Threshold 2008 civic engagement effort in the news
March 10, 2008 – 10:13 amToday the Examiner ran a story previewing the Threshold 2008 civic engagement effort. It kicks off this coming weekend with a two-day “countywide assembly” for 400 people, chosen to represent a statistically valid sample of San Mateo County’s demographics.
When Damien Frank went home shopping in 2005, his needs were simple: a modest house where he and his wife could raise their three children and where he could be near the Redwood City-based job he loves.
“I want to spend my career working for the county, but I don’t want to spend the rest of my career commuting, because the traffic is only going to get worse,” he said….
An effort called Threshold 2008 is getting under way this month to get the voices of ordinary people heard in the county’s housing decisions.
You can read the is full article here, complete with quotes from HLC.
