U District Regional Center Plan
Who should shape our neighborhood's future: all of us, or the City without us?
Background
The City is drafting a Regional Center Plan that will define the University District for the next 20 years. It will determine what gets built, who can afford to stay, how we move through our streets, and what kind of neighborhood we become.
The "Regional Center" designation brings dramatically increased density, development pressure, and major public investment. The decisions made in the coming months will set the terms for all of it.
This neighborhood is 51% BIPOC. 39% live below the poverty line. 87% are renters. 62% do not own a car. These are not statistics at the margins. They describe the people who live here.
The Problem
The plan's own consultants committed to a process that would center on people, culture, and history. What has happened instead falls short of that promise. The first of only two public workshops drew mostly the usual stakeholders. Students, renters, non-English speakers, and unhoused neighbors were largely absent. A plan written without those voices is not a community plan.
Sign the petition. Demand that the City commit to genuine, community-led engagement before any draft is prepared. Our neighborhood should show up to shape its own future.
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Supporters
4 Supporters
Karen Chen
Karen Chen
Cory Crocker
plus 2 anonymous supporters
plus 2 anonymous supporters
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