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-- December 16, 1975 IN REPLY REFER To.-
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(Van.Vleet
515-284-4687)
Mr. Lyle Seydel
Civic Center -
410 East Washington -
Iowa City, Iowa 52240 -
Dear Mr. Seydel
Subject: 074 -35042 -PM -L8
IA05-8023-002
Housing for the Elderly
Iowa City, Iowa
In our letter to you of October 1, we advised you that we would continue
processing -the conversion of the captioned project from Section 23 to
Section 8,subject to several requirements., These requirements have been
met. - However, during processing of -the developer's request for the SAMA
stage, of mortgage insurance processing, we have discovered that the scope
of the changes in the proposal are greater `than `we had previously understood.
The:site is. -now smaller and the building itself has been redesigned causing
the project to be significantly different than the original proposal: The
original proposal was evaluated against proposals submitted by other
developers and was chosen as the best submitted. Major alteration of the
proposal isnot allowable because of the competitive nature of the selection,
the rights of all participants, and legal and programmatic requirements:
lie feel that the developer has several alternatives he.may consider. These are:
1. Continue with the conversion_to_Section 8 changing the _original
proposal_only_to the extent to deleting the 38 nonnsu6s di_zed—
�nits.. This was the basis is upon which our October 1,.1975 letter
was written.
2. Request processing of a 221(d)(4) project without benefit of
either Section 23 or Section 8.
3. Apply under Section 202 (to HUD Central Office) for direct
financing, and a Section 8 allocation.
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JOrfti5ON COUNTY CITIZENS COMMITTL'E FOR TIIE IIANnICAPPED
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AFFILIATED WITH
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_:iovenber 13," 1975
City Council
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City of Iowa City
Civic Center
Iowa City. Iowa 52240
Dear Iowa City Council ttembern:
un 5cptcdibcr 23, 1975, .tile. Johnnan County Citizenn'-Committee,
at._itn regnInr bunincxu muuting, nddrunned itnclf,to the Iown
" Llding_(:ode, Section 502, Pnrngraph (f). Decnuse-very few
—five plc::cn;arc being built in Iown City while a much larger,
number of four plexes are being constructed, and because the
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Iowa City area line so fesr accessible housing unite :and seeus
to be entering period
-a of,grotirth in the number of apartment
units being built, the Johnson:County Citizens' Committee for
the handicapped recommends that.`you adopt the following nodi-
-fied wording of section 502, paragraph',(f):
In every multiple -duelling -unit building containing
four (currently reads five) or more individual dwell-
Ing units the requirement ofthischapter which apply',"
to apartments shall be net at least one dwelling -unit
or by,at least twenty per --cent (currently.reads ten per
cent) of the unite, whichever is the-grester ndmber,
on the ground floor level and on each of the levels in
the building which are `accessible to the, physically
handicapped......
This'chanro would be more appropriate in meatitng"the mads of
the physically handicapped and we therefore urge your •e'rious
consideration of this reeosuandaelon.
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Sincerely. ,
K: R. Minor
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Chairman
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