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FROM: Penny Rappa
SUBJECT: COUNCIL LIAISON REPORT
The Area Coordinating Council held its annual Unmet Needs Hearing on December 5
1990. Of particular interest to us was the expressed need for airport transit services and
a request from Cuesta College (see attached).
The results of the Hearing will be discussed in January. I will keep the Council informed
of any progress.
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CITY COUNCIL
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA
PROPOSAL TO THE AREA COORDINATING COUNCIL
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The faculty and students of Cuesta College need an extension of the existing bus
transportation available to them.
An extension of the bus transportation at Cuesta would enable students to utilize.
alternative transportation.
The Air Quality Resource Board is currently working on a trip reduction
ordinance which has the potential of requiring a 50% trip reduction of
cars traveling to and from Cuesta College within the next few years.
This reduction, if initiated will mandate the students to use other forms
of transportation, like biking, car pooling and busing. Evening students.
however, are unable to safely bike at night and therefore, a bus program
would not only be in the best interest of the Air Quality Resource Board,
but the students of Cuesta as well.
Cuesta has approximately 165 sections (evening classes) between 4:00
p.m. and 10:00 p.m. nightly. These classes accommodate roughly
4,000 student per week.
Out of the 21 different zip code areas that Cuesta caters to within San
Luis Obispo County, approximately 40% of the students attending
evening classes at Cuesta are from the city of San Luis Obispo. This
means that almost half of the evening students are potential bus riders. U
If the current bus program is extended and it receives as much support
as it does currently, traffic and air pollution could be reduced.
A recent petition which has been circulating on the Cuesta campus for
less than one week, proposing evening bus transportation, has been
overwhelmingly supported by both day and evening students, which
clearly emphasizes the need of an extension of the bus transportation
into the evening: Roughly 500 students expressed an individual concern
that bus transportation is a viable need on the Cuesta campus. We, the
faculty and students of Cuesta College, would like to extend our
compliments to the Board for holding this unmet transit needs hearing.
Since there is such an overriding concern we urge you to support the
extension of the bus transportation for Cuesta College.
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FROM: Councilwoman Penny Rappa
SUBJECT: BIA LIAISON REPORT
In connection with the parking meter bagging program completed by the BIA, a survey was
also conducted. Please see the attachments to John Dunn's memo, TIA Survey of
Downtown Merchant Attitudes," dated December 11, 1990 for details. The results are not
scientific, but very interesting.
At the last BIA meeting, Supervisor Blakely and Robert Hendrix, SLO County CAO,
announced that the County is negotiating with the owners of the TRW building to purchase
it.
They emphasized a short-term need due to seismic retrofit of the old Courthouse.
The BIA expressed understanding of their needs, but are concerned for the County
remaining in the downtown.
A subcommittee of the BIA is working with the City and County to look for a long-term
solution.
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