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Originally Posted by wburg
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!
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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.