HomeMy WebLinkAbout12/11/2024 Item 4a, Teaford
Stephanie Teaford <sfteaford@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, December
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:Planning Commission Re: 466 Dana Street - Waterman Village Project, Dec 11, 2024
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Dear Chair Cooley and Commissioners Flores, Houghton, Jorgensen, Khan, Munoz-Morris and Tolle,
I am writing in support of the Waterman Village proposal for 466 Dana Street. Not only does this project
align with so many of our City’s goals, but it stands to make a real difference in the lives of people in our
community.
Affordable, high density housing will serve many groups but I am particularly excited for the opportunities
it presents for seniors. For the past four years, my widowed mom has lived with us. She is fiercely
independent and yet living in a large home by herself was unmanageable and too isolating. I imagine
there are many seniors in a similar situation. Waterman Village will allow them to have their own space
that they can manage, to live close to others who can lend a hand, if needed, and to hopefully enjoy a
sense of community when so many of their relationships may have been lost.
Please approve this project.
Respectfully,
Stephanie Fusco Teaford
sfteaford@gmail.com
... the only way into really being able to connect with others, and to know how to be, is
to be participating in every aspect of your life as a sacrament of love. - bell hooks
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love
and that love comes with community. —Dorothy Day
Everything is connected to everything else, and it all flourishes or withers together…
- Elizabeth A. Johnson
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