In rejecting a new agreement with the developers of a City Center property Tuesday night, several council members made it clear they wanted to hold to the original vision of an upscale, mixeduse(sic) site, including some owner-occupied condominiums, but not the rental units that led to a public uproar this summer.
This is the zombie talking point in the whole thing-it just won't go away. There are already rental units in the City Center, there was no formalization of the "upscale" requirement in the City Center plan, nor can there be. You can only zone a property-legally, you can't specify a Saks vs a Wal-Mart,, and the City Center plan very clearly allows for "changing market conditions" in it. Of course, it also thought that "common sense and reason" would rule the day.
Having abandoned all pretense about this being about something other than "low-income housing," the Common Council has put New Berlin in a very vulnerable position should MSP decide to pursue this in a different forum.
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