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Burlingame candidates offer different paths to more and preserved affordable housing
Summary
Candidates at a League of Women Voters forum mostly favored concentrating housing near transit, preserving existing affordable units and using local funds and partnerships to support workforce housing; proposals included using linkage fees and targeted retrofit incentives.
Candidates at the Burlingame forum agreed on the need for more housing but proposed different ways to produce and preserve affordability.
Donna Colson, the mayor and a two‑term council member, pointed to city revenue already collected for housing preservation. “We have 15,000,000,” she said, referring to commercial linkage fees the city has collected and is exploring using to preserve…
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