DISAGREE VEHEMENTLY! Educate the public, but absolutely the wrong effing time to take the foot off the pedal.flyingember wrote:I've noticed the number one response recently online isn't to renovate, it's to do absolutely nothing.
Building new could lose not because people think we need to renovate instead, it will be because they think nothing should be done. See the streetcar P2 election, convention hotel, etc.
The city has been putting too many large projects up in a short time. It doesn't matter if all/most need to be done, it's just becoming easy to make a case the city is developing at the expense of its residents with incentive-based and tax increases, not from increased revenue. The airport is sliding into this same idea.
The city needs to step back and show results to people before it puts another huge project to a vote. A good starting point would be to find a tax to put up for repeal alongside the airport vote.
Build on strength. We are a long ways from 'catching up' on the deferred investments from the last 40+ years and this is a moment to do more than catch up.