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Show Greatest Need .... Chamber of Commerce Slates Building Lot Survey of City Directors of the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night considered a project that will materially aid the home-building home-building needs of the city when they voted to delegate to the Chamber's committee on public affairs the responsibility of a vacant lot survey. They also began be-gan plans for a special merchant's mer-chant's promotion to be staged sometime in the near future. At a meeting of the board held at the offices of the Commercial Com-mercial Bank of Utah, which was presided over by Gordon Harmston, president, the " group heard a report from Robert Montgomery, Chamber secer-tary secer-tary and assistant bank manager, man-ager, on the bank's housing project. pro-ject. With the city failing to approve the platting of a section sec-tion of ground where four new homes are ready to be built, but can't get FHA approval until the area is platted, the need for other lots that can get immediate approval is a must. They will also attempt to get the city officials and property owners in the unplatted section together to help solve their problems if possible. It is a known fact that Roosevelt Roos-evelt has a great number of fine residential building lots if the property owners would realize re-alize that if the city is to be built up these lots must be made available, and at a price that is consistent to the area, was a positive decision of the board. Under the direction of Bruce Fitzgerald, chairman of the Public and Business Affairs committee, a survey will be conducted and every potential lot in the city that has immediate immedi-ate access to the public utilities, Such as sewer and water, will "' be-listed, showing the name of-, the owner, whether it is available avail-able and the price. Another problem of grave concern the chamber direc-ots direc-ots felt would stymie residential residen-tial expansion is the "unreasonable" "unreason-able" price tag placed on lots. It was reported that some lots 50 x 100 feet and slightly larger larg-er were being held for as much ' as $1100 and $1200, and does not include sewer connections and are without any street improvements. im-provements. In comparing with other areas in the state Roose- 7 velt's values for real estate were very much out of line. The committee com-mittee and officers of the chamber cham-ber will attempt to influence the property owners to help Roosevelt expand and make available their building lots. Two members of the Merchants Mer-chants Committee, which is headed by Dwain Buchanan, who are also directors, assured the board they would get started start-ed pronto and begin working for an early promotional campaign. cam-paign. Merchants will be contacted con-tacted to learn the type of a program they desire. Several other matters were discussed, such as contacting the State Road Commission relative rel-ative to an early fluming of the canal that parallels Highway 40 from the Gulch to Union High School grounds, and fixing a bad corner where the canal makes a sudden curve and almost al-most eliminates 6th East Street ixom becoming a usable outlet ior people wno own property ' m that area. |