Blue Owl Brewing
City Needs More Affordable Housing
RECEIVED Mon., Oct. 22, 2012
Dear Editor,
The Planning Commission and the City Council, in their quest to sooth their conscious over allowing developers to knock down more than 1,700 affordable housing units on prime development property at the west end of East Riverside, have shown a complete disregard for any and all mitigating factors regarding the placement of that housing in Montopolis; a neighborhood which already has 48% of all housing stock as subsidized rent apartments.
Because of this, I think it's only fair that any mitigating factors for this proposed project that includes affordable housing be overridden by the city's expressed need for more affordable housing. I urge the city to consider that need for affordable housing when it looks at this project, and to do as it has in Montopolis. Apparently the need for affordable housing trumps any and all other concerns; at least that's what we who live in the low-income, mostly minority neighborhood of Montopolis were told. Since a percentage of the Broadstone PUD project includes affordable housing (based on the Planning Commission's and the council's previous recommendations that the need for affordable housing trumps everything else), I hope you will approve this project.
The Planning Commission and the City Council, in their quest to sooth their conscious over allowing developers to knock down more than 1,700 affordable housing units on prime development property at the west end of East Riverside, have shown a complete disregard for any and all mitigating factors regarding the placement of that housing in Montopolis; a neighborhood which already has 48% of all housing stock as subsidized rent apartments.
Because of this, I think it's only fair that any mitigating factors for this proposed project that includes affordable housing be overridden by the city's expressed need for more affordable housing. I urge the city to consider that need for affordable housing when it looks at this project, and to do as it has in Montopolis. Apparently the need for affordable housing trumps any and all other concerns; at least that's what we who live in the low-income, mostly minority neighborhood of Montopolis were told. Since a percentage of the Broadstone PUD project includes affordable housing (based on the Planning Commission's and the council's previous recommendations that the need for affordable housing trumps everything else), I hope you will approve this project.
Delwin Goss
