REMARKS
Overview of the City of Yes initiative and its components
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Council Member Riley provides an overview of the City of Yes initiative, explaining that it consists of three major components. The current hearing focuses on the third and final component, City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (CHO).
- The initiative includes three components: zoning for carbon neutrality, zoning for economic opportunity, and zoning for housing opportunity
- The first two components have already been addressed
- CHO is a citywide text amendment affecting the entire city
- The hearing aims to gather public input on the CHO proposal
Kevin C. Riley
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Today, we are holding the public hearing for the 3rd of 3 major initiatives that the administration has called the city of yes.
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The first initiative was zoning for carbon neutrality, which we passed last year.
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The second initiative was zoning for economic opportunity, which counsel modified based on community concerns and passed earlier this year.
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The 3rd and last initiative of city of yes for housing opportunity, sometimes referred to here as CHO.
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Which is a city wide tax amendment affect the entire city.
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Yesterday, we heard from the administration about the details of the city of yes for housing opportunity, and today, entirely dedicated to a hearing for the public, about this proposal.
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Today's public hearing is important, if not more important than yesterday, because we need to hear directly from our constituents.
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This proposal has many components and is determining how to respond to the administration's proposal We need to hear from our constituents about the concerns, which we take very seriously.
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So we are looking forward to hearing from you all today.
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Every neighborhood throughout the city is experiencing very real housing challenges.
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This proposal presents an opportunity to address these challenges in a way that makes sense for each neighborhood.
