HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/20/2017 Item 13, Small
Purrington, Teresa
From:Camille Small <notetocamille@yahoo.com>
Sent:Tuesday, June
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Park funds/ Budget
Dear Mayor Harmon and Council Members,
Perhaps you'd like something short and sweet. Well, short at least!
Do the right thing by leaving the entirety of the $900,000 park funds with
the special designation for which it was set aside and the residents deserve.
'Robbing' a fund for other purposes is no more honorable at the City level than
taking Social Security funds for other uses at a national level.
As we look just one year into the future election season, we already know what
we will have to tell residents in the greater NW section of San Luis about votes
to allow huge (out of scale) apartment buildings designed specifically for students.
Both 22 Chorro and 71 Palomar will be eyesores, will overwhelm public parking
and will cause noise disturbances.
Bigger hearts would have felt the burden for residents.
Stronger stands would have said those buildings belong on campus.
Is it seriously not enough that residents are being driven from neighborhoods; that we have
an
extra burden on the police force?
Here is what an upstanding resident who lives in a currently pristine neighborhood (but
knows
what life is like in other neighborhoods) wrote to me after your votes to defeat expanding the
safety enhancement zone: "Those people need to live in some of the neighborhoods".
People know what the situation is. These are the people we go to City Council to represent.
We do not have to 'discuss' all the elements of that proposition (I understand all
sides). What we NEED to consider at all times is what permanent residents NEED. It is
not likely you know how long RQN has worked on the issue. You wouldn't know the
heartache we have felt for residents who are asked to endure what their neighborhoods
have turned into through the years of Cal Poly not supplying enough housing on campus.
(Yes, and now Cuesta--they are allowed to build; they must
do something.)
The End.
Not short....not sweet....always the same...because we have never had Council that really
understands. No, not John Ashbaugh either. You have to live in it, really listen to people
who live it or have a big heart for those who have to live in it.
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With my big heart,
Camille Small
p.s. We are very aware that you take direction from City Mgr. and City Attorney who can
be cleverly influential. We are aware that City Commissioners are duly influenced (these
days) by them, by Planning Staff and by one or two on Council. Should you wish to stay on
in your positions to really help San Luis Obispo, recognize that you can be here long after
they are gone.
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