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Show Hearing Held Only one Park City resident turned, out last week to offer input at a public hearing , called to establish a need for a Park City Housing Authority. ' Because a majority of City Council members were either ijl or out of town, the hearing was the only business transacted trans-acted during the Council's regular Thursday session. The hearing was according to Redevelopment Agency Project Director Dennis Mansfield,, Mans-field,, merely a formality required by law to enable the city to apply for housing authority funds from HUD. Mansfield said that a need for a housing authority is established esta-blished if within a given community there is unsafe, unsanitary housing and if there is a shortage of safe and sanitary housing available for people of moderate to low means. '- ' It was determined at the hearing that there was indeed a shortage of low to moderate income housing in Park City and that there are people who live in unsafe homes according , to HUD standards. A resolution proclaiming a need for the Housing Authority Author-ity will be presented at the next meeting of the City Council April 3 at which time that body is expected to create , the Authority and appoint five persons to oversee it's operation opera-tion :z - . ' Once the 'Authority is established, esta-blished, the city becomes eligible ifor HUD funds to subsidize rent payments for the poor; elderly and handicapped handi-capped t to aid the private sector in the construction of low to moderate income housing: an d to renovate present housing which is determined to be unsafe. |
