Tonight, City Council has the impact report for the Neptune Pointe/McKay Avenue ballot measure in its hot little hands and there’s nothing really shocking in it. I imagine that anyone on the side of the ballot measure feels as though the possible impacts were overstated, but it’s not too alarmist. For example I found this portion interesting when discussing the three possible ownership scenarios:
Even a Federal Government lessee is not required to obtain a permit from a city in compliance with local zoning ordinances. For instance, the United States Postal Service need not comply with local zoning regulations in construction of a post office on land owned or leased by the Federal Government
When I mentioned that the impact report was not overly alarmist, this was one of the points I was thinking about. Using the Post Office as an example of a possible lessee was pretty benign, but a lessee doesn’t necessarily have to be a government agency. It could be anyone, including, say, a private developer. Of course the big hangup is the question about McKay Avenue itself as the whole condemnation thing is winding its way through the courts.
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