HomeMy WebLinkAboutCUP 29; U.S. Post Office; Conditional Use Permit (CUP) (6)CARLSBA4D CITY SCHOOLS
801 PINE AVENUE - CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA 92008
June 25, 1968
Mr. Elton J. Olinghouse
Planning Director
City of Carlsbad
2960 Pi0 Pic0 Drive
Carlsbad, California 92008
Dear Mr. Olinghouse:
The Trustees of the Carlsbad Union School District wish to
thank you for sending the notice of a public hearing to be held
June 25, 1968 to consider an application to allow the construction
and use of a U. S . Post Office Building and parking facilities
northerly of Chestnut Avenue betwen Harding Street and Interstate 5
Freeway.
The school board wishes to express objection to a post office
in said location because of the increased vehicular traffic that,
undoubtedly, would be generated. Since the proposed location of
the post office is across Harding Street from the Pine School,
increased traffic would be a hazard to school children who live in
the immediate vicinity and walk between home and school at various
times during days that school is in session.
Harding Street would be the only access to the proposed post
office from either north or south. In addition, residents along
Tamarack Avenue would have access to Harding Street and the
post office only by way of Jefferson Street, which is the only through
street to the north between Interstate 5 and the railroad tracks.
Traffic along this route would increase hazards to kindergarten and
primary children at Jefferson School as well as to older children at
Pine School.
There appears to be little possibility that Chestnut Avenue could
become an east-west access route to the proposed post office.
Chestnut Avenue west of Harding was purchased by the Carlsbad Union
School District and abandoned by the City of Carlsbad in 1957.
ADMINISTRATION OFFICE 729-11 91
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Elton J. Olinghouse 2 June 25, 1968
Increased traffic hazards to school children resulting from increased
vehicular traffic in a location with limited access is the reason for
objection to the proposed post office location.
Very truly yours,
CARLSBAD UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Howard C. Harmon
Secretary
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