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footage. What I was looking at was the building layouts, so the square footage was the building FOOTPRINT. Later I discovered by looking at the table extremely tiny font that these numbers were way too small: The report has prototype housing developments in the existing R-1 areas, spending $23,000 to tear down two houses (with average size around 1200 square feet) to build the following: Over $700,000 for one of four 4,089 square foot narrow houses, or Almost $600,000 for one of four 3,232 square foot one half of a duplexes (also called twin or attached “cottage”), or Around $350,000 for one of four 1,933 square foot row houses Around $325,000 for one of eight 1,791 square foot courtyard houses Around $275,000 for one of five to six 1,532 square foot cottage clusters Each of these proposals are way over the average size of single family homes (most are between 900 and 1200 square feet). The average size of my two family homes is 920 square feet. Proposing something for this neighborhood in these price and size ranges, especially the 4,000 square foot behemoth, frankly is just plain obscene. rd An 884 square foot 2 bedroom 1-bath house on East 23Avenue sold for $175,000 in November 2015. The only thing smaller about these housing units is the size of their yards, and they cannot be considered “entry level” housing. These prices would not be affordablefor most of the current residents. The city’s 2011 Neighborhood th Analysis of the area between Amazon Parkway and Willamette Street between 29and 24th Avenues list the median household income below $23,000 and median family income below $40,000, so low to middle class incomes. Certainly not able to afford the prices of the prototype housing developments. What is in SW-SAZ currently in the residential area is truly smaller and entry level housing. Let’s keep it that way. As my mother-in-law disgustedly said when looking at some of the plans, “These people, all they can think about is what they can change to make money.” I agree with her disgust. Gentrification usually has the benefits of increasing the quality of the schools and making safer neighborhoods, but this neighborhood already has that. It will have only the downside of gentrification – displacing the existing residents, those who are in rentals or those who don’t like having their former gardens shaded by the 5 to 7 to 9 story buildings that SW-SAZ allows with the 2-story “bonus” in mixed use areas. For SW-SAZ, you can keep the changes to the existing commercial area (but limit it to 3 stories near residential areas), but leave the residential properties alone. Sincerely, Joyce Eaton