Housing environment isnt always as easy to obtain as we first might imagine. The issue of Affordable Housing in cedar rapids is a perennial one, but this summer it came to a head with a controversy surrounding the Crestwood Ridge mixed Income Development proposed for some land along edgewood road. Here with me this morning to untangle some member of our city council. Thank you for joining us, scott. Scott my pleasure. Heather phoebe trepp who is the executive director of willis dady shelter. Phoebe thanks for having me. Heather welcome phoebe. And lynda waddington, a columnist for the gazette. Lynda good morning. Heather good morning, lynda. Thank you all so much for joining us. I thought we would begin very quickly with a little bit of an overview of how has shifted over the years. Many years ago when i was in school in chicago, i used to do a lot of volunteer work with what was at the time called the projects, cabrinigreen. That kind of concentrated, lowincome housing is a model that
It hasnt. Yet the camera continues to issue tickets. I think the county should refund the issue issued since the standard have changed. Chris a lot of ticket. This is one of the county east most profitable. In the past 14 months it has issued 4,600 tickets for nearly 350,000. I have a concern they were delays making the change because they didnt want to disrupt the ticket, the flow of tickets from the camera. The iteam contacted montgomery c transportation and the Police Department. But no one would go on camera to discuss this camera. We got an email. They said, the current timing meets the federal guidelines. The county executive office added avoiding a ticket is simple. Do not enter the intersection when the light has turned red. The Police Department department stated, even though the intersection is within the state and federal until the timing can be adjusted. But peggy says it is not enough. This absolutely should be voided. No way on the planet this is fair. Chris as far as the
The landowners prepare start and they can live next to a machine gun range or try to sell their land. I cannot imagine trying to listed in said by the way you have just a little mini afghanistan going on. Reporter they said the county planning and Zoning Commission said it would approve the zoning if they work with the neighbors. They say it is heavily inspected. The landowners say theyre supposed to have a meeting on friday to decide our talk about what they can do offer, then they might be stuck with useless land. You can read her full statement and www. 12news. Com two children and a teacher hurt when a gunman opened fire and elementary school. It happened this afternoon. They believe there was only one the students and teacher hurt are expected to recover and the other students were taken to a nearby church where their parents pick them up. A tragic story in avondale. A little boy is dead after police say that he accidentally shot himself. Detectives say the boy wandered into his m
To start off this friday. So heres a quick look at your fast forecast, colder than we were yesterday. 45 at noon, now, its still going to be on the breezy side but yesterday we had gusts approaching 40 Miles Per Hour today theyll stay in the teens to 20mile an hour range. High of only 50 this afternoon, back to 44 quickly by 6 p. M. Again though the weekend is looking nice. Ill have a breakdown. Heres i540 and aviation parkway not a lot going on. No problems on the roadways this morning. Lets check in with our live drive conditions and speaking of heading out to the airport well check in with some speeds i40 westbound at about 65 miles an hour and coming in eastbound we are looking at very similar speeds around 70 Miles Per Hour. Other check on traffic and weather in ten minutes. Authorities forced their way into a home for a man responsible for a deadly mass shooting. Investigators worried additional victims could have been inside that house. Once they got inside they discovered no on
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