New City Hall, Municipal Court and Parking Garage

[onthestrip]

Failed mayoral candidate Brian Shellem has filed 3 referendum petitions to bring to a city wide vote the city hall, the parking garage, and the other is for the YMCA/Library project. Seems a little much after losing the election where he kind of ran on opposing these projects. I guess its ok to let citizens vote on it, however, several million has already been spent on some of these projects for land and design work.
https://nondoc.com/2023/04/11/edmond...city-projects/

Also, another referendum petition is being attempted to stop an apartment complex at 33rd and Kelly. Im sure the petitioners are using the same old criticisms of traffic, water run off, crime, schools, etc.

[LakeEffect]

Also, another referendum petition is being attempted to stop an apartment complex at 33rd and Kelly. Im sure the petitioners are using the same old criticisms of traffic, water run off, crime, schools, etc.

I knew about the 3 from Shellem but now about the other one, so I was confused last weekend when I saw a guy trying to get cars to stop at Pelican Bay to sign a petition against "200 apartments IN YOUR BACKYARD."

[April in the Plaza]

Failed mayoral candidate Brian Shellem has filed 3 referendum petitions to bring to a city wide vote the city hall, the parking garage, and the other is for the YMCA/Library project. Seems a little much after losing the election where he kind of ran on opposing these projects. I guess its ok to let citizens vote on it, however, several million has already been spent on some of these projects for land and design work.
https://nondoc.com/2023/04/11/edmond...city-projects/

Also, another referendum petition is being attempted to stop an apartment complex at 33rd and Kelly. Im sure the petitioners are using the same old criticisms of traffic, water run off, crime, schools, etc.

That's absurd. The location of the proposed apartments is surrounded on three sides by commercial uses.

And the only nearby neighborhood (Hidden Prairie) isn't particularly nice. Those folks aren't rich enough, imo, to be blocking dense multi-family uses in the offsets.