Mark Timberlake, Carla Leible
“Maybe we have to shift gears
a little bit and think more about
educating our citizenship, not just our city council,” she says.
Hedrick also believes a grassroots
effort toward community education is a missing link. “I
think
people
just
don’t
understand or appreciate all that
goes into development of property,” she says. “It’s not that people are against
affordable
housing
or
development, so much as they hear all the rhetoric and really don’t know how to discern what all of that means.”
Gebhardt said the challenges
with the city could mean more residential
development
focused
outside city lines, in cheaper areas
to build like Boonville and Ashland.
“If we can show them that, wow,
we’ve got competition, then I think things might start to change a little bit,” he says.
Stormy weather
he says. “And the thing about that
Stormwater and sewer systems
is growth’s going to happen, and
the capacity for development in a
the city is really dependent on
are one factor that determines
whether it’s in the county or in
given area.
the sewer.”
who works in the south part of
to the city and he’s going to have
Gebhardt says. “There is no capacity.
him to “go a half-mile down the
Station and you can’t get in the
It’s going to be a lot simpler and a
“As Tim [Crockett] and anyone
If a client is looking at land next
town knows, there is no sewer left,”
to annex, Gebhardt says he tells
You can’t get in the Cascades Pump
road and find a piece of ground.
Route K Pump Station because
lot less expensive.”
KERRI ROBERTS
they’re full.”
TIG ADVISORS
“...My lights turn on. My toilets flush. I’m paying my rent or making my mortgage payment. My job’s secure. If the community feels that way, that it’s all okay and we’re doing just fine, it’s not going to change.” RANDY COIL That
means
there
is
no
development that isn’t already
planned in the south part of town,
Workforce challenges Getting back to the topic of labor, Parry
talks
about
partnerships
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