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Show fv 0 ,&&&& Moroni Jensen, District 6-- D, v , , 'n Ffm. ' - v. Wilford Black, District Senate. 2-- D, Senate. Contact Your Representative or Senator on Bills and recommendations of interest to you! Central City Residents Look at Development Plan by Laura Briggs Legal Aid Society Utah United agency which provides is a Fund to obtain the necessary legal legal action to force these husbands services pertaining to civil cases and fathers to shoulder their for persons who need the help of familial responsibilities. an attorney but who cannot Another typical case handled afford to pay the fees a private by the Society is that of a blind widower living on lawyer would require. It is often the case that people living on very social security and the rent from a low incomes or with no income of basement apartment in his home. their own need the assistance of After three months of an attorney most pressingiy. of rent he is forced The Vietnamese wife of an to take action to evict his American soldier is abandoned deadbeat tenants. The Legal Aid with small children by her Society will provide him with an husband who has forgotten the attorney to handle the matter. emotional pressures of the war These are just three examples and separation from his family. of the 2,069 cases handled last e He has suddenly discovered that year, by the one and one American girls are much more part-t- i me attorney of the Society. appealing to him than his The Society is able to handle Vietnamese wife, and he has these tremendous case loads rediscovered the carefree joys of because its attorneys are highly being a bachelor student. She is experienced and extremely left alone in a strange land with familiar with the legal problems no money and two small children of low income families and the to care for. remedies available to them. 70-year-o- non-payme- full-tim- The Society's counseling woman with five stairstep children, ages 1 0, 9, 8, 7, and 5, is left with no support at all by a husband who explains that his new love has more time to spend making herself attractive and more time to spend with him (small wonder!). In each of these cases these women would be left virtually without recourse if it were not for Legal Aid Society. The Society will intervene through the courts A :00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Suite 314 of the Atlas daily Building (36 West Second South). No appointment is required. Phone number is 328-884The Legal Aid Society is just one of fifty Utah United Fund agencies. For information about services. provided by the other 49 agencies or other community services you may be in need of, hours are 1 in 9. call the Community Services Council, 486-213- 6. "I am optimistic about the future of low-incom- e housing in Central City despite the moratorium," declared Danny, Executive Director, Salt Lake Redevelopment Agency. "Utah is in such dire need of housing, I feel Salt Lake City and other areas in this state will be given top priority consideration despite the President's temporary moratorium on all federal housing programs." Wall expressed his opinion concerning how he felt the recently declared eighteen month moratorium would affect housing construction in the Neighborhood Development Area in Central City at a Central City Neighborhood Council meeting, Monday night, January 8. City Commissioner Jennings Phillips voiced approval for the formation of a Central City Neighborhood Committee to work with and contribute opinions to the City and County Commissioners Joint Committee, who will administer the Neighborhood Development Area. A full time director will be assist hired to the proposed Central City Neighborhood Committee. Funds for a part-t- i me stenographer were also approved. Phillips reviewed in depth Central City Neighborhood Council's citizen participation proposal concerning the Redevelopment Area Project, stating that he did have reservations concerning the section of the proposal (see Jan.4 issue, Model Neighborhood News, page 1) that suggested the architecture of the Central City housing comply with that of Trolley Square. He pointed out possible legal and practical difficulties that could be overwhelming when it comes to requiring an entire neighborhood to conform to one standard. Queries of the citizens who attended the meeting indicated confusion about HUD's present stand on the problems of public housing, zoning and how much, if any, control citizens will have over their individual homes under the Redevelopment Area plan. Phillips states he felt HUD has declared the moratorium in order to take time to study, clarify and improve existing public housing programs. He stressed that 300 units already approved and under construction in the city and county would not be affected by the moratorium. Vernon Jorgenson, City Zoning Commissioner, stated that, in his opinion and experience, citizens do have understanding how zoning works. Much of the Central City area was constructed before the initial city zoning ordinances were passed in 1927. Though the larger part of the area was restricted to residential zoning, those businesses already established were allowed to remain. According to Jorgenson, too many citizens tend to blame the zoning commission because business firms and high density establishments seem to be encroaching in the residential difficulty areas. be more effective with better citizen understanding and support." Both Phillips and Jorgenson concurred in their opinion that property values in the Central City area are the crux of the problem of maintaining the area as a residential neighborhood. "Actually, we felt that declaring the area a Neighborhood Redevlopment Area was the only way we could afford to put housing in this area," stressed Phillips. "I admire what the Central City Neighborhood Council would like to do in participating in the planning and construction of the housing. We welcome all constructive input from the residents, but since the Joint Board of Commissioners do have the power and the responsibility under this Redevelopment Project, you will have to trust our intentions to serve your interests in the best way we know how." Skip Glines, Federal Grants Administrator, spoke of his research into sources of revenue for public housing, pointing out that 90 of his work is in the area of how best to finance public housing in Salt Lake City. Glines encouraged residents of the Central City target area to form their Redevelopment Project Citizen Committee, to work on organization, planning and a positive image of teamwork toward common goals. "The Zoning Commission is on the resident's side," stressed Jorgenson. "We try to maintain the Central City area family-typ- e could as a residential area. We "One harmonious, well-administere- d, successful program would certainly inspire the government to approve others," he declared. |
