OCR Text |
Show number volume two iune 7, 1973 thirty-nin- e 3. No public meeting held at the time the street was vacated by the city or sold to Empire West. "We have few places where people with modest incomes can have decent homes in a good Attempts to reverse the neighborhood," Ms. Briggs said. thinking of local government and "We are anxious to upgrade our city planners has met with neighborhood, not destroy it." CHAT has worked hardtiver resistance, Ms. Briggs continued, but CHAT 's attorney, Mark S. the past several years to preserve Miner, is looking into the local buildings and houses as possibility of an injunction to historic landmarks and to keep the delay the project. There is area a balanced mixture of single apparently a question of whether family dwellings and apartment CHAT represents the entire area houses in a quiet residential area. but a petition recently circulated in Plans are underway for the the Capitol Hill neighborhood development of modest income attracted over 1,000 signatures. housing units which would blend in Ms. Briggs pointed out several with existing homes. "We need some way of having specific objections to closing part of Center Street: city plans go through a 1. No realistic plans to handle neighborhood review board. This would insure that all plans and traffic after the road is closed. 2. The possibility of the city intents fit into the neighborhood's widening other streets to handle overall goal," Ms. Briggs explained. one block strip where it connects with Main Street, Ms. Briggs said, emphasizing that Center Street has had a great deal of use by Capitol Hill residents and it is anything but a surplus street. a of Center St. as access road. Center Street traffic which would affect Controversy Rages The Capitol Hill Awareness Team (CHAT) representing the Capitol Hill area has expressed their opposition to a project which began eight years ago. In 1965, the City Commission passed a vacating ordinance declaring Center Street a "surplus street." In March, 1973, a portion of the street was purchased by Empire West to be used as a access road to its Zion Summit high-risapartment house. There are many reasons for CHAT's opposition and in an e interview with Laura Briggs, representing this neighborhood council, some of those reasons were discussed. The portion of the street which will be closed to public use is property values. (Continued on page 2) Center Street traffic is particularly heavy during "rush hours." ' 0 st |