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I'm old and Healdsburg just keeps getting harder to live in. They could tear up Healdsburg Ave for years with all the building they are planning. And there is no chance we could keep Memorial Bridge if we have thousands of new people living on the Syar property. Definitely no.

Measure "O" (as in Oh No! Mr. Bill) strikes me as the City Council simply folding to the interests that support a majority of them in their political careers and the community of Healdsburg be damned!

First, the projected growth of rental units and condominiums flies on the face of any notion of "sustainability"; our infrastructure simply cannot support this type of growth, now or in the foreseeable future. Also, with the density per acre vastly increased, developers will build to that density in order to maximize profits.

Second, I also surmise that the City Council has rarely traversed the Healdsburg Ave, Corridor. If they would, they would see that it is populated by a large number of businesses and service providers, ranging from banks to drugstores to dry cleaners to optometrists to insurance agents to grocery stores and, yes, to gas stations, auto parts stored and automobile dealers, many of which are locally owned and operated. What happens to those businesses? What happens to the people who work there, some of them for years? Does the City Council suppose that we should all drive down to Windsor or Santa Rosa for the necessities?

Finally, none of the projected building will actually be targeted for middle class families. Conversely, it will largely be targeted to both lower and upper income strata.

If the City were serious about creating affordable, middle class housing, they would foster projects such as https://www.srcity.org/3709/Brittain-Townhomes. in Santa Rosa. Instead, our City bureaucracy's standard operating procedure is building high density quasi-public housing projects so that we will meet the ABAG-imposed quotas which have no relevance to a small, self-contained farning and tourist community.

I apologize for the length of this comment...it only just touches on the many things wrong with Measure O,. I urge the citizens of Healdsburg to vote againts this lunacy. Thank you.

I am voting No on O, and encouraging others to do the same, because it simply isn’t the right plan for the building future that I want for my hometown. I want housing for low and middle income folks who carry the Healdsburg economy on their backs!
My personal experience is an out of town elitist building an atrocity on a postage stamp sized lot that abuts my back yard aggressively, and is refuting my claims of major damage to my yard and pool. This is not who we need housing for!
Leaving building decisions up to the City Council is a disaster waiting to happen! They simply aren’t qualified to make those decisions! No on O !

It’s too extreme. I’m voting no.

Water shortage. Too much traffic/noise.

I’m trying to raise my kids in a small town. Measure O could bring in thousands of new residents. They will grow up with non-stop building in town and many new people moving in. It’s not what we signed up for.

I believe Measure O is part of the Smart Growth America plan, in compliance with United Nations Agenda 21-2030 to force people into unhealthy high density living situations, "encouraged" to go all electric at home and in vehicles, travel less, and walk or bike within a "15 minute city" where all of our "needs are met". https://smartgrowthamerica.org/

This type of growth is less about humanitarianism or even care for the environment and more about money, power, control, and taking freedoms from Americans.

For all of the reasons listed here by others and as a candidate for city council who wants to be a voice for the people of Healdsburg I will vote no and advocate for no votes on measure O.

I am opposed to Measure O primarily for 4 reasons.

1: Our water supply is still not sufficient for current needs in drought years adding more housing will only make it worse. The city is still charging on a tiered basis charging more for people who use what is considered too much Even in a non-drought year.

2. Measure O will change the character of the town moving in the direction of more suburbs.

3. Measure O will not decrease the price of housing, rather than focusing on demand, addressing the cost of building housing and lowering interest rates overall is the best approach, something beyond our towns ability to fix.

4. I’m opposed to giving more power to the City Council which has abused its power in the past, focusing too much on subsidizing liberal policies and too little on necessary, infrastructure and public safety.

I’m voting No because I think the GMO allows for plenty of growth. I see no reason to offer the current and future government the power to issue an unlimited number of multi-family building permits in these areas. We currently have more than 600 new housing units planned.

I still remember the water restrictions. We are now suffering rate hikes because we were forced to reduce consumption which was unexpectedly costly for the City consequent to the poor management of our water supply. I can’t consider voting to place the size, nature and character of our town into the hands of a system that can’t figure out how to deliver affordable water.

The power to limit growth belongs with the voters and not the politicians. No on Measure O.

Besides the fact that Measure O would not make Healdsburg affordable, I want to maintain the quality of life for Healdsburg residents. We can't afford more traffic, less parking and water rationing in the next drought.

Healdsburg middle class, working class income residents, like me, Oppose Measure O because it may have the opposite effect of its stated objective. There are numerous reasons and values to not “Trust” or support the vague, unanimously supported by our five city council members' Ballot measure.

The Measure O supporters are primarily politicians and people who will financially benefit from The Deal.
What IS the Deal? We do not know. But Measure O, if approved by Healdsburg voters, will never achieve more than 20% below market rate housing, rental or for sale, and those luxury condos will have HOA’s and could potentially be vacant, second ( third) homes for new folks rather than the market audience, the Missing Middle, we are told by the city we are Helping.

We CAN do better. We will do better.

Brigette Mansell

I'm afraid of the traffic. It's already awful and the train will go right through town and there will be hundreds of new people when the Mill District is finished. It already takes me too long to get to work.