Letter | Yes on O; stop latest bureaucrat-driven outrage

By Letters to the Editor | Santa Cruz Sentinel October 5, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Columnist Mark Primack urges a “Yes” vote on Measure O. A “Yes” vote will reject the parking structure (+ library + housing plan) that would displace the farmers market and leave us wondering what the bureaucrats plan to do with the Main Library site.

The planners and developers want a big parking structure. Moving the library was intended to subsidize that. When an adverse public reaction occurred, the bureaucrats came up with affordable housing. As Primack said, what is at stake is whether city residents will demand to be involved in major developments affecting our city.

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— Gary A. Patton, Santa Cruz

Letter | Vote Yes on O – but non-city residents left out

By Letters to the Editor | Santa Cruz Sentinel October 5, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

County residents use the library and downtown, yet they do not have any say.

I’m a yes voter and will not be persuaded by further comments, although a commentary did reinforce my opinion with its strong point about “parking” needed for the hotel tower OK’d by council without sufficient parking of its own, then augmented by the rendering of the colossal cement structure taking the space of a city block.

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— Susan I Stuart, Santa Cruz

Letter | Measure O just affirms 2016 vote on library

By Letters to the Editor | Santa Cruz Sentinel October 5, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

There is no more compelling siren song to the disengaged voter than “Don’t be fooled!” on the signs opposing Measure O, where a Yes vote simply affirms the voters’ approval in 2016 for renovating the library where it is. No one wants to be a putz, so you vote “no” – and inadvertently affirm the City Council’s bait-and-switch from what we actually approved.

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— Nadene Thorne, Santa Cruz