We cannot AFFORD to get this housing wrong.
Healdsburg is already over-invested in luxury tourism. It “costs” the city, the citizens, in infrastructure and city staffing and may “pencil out” for outside investors, but not for the “Missing Middle” and the vital working people of Healdsburg’s neighborhoods and local-serving businesses.
Healdsburg middle class, working class income residents, like me, Oppose Measure O because it may have the opposite effect of its stated objective. We need more of the How and less of the Why.
How does this ballot measure assure all this building will achieve its stated purpose?
I am FOR Housing. I am FOR growing Middle Class housing units in Healdsburg. It is far more complicated and will require so much more than opening up a “Market” and believing that building more and more housing density in Healdsburg means lower prices for teachers, like me.
Printed in the Press Democrat
Measure O may try to lure voters under the guise of affordable housing for the middle-class workforce, but the only thing it will guarantee is large scale development in a town of less than 12,000 people. Measure O takes off all the guardrails for multi-family housing construction.