HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-10-2017 ARC Correspondence - Item 2 (Grady)
From: John Grady <
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2017 7:18 PM
To: Advisory Bodies
Subject: ARC Meeting July 10 - Item #2 - 1135 Santa Rosa St.
Dear ARC,
RECEIVED
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
JUL 0 5 2017
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
I am writing in regards to your review and consideration of the project at 1135 Santa Rosa Street. I have
driven by there many times, often with passengers in my car. I frequently comment how ugly this structure
is - both in its modern design as well as its drab, dark color. Inevitably my passengers concur with my
assessment of this structure.
urge you deny the applicant's appeal to allow the existing color as well as the omission of the bulkhead. I
also oppose staffs suggestion that you 'bend' from your prior approval of the approved paint colors,
scheme, and bulkhead by allowing the applicant to maintain his unapproved darker grey color while adding
a contrasting color. This would not be what the ARC stipulated when they approved this project. It is
not your problem that the developer ignored the approved paint colors and scheme and installation of the
bulkhead, nor should you now accommodate his disregard for your directions and your conditions of
approval.
I urge you enforce your initial conditions when you approved this project, requiring the applicant to utilize
the oyster haze and city loft paint colors on the appropriate building sections you originally indicated, as
well as install the cut -stone bulkhead feature as were conditions of approval by your commission.
The addition of the bulkhead feature and paint colors you approved on July 6, 2015 will go a long way
towards making this building more aesthetically pleasing and break up its very modern and boring and
rather boxy design. To do otherwise and to allow any modifications to what was previously a condition of
approval is wrong in principle, will result in a less aesthetically pleasing project, and will only serve to
encourage future developers to flaunt your conditions of approval, hoping they too will at least get away
with some of their changes with perhaps only modest modifications. You need to stand up for the
conditions your commission initially required for approval. Of what value is it to stipulate conditions if you
do not enforce them?
see no reason nor excuse for the developer to have not followed your paint schemes and directions for
the bulkhead nor do I see any reason the current darker grey (custom merlex blend) color should remain on
any parts of this building. Please enforce your initial requirements for paint colors and scheme and
bulkhead as required when you initially approved this design.
Thank you.
Regards,
John Grady
San Luis Obispo
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