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MEMORANDUM
TO: CITY COUNCIL
FROM: TERESA MCCLISH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION — AGENDA ITEM 9.a.
APPEAL — CUP 12 -007
DATE: SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Attached is correspondence that was received after distribution of the Agenda.
c: City Manager
City Attorney
City Clerk
Public Review Binder
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Workforce Housing Coalition of San Luis Obispo County 2 SEP 20 PH 4' 59
Board of Directors:
September 20, 2012
Dana Lilley - Chair
San Luis Obispo County
Department of
Planning & Building
Jerry Rioux —Vice Chair
City Council
San Luis Obispo County
City of Arroyo Grande
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Steve Delmartini
300 East Branch Street
...San Luis Obispo Realty
Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
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Coast National Bank
Zeijka Howard
Dear Mayor Ferrara and Members of the Council:
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Donna Lewis
Central Coast
SUBJECT: WORKFORCE HOUSING COALITION SUPPORTS
Mortgage Consultants
Julia Ogden
PIKE PLACE APARTMENTS
Habitat for Humanity
James Patterson
San Luis Obispo County
The Workforce Housing oalition was formed to encourage the
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creation of more housing in San Luis Obispo County that members of
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our local workforce can afford to buy r rent. The Coalition supports
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a wide range of residential projects that will enhance our
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communities and use land and other resources effectively.
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Tyler Corey
City of San Luis Obispo
We are writing to support the Pike Place Apartments, a 28 unit rental
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housing project located at South Elm Street and The Pike in the City
Housing Authority of the
City of San Luis Obispo
of Arroyo Grande. We ask you to please deny the appeal of the
Advisory Board:
planning commission's approval of this project so that the apartments
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can be built.
Health Care forAll
Jerry Bunin
Home Builders Association
San Luis Obispo County continues to have a severe shortage of
of the Central Coast
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homes that working people can afford to rent or buy. The National
Mission Community Bank
Association of Home Builders currently ranks our county as the
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San Luis Obispo County
eighth least affordable housing market in the United States. When
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compared to local incomes, housing is less affordable in San Luis
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Obispo County than it is in Honolulu, Boston, Washington, DC and
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220 other metropolitan areas in the nation.
Steve Ingels
Century 21 Hamelmyn Realty
Ermina Karim
Because home sales prices are so high, we need more apartments
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Chamber of Commerce
throughout the county so that individuals and families who work in
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our communities can find housing that they can afford.
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Coast Chapter
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Habitat for Humanity
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Cc: Steve Adams
Teresa McClish
SAN* LUIS •OBISPO•COUNTY RECEIVED
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September 21, 2012
Delivered via email
City Council
City of Arroyo Grande
300 East Branch Street
Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
RE: Support for Pike Place Apartments
Dear Mayor Ferrara and Members of the Council:
The San Luis Obispo County Housing Trust Fund is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to
increase the supply of affordable housing throughout our county. We provide financing and tech-
nical assistance to developers, housing sponsors and local governments to support this mission.
We strongly encourage you deny the appeal of the planning commission's approval of the Pike Place
Apartments, at South Elm Street and The Pike. The project complies with the zoning and meets all
of the city's development standards. There is no reasonable basis for denying it.
Our county has a severe shortage of rental housing and, as a result, local rents are extremely high
when compared to local incomes. While HUD considers rental housing to be affordable if the
tenants pay no more than 30% of their gross income for rent and utilities, 60.9% of local renters pay
more. HUD considers those who pay more than half of their income for shelter to have a severe
housing cost burden. In our county, 35.8% of the renters have a severe housing cost burden. This is
higher than the rates in most of the country, including such high rent areas as San Francisco (22.3 %)
and New York City (27.6 %).
Please allow the Pike Place Apartments to be built so that our rental housing stock will keep up with
the demand created by nurses, teachers, secretaries, mechanics and others who are critical contribu-
tors to our economy and members of our community.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Gerald L. Rioux
Executive Director
Cc: Steve Adams
Teresa McClish
71 Zaca Lane, Suite 130, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 ♦ (805) 543 -5970 ♦ www.slochtf.org