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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1974
Page
1
Scottsdale planners urge private developers to supply a mix of housing with city funding aligned to the 1974 Housing and Community Development Act. They estimate 41 000 homes needed by 1980 for population growth and renters and owners.
A survey of nearly 500 new housing units in Scottsdale shows an average price above 49 000 with townhomes averaging 57 000 and single family homes around 62 131. Condominiums range from 20 000 to 35 000 with many converted from existing apartments.
Scottsdale School Board member Robert Usdane says legislators will pursue corrective action to allow unification of Scottsdale High Schools and Elementary districts under one 60 cent levy fund, replacing two 30 cent funds. A bi partisan push aims to keep the $900,000 annual levy loss from consolidation.
Rep Morris Udall, D Arizona, officially enters the 1976 New Hampshire first in the nation primary. He plans a grassroots organization and urges voters to judge on broad issues and leadership credibility as the Democratic field opens following Kennedy’s withdrawal.
Scottsdale School Board member Robert Usdane says neighboring districts may plan to draw Scottsdale into their reorganization plans. Creighton School District has suggested potential benefits from redistricting, while Sam Childs notes the committee will examine programs and funding. The panel will study a 36 square mile undeveloped area and continue hearings through February before drafting a plan.
The council unanimously votes to extend for one year a rezoning case removing PCD zoning from a 160 acre parcel at Cactus Road and 104th Street. The site was reclassified from one acre homesites to PCD in July 1973, but no development has occurred. Vice Mayor Paul Messinger calls the move a standard for future projects.
United Press International reports FHA and VA insured mortgages will see rate ceilings drop from 9.5 to nine percent starting Monday under a HUD plan announced by Secretary James T. Lynn. In Peoria Eliot Janeway urges using food and military supplies to pressure Arab oil prices, suggesting a barter for oil.
Premier designate Aldo Moro announced the inflation burdened Republic would have a minority coalition cabinet. President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale Palace approved the list ending a Si day cabinet crisis that began after Premier Mariano Rumor’s government collapsed on October 3.
President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev spent about eight hours in lengthy discussions in Vladivostok on nuclear arms limits. They pledged detente would have an irreversible character and marked the first meeting between Brezhnev and the new American president.
The forecast calls for sunny and mild conditions today with a high near 70. Sunday will be cooler with highs in the low 70s and much colder overnight, with Sunday morning lows around 40 at the airport and near freezing in the coldest areas.
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