The Downtown Community Plan. It was bound to get a little ugly.

With a final vote at City Council next Tuesday, both sides have had their say — community and slow growth groups on one side, the increasingly ubiquitous alliance of business, labor and transit activists on the other.

As for parking, the really big news is that the city will eliminate minimum parking requirements for new developments and halve parking maximums. And not everyone’s happy about that.

In a letter to the council, former and soon-to-be-again resident Cosmo Bua alleges that affordable housing is being used as a “sacred cow” to fast-track “projects which provide very little of it” at the expense of residents who have repeatedly called for more green, open space.

Shifting parking — instead of a park — to Fourth and Arizona, Bua says, is a “slap in the face.”

Read More: http://argonautnews.com/no-such-thing-as-free-parking/