City Council will have a work session later today which will, in part, talk about how to renovate Heritage Park (the rent-controlled apartments on the corner of South and Saunders) alongside the city’s Housing Authority. Feedback from this conversation, according to the city’s memo, could eventually become a part of a rezoning application “that will be filed in the coming weeks” and the overall game plan for the Heritage Park redevelopment.
It’s interesting because the city is making a genuine effort to find ways to redevelop this complex while keeping the number of people being relocated low, both now and in the future. Some of the suggestions by city staffers to pull this off is to let residents:
- take a Housing Choice Voucher (section 8) to move into participating market-rate houses;
- move into a similar open room in another city-operated unit, or;
- stay in their current residence (which is possible since construction may happen in phases)
…and let current residents stand in the front of the line when moving into the new apartments.
Furthermore:
We’ll see what City Council thinks of this, though.