04-25-2022, 11:02 AM
Quote:“It’s the same old problem,” she said. “Do we want families in these buildings? Do we want people who are on full-time minimum wage in these buildings?”
Chapman said the city is reworking its downtown plan and she would like to see a moratorium on development in the core until the plan is finalized. The city is within its density goals so it can wait, she said.
The current zoning exemption/amendment is already its own form of moratorium. The idea that "we're meeting density targets" is lunacy given the current state of real estate, let alone the assumption that there can't be opportunity created by densifying the 1-2 bed home units into this area.
In the same article she talks about how there is not enough park land, while this property abuts the largest vacant area in downtown the city owns. How about instead masterplanning that land to build the 3-bed and affordable units and take all the space those units could have required in mid-rise and make a park? Doesn't take a lot of imagination.