Dear Mayor Combs and City Council Members,
You have a golden opportunity Tuesday night to demonstrate that you’re listening to the community and that you respect the residents and small business owners who gathered far more than the requisite number of signatures to qualify SDM’s initiative for the ballot.
In one fell swoop, you can adopt the proposed ordinance, reducing the need for two elections to decide the parking lot issue to just one.
Simultaneously, you can save the city time and money by forgoing M-Groups study of the ordinance proposal, which would likely yield no new information but rather be mostly a repeat of their report on the impacts of Measure V, and will leave the city in the same place we’re in today--only one month later and $750,000 poorer.
And the cherry on top: you can refocus everyone’s attention on an actual project by a developer that will be decided at the ballot box no matter what course of action you take now, rather than creating a prolonged drama by making our community wait until November of 2026 just to pass the SDM ballot measure.
Thanks so much,
Cherie
