would prefer to spend our money in SLO. Sincerely, Gwen and Raitt Howard file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 10000LHTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -support From: Heather Garrett <hpayne1234@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 9:23 AM Subject support i definitely support the building of SLO marketplace. please do it! heather Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete -You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new mail file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-The Marketplace From: 'DEBRA JACKSON'<slojackson@msn.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 9:26 AM Subject: The Marketplace Dear Council Members, My husband and I would like you to know that we are in support of the Marketplace being built. We feel it will be a big boost for the area. No longer will we have to drive to shop elsewhere. Debra&James Jackson Avila Beach file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 _ Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Support of San Luis Marketplace From: <Bug4ballet@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 9:54 AM Subject: Support of San Luis Marketplace The San Luis Marketplace will offer residents of this area more choices and allow tax dollars to stay in the City which in turn will allow the City to provide more services to its residents. I would like to have more choices, this project will have virtually no impact on downtown, that is a different shopping experience. thanks for listening. Michael Doyle 410 Luneta file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil- Market Place-Pro From: "Charlotte Wood" <channeangels2@charter.net> To: <siocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 10:05 AM Subject: Market Place - Pro Yes I definitely want the SLO Market Place. I have lived in SLO since 1960. 1 struggle to stay here financially. I travel to Santa Maria once a month because I cannot afford the prices here. I seldom go downtown as they are stores for tourists and college people. I am a sixty year old,single,working woman. COSTCO and Target would keep me in SLO County and I would go downtown for small items rather than drive for them. It will not hurt downtown. I will go there either way for lunch and when my grandchildren visit to wander, but not to do basic shopping. Charlotte Wood 1519 Nipomo St,SLO 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: Jean Gandy<jmgandy518@charter.net> To: <sloatymuncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 10:14 AM Subject San Luis Marketplace Thank you for putting the controls on he Marketplace to avoid businesses from moving from the downtown area. What a plan -you are to be congratulated and we do just that!!!!!!! Please allow the Marketplace to be. We have lived in Los Osos for 17 years and have been hearing, and waiting for some of these stores to arrive. We aren't getting any younger and would prefer not to drive to Paso Robles, Arroyo Grande, Santa Maria or Atascadero to shop for some of the things that are available in stores there. In addition, the convenient parking is a giant plus for us. If only you could come up with a plan for Los Osos to stop our 20+ year debate over "you know what". Jean and Bob Gandy file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 San Luis Marketplace Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: <MGarrett@slocoe.org> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/4/2004 10:38 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Please register my support as a SLO resident for the San Luis Marketplace when considering whether or not it should be built. file:HC:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 Barbara Ehrbar- Contact Us Form From: sto-city-website@slodty.org To: <behrbar@slodty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 3:30 PM Subject: Contact Us Form ******************************************************************************* Name: carol conway Address: 45 mariposa City: san luis obispo State: ca Zip: 93401 Phone: 544-0809 Fax: email—from: caronconway@sbcglobal.net Message: please support the san luis marketplace project. file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -marketplace From: "Carol Allison" <cma123@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/3/2004 11:06 AM Subject: marketplace i live in the north county but have watched the development of the city of san luis obispo for over 35 years. the marketplace is a development that is long overdue-it does not compete nor will it destroy the downtown.it will afford residents shopping opportunities not currently available. my daughters live in slo and rarely shop downtown.they love downtown-for strolling, restaurants,farmer's market,but they do not shop there. i realize there are many complex components to this undertaking but the advantages(prado overpass, reasonably priced shopping, land you can retain some control over)far outweigh the disadvantages. please add my name to those in favor of this project and let's get this thing going. carol allison file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil From: Scot Steck <ssteck2@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 7:39 PM I support the marketplace shopping center. Thank you. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http:/Ipromotions.yahoo.com/new mail file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SILO Citycouncil -We support the san luis marketplace From: <Ladolcel @aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/20047:42 PM Subject: We support the san luis marketplace As a resident of San Luis who was bom, raised and is raising my own family here, I have seen many changes in San Luis.Our town is becoming more affluent as home prices continue to soar.Yet there are many of us who are middle income and travel many miles out of town to save money on necessities such as clothes and home essentials. Because of this,the San Luis Marketplace is desperately needed.Both Target and Old Navy offer quality merchandise at a reasonable price.Saying that the San Luis Marketplace will ruin downtown is not true.Yes,we do go to some downtown stores,but because most of them are very expensive,we tend to travel to Paso Robles,Santa Maria,and the surrounding outlets.Just like we need affordable housing in San Luis,we also need affordable family shopping. Please support the San Luis Marketplace.Keep our tax dollars in San Luis. Thank you. Missy Tedone-Teel 544-8500 file://C:\Documents%20and%o20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-(no subject) From: <RPage289@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:08 PM Subject: (no subject) Greetings, My wife and I have been residents of slo for the last 25 yrs and we support the SLO MARKET PLACE. Project. Dave stayoff that scooter. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 n Page 1 of 1 U SLO Citycouncil-marketplace From: "jackie warden" <jackiewa @charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:12 PM Subject: marketplace My name is Jackie Warden and I live in SLO. I would most definitely like to see the Lowe's/Target/Old Navy shopping center developed. I am the mother of four and I do shop at Target in Paso and I buy frequently from Old Navy online. I feel it would.serve our community very well,especially families in SLO. The Target and Old Navy would not compete with any downtown businesses that I shop already. My friends and I support the project and hope you consider what the majority of people I know want. VOTE YESH Jackie Warden file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: "Naomi" <nfrucht@slonet.org> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 7:21 PM Subject: Marketplace I urge you to vote YES for the Marketplace.The stores that are planned will not threaten the downtown because they will offer what the downtown does not just as the downtown offers what the Marketplace will not. A YES vote for the Marketplace will ensure that revenues that would enlarge the coffers of Santa Maria and Santa Barbara will stay in San Luis Obispo. Naomi Frucht file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 I SLO Citycouncil - Pro MarketPlace From: "Mary E. Perry' <Mperry7000@chaiter.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 7:25 PM Subject: Pro MarketPlace Afternoon Council Members: I am a resident of SLO and want to add my voice to those supporting the creation of the Marketplace shopping center. I shop Downtown. And I head to Santa Maria at least every week to shop at the Costco and the Target Once the Home Depot was built in SLO I no longer needed to shop at the.Santa Maria store. I would rather leave my shopping dollars in SLO but when there is no Target and no Costco and no Macy's I'm forced to spend my families dollars outside of SLO. You can make it possible for my Families money to be spent in our City which would then benefit our city. I hope you choose to advance the Marketplace project, once and for all. Thank you for your time. Mary Perry, Business Woman, Spouse, Home Owner, Parent and Pet Owner, as you can see.I have a lot to shopping to do. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -SLO Marketplace From: "Sophia M. Nelson" <emailsophia@att.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 6:58 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace I am writing in support of the San Luis Marketplace to bring in the proposed stores, especially Old Navy and Target. As a mother of 3, though this is a beautiful place to live, but the shopping here has left much to be desired. I hope the Marketplace will be approved and you can count on our frequent patronage. It couldn't happen soon enough! Thank you, Sophia Nelson file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: 'Nell Netzley"<pbeachmom@earthlink.net> To: "SLO City Council"<slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 3:59 PM Subject: Marketplace Our family is in complete agreement that WE DESPERATELY NEED to have more choices of stores in our beautiful area. Having the Marketplace does NOT mean that we will no longer shop downtown. Most of the SLO County residents believe this. We will continue to shop at the unique-locally established businesses in SLO because they also give us value. But we need more choices. Denying the local residents choices because a FEW in the area don't want competition is totally unfair and'old fashioned". It has gone on far too long. VOTE YES FOR THE MARKETPLACE. Thank you,Mr. &Mrs. Wallace D.Netzley,Pismo Beach ---Nell Netzley --- pbeachmom@earthlink.net ---EarthLink:The#1 provider of the Real Internet. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SILO Citycouncil- Marketplace From: 'Bob and Patty Stephenson" <bpsl16@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 4:05 PM Subject: Marketplace We would like to express our support for the San Luis Marketplace. I shop at Target,Lowe's, Circuit City,and Old Navy and would like to have these stores located here so I don't have to drive to Santa Maria, Paso, or L.A. They are very different stores than those located in the downtown area,which I would still support. I would like to see additional stores there that cater to a clientele other than the college kids. Patty and Bob Stephenson file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\L.ocal%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOl.HTM 7/6/2004 AOL Email Page 1 of 2 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace. From: <Tweedy62@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 4:06 PM Subject: Marketplace Hi. Here are my two cents worth. I would love to have decent shopping close by. 1 live in Morro Bay and I am 70 yrs old. We find it necessary to go to Walmart in Paso or A. G. several times a month because they offer good prices.and a variety of items to choose from. Cosco can't compare to a Walmart or Target for the variety of things we look for in shopping. We never shop downtown SLO because they don't offer shops of use to us. We do eat at the various places in SLO on a regular basis. We would love to have a Target at the Marketplace. I don't understand putting in a Circuit City or Lowes because that would close down Home Depot and Best Buy. That makes NO SENSE. This area can't support all those same kind of stores. We love the inexpensive affordable restaurants but not the costly ones like Madonna Inn etc..etc. Thanks for listening. How about putting in a roller rink for the kids of this entire area. Morro Bay doesn't seem to care about their young people perhaps your council will. We use to have a pool and roller rink and now have nothing. Great leaders we have???????????? It is time to give our youth something to do. Good luck, Donna & Herman Arbogast file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Slo Marketplace. From: 'Dana Robertson"<drobertson@ventanahealth.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 4:08 PM Subject: Slo Marketplace Please vote in support of the SLO Marketplace. My husband and I will continue to shop, eat, see movies and attend other events in Downtown SLO. The only shopping habits of mine that will change will be switching from Santa Maria's Target and Circuit City to the new locations in SLO Marketplace. I'd prefer to spend my money in the county in which I live. Dana M. Robertson Ventana Health and Medical Center, Inc.. Arroyo Grande, California phone: 805.489.2205 fax: 805.489.2206 drobertson@ventanahealth.com file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-slo marketplace From: "Lou Beasley" <Ioubeasley@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 4:20 PM Subject: slo marketplace I live in Arroyo Grande and I do not shop downtown in SLO. If the Marketplace is built I will shop there instead of going to Santa Maria, especially for purchases from Target. The shops that I have seen planned for the Marketplace are very different from the downtown stores and would probably not be in competition with them. Lou Beasley file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncll san luis marketplace From: <DreamSeed@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 4:37 PM Subject: san luis marketplace Please, please consider the possibilty of a San Luis Marketplace, esp a Whole Food. If needed I can canvas my friends who have been really wanting a Whole Foods here and get signatures. Thank you, Denise Linn file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-new stores in slo From: "Niko) Neff" <nikol@airspeedwireless.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 5:00 PM Subject: new stores in slo I am writing in response to the ad in the TT. I would love to have these new stores in the area. I personally drive 2 hours to go to Old Navy and Lowe's. I would much rather my$$go to stores in our area,employing our friends. Thanks for considering these storesM Nikol Neff file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\L.ocal%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 C, SLO Citycouncil -SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE From: Mary Winn Mcfarland <bmcfarland2@webtv.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 5:03 PM Subject: SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE We support the SLO Marketplace and want to see it built in our county. Bob and Mary McFarland Morro Bay 93442 file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-The Marketplace Shopping center development From: Nancy Wickersham<nwickers@sbcglobal.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 5:53 PM Subject: The Marketplace Shopping center development Hello,I am writing to tell you that our family of 4 totally supports the Marketplace development. The majority of the shopping at that center is not going to compete with the SLO downtown merchants. It isn't the same type of shopping. The is so much demand for parking and shopping in downtown SLO now,as it is that it is always crowded,even on Sundays. My Great Grandparents lived in SLO,Great Grandfather was the Asst. Superintendent at the SP Railroad station in SLO. I am the 4th generation to live in the area. I graduated from SLO High School in 1972. Anyway,we don't want fear or short-sightedness to stop this quality development. We also support the Prado Road IC and the Prado extension over to Broad Street and further if possible. In addition,we want to see the COSTCO open as soon as practical,with support from the city. Thank you for the opportunity to comment,and please take our comments into consideration. This will make SLO City more attractive,and will bring more people to town to shop,who will in turn also probably go to downtown to eat or see a movie,etc. P.S.Madonna road pavement is a mess,where it is near Higuera. You have wasted lots of road money on"traffic calming"blocking off lanes,etc.,that should be going to pavement rehabilitation. Nancy S.Wickersham David A.Wickersham Nancy S.Wickersham file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: "M P"<kaleasbamas@hotmail.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 10:20 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace I support the SLO Marketplace!!!!!!!{! Please agree.It is tough enough to live in this exspensive area.Please let me save some money. Thank You Mary Price Check out the latest news,polls and tools in the MSN 2004 Election Guide! file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Dalidio Project Support From: "John Stocksdale"<wb6abw@hotmail.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 10:29 AM Subject: Dalidio Project Support Dear City Council: My Wife,Eilene Maluccio Stocksdale,and I are in favor of the Market Place development.We do not feel it will interfear with the downtown experience. Pleople will continue to drive out of town to save money and have more shopping choices,which takes funds away from our city tax coffers. We would like to see our tax dollars stay in San Luis Obispo County,where we live. We urge a positive vote from the San Luis Obispo City Council. John Stocksdale&Eilene Maluccio Stocksdale Pismo Beach,Ca 93449 (805)773-0336 wb6abw@hotmail.com file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - marketplace From: "Lorri Trogdon" <lorripaints@msn.com> To: <slocitycounciI@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 9:58 AM Subject: marketplace I am totally in favor of the San Luis Marketplace, please count me in on the yes vote! I love shopping in SLO downtown, always will, been here for 22 years. Nothing like it...give us more opportunities to shop, we won't left our local merchants down. thank you lorri trogdon arroyo grande file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace...I support the SLO Maketplace 100% From: "Sandra Stallings" <sandwood2@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 9:38 AM Subject: Marketplace...I support the SLO Maketplace 100% I have been a residents of SLO for decades. I am tired of driving to Santa Maria for all my shopping. I support the SLO Marketplace 100%.Do not postpone this necessary project any longer. I carpool every week with 8 people to shop out of town. Marketplace or not,non of my friends are going to shop more or less "downtown"just because there is a Marketplace. Thank you for listening.....And Please vote"yes"for SLO Marketplace to begin immediately. Sandra H. Stallings file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Favor San Luis Marketplace From: <EDCOLSON@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 9:14 AM Subject: Favor San Luis Marketplace My wife and I would like to offer our support FOR the San Luis Marketplace. We will continue to shop in BOTH locations to support this wonderful city. Thanks for the opportunity to voice our opinion. Ed & Diane Colson PO Box 2529 Avila Beach, CA file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - In Support of SLO Marketplace From: "Kurt Schroeder" <kurts@arroyograndeflowershop.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 9:24 AM Subject: In Support of 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. My family and I do the majority of our shopping either when visiting relatives (Boston, Palm Springs), taking trips to San Francisco and/or Santa Barbara or online. We have a young child and go to OLD NAVY every chance we get. We also shop at Target in Santa Maria on a very regular basis (as do all of my friends). If we had one here locally, all the revenue that now goes out of town would come into San Luis Obispo. I don't see the SLO Marketplace as a conflict for downtown because the stores are so different than what downtown offers. I strongly believe these additional stores will enhance our city while also generating additional revenue. Thank you for listening. Kt,u^tSchroedev' Arroyo Grande Flower Shop (805) 489-2834/(800) 407-3376 kurts@arroyograndeflowershop.com http://www.arroyograndeflowershop.com aR\0Y0 G FLOWeR Ho P rho kris Shop On:w Conner•al Mc W.'ago Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system(http://www.grisoft.com). Version:6.0.712/Virus Database:468-Release Date:6/27/2004 file://C:\Documents%20and%a2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace Support From: "wdlees"<wdlees@worldnet.att.net> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:59 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace Support Dear Council Members, We Love the3 Downtown AND support the Marketplace My husband&I are very much in favor of the Marketplace. The proposed stores are necessary&will prevent us from traveling to Santa Maria&Paso Robles,thus saving time&fuel.As SLO homeowners,we would benefit from the tax revenues generated. The new Marketplace would in no way prevent us from patronizing our many favorite downtown businesses. As a native,born in SLO, I am extremely proud of the beautifully designed creek side&other downtown areas&delight in showing off these areas to out-of-town friends&relatives. I do not believe that the Marketplace will siphon off downtown shopping. David Lees San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\L.ocal%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: <Harrreblig®aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:43 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace To all The City Council; Please support the San Luis Marketplace project.We need more shopping opportunity in our area.There are more people to conceder than just residents of the City of SLO. Sincerely: Hal and Shirley Gilbert Baywood Park file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-Marketplace From: 'Patrick M.Ward"<pward5@hotmail.corn> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:55 AM Subject: Marketplace Councilpersons- We loudly support the Marketplace. Please let your decisions reflect what the residents want. Respectfully, L.Ward,a ten year SLO resident. file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 ^ Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-slo marketplace From: Kathleen D West<kaydog I @ sbcglobal.net> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 12:41 AM Subject: slo marketplace CC: <kaydogl@sbcglobal.net> YES WE WANT SLO MARKETPLACE IN SLO MYFRIEND FROM WORK AND MYSELF COUNT AS 2 VOTES LET US SHOP HERE WITHOUT TRAVELING OUTSIDE OF SLO THANKS KAYDOGI AND FRIEND file'//C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -San Luis Marketplace From: "Paul hess" <paulhess33@hotmail.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 6:11 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace How many more dollars have to go out of the county? Give us something to keep us here! Please let this project finally move ahead! You have already lost Macy's which would have been wonderful to have. in the county, please don't chase away any others. Mary Ann Hess FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar—get it now! http•//toolbar msn click-url com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/O1/ file://C:\Documents%20and%a2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SILO Citycouncil -SILO Market Place From: "AI Rybar" <papawow@charter.net> To: " Mr. Ken Schwartz" <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 6:48 AM Subject: SLO Market Place AI Rybar P.O. 2298 Avila Beach, Ca 93424 July 6, 2004 Mr. Ken Schwartz 990 Palm St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Dear Vice Mayor Schwartz: Please vote for the Market Place.. We need the proposed shops in our area that we have been needing fora long time.. Thank you.. Sincerely, AI &Marilyn Rybar 595-2532 file:!/C`.\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil San Luis Marketplace From: Mary Sansom <msansom@charter.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 7:12 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Please let the San Luis Marketplace become a reality. It would be such a help to families and those on limited incomes who are living in a very expensive area. Downtown is a wonderful place, but not a place to shop for everyday goods. I will still shop downtown for gifts and specialty items as I do now, but I won't have to travel to Santa Maria or Paso Robles to buy other items. We live daily with the degeneration of neighborhoods due to students, please take a stand for the year-round residents of San Luis Obispo and approve the Marketplace! Sincerely, Mary Sansom 289 Marlene Drive San Luis Obispo SLO Resident(15 years) file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW)00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 i SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: <McCumseyM@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil @ slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 7:13 AM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Dear Council: Please support the San Luis Marketplace project and help keep the tax revenues in the City of SLO rather than see those revenues go to Santa Maria or Paso Robles. We need more retailers and varieties here in the region so residents don't have to drive outside the area. I am most interested in seeing a department store replacement for Macy's,whatever that maybe, Dillards or Robinson's-May;and stores like Lowes and Whole Foods,which I would patronize. Thank you for your support SLO Council. Sincerely, Mark McCumsey Templeton Resident Office in SLO file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE From: "Shupnick,Larry!<Larry.Shupnick@meristar.coriv To: "'slocitycouncil@slocity.org..<slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 7:24 AM Subject: SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE Dear City Council Members I've been a resident and business owner in San Luis Obispo for 31 years and I think the SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE would be a GREAT asset to our community. 1.The population is increasing and will continue to increase in the future. 2.The CITY needs the sales tax revenue that these business establishments would generate to continue to providing services to the residents of SAN LUIS OBISPO:---ix,fire,police and overall safety services as well as all the other departments within the city. 3.The city needs the tax base from these business establishments to continue to provide the services to the citizens of SAN LUIS OBISPO. 4.1 think the position of the downtown developers is that they only looking out for themselves and not the residents. 5,1 don't agree with the Downtown Association that THE SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE will hurt downtown. 6.Downtown will always have its charm and attraction to the residents and the student population.Downtown will continue to thrive and these business establishments will not compete with downtown. CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS PLEASE WAKE UP!THE CITIZENS OF SAN LUIS OBISPO NEED THIS DEVELOPMENT SO WE CAN KEEP OUR TAX REVENUES AT HOME! PLEASE PASS THE SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE AS I THINK IT WILL BE GOOD FOR THE CITIZENS OF SAN LUIS OBISPO. Larry Shupnick lanry.shupnick@meristar.com file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-marketplace From: "Marilee Lawson" <jlpntngl @charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 7:26 AM Subject: marketplace To SLO City Council, I very much support the SLO Marketplace. Please realize that this type of development ENHANCES the area,and the downtown. Both types of shopping experiences appeal to locals and tourists. Stop running scared.This waffling back and forth about intelligent development is tiresome. Thank you, Marilee Lawson file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 r SLO Citycouncil- Marketplace From: "Peggy Swain" <pjswain@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 7:51 AM Subject: Marketplace I support the SLO Marketplace,Please vote yes. Thank You Peggy Swain file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -YES From: pennybeavers <pennylharp@charter.net> To: <slocitymuncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:08 AM Subject: YES Yes, please --the shopping center! Penny Beavers 646 Worcester Dr. Cambria, CA 93428 pennylharp@charter.net 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: "debbins@juno.com" <debbins@juno.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:42 AM Subject: san luis marketplace YES!!! PLEASE CONSIDER THE PUBLICS POINT OF VIEW AND ALLOW THE SAN LUIS MARKETPLACE. IT WILL BRING REVENUE AND MANY JOBS FOR THE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace Support From: "Suzette Monroe <s.m.monroe@worldnet.att.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 8:43 AM Subject: SLO Marketplace Support Dear Council Members, My husband& I are very much in favor of the Marketplace. The proposed stores are necessary&will prevent us from traveling to Santa Maria&Paso Robles,thus saving time&fuel.As SLO homeowners,we would benefit from the tax revenues generated. The new Marketplace would in no way prevent us from patronizing our many favorite downtown businesses. As a native,born in SLO, I am extremely proud of the beautifully designed creek side&other downtown areas&delight in showing off these areas to out-of-town friends&relatives. I do not believe that the Marketplace will siphon off downtown shopping. Sincerely, S.M.Lees, San Luis Obispo file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace! From: Lorraine Yake <sloyake@juno.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:57 PM Subject: Marketplace! I am a retired resident of SLO living in a retirement complex, so lots of time, and love to go shopping, would like to explore some new stores, at a convenient parking, like the proposed MARKETPLACE I have been reading about. I never shop in downtown area as I am an older driver and not comfortable driving in the narrow streets downtown. All my married life, my husband and I lived in small communities as he was in the feed business, and always had to drive to larger cities to shop, that is why I moved to SLO 5 yrs ago, and love it but urge you to give me more choices, I dont drive to Santa Maria anymore. So please vote for the Marketplace, and give these good citizens a chance to show what can be done with part of their land. Signed, Lorraine Yake The best thing to hit the Internet in years -Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month -visit www.iuno.com to sign up today! file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW 100001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil -SLOMarketplace From: Aggie Wisniewski <aaw8@webtv.net> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 11:20 PM Subject: SLOMarketplace We support the SLO Marketplace It will be good for the city and county Anthony &Agnes Wisniewski Cayucos, Ca file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Dear San Luis Obispo City Council, I am a 6t'generation native of San Luis Obispo county and recent graduate of Cal Poly. Despite my love for the city, I know I will have to leave the area to pursue my career because the sad fact is, I simply cannot afford to live here. I am not alone with this problem. There are many working middle-income families in this area that must regularly make the trip to Santa Maria or further in pursuit of reasonably priced goods and services in order to support their families. These are families that would gladly spend their hard earned dollars in San Luis given the opportunity. Bringing stores such as Best Buy and Home Depot were a step in the right direction to give working families the opportunity to enhance their lives without having to venture outside the county in search of reasonably priced goods. The SLO Marketplace would be a continued improvement to not only the great town of San Luis, but to the lives of everyone living within its borders. One of the main arguments against the idea of the SLO Marketplace is that it would take away business from our beloved downtown shopping district. However, with the recent construction in downtown to expand and improve this important shopping district, the revitalized area will be secure for many years to come. Looking back to before the completion of the Downtown Centre, downtown was virtually bare. With the arrival of the Downtown Centre, a new era of prosperity was brought to the area. Like the Downtown Centre, these new projects under construction will also enhance the area and will continue to draw shoppers with downtown's distinct feel and charm. Travelers and tourists, the lifeblood of our community, will always be attracted to the small unique shops of downtown while working families will also be able to buy the things they need at the big box stores. The SLO Marketplace is a necessary step to improve the lives of everyone living within San Luis Obispo, both rich and poor. There is room in this great community for both the low prices of the big box stores and the unique feel of downtown. Sincerely, Kevin Manderscheid Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-SLO Marketplace From: "Grade Manderscheid" <GManders@slcusd.org> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:37 PM Subject: SLO Marketplace Dear SLO City Council: I've lived SLO County since 1951. My husband is a fifth generation SLO County resident on his father's side and fourth SLO County resident generation on his mother's. I'm a SLCUSD teacher and can't afford the high prices in SLO. We do most of our shopping in Santa Maria, Santa Barbara and the Bay Area where our money goes much farther. Please save us time, money and gas and keep tax dollars in our county. Please vote in favor of the SLO Marketplace. Thank you, Gracie Tedone Manderscheid file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 I SLO Citycouncil - Marketplace From: "Ifarrer@netzero.net" <Ifarrer@netzero.net> To: <slodtycoundl@slodty.org> Date: 7/5/2004 9:47 PM Subject: Marketplace My husband and I wish to voice our unequivocal support for the Marketplace project.The Marketplace will not draw business away from the unique mix of shops downtown. The Marketplace and downtown can coexist and will complement each other. We strongly urge you to vote in favor of the Marketplace. Vicki and Darell Farrer SLO file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-I'm in support of the San Luis Marketplace From: <Matteel@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/200410:00 PM Subject: I'm in support of the San Luis Marketplace I hope you approve the San Luis Marketplace. I think Target and Old Navy rock.They are good stores because you can buy nice purchases for reasonable prices. My family drives out of town to go to Target and Old Navy.We don't want to drive that far.The Marketplace will also attract more tourists. Thank you for reading my letter. Matthew Teel file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settiings\slouser\LocaI%20Settings\Temp\GW 10000LHTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil-marketplace From: <PHELBUS@aol.com> To: <slocitycounci I @ slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:01 PM Subject: marketplace I vote FOR the marketplace.This is my second say for the marketplce. I own a home in san luis I pay my taxes. I would like to have more choices in where I shop in my own town. Thank you Ann Johnson file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 \ 1 7 SLO Citycouncil-San Luis Marketplace From: <Aeblas@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncildslocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 10:04 PM Subject: San Luis Marketplace Dear City Council Members: I am in favor of the San Luis Marketplace being developed. I live in Grover Beach and work in SLO. I do patronize the SLO downtown merchants and will continue to.When I want to shop at Target and Circuit City, I have to travel to Santa Maria and leave my sales tax dollars in Santa Barbara County! Please support the San Luis Marketplace, I sincerely feel that there is the consumer demand and desire to support both the local merchants and the larger chain stores.The residents of this county need and deserve to have more options for shopping. I have discussed this issue with family,friends and coworkers,we all share the same feelings,big box stores do not hurt this area. Sincerely, Linda St.James 1629 Manhattan Ave. Grover Beach, CA 93433 473-0144 544-9114 X16 file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SILO Citycouncil-Marketplace? From: <SL0LRN@aol.com> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/5/2004 8:14 PM Subject: Marketplace? Yes,but I don't understand why we need to duplicate services with Lowe's and Circuit City. Can't we be more original or drop them altogether? Does the Marketplace have to be so big? After Costco and Target are in,smaller stores should be the focus. SLO Citizen file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}OOOOI.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Cityoouncil - Marketplace From: <marionbstrong@charter.net> RECEIVED To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 11:30 AM JUL 0 6 2004 Subject: Marketplace My name is Marion Strong. I am one of the owners of commercial property on Garden Street in San Luis Obispo. Many small women-owned businesses are my tenants. Please register me as being opposed to the Marketplace development. I deeply believe that this development will greatly negatively affect the economic health of downtown San Luis Obispo and will effectively lead to the economic decline of the small local business located in downtown and lead to more vacancies and empty storefronts. Please vote NO. Thank you RED FILE ME ING AGENDA DATE ITEM # 'j?tt � -llS ICAO ..;CDD DIR ('ICAO ,FIN DIR !(ATTORNEY ,1FIRE CHIEF f LERKORIG .DPW DIR f CPOLICE CHF DFPT HEADS 2�-REC DIR %'UTIL DIR file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 SLO Citycouncil - Dalidio Retail Development From: "Mitch Browne" <mitch_browne@charter.net> To: <slocitycouncil@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 11:34 AM Subject: Dalidio Retail Development CC: <dromero@d.san-luis-obispo.ca.us>, <jewan@ci.san-luis-obispo.ca.us>, <kschwartz@ci.san-luis-obispo.ca.us>, <cmulholland@ci.san-luis-obispo.ca.us> Dear City Council, Along with the Planning Commission I want to voice my opinion against the proposed Dalidio retail development. None of these stores will enhance the quality of life for San Luis Obispo residents. Plenty of retail shopping exists within the city limits or minutes away from the city. If we must have a small number of box stores then quarantine them along Los Osos Valley Road with Costco and Home Depot. Rather than uncaring sprawl like our neighbor cities to the north and south San Luis Obispo citizens have expressed a desire for contained and controlled commercial and residential growth. Once the pristine agricultural Dalidio land is paved over it will be gone from us and our children forever. We are one of the few cities that have an identity not defined by the back of strip malls lining the freeway as we drive by. I am not an intransigent NIMBY. Growth is happening and its an accepted part of city life.The question is how fast do we want it and what do we want our city to look like near term. As California fills up what we have here will become ever more precious. Once it's gone, it's gone. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Mitchell L. Browne 2850 Victoria Ave San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 n Allen Settle-Marketplace From: "Kent Halliburton"<khalliburton@yahoo.com> To: <dromero@slocity.org>,<cmulholland@slocity.org>,<jewan@slocity.org>,<kschwartz@slocity.org>, <asettle @ s locity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 11:20 AM Subject: Marketplace My employer, Lori Miller, asked me to send the following letter: Dear City Council Members: I am opposed to the Dalidio strip mall for many reasons. First of all, take a look at Santa Maria and tell me you like the way it looks? My family lives there and they say they can never find what they want. They love to go of town to shop. Secondly, I own Muzio's Grocery.Whole Foods will be in direct competition with me. They sell gourmet cheeses, olive oils, pastas, and high end sandwiches for prices at which I cannot compete. I would appreciate your support for my store and the other downtown businesses who are also concerned about this vote. Sincerely, Lori Miller file://C:\Documents%20and%2OSettings\slouser\Local%2OSettings\Temp\GW}000O1.HTM 7/6/2004 Page 1 of 1 sLo Citycoundl - new madonna project. From: jesse gambin <jesse2500ad@yahoo.com> To: <slocitycoundl@slocity.org> Date: 7/6/2004 11:59 AM Subject: new madonna project. dear council members, I am writting to you in concern of the proposed new land ussage project near the madonna plaza. I have lived here for 5 years and since i have seen the madonna shopping center grow. We now have a Best buy a blockbuster and more. The last thing that SLO needs is another shopping center. If it is neccessary to shop at a kmart, target or Walmart then you can just drive the 15 min. to get to Santa Maria or to Atascadero. I remember when the home depot was proposed, those backing the project repeatedly said it wouldn't hurt local small hardware stores, however,the Quaglinos true value has closed its doors. I am positive some of thier buisiness went to the new Home Depot. My fear is that if we as citizens of San Luis Obispo do not speak up that soon our town will be full of Grcut citys and Costcos. I know that by putting another shopping center in, not to mention one that is the size of two and a half the size of the existing one, that small buisinesses like the ones down town and throught slo will be negetively affected. The charm of living in this beautiful town is that when you go into a market or shop everyone knows each other oris as friendly as can be, with these new chains your going to get to big and draw people away from local small buisinesses that depend on the people who live here. It is our duty as citizens of Slo to stay local and support small buisinesses. Remember WE live here lets help to keep Slo the beautiful small town it is. Thank you for listening Jesse Collins 2060 chorro st #2 slo ca 93401 544-4451 Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http•//promotions yahoo.com/new mail file://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\slouser\Local%20Settings\Temp\GW}00001.HTM 7/6/2004