REMARKS
Darlene Mealy critiques the adequacy of the proposal
0:56:27
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Council member Darlene Mealy critiques the adequacy of housing proposals, emphasizing the need for affordable housing and inclusion of parking in new developments.
- Expresses frustration over lack of detailed affordability information in proposals.
- Advocates for prioritizing affordable and decent housing over studio apartments.
- Stresses the importance of community desires, hinting at a potential shift away from art-focused initiatives towards housing.
- Highlights a discrepancy in promised versus actual affordable housing percentages in discussions.
- Calls attention to the reduction in parking space availability in new developments, labeling it a significant concern.
Darlene Mealy
0:56:27
Well, I just wanted to say, I thought this was the opportunity for y'all to come in with all this information that we don't spend in our wills.
0:56:36
And I don't know if you're just trying to spin out the clock or all these things could have been presented today that we could have been moving forward.
0:56:47
The affordability, you sand something verbally and looking on your phone when it's supposed to be right here before us that we could look at it judgmentally and decide.
0:57:00
And we gotta think about maybe the community don't want art anymore.
0:57:07
That was 17 2017 and y'all saying that, and things changed since then.
0:57:13
I know people would rather have affordable housing.
0:57:17
To stay in their neighborhood in which they've been through the bad and the good, and now we love to stay there.
0:57:22
Affordable.
0:57:23
And a lot of things that you're saying now is my first time hearing it.
0:57:28
When you came to my office, we didn't have 30% on on on the agenda.
0:57:34
It was 40%.
0:57:36
So kudos to that, but I feel we should do a little less studios and give people decent housing.
0:57:48
And that's all I can really say about this.
0:57:51
And I definitely, always from day 1, you did change what I said from the beginning, had looked.
0:57:58
I'm okay with that.
0:58:00
And then parking This is our last opportunity in the city to do parking, and I feel we should include parking in this.
0:58:09
Proposal.
0:58:11
It's not that you can't.
0:58:12
It's just that you don't want to.
0:58:14
And you making all this money off our people, but still inconveniencing.
0:58:19
How people would not have in part.
0:58:22
So that's one of my things that I have put down.
0:58:26
And I know we could If you started off with 224, correct me if I'm wrong.
0:58:34
Why we can't go back to that?
0:58:36
And let people have decent housing.
0:58:40
If you could explain that to me, I'm good.
0:58:44
From 224 to now, 283.
0:58:49
That's to me just greed.
0:58:51
You're not thinking about the people at a community.
0:58:56
If HVD was gone with the 224, this project was good.
0:59:02
And now it's up to 283.