Sierra Vista hopefuls jump into the mix on affordable housing
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 00:02
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SIERRA VISTA — The 20-some area residents gathered at City Hall on Thursday night and those watching at home had a chance to pose a wide variety of questions to the candidates running for City of Sierra Vista mayor and council, during the last of three such forums held in the past three days.
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Sierra Vista is not the only town that has to deal with affordable housing.
Referring to James comment on a possiblity of cutting transit, if cuts had to
be implemented, I agree. There are some entrepreunurial people who might step
in. However, the comment that Sierra Vista is not too big too walk to your
destination is extremely short sighted. I suppose he was thinking of himself
or young to middle aged individuals; not elderly. Perhaps his grandmother is
quite spry.
Hank Huisking’s comment about essential services “like public safety, sewer
and trash pick-up would likely be the last things to be cut”, was inane. I
hope those “public safety” departments she mentioned include fire and
emergency services which are immediate and urgent needs unlike the parks and
recreation programs, the Cove, the stupid Bandshell ($1.5 million “because we
deserve it”) and other optional things we could either do without or fund
more fully by users. The Youth Center waited for the Cove and Bandshell? It’s
apparent these old people favor old people’s wants. Or how about the airport
which costs us $8.3 million and brings in only $1.3 million in revenue!
Choices here are more than questionable, they’re idiotic and paid with our
money regardless of which public source).
She doesn’t want to cut essential services. She would rather cut the
non-essentials like parks, airport, etc…
If you mean Iconoclast, you’re darn right. Read it again (well, not sure it
will help your comprehension, but try).
Affordable housing is just a buzz word for taxpayer subsidization. Does our
community REALLY want to provide a haven for dead beats and released
criminals? Years ago we didn’t have bums panhandling on street corners, now
it’s quite common. Suspect these are residents of Affordable Housing who also
take advantage of the gold plated money pit known as the SV transit system.
The council needs to look at this issue VERY carefully!
Perhaps “affordable housing” means modifying development standards (smaller
units, clustered housing on smaller parcels, second units on an existing
site, etc.) where we urge different types of housing and siting of housing to
accommodate the working poor of which there are many. Housing owned by the
private sector, not the public so they can evict unsuitable tenants. It is
done elsewhere, but Arizona is backward and Cochise Councy is a
rural-backward place infested with retired military (the ultimate welfare
recipients in our society). Talk about subsidies!