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'r Frank H. Rowan , f
=s4,' 248 Luneta Dr. San Luis Obispo, CA. 93405
' N1 AY 02 2016
April 30,2016
To: Mayor Jan Marx, Vice Mayor Dan Carpenter, Council Members, John Ashbaugh,
Carlyn Christianson, Dan Rivore,
From: Frank H. Rowan a 73 year resident of San Luis Obispo.
I am opposed to the idea of making Luneta Dr. a through street from Palomar to La
Entrada.
I bought my home on Luneta Dr. In 1958 when I was 28 years old and had
three boys 7,5 and 2. A specific reason for buying in this Parkview II tract was
because it was a quiet family neighborhood with entrances from Tassajara and La
Entrada and we moved in on Mothers Day 1959. It was an ideal quiet neighborhood
for safely raising children. Through the years as San Luis Obispo grew it was
extended and homes and apartments built extending it to Palomar, but the
Palomar end was blocked off so Luneta continued to be a quiet family
neighborhood ideal for children because of little traffic other than residents of
Luneta and Hermosa and cross streets of Tassajara and La Entrada. Obviously
opening it up to Palomar will immediately make Luneta a main traveled way from
Palomar to La Entrada replacing Foothill and Ramona as boulevards expectedly a
500% increase in auto traffic. Further since Luneta is much wider than Ramona I
suspect there will be pressure to move the bus route from Ramona. This is not why
we bought homes on Luneta Dr. If we had wanted that we would have bought a
home on Chorro, Broad, or Foothill. I have happily lived on Luneta for 57 years and
strenuously object to any plan to open it up to through traffic. In fact I would like to
see the one half street of Luneta Dr. removed, the land sold, and a home built on it
blocking any attempt to increase traffic on Luneta.
Frank H. Rowan