1981-04-01 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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. . . e e Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting April 1, 1981, Page 11 to Happy Harbor, nobody in between. To answer Mr. Gilbert's question, 40 years is the term of the loan HUD makes to Happy Harbor. If the mortgage is paid off after the 20 year period, perhaps you could change it, but not for the first 20 years. Askins: Mr. Neal, could you address a couple of Mr. Pena's questions? One is, do you intend to have a fence around the property as you do now, and the other question was about auto- mobile traffic. I might direct this to Mr. Carter: "Of the 140 residents in Happy Harbor now, how many operate or park their own automobiles there? Carter: One. Askins: Would you anticipate the same ratio on this project? Neal: It is our experience in projects of this type, you have one quarter automobile per resident. We have 120 units at another location and we have 22 cars. Happy Harbor maintains and operates a van. This was part of the HUD requirement. They wanted to know how those people were going to get trans- portation. At the time this proposal was made there were 28 being made from around the country. There were only 2 granted, and one was Happy Harbor. J. L. Wilson, 909 S. Utah: I'd like to find out what this is going to do to my property taxes. They plan to build this thing in my back yard. I have two kids and I plan on raising these kids in this area. I don't want an apartment in my back yard. I'd like to know, where they are going to park these cars that they have? The people at Happy Harbor are not capable of taking care of themselves and they do wander around in the streets. What is this going to do to my taxes? Simons: I was under the impression that the people who live in these homes-- wilson: Hey, I asked a question. Meza: Sir, it would be difficult to answer your question, Slnce we are not appraisors of property. We are here to judge the public input on this question. We cannot give you an answer as to what value this would place on your property. Wilson: Well, I'm hear talking against this and I need to know. They are trying to bring all this stuff in and I want to know if they are going to go up.