Proponents of Eureka Housing for All Initiative Issue Rebuttal Report
Press release from Eureka Housing for All:
The proponents of the “City of Eureka Housing for All and Downtown Vitality Initiative” have released a report on the impacts the Initiative would have if passed by Eureka voters next year. The report includes thorough explanations of how the Initiative improves upon the city’s current plan to remove over 600 downtown parking spaces to develop housing.
The report also highlights several falsities, misleading statements, omissions, and contradictions in the biased staff impact report released by the City of Eureka on November 1st.
“Our report shows how the Housing for All Initiative actually follows the General Plan and supports the construction of housing in several ways,” said Initiative co-sponsor Michelle Costantine. “There have been a lot of false and misleading statements circulating, including in the city’s report, so I’m glad Eureka residents have the opportunity to read the facts.”
In addition to containing numerous errors, the city-funded report fails to even acknowledge the hardships downtown business owners will face if parking is eliminated. The city contracted with outside consultant Pro Forma Advisors, LLC to “perform an economic and fiscal impact study” regarding the Initiative. Their report is severely flawed, relies mostly on assumptions for which there are no source citations, and fails to consider the economic impacts to downtown businesses if parking is eliminated, or the fiscal impacts to the city from loss of businesses, jobs, and tax revenue.
“Downtown business owners know that the loss of parking will directly affect their businesses and have been telling the city this for the last several years,” said Initiative co-sponsor Mike Munson. “Despite our repeated requests for alternative solutions that would benefit everyone, the city chose to push this plan through. Now this report doesn’t even mention us or our very real concerns.”
“The city has a bad plan and now they’ve commissioned a taxpayer-funded bad report to support the bad plan,” said Costantine.
The full report can be found at EurekaHousingforAll2024.org.
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A stupid plan.
A very poorly operated town.
Get rid of the “mommy-government”…
Humboldt County is a disgrace.
Somebody want’s ownership of those downtown lots.
easy build with the city on your side, tax breaks, you get paid to operate it, and after 9 years of operation you outright own it. you really can’t blame Danco or Linc for being pro-housing. these facilities will destroy our old town. The old Budget Inn is about to open, and the residents will spend most of their free money at the Chevron across the street. Do you think they will use the crosswalk to get there?
The title of their initiative is misleading.
They call it “Housing for All” while preventing the construction of high density housing in the very place that’s best suited for it.
Ackley asdhole needs to be where he belongs…..jail.
“Our report shows how the Housing for All Initiative actually follows the General Plan and supports the construction of housing in several ways”
No elaboration on this assertion, why?
I have a question how long until the peirson company can build on the parking lots 3 years 5 or 7 years from now ..what is written in the trade agreement. And why has the peirson company not built housing in that property between Harris and Henderson st. before this agreement ..well because it doesn’t belong there!.