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July 16

2009

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POLICE

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ATTORNEY

At Large

Honorable Mayor Don Tatzin

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Lafayette City Council

Mary-Jane Wood

St.

Mary's

Orchards

3675

Mt. Diablo Boulevard ,

Suite 210

Lafayette, CA

94549

George Burtt

Acalanes Valley

Jack Coulter

Subject:

Request for Terminology Change -

Lafayette Downtown Strategy and

At Large

Specific Plan

Jim Fitzsimmons

Valley View Estates

Honorable Mayor Tatzin and Members of the City Council:

Byrne Mathisen

Happy Valley

At its Board meeting on July 14, 2009, the Lafayette Homeowners Council (LHC)

Jan McHale

reviewed the City Council-directed revisions to the

Draft Lafayette Downtown

Lafayette Valley Estates

Strategy and Spec?flc Plan (DSP).

It

was realized, with significant concern, that the

Guy Atwood

second Vision Statement describes our downtown scenic corridors as

public

sight

Springhlll Valley

lines:

terminology which differs substantially from the

2002 Lafayette General Plan

Carol Singer

nomenclature:

scenic view corridor

(see Policy LU 7-7; Map 1-5). While the drafters

Silver Springs

of the Vision Statement revision may have considered these two tenns as

Cliff Tong

synonymous, the LHC believes that the

sight lines

terminology denotes a much

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narrower field of vision and potentially encourages future downsizing of the

General

Tom Grimes

Plan

identified scenic corridors.

Silver Dell

Happy

Susan CallisterValley

Therefore, to ensure that the

DSP

is in conformance with the approved

General Plan

terminology and is consistent with Lafayette citizen expectations, the LHC

Marie

Lucas Drive

Blits

Neighbors

respectfully requests that any

DSP

use of the term

sight lines

as descriptive of scenic

corridors be changed to

scenic view corridors.

Ivor Samson

Honorary Board Member

Thank you for your consideration.

DIRECTORS EMERITUS

Jack Fox

Sincer1',

Jim Todhunter

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Cc: Lafayette Planning Commission

Downtown Advisory Committee (DAC)