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City Clerk MINU`[ES FEBRUARY 23 , 1972 HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE 7 : 00 A. M. CITY MANAGER ' S OFFICE CITY HALL REDWOOD CITY MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Paul C . Keckley , Tony Gonzales , Mary W . Henderson , Eugene Moriguchi , and Frederick A . Soderer . MEMBERS ABSENT : William Floyd , Sylvester McGuire , Martin F . Mohr , and Herbert G. Petersen . STAFF PRESENT : Assistant City Manager Smith , Housing Aide Ransom, and Planning Director Schroeter . VISITORS : Eileen Gray , 950 Iris Street , Redwood City Louis Knowles , P. 0 . Box 295 , Redwood City Max Rice , P. 0 . Box 295 , Redwood City Steve Yaeger , 272 Hudson Street , Redwood City Chairman Keckley called the meeting to order at 7 : 02 A. M. and turned it over to Housing Aide Ransom, who introduced Louis Goldsmith , President of the Palo Alto Housing Corporation . Mr . Goldsmith reported that the PAHC is a private , non-profit housing corporation begun two years ago with the help of the Palo Alto City Council after a number of studies on the Palo Alto housing situation done by the chamber of commerce , the city , and Stanford University . He said that the PAHC ' s purpose was to take care of people who "couldn ' t afford to take care of themselves " on the regular market . The Housing Act of 1968 also had an effect on the Palo Alto Council , he said , but because of Article 34 of the State constitution , requiring referendums before local jurisdictions can build public housing , the Council didn ' t want the City in the housing business . In fact , icity government is not in a very good position to do moderate income housing, he said , since public housing is "a distinct cut" below moderate income housing- -with the income limits 35 percent below Section 236 housing ( subsidized private multifamily housing . ) To many people low/moderate housing means an "instant ghetto" , Mr . Goldsmith said . "But actually much of the housing program is for middle -income people . " (For San Mateo County , household maximum income levels for 236 housing are : one person- -$6480/year , two- -$7220 , three- -$7560 , four--$8100, five- -58640 , six--$9180 , seven- -$9400 , eight- -$9600, nine- -$9800, ten--$9990 • ) The mayor appointed six people to the PAHC . It was incorporated in the fall of 1969 and decided to take on its own housing project . It took a $1000 option on three acres of land on Colorado Avenue in Palo Alto near the Bayshore , borrowing the money from the Midpeninsula Urban Coalition . The PAHC ' s Colorado Park development will be finished two months from now--two and a half years later . Mr . Goldsmith says that he considers this "very fasttt for getting through the " incredibly tortuous " process for subsidized housing . Of the sixty units in the 20-per-acre development , the one and two bedroom units are flats , the three and four bedroom units are townhouses . The PAHC MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE FEBRUARY 23 , 1972 PAGE 1 OF 4