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Council approves revised circulation plan, EIR addendum for 600 Tank Farm Road
Summary
Council approved a staff-recommended modification to previously approved public-circulation improvements for the 600 Tank Farm Road project and certified an addendum to that project’s final EIR, amending conditions to allow interim off-site work while preserving a path to the original roundabout design when right-of-way becomes available.
The San Luis Obispo City Council on April 1 approved a set of modified circulation improvements and an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) addendum for the previously approved 600 Tank Farm Road development, which the council originally approved in 2022. The vote (5-0) amended conditions requiring off-site public improvements when right-of-way acquisition from an adjacent Union Oil property proved infeasible.
Community Development Director Timmy Tway summarized the request: the 2022 approval included a roundabout at Tank Farm Road and Santa Fe and required the developer to construct off-site improvements and underground utility work. Project engineers later encountered a practical obstacle: the neighboring Union Oil site could not convey the necessary right-of-way in the near term because of separate remediation and regulatory steps tied to historical site contamination. The developer proposed an interim solution allowing a conventional unsignalized intersection with turn lanes, buffered bike lanes and a two-way shared-use path — improvements that…
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