36 of 1971 - A resolution approving expanded Model Cities boundary. Pr -
Resolution No. 36
By James L. Barker, Jr.
COMMISSIONER
Approving expanded Model Cities
boundary.
Presented to the Board of Commissioners
AND PASSED
JUL 14 1971
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ROLL CALL
j VOTING Aye Nay Salt Lake City,Utah, July 14 19 71
Barker. . . .
I move that the Resolution be adopted.
Catmull . .
Garn . . .
Harrison . . .
Mr. Chairman .
Result . .
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RESOLUTION
APPROVING EXPANDED MODEL CITIES BOUNDARY
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Salt Lake County
and the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City have entered into a
Interlocal Agreement for the Operation of the Salt Lake Model Cities Agency;
and
WHEREAS, both Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City have entered
into a Contract with the United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development for the execution of the Agency's Comprehensive Demonstration
Plan pursuant to Title I of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan
Act of 1966; and
WHEREAS, it has been recently determined that, by statistical
analysis of information received from the United States Census Bureau,
1970 Census Survey, it is desirable to expand the boundaries of the Model
Neighborhood as shown in the accompanying report; and
WHEREAS, the Joint Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake Model
Cities Agency has approved and adopted said expansion:
NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Board of City Commis-
sioners of the City of Salt Lake, State of Utah, that the boundary of
the Model Cities Target Area be extended as shown in the accompanying
report and noted as the proposed extension.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 2.4thday of July , 1971
BOARD OF COMMISSIO7€RS
OF S T LAKE ITy
James L.-$af er, Jr.
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ATTEST:
Chief Deputy - City Recorder'%
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PROPOSED DOUlPANY EXPAi;SION OF THE MODEL NEIGHDORH000
The present target area is bounded on the north by 1-80 and
extends west to Red.;ood Read. We propose that the north and west boundary
be extended along Redwood Road to 5th North to the eastward along 5th
North to the intersection with 1-15. This extension will include the
Northwest Council Area. An additional northward extension along 1-15
to 18th North is proposed in order to take in Swede Town.
The eastern perimeter will extend southward from 18th North
along Victory Road, west of the Capitol to State Street. This will
include the West Capitol hill Area.
From the intersection of 2nd North and State Street the
eastern boundary extends southward to 4th South. This brings the
central business district into the Model Neighborhood.
Freer the intersection of 4th South and State Street, it is
proposed that the boundary extend east to 7th East, then south alor9
7th East to 9th South and west along 9th South to State Street, south
along State Street to 13th South, west along 13th South to I-15. This
section would include Central City and the People's Freeway.
A final extension in the Southwest Area is proposed. The
purpose of this extension is to include the Decker Lake Area in which
several Model Cities projects are planned. We propose that the 35th
South boundary be extended west from Redwood Road to I-215 to 21st
South, then cast along 21st South to Redwood Road.
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The data presented in this report show the specific need for
the areas in question to be included as part of the Model t,eiyinhorhood.
While the increase of population from the old area to the proposed ex-
pansion is 137.14 (19,366 to 45,924), most of the indicators of urban
blight increase substantially more than this in the expanded area. For
example, the increase in number of housing units with no flush toilet
or with a flush toilet but also used by another household was 4,056.67v
(18 to 750). The minorities population (all races except white) increased
335.40 (630 to 2,743) to e total of 48.60' of the entire city's minor-
ities (from only 11.165 previously). The senior citizen population
(65 years of ago and oldar) increased 282.27II (1,416 to 5,413).
The old target area included only 21.28" of the city's crowded
housing units (1.01 or more parsons per room) while the new area in-
cludes 45.45°S of housing in this category. Extreme overcrowding (1.51
or more parsons per room) of housing units increased rather substantially
from 166 units in the old area to 476 in the new. This is an increase of
185.03;% and is 50.43% of the entire city's extremely overcrowded housing
units.
According to the Concmcnity Improvement Survey of 1969, the
income levels of 40`s of the people in the Central City Community are
below $3,500. Forty-four percent of the people in the Capitol Hill
Community are below this figure and 20" in the Northwest Community are
below this levelwith 4071 of these people below $1,600. In the Westside
Community 39 had incomes of less than $3,500 with over 30" of these less
than $1,600.
Education levels of heads of households in these same communities
also show a surprisingly high percentage without high school diplomas. In
the Central City Community, male heads of households intervied responded
that 17% had no diploda and 28" of the female heads of households inter-
viewed had no high school diploma. The Capitol Hill Cc „unity had 28'%
of the male and 34% of the female heads of household with no diploma. The
Northwest Community 27" of the male and 28i of the female heads of house-
hold interviewed had no high school diploma. In the Westsido Co:nniunity
an astonishing 39SS of the male and 41°' of the female heads of households
had no high school diploma.
According to Department of Employment Security figures for the
new Nodal i;eigntorhood area, 5E of the male and 4L of the female un-
employed did not have high school degrees, and within these groups very
few individuals had vocational training in addition to their formal
education. Education levels ;are higher for the enderem%loyed „here 60%
of the male and o'4% of the female underemployed had high school degree
and above.
Employment Security also lists the following data with respect to
unomploszent and undoremplcynent in the new target area. The iiodel Cities
area had lE of the Metropolitan labor force in 1959; it shared 14%
average unemployment of the ,,fm,orly total within the Salt Lake City arca.
The rates of unemploymeni: Witin thc. %Ile] Cities area were 6.8 and 7.3
for male and females which is 19 to higher than the rest of the
county. The significant proportion of unemployed in the 24 years and
under age bracket indicates the potential of programs aimed at increasing
life-time earning power and reflects the inability of the local labor
market to absorb a growing, young labor force.
The largest percentage of male unemployed and under employed
are in the structural work occupation and for female in occupational
categories. Fourty-aight percent (48 ) of unemployed males and fourty-
seven percent (471 of unemployed females were receiving compensation
during the first quarter of 1970 and economic trends show that figures
have increased substantially during 1971.
Thirty-eight percent (38 ) of male and fourty-one (41%) of the
female unemployed had families of four or more. Eighty-five percent (85%)
of male and eighty-two. percent (82 ) of female underemployed rely on
automobile transportation, thus providing a less accessible means of
transportation for the unemployed.
The central business district (con), which is contained in the
proposed expansion is also slicing signs of deterioration and urban
blight. This is shown clearly in a M. A. thesis by D.B. Carpenter, done
in 1968. In his summory he states: "Three cells of concentrated activity
are located in the COD. These cells have considerable distance between
them. This, and the large COD blocks, with voids in the center, results
in a lack of compactness. The distance in the COD is more than most
pedestrians wish to walk. Here is an interrelationship between physical
and economic factors, since much of the physical defects are a result of
economic ills."
Some of the figures which Mr. Carpenter shows are: 20.9% of the
62 major structures in the COD are non-fire-resistant buildings with
modernized first floor fronts only and 53.8' Of these buildings have the
upper floors condemned and podlocked by the Salt Lake City Fire Department.
During the period 1960 to 1965 there was a 229 increase in
vacancy rate in the COD.
It should be stated at the outset that while there arc many
prosperous business concerns and a few expensive apartment buildings in
or around the COD, the orientation of the Model Cities Program is to
improve the quality ol urban life in the areas of urban blight. It is
not the intent of this CDA to benefit directly those already prosperous
areasbut to aid in the upgrading of areas of blight which are surrounding
small pockets of relative woalth. The COD presents an interesting and
unique situation is that the blighted areas exist on the second story of
the COD. They exists in the form of skid-roc , hotels, flop-houses and
apartments located above the business concern on the first floor. The
residents of these dwallings are primarily transient alcoholics trho
n m:ber approximately 600. The planning program in this area would be
orientated towards these pockets of blighted residential areas. The
inclusion of the COO males for a coherent program with regard to planning
and administration.
The areas in c ''stion are, in fact, some of the most blighted
areas of the city. The reasons these areas were not included in the
target area described in the initial planning grant application were:
(a) Central City felt that since they already had the C.A.F. Program,
the Model Cities Program would Lc a duplicative effort. (b) Northwest
and Capitol Hill were not identified as blighted areas early enough to be
included. in addition, the Decker Lake area should be included now because
of the open space it supplies for recreation facility plans already under
way.
Salt Lake Model Cities has already begun to plan in these areas
as evidenced by the cc. 'mity organization structure. The local citizen
councils in this area (i.e. Capitol Hill Awareness Team, Central City
Council, People's Freeway, Ilorthr,est Neighborhood Council) are already
represented at the task force level. Task Force meetings for this planning
year have begun.
Several projects which have already been contracted or which will
be contracted soon will have an I.J ack on the expanded area. Some of
these are: Early Childhood Education, r:'dich will draw from the area;
Senior Citizen's Nutrition Program ,will draw from the area; Neighborhood
Employment Team Outreach Services .will operate in the nor area; Police
Tactical Squacls, the Y.'1.C.A. Project and Com:r_ini;:y Schools will all
have impact on the proposed area.
In view of tha latest facts available, the rather substantial
increase in population from the old target area to the new is more than
justified by the even greater increase in the indicators of the blight
and poverty.
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