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•~ . <br />~l ~~~,' `I `~ <br />~ ~ ~f t~7 lk '~' ~J~ ~ ~ <br />~ <br />s~P ~ o ~998 <br />September 4, 1998 ~ <br />SAL~M ARCfi T~A~,NSIT <br />To: City of Salem Mayor and Council, Salem Urban Renewa( Agency ~~NERAL iiAkNA~ER <br />With copies to: Salem Area Mass Transit District Board of Directors and <br />Marion County Board of Commissioners <br />From: Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization "CANDO" Board of Directors <br />The CANDO board respectfully requests that serious consideration be give to the <br />inclusion of housing units in the Courthouse Square Development. The current plans do not <br />develop the entire block. There has been no placement of concrete on the site. This is the time to <br />carefully review the site development plans. The cunent development plan severely limits the <br />potential development of the remainder of the block. The board feels that the one-third of the <br />block not cunently planned for, and the air space above the planned facility, could be developed <br />into housing stock. The addition of three to six floors of housing above the currently planned <br />facility is easy to do now, later it witl not be economically feasible. Thi$ is the only site in the <br />downtown area that appears to have any chance of being developed into more than ` just a few" <br />housing units in the reasonably near future. <br />Downtown housing is a necessity. The employment base within CANDO is in excess of <br />12,500. Each of these employees who could live in the core area would not have to drive through <br />and/or park in adjoining neighborhoods every single workday. <br />Respectful(y, <br />. , <br />William F. Ringnalda <br />For, and at the direction of, the CANDO board <br />