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Letters to the editor for Friday, April 30: NIMBYs and YIMBYs, gun control and Cece s plight Register-Guard
1KF’s manufactured fight for justice
I appreciated Kimberly O’Brien’s letter (Letters, April 24) calling for the Timber Unity organization to be accurately characterized as the “political influencing, lobbying and money-raising organization that it is.” Timber Unity has no truck for “unity” around credible, evidence-based climate science.
We should also accurately characterize 1000 Friends of Oregon (“1KF”) as the political influencing, lobbying and money-raising organization that it has become. Sadly, this once exemplary, grassroots organization has abandoned its former principle of robust, inclusive citizen involvement as essential to developing sound environmental policy recommendations.
Al Johnson, Jean Tate, John VanLandingham and Terry McDonald
We respectfully offer the following response to a recent guest opinion by Paul Conte about allowing multiplexes in single-family residential zones:
Allowing small multi-family housing types in Oregon’s single-family residential zones will help Oregon and its urban areas address serious low-income housing shortages. We can’t help solve Oregon’s critical housing shortage just by building more high-end single-family subdivisions, by building subsidized housing or by selectively allowing multiple-family housing in places like the downtown Westside. Allowing small-scale multiple family housing in all residential zones increases the long-term supply. It also reduces short-term and localized impacts of all kinds.