SLO Council approves 'wayfinding' sign plan for city

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• Atascadero Lake Park entrance gets facelift

  Atascadero Lake Park entrance gets facelift

  Construction work designed to improve the way people access and view Atascadero Lake Park from Highway 41 at the city’s west entrance is under way.

  The roughly $288,000 project, funded through park impact fees that developers pay the city, stretches along Morro Road from Portola Avenue to the Charles Paddock Zoo entrance.

  Landscaping and a pedestrian path along Highway 41 are part of the project.

• Replacement of Cambria sign due

  Replacement of Cambria sign due

  A “welcome” sign at the southern entrance to Cambria should be replaced soon, following a one-car accident that wrecked an existing billboard in November, according to a Cambria Chamber of Commerce official. But another community monument sign that was to go in a bit further south, alongside Highway 1’s northbound lane, isn’t going to happen.

  Contractors have constructed white framework for the replacement billboard in a wedge of land alongside Main Street just past the southern intersection with Highway 1.

  Mel McColloch, president of the Cambria chamber, said, “If all of the work stays on schedule,” installation and painting of the sign “should be complete by early April.”

• Arroyo Grande city offices to be closed Friday through Jan. 2

  Arroyo Grande city offices to be closed Friday through Jan. 2

  City offices in Arroyo Grande will be closed Friday through Jan. 2 as part of a cost-saving measure approved by the Arroyo Grande City Council earlier this year to help cut a budget shortfall.

  Police and fire services will remain in full operation during this period, according to City Manager Steve Adams.

  In June, the council approved a $13.4 million general fund budget for the fiscal year that started July 1, with an overall operating budget of $22.9 million.

• June 3 is start date for paid Sunday afternoon parking in downtown SLO

  June 3 is start date for paid Sunday afternoon parking in downtown SLO

  Motorists will begin paying for parking on Sundays in downtown San Luis Obispo starting June 3. In July, the San Luis Obispo City Council voted unanimously to charge for parking on Sundays from 1 to 6 p.m.

  The city’s three parking structures will be staffed on Sundays during that time and 75 cents will be charged for each hour until 6 p.m. The first hour in the parking structures will remain free. Metered parking lots and streets will also be enforced.

  The city is in the process of replacing signs on streets, in parking lots, on meters and at the parking structures to reflect the change. In March, the city installed 400 solarpowered parking meters equipped to take credit cards throughout the downtown in areas with the highest parking demand. The city also increased the meter rate to $1.50 at those meters, up 25 cents.

• Grover Beach water rates would rise 10 percent unless 2,400 protest

  Grover Beach water rates would rise 10 percent unless 2,400 protest

  A 10 percent water-rate increase would take effect in April in Grover Beach unless more than half of the city’s property owners or water customers say they oppose it.

  Grover Beach officials say the increase is needed to cover basic operational and maintenance costs, re-establish a reserve fund and close an estimated $196,186 deficit in the water fund budget.

  The budget for the water fund was adopted with a deficit, but city officials had planned to close it by repaying a $900,000 loan the water fund had made to the city’s former Redevelopment Agency several years ago, City Manager Bob Perrault said.