OUR DOWNTOWN • OUR FUTURE

Claim From Opponents 

• This initiative will prevent the 100-125 affordable housing units from being built.

• You are blocking housing!

Fact Check

The initiative specifically allows for affordable housing to be built on Lot 4, the location of the Mixed-Use Proposal.

 

Source: Ballot Initiative - Section 4. C. (LU1.1.6)

Claim From Opponents 

• You are encouraging housing on Lot 7, which is a pipe dream.

• We have the funding for housing on Lot 4 and it will be built fast.

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Fact Check

• The Mixed-Use Proposal is complicated by each element needing to be both funded & constructed before housing is move-in ready.

• The City currently does not have grants awarded for funding the housing.

• The bond debt for funding the garage would take decades to pay.

• Let's house people - not cars!

  • The excess parking revenue slated to pay the bond debt would be put in an affordable housing fund.

  • 2 spaces in a parking garage equates to a 2 bedroom unit.

• The Lot 4 housing can still be built with this initiative, once it is funded.​

Claim From Opponents 

• Even if the initiative "says" affordable housing can be built on Lot 4, there's no way there is enough room for both the Farmers' Market & housing.​

• There is no way to save the heritage trees and still build housing here.

Fact Check

The housing can be built exactly where planned.

• With ground level underneath being "sheltered", interior Farmers' Market/Downtown Commons space for events and community use.

• ​More housing possible than current plan

  • Without 3 levels of parking garage

  • Keep 1 level of sheltered open space for market/commons

  • Freeing up 2 levels for more housing​

• Provides infrastructure for Farmers' Market.

• This would also save most of the big heritage trees

  • They are on the opposite side of the lot.

  • The housing development's articulation design can also accommodate some of the ones on that side of the lot.

Remove 3 Level Garage

Add 1-2 more levels of housing

Ground Level -Sheltered Downtown Commons Infrastructure