Repeal the Work Force Housing Ordinances and Call for Referendum on Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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We, the citizens of Virginia Beach, support Council Members Reba McClanan's and Bill DeSteph's call for the people to decide in a referendum whether the city should get into financing new home purchases by approving higher density housing developments and taking soft second deeds of trust.
Council Members McClanan and DeSteph correctly characterized City Council's adoption of the Work Force Housing ordinances as a back door end-run on the voters rejection of a redevelopment and housing authority last May by a 2 to 1 margin.
* There is more than adequate existing inventory of affordable homes for sale.
* The city is becoming a landlord, which is the housing authority you rejected.
* The city is in competition with you if you are selling your home for $350,000 or less.
* The issue is not affordable housing. The issue is additional housing densities for developers.
* If you live west of Rosemont Road, this plan is to replace your homes and businesses with high density, mixed-use developments.
Therefore, we, the undersigned, petition the City Council of Virginia Beach to rescind the work force housing ordinances adopted on Tuesday, August 28, 2007. Furthermore, City Council should approve a resolution at its Tuesday, September 4, 2007 meeting to put the question on whether or not the city should adopt a work force housing program on the November 6, 2007 ballot.
Council Members McClanan and DeSteph correctly characterized City Council's adoption of the Work Force Housing ordinances as a back door end-run on the voters rejection of a redevelopment and housing authority last May by a 2 to 1 margin.
* There is more than adequate existing inventory of affordable homes for sale.
* The city is becoming a landlord, which is the housing authority you rejected.
* The city is in competition with you if you are selling your home for $350,000 or less.
* The issue is not affordable housing. The issue is additional housing densities for developers.
* If you live west of Rosemont Road, this plan is to replace your homes and businesses with high density, mixed-use developments.
Therefore, we, the undersigned, petition the City Council of Virginia Beach to rescind the work force housing ordinances adopted on Tuesday, August 28, 2007. Furthermore, City Council should approve a resolution at its Tuesday, September 4, 2007 meeting to put the question on whether or not the city should adopt a work force housing program on the November 6, 2007 ballot.
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Al S
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Residental assessments have sky-rocketed but 183\% since 2000 and tax bills are soaring! What do you expe
2 July 2015
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Betty M
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Please stop trying to do business in competition against the hard working citizens of the community. Being in the business of Real Estate is not what governments purpose is. The government does not have the right to do anything that the people can do for
20 February 2015
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Robert Kd
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It's beyond my comprehension that serving on the Virginia Beach City Council are those who claim to members of the Va. Beach Republican Party but at the same time would develop and foster socialist programs such as a redevelopment and housing authority dr
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Curtis K
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The City of Virginia Beach has absolutely no business in becoming involved in subsidizing developers. If there is a market for lower priced housing, let the law of supply and demand be the driving factor as to what types of housing are to be built.
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William K
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What part of "quit rasing my taxes" and "quit spending my money on insane projects" do you not understand!
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John Pkuchtaj
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Maybe we'll have more luck getting this measure to a referendum than we did with the HRTA!
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Robert Fh
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The city council of Virginia Beach will now begin to compete against the tax paying homeowners who have their homes up for sale. It is not the role of government to compete against it's citizens in the real estate market. The Work Force Housing issue, als
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V Mb
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One more on the list of bad decisions on the part of City Council!!! What are you thinking? (Or, ARE you thinking?)
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