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Show + Saturday, April 22, 2006 ~ DAILY HERALD EDITORIALS Takeinitiative on affordable housing neofthe side effects Sutherland Institute ciaimed that of a booming real accommodating growth would driveup the price of houses. The reality is that without responsible estate market is the shrinking inventory of affordable housing. It is a concern for the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Administration, which launched its Affordable Communities Initiative this past year. A housing market in which EDITORIAL BOARD DailySHerald Albert J. Manzi, President & Publisher Randy Wright, Executive Editor Donald W. Meyers, Editorial page editor Nancy Hale, Public adviser Carole Newkirk, Public adviser Jason Bellows, Public adviser a VERE GONG growth planning, housing prices will go up as homes are built and developable land becomes scarce. Is it really a good idea to create communities where our children * and grandchildren cannotafford to buy homes? Should government resist short-term gains in the inter- est of posterity? or homeowners andinvestors, It would be better for Utah cities butit is not good for the people if they adopt affordable housing who aretrying to get in strategies on their own, on the groundfloor of the a rather than being forced American Dream. to do so. Don't think it Sanebain is Home can ree Just be fe prices continue to go upis good toeconomicstabityfor totmetat fssepa thepies out of reach. goals.as partofgrowth eee fordable housing through OWNerShip iS N'That community Considered: eysceforbuses, __the first step precluding any housing TOECONOMIC income people. TheNew eeees Americans. firmed again in 1983 that Socata homes can be on top of eeaeccaaeal § : ci first step if housing was affordable. considered t! Envision ‘st st Utah's ai ;. it for low- and 1 moderate- Baers: itil Sever businesses, or creating i Asa result, developdense housing zones. the rungIs ers there are required to Habitat for Humanity out of reach. dedicate a portion of each has done tremendous developmentto affordworkathelping Utah able housing,andit canCounty families find afnotbe different from the fordable housing. The families pay rest of the subdivision in outward for part of their house by working appearance,althoughtheinteriors on building their own and helping maybe donein cheaper material out with other Habitat projects. (viny] tile in place of marble or Provo was recently commended hardwood floors). forits efforts at increasing affordTheruling has helped make able housing through accessory more housing affordable in New apartments and its PRO zonethat creates affordable housing overlays. But there are somecities that have notgot the message and do not take steps to make housing moreaffordable. Theyinsist on largelots. There are also residents whoequate the words “affordable housing” with “ghetto,”“slum” and “crime,”andresist efforts to build such developments. Envision Utah's efforts weren't helped whenthe conservative ss meson ter -areci FRONT SEAT DRVERS Jersey, but officials and developers are not happy aboutit. Mount Lau- rel has becomethe national poster child for the conflict It would havebeen better had thecities found their ownwaysof creating affordable housing, but theydidn’t and so haveto live with © a one-size-fits-all solution. Utahns should learn from that valuable experience andfind ways to make housing moreaffordable Rumsfeld underfire “I'm the decider, and | decide what's best. And what's bestis for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.” — President Bushfo reportersin the Rose Garden, whenaskedif he would keep De- fense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld onthe job. Rumsfeld has come underfire after several retired generals criticized his handling of thewar in Iraq. “The current secretary of defense is dismissive, contemptuous and arrogant. Many of us have worked for far tougher and more aggressive men,but those leaders understood GENERALS AWARD leadership, the value of teamwork RUMSFELD UIS OWN STARS FOR BEING INCOMPETENT and thatrespect is a two-way street.” —Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste in an e-mail exchange aboutthe problemshe sees with howDonald Rumsfeld is running the Defense Department. Several THE WAR IS GOING FINE. NEXT QUESTION. now instead of waiting for the courts to impose a systemlater. generals have called for Rumsjeld to resign. “1 think aboutit, and | must say there's always twosides to these things, and the sharperthecriticism comes, sometimes the sharper the defense comes from people who don’t agree withthe cri . — Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, respondingtq retired generals whoare calling for him to step down. Beehives & BuffaloChips Buffalo Chip to the ghoul whois trying to steal people’s credit cards by claiming a loved one needs medical assistance. A California womantold Orem police that someonecalled saying her father had been injured in Orem and needed to be transported by Life Flight, but she had to provide her credit card number to pay for the air ambulance.Fortunately the woman hadthe good sense not to comply. Wehope the scammeris caught and finds himself in need ofa Life Flight ride to the hospital. a. Beehive to Pleasant Grove = for refusing to adopt a resolution calling for stores to cover up racy magazine covers. A Bountiful-based private group, * Citizens for Families, urged the * city to adoptthe resolution because it would give the organization leverage with merchants whenit _ demands opaqueplastic covers in front of magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Glamour.It is not the city’s role to be dictating which magazines should be covered — whichis not to say that the magazines should not be covered. After all, manyof the fashion models pictured aren't covered with much. But a private group that wants to promote modesty needs to do so underits own moral authority, not I'M HERE BECAUSE EVERYONE SAYS |'M OUT by invoking the city’s name. Buffalo Chip to Amador San2 tonio for wasting the pub‘® lic’s time and money with his courtroom antics. Santonio, 54,is accused of stabbing a Utah County deputy three years ago. He has yet to havea preliminary hearing, as he refuses to accepta public defenderto representhim.Hecites conflictsof interest and accuses thestate of refusing to give him access to legal materials so he can represent himself. At the rate he’s going,if he’s ever convicted he'll only be sentencedto time served. ‘@m. Beehive to the two Provo ga children who taughta kid- © napper to pick on someone his ownsize. In the first case, a 12-year-old boy was walking to school Thursday morning when a man in his 40s grabbed him. Provo Police Capt. Rick Healey said the boybit and kicked his attacker and ran away. In a second abduction attemptlater in the day a 13year-old girl was grabbed,but she kicked her attacker, whom police believe was the same man involved in the earlier incident. He got away again.Police said the man was wearinga red baseball cap and had medium to long dark,blond hair along with a growthoffacial hair and a limp. 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