Why does city always take months to respond to obvious problems?

Re “Affordable housing savior or community scourge?” (July 20): Put me in the “community scourge” column. Developer Christian Spicer and his investors cram as many ADUs as they can on traditional single-family lots and don’t seem to care about neighborhood concerns.

On the other hand, why are our city officials so slow to amend ordinances that adversely affect our quality of life? They have a history of inaction and delay. Recent examples of months of inaction and delays are electric scooter regulation, sidewalk vendor curtailment and regulating vacation rentals.

There has to be an explanation for these fiascos, and saying “that’s the way government works” is unacceptable. Passing ordinances without loopholes for exploitation would prevent these problems from occurring in the first place.

— James Ziegler, University Heights