San Francisco Examiner/Brendan P. Bartholomew, 12/27/15, "New Daly City mayor says fostering business development is 'crucial'."
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| Mayor Sal Torres, Daly City |
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| Pacifica's economy, that's scary. |
Fostering business development in Daly City is crucial, Torres, 55, said, because the town’s residential developments so heavily outweigh its commercial footprint. And while residential development grows the city’s population, placing additional burdens on staff and infrastructure, the revenues from residential property taxes are unsustainably low. “Daly City needs to focus on one thing and one thing only,” Torres said, “We’ve got to drive more revenues to the city, because we’ve got a severe revenue challenge.”
Given the Bay Area’s ongoing housing crisis, Torres’ pushback against new housing development might seem counterintuitive. But the mayor said Daly City wouldn’t be doing the potential occupants of new buildings any favors if it couldn’t provide them with adequate services, stable infrastructure, and a growing economy. “When you see these proposals for 500-unit buildings, you’re talking about taxing the workers and the city budget too much,” Torres said, “Without business growth, you cannot sustain residential growth.” Read more.
Reference - City of Daly City, City Councilmembers, and City Manager. Note photographs. Sal Torrres speaking from Hispanic Executive, a link which did not open. What Sal Torres did not say about Pacifica image face page to Google/Sal Torres.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
31 comments:
Get that Pacifica. Business Growth.
Right. Business growth. Not residential growth.
Torres said residential development places additional burdens on staff and infrastructure, and the revenues from residential property taxes are unsustainably low.
It's not either or you morons.
Business and residential growth go hand in hand especially nowadays when the road systems have hit saturation. Rapid transit and pedestrianism are critical components of a livable environment which means densely developed live/work environments are a requirement for a growing population.
Get with the times.
You're calling the mayor of Daly City a moron.
How do you see rapid transit and pedestrianism in a densely developed live/work environment happening in Pacifica? We can't even get a regular bus to BART. And where would we put a densely developed live/work environment with pedestrianism? The quarry? Even if we could get that, we'd still need good rapid transit which will never happen in Pacifica. Unless we have a revolution and overthrow Samtrans.
if the shoe fits..........
The new Mayor of Daly City will attempt to balance business growth with existing housing.
The new Mayor of Pacifica (article below) will "continue to believe that our environment is our economy".
Anyone see the 40 year and counting NIMBY structural economic glitch in this City?
Daly City has big expansion ,on going, Serramonte Center area.Pacifica residents will go there as Fairmont Center goes vacant.
The hippies noobees and nimbys all claim that new housing doesn't bring in any money.
Build trails and they shall come to Pacifica.
No houses, no services, no problem--other than how to pay for the services and infrastructure for all the housing built since incorporation in 1957. An impossible task in a bedroom community with severe and permanent limitations on commercial development due to geography, regulatory issues, accessibility, prior land use decisions. Hire anyone you want, Pacifica's days are numbered.
We need commercial development.
4:53 where?
In all the vacant commercial spaces that already exist. Like the old Denny's.
Yeah, another restaurant or two and we're good. Never have to touch that sewer fund again. No sirree.
Sometimes we just have to accept the efficient market hypotheses. Maybe Pacifica is just what it is. An oddity. If there was something to it perhaps the market would've found its way. And a lot more people with a lot more money would've made it happen.
I am going to make peace with the situation. This is just an odd ball town.
8:57
So the city planning department and Kimco can chase them out.
Panda Express came in took a look around went into Planning and passed on Linda Mar and Pacifica.
I never thought I would say this:
The Libertarian is starting to make sense!!
7-eleven likes Pacifica;Starbucks likes Pacifica;Grocery Outlet just opened,and Safeway is coming to anchor Fairmont.All is not lost.
Another vote for Local Lib. There can be no other explanation for Pacifica's condition. Years of "new councils" and a good economy and we got nada. Oh, 'scuse me...we got another trail underway and Beach Blvd remains an open, dank pit into which a series of councils have poured millions for plans which are rumored to have now been abandoned. Other than the new library, of course. Can anyone confirm the rumor that this council has now given up on attracting a prospective developer with plans pre-approved by the CA Coastal Commission instead of having the developer take a shot? It was a goofy idea to begin with, but this is Pacifica. Curious, though, if the rumor is true, what happened out of public view to derail that, uh, development juggernaut we've got at City Hall? Do you think we've been quietly screwed out of millions again?
11:26
As soon as City Hall explains how the Pacifica taxpayers were screwed out of the missing or misappropriated $4,000,000.
1126, see City Council Agenda, 10/26/15. Consideration, Item 6:
"Developer selection criteria and process for 2212 Beach Boulevard development opportunity site, 3 acre ocean-front hotel site development potential. RFQ/RFP package to be released 11/1/15. Report, pdf pages 6, "Developer selection criteria and process..."
And, Anouncement, "3-acre ocean-front hotel site, offered by RFQ and RFP for sale and development."
Somewhere I saw a January 2016 developer response deadline, January 22 I think.
True, years of "anti-growth" City Councils and their local and regional citizen partners have crippled the balance economic development of this City-- as if, "our environment is our economy" pays our bills, and provides a sustainable economy for this City, NOT!
1200, that's easy. 2005 City Council fired the City Treasurer, probably because she advised economic development, including developing the quarry was needed.
Who was the City Treasurer?
Oh, maybe, Kathy, but my guess, and it's definitely influenced by the 4.75 million dollar mystery, is that she probably told someone on Council that the law and GAAP standards required that inter-fund lending be meticulously documented and repaid. She also wasn't so good at happy talk at council meetings. No fun!
Calling Pacifica an "oddball town" is way too kind.
Ten years later we have the same goofy Mayor telling us that our "Environment is our Economy". How stupid can we be?
1:17
How about this:
Pacifica is a town full of oddballs?
How about Chick-fil-A at Denny's site? We now have economic development director?
8:09
Kimco doesn't want the building split up. Thus the reason why Panda Express passed.
859 Sounds like Happy New Year to the Chinese restaurant that's been in LM Center forever.
11:59
Have you ever tasted that food from the chinese place in LM?
318 Once, many years ago. Clearly, it matters not whether you or I like their food because plenty of other people do. I respect their longevity.
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