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Show Page 3 Wednesday, October 25, 1978 Plenty Of Jobs But Very Little Housing As young people begin to migrate into Park City for the ski season they are confronted with what seems a Park City "good news, bad news" joke: There are plenty of jobs but no place to live. Years ago the young man or woman coming into the city before the ski season crunch might have found it difficult to find employment. Such is not the case today, according to Robert Welch, interviewer in charge at the Job Service office. Welch says there has been an expansion in summer jobs over the last five years. New businesses have come into the area, many existing businesses changed from just seasonal to year round operation, and there has been a boom in construction. "There are more jobs than we can send applicants to," says Welch. The average laborer earns about $4.00 an hour, according accord-ing to Welch. Much of the higher paid, skilled work at construction sites is done by out-of-town craftsmen, while unskilled job slots are filled by local young people. Because Be-cause of this Welch says some locals who have a place to live must reject construction jobs because the pay is not enough to cover the cost of th rent. But the reverse is also true. "We've had some young people who could go to work but can't because they don't have a place to work," says Welch. A number of job seekers ask Welch if any employers provide room and board. But the only employer Welch knows of that does this is the Chateau: Apres. , A housing and employment survey taken by the Park City Planning Commission last spring, jioted.lhe year-round year-round popula,lpn t?Pak,Cty has increased from approxi- DON'T FORGET Daylight savings time ends early Sunday morning. The switch officially takes place at 2 a.m. Sunday morning and clocks should be set back one hour to 1 a.m. IT ii , ( 1 I mately 1,000 in 1970 to an estimated 4,700 in 1978. An influx of high-income families fami-lies is responsible for much of this population increase as well as the boom in construction. construc-tion. Even with record-breaking record-breaking housing construction construc-tion activity the survey said "low and moderate income families employed in Park City are finding it impossible to acquire adequate, affordable afford-able housing within the city." Though sixty-two percent of the businesses questioned in the survey reported that they had no trouble finding employees, em-ployees, thirty-eight percent reported that they had trouble trou-ble employing due to the lack of housing. Bob Wells, director of Moana Corp. (a property management firm for apartments apart-ments and condominiums), says the cut-off date for monthly rental of condominiums condomin-iums is usually mid-November. After that time owners usually rent on a nightly basis, which is more profitable. profit-able. According to Wells, there has been a decline in the percentage of nightly and monthly rental units in those complexes managed by Moana because the owners now tend to use their condominiums as a permanent perma-nent residence or for personal, per-sonal, rather than rental, purposes. Unless the seasonal Park City resident is willing to sign a year-long lease at an apartment complex, he or she is likely to find winter rent much higher than summer sum-mer rent. "It doesn't help to come in the fall to look for an apartment , here because most go in the summer..... the smart ones keep hold of a place even if they have to leave cua.raanth.Qr two," says Park llgseyvations Manager Ed Erie. Some apartment managers report that there is a waiting list for apartments and they expect it will be spring before any more are available. avail-able. However, listings for monthly apartment and condominium con-dominium rentals still appear ap-pear in the classified sec Fri tions of the local papers so the apartment hunter may still have time to find a place if he looks hard enough and is able to pay enough. There will be some housing relief for low and middle income residents of Park City in the near future, Frank Richards says the first fourplex in phase two of Holiday Village will be ready by February. By next summer sum-mer 20 one-bedroom and 20 two-bedroom units will be ready for low and middle County Withdraws Support For Redevelopment The Summit County Com mission, expressing surprise at the area encompassed, has withdrawn its approval of Park City's redevelopment redevelop-ment district. In a letter addressed to Mayor Jack Green and the City Council dated October 10, the commission said the district boundaries approved by the city are not the same as those presented by City Manager Wayne Matthews and then-City Recorder Bruce Decker. "When Mr. Matthews and Mr. Decker met with us, it was our understanding that the area would be limited to the downtown Park City area. The proposed boundaries boundar-ies include almost all of Park City, including several sections sec-tions that were annexed to the City for the proposed Deer Valley Resort," the letter reads. "We are of the opinion that somewhere along the line the scope of the redevelopment agency changed, and we were not informed of the increased acreage that would be included." in-cluded." yndex legislation governing . redevelopment districts, approval ap-proval must be granted by all entities collecting taxes on property in the district. This includes the county, the school district, the sewer district and the fire district. According to a memorandum memoran-dum sent to the council by City Planner David Preece, I FT STORE CLEARANCE All Inventory From The Resort Shop On At The Mt. Air Mall Location 27th & Sat 28th Only o Bigelow Carpeting 19 colors, FHA quality 7.99 yd. installed income residents. The project is financed by a low-interest federal loan program. There will be two rent prices: a basic rent and a market rent. Those who cannot afford the market rent will pay the lower basic rent price plus a portion of their adjusted gross income. The low-interest federal loan lowers the mortgage payments pay-ments on units occupied by low income tenants, enabling Richards to charge lower rents. the city has fulfilled all the legal requirements necessary neces-sary to the creation of the : redevelopment district and the redevelopment agency. Preece further stated that a lawsuit between Salt Lake County and Murray City showed that counties cannot prevent tax increment funding fund-ing for redevelopment agencies. agen-cies. An attempt to interfere with Park City's redevelopment redevelop-ment plans would be "in violation of the state statutes," sta-tutes," he said. Mayor Green, at Thursday's City Council meeting, said he would arrange a meeting with the County Commission to discuss the redevelopment district boundaries. Free Slide If you enjoy the Alpine Slide and you like things that are free don't make any plans for Thursday evening. Once again the owners of the Alpine Slide are sponsoring sponsor-ing Park City Day. From 5 p.m: to 18" p.mr Thursday local residents will be able to ride the' "slide for free'. Five hours of maximum thrills and, hopefully, minimum spills on the 3,000-foot ride are being offered at no cost to Parkites. Get out the gloves, long sleeves and long pants and ride the slide! Snow Pigs Will Reunite "Root, root, root with the Snow Pigs, If they don't win it's no surprise sur-prise at all, For it's one, two, three grunts you're in At the Snow Flakers Ball. " Ah, who could forget the old school songs? And the school, of course, is the Park City Institute of Social Services Ser-vices and the school mascot is the Snow Pig. Snow Pigs from all over the city will be trotting to the Grub Steak Restaurant on Friday night, November 10 to attend the Snowf lakers Ball, a reunion of PCISS graduates (which means everybody). The illustrious past of the powerful Pink and Purple will be relived from 7:30 to 1 a.m. with food provided and drinks available. avail-able. Sponsored by the Park City Chamber of Commerce as a winter kick-off event, the Snowflakers Ball will feature the sounds of the 15-piece 15-piece Jerry Floor-Bill Crisom Big Band. Augmenting Augmen-ting this musical ex Lodestar Will Be Here Soon ! o Dining Set Table and m travaganza will be a disco contest presented by Community Com-munity Wireless, Park City's infant radio station. Spinning Spin-ning the stacks of wax will be the "Fabulous Five" Blair Feulner, Jay Meehan, Dan Wilcox, Tom Bock and Dan Phillips. Those attending the-bali will sport attire appropriate to their school days. Adding further to the nostaligic atmosphere at-mosphere will be the crowning of King Pig and Miss Piggie and distribution of the school newspaper, the Pig Pen. Tickets for the Snowflakers Snow-flakers Ball are $7.50 per person and sales will be limited to 450. Make your reservations now with the Chamber office or any Chamber board member. "The Snow Pigs will fight With every ounce of bacon To gain honor for PCISS And for history in the makin' But if we lose on the field ; ; We won't shout 'Phooey!,' We'll take 'em to court And sooey, sooey, sooey! 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