Tucson Speaks Out: June 29 letters of the day

This rendering shows the proposed apartments at the former Quail Canyon Golf Course. Seaver Franks Architects Re: the June 6 article “A sustainable solution to the housing crisis.”The suggestion that a California developer’s plan to pack 116 presumably expensive two-story homes and 210 apartments onto the floodway that runs through the Quail Canyon section of…

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City election questionnaire: Housing

Question to candidates: What steps should the City Council take to deal with rising housing costs in Tucson?Arthur KerschenI would vote to lift zoning restrictions and deregulate home manufacturing.Regina RomeroTucson needs to increase our housing supply, with affordability being the goal. Under my leadership, the City of Tucson has laid out the policies that will…

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City Election Questionnaire: Victoria Lem

Republican Victoria Lem is running for City Council in Ward 1. Due to a misunderstanding, she did not submit answers to the recent candidate survey used to create the series of stories on candidates’ positions which has been published over the past week. The Arizona Daily Star offered her the option of answering the survey…

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Arizona Opinion: Keep Public Lands in Public Hands

The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer: Jason Ceola Misguided members of the Arizona legislature are using the affordable housing crisis to accomplish one of their long-standing goals: eliminating public land ownership. This year they passed their latest anti-public-lands efforts, House Concurrent Memorial 2002.This memorial demands the federal government transfer its “underused”…

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