San Luis Obispo to vote on mall
Residents of San Luis Obispo will get to vote April 26 on whether to build a proposed shopping center on farmland.
The City Council put approval of the proposed 650,000-square-foot San Luis Marketplace shopping center up for a vote following a lengthy meeting Wednesday night.
Save San Luis Obispo, the group opposing the project, submitted petitions forcing the election. Its members had wanted the election held next November but said they were happy the council decided to set up polling places instead of doing an all-mail balloting.
The group had threatened a lawsuit if the council chose a mail-ballot election.
The city estimated that voting by mail would have cost about $92,000, compared with $109,800 to open polling places for the day.
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