There is no "widespread community opposition."

The so-called "responsible planning" contingent is the same group of a dozen or so white, aged, Reagan-era "I-me-mine" homeowner millionaires (and their trust-fund toadies) who've shut down affordable housing, created homelessness with endless land use restrictions, let the transit system deteriorate, lessened the job base, lowered income levels, and oppose spending a single penny of money unless it's spent on further enriching them and their westside mansions.

Thank god/dess we have people like Madrigal, Rotkin, Coonerty and Mathews on the council, who not only talk the talk about caring for the general population, but actually do something to see that people have decent, stable union jobs and a functioning economy.

That's sure more than the wealthy white mansion-dwelling elite ever did for this town, and more power to them, and to us.