Dear Mayor Combs and Council members,
Please turn your attention to the SRI project.
The SRI Parkline proposal includes over a million square feet of new office space.
Big mistake!
Make that housing instead!
If we figure 1,000 sq ft per Affordable Housing unit, we could put 1,000 of those units in this space.
If we figure 800 sq ft, we could fit 1250 Affordable Housing units there.
If we figure 650 sq ft, we could fit 1538 Affordable Housing units there!
And we only need a total of 740 Affordable Housing units!
If we used only half or less of the one million square feet of office space as Affordable Housing units, at 650 to 750 sq ft, per unit, we’d have room for ALL of the 740 units required!
For a more generous square footage of 800 sq ft for Affordable Housing units, we could fit ALL of them into the SRI campus and still have close to half a million square feet left over!
Of course we wouldnt have to put all of them there, but we have a golden opportunity to not only fulfill much of our required Affordable Housing obligation without forcing a single small business to close, but also to avoid skyrocketing housing mandates in our next cycle to offset the million square feet of offices!
Sincerely,
Cherie Zaslawsky
