Response Letter to the Chamber of Commerce
Cc: City Manager Mickaelian, Residents for Balance Downtown (and select supporters), Healdsburg Tribune, Press Democrat Dear Carla Howell and Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, Dear Members of the Healdsburg City Council, I am responding as a member of the ‘Residents for Balance Downtown’ group that spearheaded the movement to limit hotel expansion in downtown Healdsburg. In the Chamber’s recent letter to the Council they asked them to “wait to take this arbitrary action (the Council’s recent hotel zoning ordinance) until the SDAT report has been published and all interested parties have had a chance to digest the full content.” Arbitrary? I consider this a preposterous and condescending characterization. The Chamber appears to believe that the SDAT report, being "professional, unbiased, and factual" (in their words) will give us uncontroversial guidance. In fact, there is a strong possibility that the whole que