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<br /> MINUTES JULY 12 , 1972
<br /> HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE 7 : 00 A. M.
<br /> COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES BUILDING 1400 ROOSEVELT AVENUE REDWOOD CITY
<br /> MEMBERS PRESENT : Chairman Paul C . Keckley, William Floyd , Sylvester
<br /> McGuire , Martin F . Mohr, Eugene Moriguchi , Robert E .
<br /> Norris , and Frederick A . Soderer .
<br /> MEMBERS ABSENT: Mary W. Henderson .
<br /> STAFF PRESENT : City Manager Fales , Assistant City Manager Smith,
<br /> Building Official Gyselbrecht , Planning Director
<br /> Schroeter , Housing Aide Ransom, and Gene Gutierrez ,
<br /> City Managers staff.
<br /> VISITORS : •Joellyn Murphy, 618 Homer Avenue , Palo Alto .
<br /> Mary Davey, 12645 La Cresta Drive , Los Altos Hills
<br /> Kathleen Mahany , 1026 Vera Avenue , Redwood City
<br /> Eileen Gray, 950 Iris Street, Redwood City
<br /> Lou Knowles , P. 0. Box 295 , Redwood City
<br /> Richard Zukin , 905 Middlefield Road , Palo Alto
<br /> Chairman Keckley called the meeting to order at 7: 04 A .M .
<br /> REPORT ON SURVEY OF HOMEOtThiERS
<br /> Mrs . Eileen Gray, of 950 Iris Street, reported on a housing survey she had
<br /> made during the spring in the Central Neighborhood--that area of Redwood City
<br /> bounded by Valota Road, Jefferson Avenue , El Camino , and Woodside Expressway .
<br /> With one other interviewer, she had polled sixty randomly selected homeowners
<br /> about their financial expectations and their attitudes toward federally financed
<br /> housing programs .
<br /> Mrs . Gray, who has been long active on housing matters in Redwood City , said she
<br /> undertook the project to fulfill course requirements while a full-time student
<br /> at Canada College .
<br /> Because of the homogeniety of the neighborhood, she said , all of those inter-
<br /> viewed were white , middle--aged, and middle-income--though many had either retired
<br /> recently or were about to . Their housing was moderately priced ($20-35 , 000) and
<br /> its average age was thirty years .
<br /> She said that , while interviewing, she had been careful to emphasize that
<br /> federally subsidized new rental units would be for low/moderate-income
<br /> families , not housing for the elderly, though elderly housing would be included .
<br /> And she said she had also emphasized that not all occupants would be the working
<br /> poor, but that some would be welfare recipients .
<br /> She said that in responding to her survey questions , 90 percent said that they
<br /> "found home ownership._ difficult due to rising maintenance costs and taxes . "
<br /> Some 93 percent said they expected property taxes over the new few years to
<br /> increase , 95 percent that they expected home maintenance costs to increase . But
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