Smart Growth

By Sean Sullivan

Through creation of market rate housing in our redevelopment areas, we will fast track desperately needed affordable housing. As a life long advocate for the homeless, no one believes more than I that the way out of homelessness and poverty is with a roof over one's head, a bed to lie one's head on, and a job to dream about going to in the morning to provide food for one's belly and sustenance for one's soul.

• Revitalize downtown with jobs and retail opportunities. Our City Center should be a point of pride for food, culture and shopping; not a ghost town after 5 pm and on weekends.

• Support practical use of historically industrial land with 21st century realities and successes learned from other successful cities. Mandela Parkway was beautifully developed but remains underutilized. We need a plan that brings business and people to this community, without adding to the air pollution that this community has long endured.

• Partner with the labor, business, and development communities to help youth into permanent, living wage paying jobs.

• Support new, blossoming neighborhoods by championing and helping retail and small business owners to set up and thrive. This City Council office will work with neighborhood groups to serve as a catalyst for community improvement.

• Bring together developers, unions, social justice advocates, and City Leadership to jointly engage in economic development problem solving, job creation, job retention, and creation of access to public transit.

• Implement a condominium conversion plans that protects long time residents and include a thoughtful, well-timed plan for relocation.