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Less than a week into Cheyenne’s 151st year, the City Council has another chance Monday night to shape its future. What do we want to be? An open, welcoming community that embraces all people, regardless of socioeconomic status, and invites them to live wherever they choose? Or a city that forces people below a certain income level to live primarily in a certain part of town? The right choice should be obvious: Avoid any hint of discrimination and grant final approval to the rezoning application for a proposed low- and middle- income apartment complex in north Cheyenne. In doing so, our elected leaders would reject the specious arguments of a group of residents who live near a planned 72- unit complex east of Converse Avenue and south of Storey Boulevard. These homeowners maintain that allowing the apartments in this location would decrease their property values and somehow keep their neighborhood from “flourishing.” We understand the basic urge to protect what’s rightfully yours –...

Apartment hunters may soon have another option when shopping for an affordable place to rent in Round Rock. The Round Rock City Council passed a resolution of non-objection last week allowing Pedcor , the developer of the Shadow Ridge Apartments , to move forward with efforts to receive state tax incentives to help develop the complex. Shadow Ridge Apartments " width="460" height="418" />Applicants must make 60 percent of the area’s median income, which is approximately $78,000, according to city of Round Rock Planning Director Brad Wiseman , in order to qualify for one of the 256 units planned for the development.  It will be located on the northwest corner of A.W. Grimes and Old Settlers Boulevard and will be one of only a handful of income- restricted apartment complexes in the city. “There is a huge need in this entire region and all across Texas,” said Craig Lintner, senior vice president of Pedcor, to the council during the meeting. Wiseman said th...

A new version for developing 40 acres near SummitWoods Crossing along Pryor Road has been shown to the Lee’s Summit City Council , which earlier this year rejected an earlier $102-million mixed use project. At a work session Aug . 17, city staff presented a concept plan for West Pryor Village , the city’s idea for that site after meeting with developer David Christie and neighborhoods that opposed the first development. The 39 acres have been the subject of discussion for several years, touched off by the city’s proposing to sell about 8 acres it owns on Pryor Road, said City Manager Steve Arbo . City officials hope to use that proposed sale to spur development of land along Pryor Road, between Chipman Road and Interstate 470. Christie has proposed a big box development like SummitWoods Crossing, which is across the street, Arbo said, but the council rejected that idea, wanting something more. Council members will vote on the concept plan during a regular session, then the city ex...

A developer wants to demolish a 50-year-old apartment complex near Terrace and Rural roads to construct a multi-use building that would include 260 new apartment units . (Photo: Parker Leavitt/The Republic) Story Highlights University Village , built in the early 1960s, is set to be demolished near ASU The developer wants to replace the complex with a new student-housing community University Village 2 .0 would include 260 units and a small amount of commercial space An apartment community built in the early 1960s near Arizona State University will likely be demolished next summer to make way for a new five-story complex along Tempe’s light-rail corridor. Legacy Partners Residential , which manages University Village near Terrace and Rural roads, wants to build 260 apartments and a small amount of retail space on the five-acre property, according to city records. The neighborhood just east of ASU’s Tempe campus is home to several aging apartment complex es — built roughly 50 years ag...

View Comments Kelsey Zionskowski 's dream of becoming a nurse shattered after she was hit on McLoughlin Boulevard near River Road On Aug. 5, 2014, 25-year-old Kelsey Zionskowski was heading home from her second day working as an office assistant at Oregon Health & Science University when her life was changed forever . Kelsey Zionskowski , 28, receives help from her mother, Raquel, in placing her walker in the back of her car." title="PHOTO BY RAYMOND RENDLEMAN - Kelsey Zionskowski , 28, receives help from her mother, Raquel, in placing her walker in the back of her car." class="caption" width="100%" />Zionskowski's dream of becoming a nurse was shattered after she was hit by a vehicle as she waited to cross McLoughlin Boulevard near River Road. She suffered massive trauma to both legs, just after getting off the TriMet bus that took her from OHSU to the bus stop across from her home in Milwaukie. While she was waiting for the traffi...

Victoria’s least- dense neighbourhood would become a little more crowded under a draft plan. Townhouses and small apartments along Fairfield Road, row houses throughout the community and secondary suites in duplexes and small-lot houses are all part of the mix in the draft Gonzales neighbourhood plan . Coun. Chris Coleman, council liaison to the neighbourhood, said the plan also includes recommendations regarding alternative transportation, parks, ecological preservation, small commercial centres and heritage areas. Coleman said the proposals for extra density might be contentious for some, and council will undoubtedly hear from those folks when it holds a public meeting on the proposals this fall. “But I think the expectation in the [ Official Community Plan ] is that we would see increased density in all neighbourhoods,” he said. City staff note that with about five per cent of the city’s population — 4,175 resident...

In March of 2016, having recently been let go from the Cleveland Browns due in part to truancy and public drug use, Johnny Manziel applied to live in an apartment. The property manager who processed his application was at first delighted that she would have the opportunity to rent to the Heisman Trophy recipient from Texas A&M. But she was quickly disheartened when she realized that, due to a criminal background screening policy that she had helped create which immediately disqualified applicants who had been arrested for or charged with a crime, she could not rent to Johnny Football. His criminal background check revealed that he had been arrested for domestic violence three months prior. But since she was a fan, and because it was her personal opinion that he was innocent, she successfully lobbied her building’s ownership to restructure their screening policy to disregard arrests, and only screen for convictions (using the logic that arrests are not proof of wrongdoing). ...

Evelyn Gaston was 9 years old in 1971, when she lived with her mother and grandmother at 18 Wright St. in Rock Hill. Over the years, she raised her daughter in that home. And her daughter had her first child there. Life got away from Gaston soon after. She was unable to pay for the home, which led to it being demolished around 15 years ago. Then, she says, “ God put special people ” in her path. After learning recently that a new home was being built in that same spot, she went to her friends in city government. “After that, I didn’t have to do much,” said Gaston. “ People jumped right on in to help me, everybody stepped in to make sure I would get back on that property.” Gaston was among four people who spoke Thursday about how the Housing Development Corporation of Rock Hill (HDCRH) changed their lives for the better. The affordable housing organization held its annual luncheon and meeting at Manchester Meadows, with guests including Rock Hill Mayor Doug Echols and members of t...

Pilot Will Create 1,000 Affordable Units Over Three Years on the Near North and West Sides CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017. Mayor Rahm Emanuel today joined Alderman Walter Burnett and Alderman Joe Moreno to announce a pilot initiative to enhance affordability requirements for large residential development projects in gentrifying areas on the Near North and Near West sides, and along Milwaukee Avenue . Over three years, the initiative is expected to create up to 1,000 affordable units in areas that need them. “Access to affordable housing is critical to Chicago’s legacy as one of the world’s most livable big cities , especially as the real estate market undergoes unprecedented neighborhood development ,” Mayor Emanuel said. “This initiative will create more affordable units in targeted areas while helping the city to assess the most effective ways of meeting neighborhood affordable housing goals .” To be introduced to City Council on Sept. 6, the proposed improvements would be...

Tuesday night, the Planning Commission voted to approve recommendations for the rezoning of a property in East Austin that would allow for the expansion of a local music collective ’s campus, despite some commissioners’ wariness of how the upzoning might attract development less amenable to Austin’s endangered resident artists . Mosaic Sound Collective , a for-profit/nonprofit hybrid formed to help preserve Austin’s music culture in the midst of the city’s rapid growth, currently runs a modest operation of offices in what used to be a juvenile detention facility at 6400 FM 969. During the hearing, Commissioner Chito Vela jokingly said that he had heard the building was “haunted.” Cursed or not, if City Council approves the upzoning of the property from general office to commercial mixed use, Mosaic co-founder Chris “Curse” Mackey said he and other collective members have big dreams for turning the space into something “magical.” “(Our intention) is to create a legacy for the Aust...

TAMPA, Fla. – The friendship of the four young roommates – though cemented in the dark trappings of an obscure neo- Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division – never seemed destined for bloodshed. One was described as a former science nerd, serving in the Florida National Guard . Two others worked temp jobs at a recycling plant and talked about joining the military. The fourth caught flak from his roommates for wasting his days with video games. Now two of the young men are dead, the other two are in jail and authorities are left to answer this question: Was Atomwaffen Division plotting violent acts or were the four young men merely posers? READ MORE: Canada’s racist movement: a history of violence Candlelight vigil held at University of Virginia campus in support of Charlottesville victims Four days after police say one of the roommates shot and killed two others, Atomwaffen posted an ominous video on YouTube depicting members standing with arms extended in “Heil Hitler” salutes ...