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6 ; l \T ` • MINUTES NOVEMBER 8 , 1972 HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE 7 : 00 A. M. COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES BUILDING 1400 ROOSEVELT AVENUE REDWOOD CITY MEMBERS PRESENT: Vice -Chairwoman Mary W . Henderson, Sylvester McGuire , Eugene Moriguchi , Robert E . Norris , Frederick A . Soderer , and Oscar Vega . MEMBERS ABSENT : William Floyd , Paul C . Keckley, and Melvin C . Kerwin . STAFF PRESENT: City Manager Pales , Assistant City Manager Smith, Building Official Gyselbrecht , Planning Director Schroeter , Housing Aide Ransom, Deputy City Attorney Riback , and Urban Affairs Specialist Rivas . . VISITORS : Max Rice , P . 0 . Box 295 , Redwood City Larry Irons , 3733 Jefferson Avenue , Redwood City • Vice-Chairwoman Mary Henderson called the meeting to order at 7: 05 A.M. She welcomed Oscar Vega as the newly appointed ninth member of the Housing Concerns Committee . • Planning Director Ken Schroeter introduced Staff' s plan to study the housing • • needs of a mini-neighborhood target area . The area chosen is bounded by Spring Street and the Southern Pacific tracks , by Maple and Woodside Expressway, in the "Middlefield " neighborhood . Schroeter explained that the project is part of a multi-faceted thrust on the Redwood City housing problem. He said that the project would lead to the study of a package of programs directed at all the various aspects of the housing problem. A basic purpose was to educate the Committee . Rather than try to f conceptualize programs for the City as a whole , Staff was trying to separate out a distinct area of the City . The area chosen was , of course , not the only area of the City with problems . The other two areas looked at had been sections of the Oakwood and Central neighborhoods . The Middlefield area had been chosen because it seemed to provide a more fertile field in which to demonstrate the applicability of federal programs . • Schroeter said that Staff' s interim goal was to portray thekinds of programs available for use in the target area , whether locally supported and funded or federal programs . The final goal would be implementation of one .or more programs . But the first step toward the interim goal was finding out just exactly what the housing problems in the neighborhood were . Schroeter used a map and graphs to demonstrate that Staff was already aware from Census data that the target area had a greater percentage of people under 45 years of age than the City as a whole . A larger percentage of owner occupied dwellings are valued at less than $25 , 000, while in 1969 homeownership was 15 . 4 percent, as against 51 . 0 percent for the City . More than half the units in the area are in apartment complexes of five or more units , against slightly more than a quarter in the City . And more than half of the units in the area are studio or MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 8 , 1972 PAGE 1 OF 7 •