OPINION by M. M. BOURGETT
Over 1,200 registered voters in Grover Beach support the belief that citizens have a right to oppose overbuilding and to negotiate common-sense reasonable solutions for affordable housing while honoring State mandates.
We citizens live in a democracy. How does building and stacking condos for millionaires create affordable housing for working families?
Tall buildings on the Grand Avenue corridor from 16th Street to Front Street without adequate parking harm the remaining small businesses in our business corridor. Where will extra water come from? How will we monitor gridlock and traffic congestion?
Proponents of this limit tall buildings movement encourage residents to think about how we will protect our resources, save our dwindling business corridor, maintain clean air, adjust to increased water rationing due to the huge influx of additional users…and just as importantly: focus on meeting the housing needs of working families, not providing second homes for the wealthy.
We can work together to rightfully challenge lot line to lot line tall buildings in the Coastal Zone that city hall claims are state mandates. A yes vote on F-26 provides this opportunity and David Swift as mayor will provide a voice for the citizens first, not the developers.
Boomer slop nonsense to pull the ladder up on their kids and grandkids
Perhaps for future developments…. but the die is cast for the ones on the books. Grover City will never look the same. But then again, the area of development used to be a pig farm. Still, it’s sad for the folks whose “view-shed” is lost. Such is “progress”. And no, none of it is “affordable”.