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Originally Posted by ozone
That's interesting. Basically we've lost half the population. I wonder why our so-called leaders never talk about repopulating the core, using real numbers? Why not make it our city's declared goal to double the core's population in say 10-20 years? Other cities have done it.
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It is--the city's 2030 general plan housing element includes adding around 10,000-15,000 units of housing to the central city, primarily in the Railyards, the Docks, River District, R Street Corridor and other opportunity sites. Councilmember Hansen mentioned the halving of the central city's population at the grand opening of the "WAL" (the warehouse lofts on R Street that just broke ground) and I commented afterward that all we need is a couple hundred more projects of equal size and we'd be getting somewhere!