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Sorry to say, as a former councilmember and mayor, the city of Olympia's planning efforts consistently fall short of what we need.
1) Note that the plan does not include any parks to serve this huge increase in population. This kind of housing density requires even more park areas than traditional neighborhoods. None planned.
2) Staff seems always to trumpet its recommended requirements for "affordable housing" but falls short in two very important ways:
a) they don't say whether the affordable housing requirements are for permanent or temporary affordable housing. Temporary affordable housing is more common, and obviously it's not very helpful. We need permanent affordability.
b) they talk in terms of serving people up to 80% of AMI (area median income), but don't tell us how much income that is. Currently it's 82 thousand for a family of 4 and 65 thousand for a family of two. That's not very affordable and doesn't help most poor people.
Bob Jacobs
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