Item 3 - Exhibit 09 - Public Comment received by 1100 a.m., Friday, November 6, 2020Planning Commission Nov. 2, 2020
Re: U-20-009
Dear Planners
The continued loss of prime retail space being
converted to professional office and restaurant
space has endangered the viability of down town
Los Gatos.
The applicant has an existing presence downtown
but it is in the outskirts of the central business
district with little effect on it’s neighbors. Allowing
them to re-locate next to heart of retail shopping
stores is not a wise decision. The conversion of
of general retail to office and restaurant use can
only lead to continued circulation and parking
problems. As we increase the number of restaurant
and professional uses, who can afford to pay higher
rents, we will loose smaller specialty stores and the
loss of ambiance we are so well known for. Tipping
the scales to destination businesses has always
been balanced in the past but things have changed.
The applicant does not have the right to change
address. Old town has already peaked out of
intensive use on it’s property. Lets not lose another
curbside retailer. This is a vital visual active corner.
It needs to remain general retail not a professional
destination location not paying sales tax.
Larry Justo Arzie
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