Vote NO on Measure M

Measure M was authored in private by a well-intentioned group of residents who want to protect downtown from taller buildings. However, because of their failure to have a public process, they made many troubling mistakes when they wrote the initiative. 

Measure M requires expensive citywide elections on minor zoning matters, such as building fences between neighbors and constructing granny units. We taxpayers will pay for these elections that will average $170,000 each. 

Many mistakes were made by Measure M’s authors. They made a mistake when they proposed a system with so many costly elections. They made a mistake when they proposed costly impediments to building much-needed housing. They made a mistake when they wrote a measure that pays lip service to affordable housing, but actually puts more barriers in the way of meeting the housing needs of our essential workers and their families.