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Tonikian, Victoria
From:Davidson, Doug
Sent:Monday, June 11, 2018 9:54 AM
To:Tonikian, Victoria
Subject:FW: letter to the Planning Commission concerning update to Ordinance 1130
PC correspondence
From: Bob \[ ]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 8:28 AM
To: Davidson, Doug <ddavidson@slocity.org>
Subject: letter to the Planning Commission concerning update to Ordinance 1130
Please forward the following to the Planning Commission:
This email concerns the revision of Ordinance 1130 in your agenda packet.
Four years ago, the review of a proposal for a hotel at 1845 Monterey Street was fraught with
controversy because of disagreements over the wording and intent of Ordinance 1130. After the
building was approved, all parties agreed that the wording of the Ordinance needed to be clarified
and strengthened to avoid future difficulties in interpretation.
When the LUCE 2035 document prompted an update to zoning regulations, the City invited us to
present our version of a revision of Ordinance 1130 to more nearly reflect the intent of the original
1989 ordinance as well as lessons learned from the hotel review.
On January 10, this year, we presented our update to you. At the end of your discussion, Chair
Stevenson directed Deputy Director Davidson to represent you in negotiating an agreement with
us.
That negotiation was successfully concluded on June 2, and is found on pp. 511-513 of the markup
version of the Draft Zoning Regulations Update. On behalf of the working group from the San
Luis Drive neighborhood, I am pleased to inform the Planning Commissioner of our full
endorsement of the agreement negotiated between us and Doug Davidson and Kyle Bell.
Although we did not achieve all of our goals, particularly our desire for greater setbacks and for a
reduction in allowed height, we believe that the other changes propose provide better protection of
the creek and our neighborhood. The strengthened and clarified wording is indeed comforting to our
neighborhood.
Thank you for allowing us to be actively involved in drafting the revision. We deeply appreciate how
forthcoming the City has been in accommodating our concerns. We hope that you will endorse the
current statement and recommend it for adoption to the City Council in toto.
Sincerely,
Robert A. Lucas
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1831 San Luis Drive
805 459 4344
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