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Old Posted Mar 9, 2013, 5:12 PM
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Originally Posted by wburg View Post
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!
That's all great but general plans are barely worth the paper they're written on and 15K is still too little. As giddy as I'm about those far-into-the-future/pie-in-the-sky projects IMHO we need a new vision for the central city and a plan of action that is actively promoted by the mayor and city manager. There's a ton of spaces ripe for in-fill. We could start by disincentivizing surface parking lots through taxation and abolishing any required parking standards for new construction.

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