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City Council Hears Statistics on Rental Costs and Availability
Matt Mellott, Commercial Real Estate Advisor with Sterling CRE Advisors provided some sobering statistics on rental availability.
“A recent snapshot was taken in middle of May of this year,” said Mellott. “You can see that as Montana (James, with Division of Community Planning) mentioned earlier, we re at point 0.3% for apartment vacancy in Missoula, which is effectively a non functioning market. I mean, you can barely do turnover at a vacancy rate that low. So you can look at numbers, they don t mean anything, but what this is, it s basically putting a number to what we already know which is apartments are really hard to find in Missoula, if you re a renter.”
Neil Zolot / Special to the Medford Transcript
Uniform regulations and enforcement for parking across the city? Seems like a common sense first step in easing parking issues and that s a point parking official want to make clear.
The suggestion came from Jim Silva, co-chair of the Commission on Parking Policy and Enforcement, in video-conference City Council Committee of the Whole workshop meeting Wednesday, May 12.
“There needs to be consistency in policy, enforcement and signage,” Silva said. “It will make it easier for people to manage. When you provide procedures, you’re helping the community.”
More specifically, co-chair Laurel Ruma said enforcing prohibitions on parking on sidewalks and in the wrong direction on one way streets, which crates danger as cars pull out, as steps. She pointed out permit parking regulations on various streets vary based on requests by residents of those streets.
Our Revolution Medford holds candidate endorsement forum
Neil Zolot
Special to the Medford Transcript
It s an election year and Medford candidates were out in front of voters last week, albeit online.
Our Revolution Medford held a one hour video-conference Spring Candidates Endorsement Forum Wednesday, May 5 in which 5 City Council candidates and three School Committee candidates participated.
“It’s great learning from first-time candidates and incumbents,” said Rebecca Davidson, co-coordinator of the group’s Electoral Working Group.
All City Council and School Committee seats are up for election in November.
Davidson said OR Medford is running a coordinated campaign of candidates they endorse as an effort “to leverage our collective resources to elect a progressive majority on the City Council and School Committee.”