PROJECT SEEKS UNION FINANCING -- UNION WAGES, BUT NOT ENOUGH AFFORDABLE FAMILY HOUSING.

Note: Hotel and Office space deleted, but still no neighborhood, no family housing, no affordable space for small retail and service businesses. 20% not enough!!!

CityPlace developers pursue labor union money; impasse with city remain. Dan D'AmbrosioBurlington Free Press

The first phase of CityPlace will involve building 181 apartments, 14,500 square feet of retail space and a 424-car parking garage, at a cost of $70 million. Sinex said 20% of the apartments built throughout the project will be considered "affordable."

Phase 2 will bring 175 more apartments and an additional 7,500 square feet of retail. The third and final phase will add 70 more apartments, for a total of 426 units, plus 20,000 more square feet of retail, for a total of 42,500 square feet.

"No office space," Sinex said. "Office is dead. COVID took care of all that."

There will also be a rooftop restaurant and public observation deck, and most critically, St. Paul and Pine streets will be reconnected to Bank and Cherry streets, restoring the downtown grid blocked by the construction of the Town Center Mall in the 1970s.

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2020/11/18/cityplace-burlington-afl-cio-provide-construction-loan-union/6315587002/

No Amendments to Just Cause Eviction Charter Change

 I urge you to demand of the committees so informed (ChaCha and CDNR) that they revisit the Charter Change and, if not without any changes, forward this language to the city council for a clear and empowering mandate to address the needs of tenants and landlords for a clear and just regulatory framework. 

Stephen Marshall, Burlington Vermont. 

Advocate for People Without Homes.

Charter Change Proposal to Empower the Burlington City Council to Regulate the Conditions Under Which Evictions From and Non-renewal of Leases for Residential Properties Shall Occur. 

Commentary: 

To call for a charter change requires good cause and clear language, and it must be empowering to the City Council, providing the broadest possible discretion within the limits of its purpose. 

NOT ENOUGH OF WHAT WE WANT -- A REAL NEIGHBORHOOD WITH MIXED HOUSING

 "This one takes into account public criticism of the design."  Does it?

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/local-owners-unveil-new-plan-for-cityplace-burlington/Content?oid=31636551

NO TO SINEX/WEINBERGER PLAN.

Where do we go from here? The Pit is now a blank slate.

Let's start with reviewing what was torn down to make way for the mall -- an urban neighborhood with mixed housing and small businesses, locally owned and operated .  

The documentary is available online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCKj58HHWEs