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Oshkosh City Council candidates focus on housing, water infrastructure and transparency at League forum
Summary
Five candidates for Oshkosh City Council outlined competing approaches to housing shortages, water infrastructure and how the city should be governed during a League of Women Voters forum ahead of the April 2 election.
Five candidates for Oshkosh City Council discussed housing, water infrastructure, city governance and other local priorities at a League of Women Voters forum in Oshkosh ahead of the April 2 spring election.
Winnebago County Supervisor Jacob Flom, small-business owner Chris Larson, D.J. Nichols (vice president and assistant general counsel at Great Wolf Lodge), plan-commission member Christopher Ulrich and candidate Thomas Azuma each described their backgrounds and offered proposals on housing, budgets, infrastructure and transparency in city government.
The housing shortage in Oshkosh — particularly the availability of low- and moderate-income units — drew the most sustained attention. Flom called for remediation of blighted and brownfield sites and use of grant funding to convert underused parcels into housing, saying the center city and infill sites “are a great place to have a lot of those future developments.” Larson said he…
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