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Yes, we needmore multi-family housing in its various forms (apartments, townhouses, row houses, <br />duplexes, cottage clusters, etc.). So let's build them right, place them appropriately, and preserve what we <br />have. A neighbor placing a backyard cottage (or two), or even a well-placed and well-designed full-size <br />houseadjacent tomybackyard, is a much different proposition than a developer (likely a non-neighbor, <br />and therefore without a vested interest in the well-being of existing residents)building a six-unit <br />apartment building in the same neighboring yardwith a 30-footlooming wall 5-feet from my south <br />property line. Think about that for a minute or two! Don'tthink it happens? I have faced this reality in <br />twodifferentneighborhoods! <br />Onefinal thought is that the City should be densifying uniformly throughout the urban area. Often <br />times the areas being targeted for infill are already the densest parts of town. Sure,itmakes sense to <br />have a more dense urban core, and development on transit corridors is efficient and smart. But we all <br />need to share in the pains of growing over the coming years. So let's share the load, and make sure <br />that the "load" is done intelligently, sensitively, and in ways that we can be proud of in the years to <br />come. Build it well, build it in the right place, and create truly inspiring and attractive places to live <br />while making our existing neighborhoods betterthan they are now. It canbedone,it is not pie-in-the- <br />sky to believe so. We know what doesn't work. We can and must do better. <br />Thank you for the opportunityto comment. I hopeyou take my words to <br />heart. All the best, <br />Tom Happy <br />Eugene <br /> <br />