CALL IN NEWS.....to Hazel Baker [Marietta] 426-3643 ; Cherie Dillow [Mount Joy] 653-1609 The Susquehanna Times 426-2212 or 653-8383 SUSQUEHANNA Mount Joy Sidewalk Sale! Seepages 5,6 & 7. Vol. 79, No. 31, August 8, 1979 Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. , DE: 440 3 ot M SF oR 36 17 5° fNLF 5 oN = . 30% TIMES FIFTEEN CENTS Parkside residents organize to oppose Creekside project Residents of Parkside off Lefever Road and bordering the Little Chiques Creek, no sooner heard about the proposed new housing project for low and moderate income families on the property adjacent to them, than they were galvanized into opposing it. They have been meeting together and making plans to take whatever steps they can to prevent Creekside Apartments from becoming a reality. They fear trespassing by Creekside residents on their property, run-off, which is already a problem, to become intolerable. The crime rate will go up. Taxes will rise. Schools will be over- crowded. ! Lefever Road will have to be widened. Water and sewage will be overburdened. They point out that nearby Meadows apart- ments are presently less than S0 per cent occupied. Then why more apartments? Why doesn’t the govern- ment fix up the Meadows apartments and subsidize rents for low income people there? Furthermore, Parkside residents point out the Meadows apartments as good examples of how Pat Kenney says Creekside project necessary to provide homes for low income families in county The proposal to build an apartment complex on Lefever Road near the Little Chiques Creek has the very strong support of some people in Lancaster County, and the very strong opposition of the residents of Parkside, a development of new homes which is adjacent to the site of the proposed new apartments. Very much for the new apartments, which will be rented with federal subsid- ies by families of low and moderate incomes, is Pat- rick Kenney, Jr, of Marietta, who is president of the Lancaster City-County Human Relations Commiss- ion. Last Friday Mr. Kenney told the Susquehanna Times that the apartments are very much needed in the county. He said that the apartments for low and moderate income people have to be in the county. ‘“The city is a geographic area which is unable to provide housing for low and moderate income people,” Kenney said. He stressed that Creek- side is mot public housing. “It is a private housing development. All the resi- dents will pay 2S per cent of their income as rent.”’ He said that a lot of elderly and impoversihed people are presently paying more than 25 per cent of their incomes for housing. At Creekside the federal government will make up the difference between the 25 per cent of income and the rental of the apartments. He reiterated: ‘““The city of Lancaster cannot provide all the housing for low income people living in the county. The Creekside project had Forum on nuclear power to be held in Marietta A Forum on nuclear power will be held at the Marietta Community House on West Market St., August 1S, at 7PM. The twenty minute film ‘‘“The Nuclear Alternative’’, which exam- ines some pros and cons of nuclear power will be shown. Informal fifteen minute discussions of these topics will follow: 1. Health Effects of Radiation—Dr. Richard Fluck, Assistant Professor of Biology, F. & M. Callege. 2. Moral and Ethical Implications of Nuclear Power—Betty = Tompkins, Manager of Lititz Senior Center. 3. Economics of Nuclear Power—Mark Widoff, at- torney, former and first Pennsylvania Consumer advocate. 4. Alternative Energy Sources—Dr. Richard Veith, Professor at Lancaster Theological Seminary. Any and all questions are welcomed. Refreshments will be served and child care is available. its beginning last winter when the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) advertised in news- papers for proposals to be submitted to PHFA for an aprtment complex in Lan- caster County for low and moderate income families. By late spring a number of devlopers had submitted concrete proposals for the project; PHFA considered three of the proposals as acceptable. One, submitted by Laing Properties in Harrisburg was for Creek- side in Mount Joy. The other two were proposals for building in Lancaster Town- ship. Because there were many vacant apartments in Lancaster Township already PHFA judged that there was no additional need for apartments there, and gave its final approval to Creekside. Phil Friday of PHFA told the Times there is ‘‘no erfect site;”’ however, reekside, unlike Lancaster Township, has no rental housing nearby, according to Friday. The single person most responsible for planning the Creekside project is Paul Miller, Area Development Manager for Laing Proper- ties. Miller a former housing official who had lived in Lancaster County for four years was familiar with the area and travelled all over the county inspecting possi- ble sites. The Mount Joy site was the only one he found which met all requirements for the project. In addition to being a beautiful spot the Creekside site had adequate sewage and water capaci- ties. These facilities were the crucial factor in his deciding on Mount Joy. In speaking with the Times last Friday Miller emphasized all the favorable aspects of Creekside for the Mount Joy community. Creekside will add to local tax revenue. It will add to the community mostly young married couples with mod- erate incomes of fr $10,000 to $16,000 who ps meeting moved to Beahm The next meeting of Mount Joy Borough Council will be held at the W.L Beahm Junior High School auditorium on August 13, 1979, at 7:30PM. The meeting is usually held at the Borough Offices, but the meeting place has been changed to accommodate the large number of people expected to attend. [continued on page 5] apartment complexes run down very quickly, lowering the appearance of an entire neighborhood. Some of the Parkside residents moved to their new homes less than a year ago, valuing the rural atmosphere of the place, which will be wiped out by Creekside. Parkside people are con- ducting a survey among themselves. So far senti- ments are unanimous in favoring the forming of an oranizatioon to block Creek- side. A lawyer will be hired by the neighborhood to take their case to court, if necessary. Photo shows Mrs. Scott Cooper, who moved with her husband to a cottage in the woods above the proposed Creekside development site. She hopes that is doesn’t go threugh. ‘I wake up every morning and hear the birds chirping and all the animals like groundhogs and squirrels scurrying about, and it makes me think I’m camping instead of just living at home,” she says. Mrs. Cooper fears that the sylvan beauty of their cottage will disappear, if Creekside goes up. Site of the proposed Creekside development is in the field behind these buildings by Lefever Road.
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