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Council Member David Carr proposes motion to disapprove City of Yes for Housing Opportunity
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Council Member David M. Carr presents a motion to disapprove LU 181, the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity initiative. He argues that the current process is flawed and does not adequately address community concerns or infrastructure needs.
- Carr criticizes the land use review process for ignoring community feedback and lacking proper infrastructure planning.
- He emphasizes that voting "no" is not a rejection of more housing, but a call for a better approach that prioritizes neighborhood context and infrastructure commitments.
- The council member urges his colleagues to vote in favor of his motion to amend LU 181 to a motion of disapproval.
David M. Carr
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Thank you, chair and colleagues.
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The motion is simple.
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The purpose and the effect would be to replace the 1300 plus pages that the chair referenced in his opening remarks with one word, no.
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No to a uniform land use review process that began with a preordained conclusion by this administration.
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No to a process that solicited communities and community boards for their comments and feedback, only for it to be mostly ignored.
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No to a process that did not begin with infrastructure carefully planned as it should, and now involves a mad dash to capture whatever dollars we think we can get on a commitment that may never be made good on.
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No to a process that tries to tell hardworking, blue collar residents across the city what their neighborhood should look like, and that they have not been doing enough for a housing crisis.
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No one denies that the housing crisis exists.
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Indeed, this council institutionally has certified one exists for decades.
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It is not new.
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And there's absolutely a lot that we can do to address that particular concern.
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But this process is not the one to do it.
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This process, which the Administration claims is going to result in a little bit of housing everywhere, and yet somehow will not tax our already overtaxed infrastructure, simply does not make sense.
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So the no today is not a no to more housing.
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It's not a no to a conversation.
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It's not even an end to the conversation on housing that we're been embarking on for the last several years.
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It's an opportunity to begin a anew, a conversation about housing the right way, one that involves actually consulting our neighborhoods and putting them first, working with them contextually to achieve housing goals across the city, and most importantly, to get infrastructure commitments upfront so that we know that they can be made good on in the years to come as we work with this administration and any in the future in order to ensure that we have the infrastructure needs that our communities require.
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And so with that, I ask my colleagues to vote yes on my motion in order to amend this to be in a a motion to disapprove LE 181, City of YES CHO.
0:32:15
Thank you, chair.
Kevin Riley
0:32:16
Thank you, council member Carr.
