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Show jrr MMf ii Editor: Editor: industrial land in residential areas in 1927 may have been excessive or, at least, premature. One result is the appalling deterioration of individual homes and, even worse, of whole neighborhoods where highly incompatible land uses have understand other ways of living and culture so they will be able to Aside from a few factual errors attributed to me in the lengthy article in your March 30 issue on the housing crisis in Salt Lake City, my chief concern was that my views were cited so liberally throughout the article. did participate in what I thought was a background briefing to give context to a human interest cope with society and its article on the eviction of this corrupt world There was a period in history when busing was permitted for people from homes in the area called People's Free Way and, in particular, the Mondel Apartments on Sixth consideration to recommending rezoning back to residential use large sections of land between about Seventh and Thirteenth South, and State Street to the the purpose of segregation South. freeway. instead of integration. Now the situation is reversed. President Nixon has stopped busing, but yet he has vetoed two bit Is for higher education . In the larger cities where the population of blacks is about one The factual errors needing correction include the statement that the city "owned instead of "zoned" much of the area at issue. Also the number of single dwellings involved is about 1500, not the 3500 mentioned in the third or less, busing very article. The 6500 residents Most black schools are includes many living in rooming houses and apartments. The main point of my letter, As a concerned parent of a six year old daughter; this is my opinion on busing. Busing is the answer to put balance in todaysschool. Most children today are aware of the black and white situation. They pressures in need to today. is essential. obsolete with their education levels. They are far behind I low-incom- e because of lack of equipment and is to sharpen my suggestion for a review of zoning money. and With busing of whites to these schools and reverse; society (Whites) will not let this happen. They will put forth an effort to upgrade the education levels of these schools. Black and white people have not been around each other enough to understand each other fully. A good time to start is while children are young and in school. After all, it's what they're being taught at home! Thank you, Mrs. Gail L. Johnson land-us- to the housing of so-call- "homeless men" That sends the sometimes loosely referred to as "winoes" or "skid row" types. According to the U. S. Census of 1970, there were several hundred single men living in rooming houses and old hotels near the center of the city. Many have already been uprooted by development along West Temple. should simply like to caution the various public bodies involved in the redevelopment of the inner city that when these old rooming houses are torn down, these men do not just "fade away." Many of them are elderly and in poor health. The majority are likely not to be "winoes but living on modest pensions or public assistance. But they are human beings entitled to some respect and dignity in their frozen-ground-swe- ll Publication of the Model Neigh-NewThe Model NEIGHBORHOOD is a publication of the Salt borhood News is made possible Lake Model Cities Agency under the through a grant from the of the Joint Board of ment of Housing and Urban Devel-CitDepart-supervisio- and County Commissioners opment. yvith editorial offices located at 1 19 East 21st South, Bldg. 5, Salt Lake City, Utah 841 15. Marlene Marie Young, Editor Jim Phillips, Circulation Jerry Carter, Staff Reporter and Photographer Kirk Terry, Staff Reporter Donetta Fluker, Editorial Assistant s n y declining years. It is not suggested that there are any easy solutions to the housing problems in Salt Lake City but it seems imperative that extensive dialogue be opened up at once with all interested parties. made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone. But they would have the rabbit out of hiding. To please the yelping dogs. The gaps mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-timwe find themthere. let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us Ralph Y. McClure, Chairman Phillip R. Blomquist Stephen Harmsen Conrad Harrison Jennings Phillips William E. Dunn Respectfully, Herbert R. Larsen, Ph.D. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-ston- e savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me. Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his And he father's saying. likes having the tought of it so well again, 'Good fences makegood neighbors.' He says I e I once again. keep the wall between us We as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" We wear our fingers rough with handlingthem. out-of-do- Robert Frosts poem speaks of the unseen walls human beings build between themselves without really investigating what they're walling in or walling out. Do good fences make good neighbors? If so, why dothey?ls it because fences prohibit us from confronting each other or because they establish lines which force us to maintain our distance. How do I make a fence? By allowing an external force or internal prejudice to shade or even completely cover over the face, personality and conversation of someone I need to communicate with. This fence blinds me to his humanity and the link of common suffering which binds us together. What are we walling out? Oh, just another kind of Most fences wall out the game. One on a side. It comes to possibility of brotherhood or little more; There where it need the wall: is He is all pine and we I do not am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, tell him He only says, 'Good fences I make good neighbors.' Spring is the mischief in me, and wonder If could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good I I neighbors? Isn't it Where are the cows? But here there are no cows. Before built a wall I'd ask to know What vas walling in or I I walling out, And to whom give offence. I was like to Something there Joint Board of Commissioners is I I modal neighborhood news volume one He said it for himself. another thing; have come after them and I I'd rather doesn't love a wall The work of hunters touched on by Mr. Terry in his article and that is with reference salt lake that is Zoning Office give serious governmental action, to selected individuals . . ." made to a prior generation. These are not easy actions to contemplate but the quality of life in Salt Lake's inner city is at stake. Scores of other cities are weighing this same decision. HUD Secretary George Romney has recently rendered a pessimistic forecast for the future of American cities. Must Salt Lake City, one of America's first planned cities, go the way of all the rest? I should like to add one further observation concerning housing in the inner city not the in But it's not elves exactly, and developed. It is merely suggested here that the City Planning and the social group, through practices central city. While zoning seemed to be the answer to rational use of land when it was introduced into most large American cities in the first quarter of the 20th century, it is now clear that zoning can create as well as solve problems and is no substitute for a continuing review of all the factors involved in the city including aesthetic and human values. Mr. Terry hinted at a highly plausible argument that in the light of 35 years of development, the zoning of commercial and e Something there ' under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. recognize that this will involve, to use Prof. Claron Nelson's language, taking back from this generation" 'a gift'from however, Mending Wall doesn't love a wall. That wants it down.' say 'Elves' to him, is I that could kindred spirit. They wall out love and understanding. They keep us thinking that everyone outside of our wall is an enemy with a secret plot to overthrow and destroy our personal kingdom. Walls, wall in suspicion and fear. They make us live lives which weave a concentric circle with ourselves at the center. This makes us selfish and bitter, thinking that every mans hand is against us, we raise our hands against them and the walls get higher as our sense of insecurity grows. The fences are there. We are all aware of their presence. They serve as buttresses against certain subjects or certain people and when we tend to get too close, they serve as fortification against any real communication. As long as we build and rebuild these fences which separate us, we too will move in darkness. Our progress as people, as neighbors, and as fellow workers slow. will be painstakingly |
