Changelog

Live National Weather Service warnings for San Luis Obispo — heat advisories, red flag fire-weather days, wind and flood warnings — read from the county and forecast zones the Weather Service itself puts the town in, with the wind right now underneath. There was a Heat Advisory out when the page went live. It also names the channels worth signing up to, because a page you have to remember to open is not an alert. Reverse 911 calls landlines automatically and mobiles only if you have registered one.

Type your address and the page reads San Luis Garbage's own calendar for it: the next collection days, and which of the three carts — gray for trash, blue for recycling, green for organics — goes out on each one. Alongside it, the standing things a date cannot answer: carts are set out by 6 a.m. at the curb with the lid closed and three feet clear, Christmas Day is the one day nothing is collected and everything runs a day late after it, clean-up weeks bring six extra bags twice a year, and bulky items need booking at least three days ahead. The address you type is sent to the calendar to be looked up and is not stored.

Today's air in plain language, from the same model already used elsewhere on the platform, with the county's own health advisory from the Timber and Plaskett fire smoke in late August as context. Links to the county Air Pollution Control District for the official reading.

New page: work out your monthly water and sewer bill at the city's current tiered rates, and see why a bill can go up in a month you used less water (the whole-unit rollover). Also updated: the noise-rules page now states the actual safety-enhancement-zone dates for Cal Poly move-in, St Patrick's Day and Halloween, computed from the city's own ordinance instead of described in general terms.

Three tools, and the first one exists because of something we noticed in the search data: nobody in San Luis Obispo searches for their sewer bill. That is not because the bill is simple. It is because the rule that sets it is invisible. **Your sewer cap** is the most water you will be charged sewer on in any month, and it is your household average across December, January and February. The city measures it from 1 December to 10 March, and the number it gets governs your bills for the whole year starting 1 July 2027 — four months after the measuring stops. Turning off the irrigation during those fourteen weeks is worth real money, and by April there is nothing left to do about it. The page shows where we are in that cycle, what your cap would be, and the part that actually decides whether it costs you anything: a lower cap only saves you money in the months you would have gone above it. If you would not have, we say so instead of pretending otherwise. **The Thursday farmers' market** is not rain or shine. Downtown SLO watches the forecast and makes the call by 10 AM on the day, which is the single most useful thing anyone publishes about it and is written on one page in their FAQ. We show the forecast for the hours the market runs and where they post the decision. We never tell you it is cancelled — that is theirs to say, not ours. Also on the page: the street closes to traffic at 5 PM and cars left inside get towed, many stalls are cash-only, and EBT is doubled by Market Match at more than fifty of them. **The noise rules** are the most argued-about thing in town, and two of the things people believe about them are wrong. You are not entitled to a warning first — a citation can be issued the first time someone turns up. And the fines start at $350, double at $700 and $1,000, are doubled again during a safety enhancement zone, and are issued to the property owner separately, which many leases pass straight back to the tenant. There are two different thresholds depending on the hour, and the daytime one is measured fifty feet from the noise itself, not from the property line. The page tells you which one is in force right now. It is written for the person who cannot sleep and for the person hosting, because the accurate answer serves both. One thing we are not building: evacuation zones. The county already does that properly at ReadySLO.org, and during an evacuation two answers are worse than one.