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We are for creating more housing of all types, in all neighborhoods, for all levels of income. We are for jobs. We are for opportunity. We are for change. We are for innovation. We are for progress. We are for growth! We are for jobs. We are for opportunity. We are for change. We are for innovation. We are for progress. We are for growth!

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Memories: Looking Back to Our Appeal of the Low-Rise Rollback

Can it be that it was all so simple then Or has time rewritten every line If we had the chance to do it all again Tell me, would we? Could we? Sigh. More than 4 years ago, in the summer of 2014, we put together an appeal of the Determination of Non-Signficance (DNS) on […]

Time to File Another Appeal: City’s Impact Fee Proposal Ignores Higher Housing Prices

So I’ll dedicate this to all you Grand Bargainers out there, supporters of the City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) scheme known as Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA). I think this has a good beat and is pretty easy to dance to, but help me understand how impact fees fit with the Bargain? Developers were supposed to have […]

Message to Developers: Stop Paying Exactions, Start Fighting Back!

What will end the “housing crisis?” As long as developers keep paying for certainty the crisis will continue. As long as non-profits refuse to recognize that rising costs mean fewer, more expensive units for them, the crisis will continue. As long as politicians and the public continue to say we need “more affordable housing” rather […]