Healdsburg

At it's heart, Measure O is about construction.  

Before voting, please consider how Healdsburg will be affected by an unknown quantity of potentially very high density apartments built up and down Healdsburg Avenue:

Of course Healdsburg needs more "middle income" or "workforce housing," but this lifting of our voter-approved growth management ordinance along the Healdsburg Avenue Corridor is an extreme approach. Measure O provides neither assurances nor requirements that developers will actually build this so-called "Missing Middle" housing.

Why is our City Council choosing unlimited housing growth, requiring no annual growth limits, and allowing uncertain housing pricing on this two mile corridor of Healdsburg Avenue? 

Transparency and trust are missing. 

Healdsburg residents voted overwhelmingly in 2000 to pass an ordinance to limit annual housing growth.  Residents were asked to lift these restrictions in 2016, and once again, overwhelmingly voted to keep housing growth limitations in place.  With Measure O, Healdsburg residents are now being asked again to lift all annual growth restrictions for multi-family housing in areas that include the Healdsburg Avenue corridor and 88 acres of riverfront property by Memorial Bridge.  Healdsburg cannot sustain such growth.

In 2000,  the people of the City of Healdsburg, hereinafter called “the City,” found and declared as follows:

A.    The recent rapid increase in residential growth is dramatically changing our small town character and negatively impacting our quality of life.