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Show IJU WESTERN AMERICANA salt lake free not for sale , i .. - .Ar-- volume two September 28, 1972 Fare Free Capitol Hill Council Receives Model Cities Funding Bus by Laura Briggs System Advocated Funding has been approved for Capitol Hill Council's community planning, development and Historic Living District survey, according to Glen A. Lloyd, chairman of the Capitol Hill Awareness Team (CHAT). Funding was approved for the by Roger Taylor Representative Samual S. Taylor spoke Thursday, September 21, to the ecology club at Cottonwood High School about a Fare Free system of busing which he feels is an absolute necessity to Salt Lake City. Taylor is an active member of the Model Cities Transportation and number six Highways Task Force and believes that the Fare Free system would greatly help residents in the model neighborhood as most are on and many are elderly and unable to walk or drive. Approximately 30 students attended and listened with concerned interest to Taylor as he related that a fare free bus system could reduce greatly air and other low-incom- environmental pollution, decrease traffic jams and the accidents, injuries and deaths that are ever increasing. The mobility within and between cities would Sam Taylor discusses advantages of a Fare Free mass transit system with a group of high school students. meters and the accidents that accompany the private auto. Taylor spoke of determined yet. experiment that took place in system would operate 24 hours a day and T aylor said he doubted if the demand would be that extensive. Another student asked how the system would work when many people enjoy just getting in their cars with a few friends and going for a leisurely drive. Taylor repeated, "we can never hope to replace the private auto, but a transit system such as this will certainly solve many problems." Rome. The government presented a "No Fare" transit system for a nine day period to see the effects on the people and if they would use it. He said, "not many used it because everyone thought it would be too crowded but it was partially successful because it reduced rush hour traffic by 10 and thus merited another test run, this time for 45 days. The results of the longer by Dick Gohman, is advocating more funds and a more flexible program for Capitol Hill area schools. unique in the bringing together of a wide variety of peoples and cultures," "Our area is declared Lloyd. "We feel fortunate in experience having our children day-to-da- y living situations with virtually every Projects Director Coordinator for Model Cities. Lloyd stated that, in the annual CHAT meeting, to be held in October (date to be announced in the near future), funds will be utilized to initiate community type of cultural and economic group represented in our city. We want to keep all our schools and we envision a program, perhaps not quite as structured as some school systems, in order to insure that the full potential of our organization, council neighborhood's rich culture organization and participation in the unique problems and assets relative to the Capitol Hill area. The master plan and contract for the Historic Living District survey was recently approved by the State Board, revealed Lloyd. Lloyd, who is one of the two Capitol Hill candidates running for a position on the Salt Lake variations be developed into one of our best assets." (Eugene Garcia, the other Capitol Hill neighborhood School Board candidate, expressed his views in a previous Model Neighborhood News issue. Lloyd, who was not available for an interview at that time, has been given the opportunity to express his views.) Approximately 35 residents attend commission meeting. Housing Shortage Critical private cars. Representative participate in local government Taylor said that he realizes it would be impossible to eliminate private auto use and that he doesn't want this anyway, just better services for aged, less pollution and traffic deaths. He Thursday, September 21, when the Model Cities Joint Board of Commissioners held their weekly meeting in the evening at the e Northwest Center. City Commissioners Conrad B. Harrison, Stephen Harmsen and Jennings Phillips and County Commissioner Philip Blomquist were in attendance. Multi-purpos- Commissioner Phillips advised the Board that the Taylor hopes to attract people to a fare free transit system the same way that auto manufacturers and problem of housing had reached a critical stage. He explained the problems he had encountered in oil companies peddle their products to the public. Through placing advertising he will show that it would be pleasureable to ride to work on the bus with friends or maybe go downtown shopping with the kids and not have to worry about traffic jams, parking experiment have not been A student asked if this bus Residents were able to nowadays, people just accept an auto death as an auto death. Unless it's someone in their immediate family who has died or is injured no one seems to care." correlated an naturally be better with fewer went on to say, "it's sad Council by Model Cities, School Board, states he low-incom- e housing units, such as some residents not wanting units in their areas and prohibitive land costs making other areas unpractical. Phillips said he felt the units should be scattered throughout the community but added, "we need housing now and I'd be happy to see one or two units going up in one area right away as a start." He presented a proposal to Model Cities which included appointing Model Cities planner or someone knowledgeable about housing to work with him, the City Housing Authority and the Model Cities Housing Task Force a to develop a comprehensive housing program. He discussed a housing project in Denver which covered broad range of programs; emergency home repairs, purchase of land, emergency rent supplements, a home modernization and subsidy programs. Phillips suggested reviewing these projects to see which ones might work in Salt Lake City and use Model Cities slippage funds monies to fund those selected. Land costs were said by Phillips to be prohibitive Action Urged - Central City without a subsidy program to offset what the City would have to pay to purchase in property. resident questioned why private companies or individuals should "get rich" with federal funds when people need housing so desperately. Commissioner Blomquist said it would be unconstitutional to dictate to people what they could do with their property. The "fair market value" of a piece of property is determined by the selling price of A other property and can learn from other projects across the county. "We are not going to make the same mistakes they've made in other places," he said. Involvement of residents in all planning for housing is crucial, he continued and groups such as the Union of the Poor and the Tenants Union will help plan programs and will police their own housing units once they are built. Don Austin, representative of the Central City Neighborhood the same area, Council, the Model Cities Phillips said HUD only allows $2,000 per acre for land purchase and this does not begin to cover what is being asked for property in many areas. He also said Utah is one of the last states Government Task Force and the Coordinating Council urged the Commissioners to consider the transportation problem in any planning of housing projects. He said most of the people moving into such projects would be in Blomquist said. to become involved in low-incom- e housing programs (continued on page 2) |