If passed, the only way to correct flaws in the initiative is by running another initiative. No amount of public input or municipal action can change any part of it, including the striking of our housing goals.
Eureka has been in this position before, with the same people. Through intermediaries, Rob Arkley gave Eureka Measure N in 2010 to allow him to build a "Marina Center" on the Balloon Track. After voters passed the initiative, the new zoning needed to be cleared through the Coastal Commission. Arkley refused to complete this process and instead left 43 blighted acres of land unused and unusable. Eurekans are unable to amend the zoning that keeps it locked up without raising tens of thousands of dollars to run a new ballot initiative.
Eureka can't afford for Old Town's 21 empty lots and the Jacobs School campus to remain unusable. Arkley has done this to us before, we can't let it happen again.