Ridiculous analogy. Sorry, but you don't get to compare traction by putting petition numbers up against all voters in a general election. This is not a general election, it's ONE public issue. The proper comparison is the number of petition signatures to the number of people who participated in those "early on" back door decisions. Or the number of people attending the official public design meetings (30-40). Or the total number of people completing the official online feedback for those design meetings (160) which is where the idea that "the public doesn't care about this" or "the cost wouldn't be worth it" came from as they city's talking points. We have now proven that at least double that number of people believe the cost is worth examining with real bids - not imaginary numbers - and the far greater number of those responding to the Gateway Center design issue care about historic preservation than they believed. Without real bids getting done, any discussion of cost is irrelevant.