Highlights
- Despite previously guaranteeing 3 minutes per speaker at Public Comments and establishing a special meeting to accommodate that, Mayor Baldwin instituted a one-minute limit per speaker because 108 people had signed up to speak. Four councilors voted for three minutes and then for two minutes, but the motion was defeated. And in the end there were many no-shows.
- Public comments focused on the Middle East, gentrification, Affordable Housing, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Transit Overlay Districts (TOD), public safety, and taxi rates.