CM Banks round 2: Mangin on commitment to treat community opponents as stakeholders
Banks asks for a commitment that residents opposing projects won't be dismissed as NIMBYs. Mangin commits to carefully listening to all community members, pointing to his first job in land use working with a diverse range of community organizations across the spectrum of housing views.
Final, given everything that we've discussed today about your writings and your views on, you know, community participation,
what commitment can you make that residents who come before the BSA opposing a project will not simply be viewed as being NIMBY or obstacle to housing production,
but as a stakeholder whose testimony can meaningfully affect the impact of the case that's before you?
No, absolutely.
Commit to carefully listening to all members of the community that want to participate in these applications.
And it really does go back to, you know, my first job in land use, where if you look at the community organizations, the neighborhood associations that helped us create these,
that participated in this process, it's a real range of folks who are rah-rah housing, folks who are way more skeptical of development, folks that are more policy-oriented, folks that are very activist-oriented, and everybody in between.
And the point was just to try to enable all those groups to participate in the process.
And I'm the same person today that, you know, wrote this.
In fact, maybe I should write a guidebook to the BSA and what it does so that more people can understand how to participate.
I mean, that would not be a bad idea.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you, Councilor.
The verdict is not out as yet, but thank you.