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San Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo
California
Planning Commission
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BY NICK WILSQN ciiwoman Carlyn Christianson
nwilson@thetribunenews.com said. "Everyone knows that's a
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I do not understand how the members of the San 4uis Obispo, City Council
and Planning Commission, can be so out of touch, blind to what is going
on in this city.
San Luis Obispo is now, a overcrowded, stressful and unsafe place too live,
There is a thick layer of smog, hanging over the city.
The cross-town traffic jam, makes accomplishing anything in this city,
a maddening experience.
San Luis Obispo's current zoning laws, allowed our " Old Town " neighbor-
hood to become a overpopulated, infill mess - parking is compromised, peace
and quiet, privacy gone. The basic act of sleeping at night gone, thanks
to drug addicts that cycle in -and -out of their houses, all night long smok-
ing drugs and talking their heads off; rental agreements, do not allow drug
smoking within these houses, all our neighbors believe standing outside
yelling into a cellphone and honking their car•horn repeatedly every time
they enter and exit their vehicle - is acceptable behavior.
Our once quiet residential street, is now a high speed expressway, for cross-
town computers. These crosstown commuters believing - ,jeopardizing the life
and lima of pedestrians and bicyclist, disregarding residential speed limits,
and limit line:/stop sign. laws - is acceptable behavior „Various police chiefs,
mayors and city council members, taking a sit on their hands approach, to
this public safety issue r that has taken over our street, along with the rest
of the streets in San Luis Obispo,
Downtown San Luis Obispo, has become a useless destination. Or as some tourist
relatives put it - that had traveled here, because of the " great things, they
had heard about San Luis Obispo " - "-this is the dirtiest mall, we have ever
seen " ; after tewnty minutes downtown. . They immediately checked out of their
motel; and spent the rest of their vacation in Cambria,.
I do not understand, how our society went so quickly from houses being forclosed
on left and right, developers auctioning off their stock for whatever price
they could recieve - to a housing shortage in every city in California. That San
Luis Obispo City officials can use this alleged housing shortage, as a basis
to destroy quality of life, farmland, and the enviroment. Plus, burn up the city's
resources along the way.
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