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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"San Luis Obispo"”.
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Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo
<p>San Luis Obispo, California was a violent place in the 1850s with numerous murders and lynchings in staggering proportions. This thesis studies the rise of violence in SLO, its causation, and effects. The vigilance committee of 1858 represents the culmination of the violence that came from …
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Public Art: Context & Process in San Luis Obispo, CA
… public art installation process in the City of San Luis Obispo from the perspective of the administrators working with the public art programs and policies and comparing the process with the ways in which the community is empowered by public art a number of recommendations are made to increase …
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Mid-Twentieth Century Residential Development in San Luis Obispo
<p>San Luis Obispo’s mid-century spanned the years beginning in the Great Depression and ending during the post-World War II housing boom. During this time the City grew in population and in size, adding several acres of land and thousands of single-family residential parcels. This research …
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Water Conservation for the County of San Luis Obispo
… and Environmental Design. The County of San Luis Obispo Planning and Building Department is the client for this professional project. The project was requested by the County of San Luis Obispo to assist in its water conservation efforts and to help achieve a 20 percent per capita …
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City of San Luis Obispo Open Space Vegetation Management Plan
… draft Vegetation Management Plan for the City of San Luis Obispo Open Space properties. The purpose of the plan is to provide a comprehensive document which identifies how the city is addressing wildfire preparedness in city-owned open space properties. Methods used in plan development include a …
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Economic Impact of the Williamson Act in San Luis Obispo County
… Williamson Act and the agricultural industry in San Luis Obispo County, and to assess the changes in agriculture and the County’s economic structure if a significant proportion of Williamson Act contracts were not renewed. Williamson Act enrollment and agriculture data were analyzed on a zip code …
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San Luis Obispo Regional Transit Authority: Recommendations for Future Service Demand
… additional or express bus services provided by San Luis Obispo Regional Transit Authority (RTA). RTA operates countywide fixed-route bus services and para-transit services for San Luis Obispo County. This report focuses on RTA’s Route 9, which operates between the North County and the Central …
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A Conservation Plan for Reservoir Canyon Natural Reserve, San Luis Obispo, CA
… the Reservoir Canyon Natural Reserve (RCNR) in San Luis Obispo, California. It is a professional project for the City of San Luis Obispo with the goal of eventual adoption by the City Council. The plan was motivated by City policy, which advises creating conservation plans for open spaces, and …
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A Comparison of Water Main Failure Prediction Models in San Luis Obispo, CA
<p>This study compared four different water main failure prediction models: a statistically simple model, a statistically complex model, a statistically complex model with modifications termed the 2019 model, and an age-based model. The statistically complex models compute the probability of …
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Restoration of A. fasciculatum at Rocky Canyon Granite Quarry, San Luis Obispo, CA
The objective of this study was to assess the above-ground factors affecting the establishment and recovery of the dominant chaparral shrub Adenostoma fasciculatum (chamise) on the Rocky Canyon granite mine. Attempts to restore the California chaparral have been challenging and few successful …
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Distribution and Ecological Function of Pacific Lamprey in the San Luis Obispo Creek Watershed
… watershed management has not been tested. The San Luis Obispo Creek watershed, California, USA is at the southern end of Pacific lamprey’s retracting distribution, and the San Luis Obispo watershed is impacted by degraded water quality, making investigation of Pacific lamprey in the San Luis …
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An Analysis of Human Disturbance to Rocky Intertidal Communities of San Luis Obispo County
… Disturbance To Rocky Intertidal Communities Of San Luis Obispo County</p> <p>Grant Tyler Waltz</p> <p>The number of coastal areas open to public access in California and San Luis Obispo County is increasing due to the acquisition by California State Parks of land previously owned by private …
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A Geospatial Assessment of Social Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise in Coastal San Luis Obispo
… the unincorporated coastal area of the County of San Luis Obispo (County) using geospatial and statistical analysis. The intention of this assessment is to inform local climate adaptation efforts now required by state legislation. A social vulnerability index was generated at the Census block …
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Understanding and Incentivizing Workforce Housing: A Professional Project for the City of San Luis Obispo
<p>Adding workforce housing to the City of San Luis Obispo Zoning Regulation is a needed component to successfully begin, and promote, the development of housing in the City to those making between 121 and 160% of the Area Median Income. This regulation would ensure eligible households are provided …
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City of San Luis Obispo: Community and Municipal Operations 2005 Baseline Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
The passage of AB 32 in 2006 initiated the need for city planners in California to consider the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions at the community level in order to develop policies and programs to reduce emissions in the future. Although local jurisdictions are not required to quantify …
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Developing a Source Water Protection Plan for Boron in the San Luis Obispo County Water Supply
… boron in the surface waters and groundwater of San Luis Obispo County. Boron is a micronutrient needed by all plants and animals but the threshold for toxicity in plants is narrow. As the need for water increases and the production of wastewater and irrigation water infiltrates the soil and …
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Exploring Travel Time Reliability Using Bluetooth Data Collection: A Case Study in San Luis Obispo, California
… data along a multimodal arterial corridor in San Luis Obispo, California. Five BlueMAC devices collected multimodal travel time data in January and February 2016 along Los Osos Valley Road. These datasets were used to identify and process known sources of error such as occasions where vehicles …
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Hungry No More: A Food System Study & Hunger-Free Community Plan for San Luis Obispo County
… the food security and nutritional needs of San Luis Obispo County’s most vulnerable residents. This Draft Plan is submitted to the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County as part of the Hunger-Free Community Project.</p> <p>The Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County was the lead …
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Development of CubeSat Vibration Testing Capabilities for the Naval Postgraduate School and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
<p>The Naval Postgraduate School is currently developing their first CubeSat, the Solar Cell Array Tester CubeSat, or NPS-SCAT. Launching a CubeSat, such as NPS-SCAT, requires environmental testing to ensure not only the success of the mission, but also the safety of other CubeSats housed in the …
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A Business Plan for the Implementation of a Green Gardener Certification Program in San Luis Obispo County
… of a Green Gardener Certification Program in San Luis Obispo County. There is a need locally to conserve resources and to reduce pollution. Landscape maintenance professionals need the opportunity to receive further training in their field for licensing purposes as well as to get an edge in a …
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