HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/13/2018 Item 2, Lopes
Tonikian, Victoria
From:James Lopes <jameslopes@charter.net>
Sent:Wednesday,
To:Advisory Bodies; Davidson, Doug; Brian Levelle
Subject:Comments on Item 2; NKT Development/Westmont Development
Planning Commission
City of San Luis Obispo, California
Dear Chair Stevenson and Commissioners:
I am asking that you respond to this presentation with a request for a major revision to the uses and layout of the
proposal.
The staff report does not include information about the uses which are allowed in the C-C and the BP zones. I just
finished reviewing Table 9 of the Zoning Ordinance.
The table does not allow Residential Care - seven or more clients - within the BP nor the C-C zone. Yet, staff have
allowed the developer to proceed to tonight's hearing. Amendments to the Zoning Ordinance and perhaps to the
General Plan are necessary before discussing any residential care facility on these properties.
Table 9 does allow a "Mixed-use project" within the C-C property, but it does not on the smaller BP property. This
particular use is widely and generally known as a combination of residential and commercial, and perhaps office uses on
a site. It appears that the Land Use Element is encouraging a mixed residential/commercial project on the C-C property.
Since it is not allowed in the Business Park zone, this property should be excluded from such a use.
A residential use on the larger C-C property will be subject to relatively intense aircraft noise. A helicopter training
business flies over it about every 15 minutes, with a persistent and bothersome noise. The Airport manager has not
been willing to alter the course of this operation.
The site should be designed as a shopping environment which has external and interior street-facing buildings, in a block
pattern. Courtyards and plazas and paseos should transect the site throughout. These open spaces should be located at
key and relevant points within the building architecture.
Sincerely,
James Lopes
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