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Paid for by the Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Pat Morris 2009 - ID #1278701 |
1. There will be no housing at the "Arden-Guthrie" site. The Arden Guthrie site is the vacant property along Highland Avenue, between Guthrie Street and Arden Avenue. You can see it from Highland Avenue and the 210 Freeway. Housing has been continuously demolished at this site for over a decade, with the last demolition completed in October 2008. 2. The Arden-Guthrie site will be commercial development. There have never been any plans, rumors, or desires to change this direction. In fact, several months ago the Mayor and Council hired a contractor to oversee demolition of the residential streets and utilities at Arden-Guthrie, the merger of the old residential parcels, and the complete preparation of the site for commercial development. 3. The Sunrise-19th project approved by the Mayor and Council is located west and south of Arden-Guthrie. They are different sites. The Arden-Guthrie site is vacant. Sunrise-19th site is not vacant. It contains hundreds of terribly blighted and crime-ridden housing units. 4. The apartment housing at Sunrise-19th is an absolute mess. Go take a look. It creates a third-world condition that is tragic and crime-ridden. In the last two years there have been 356 serious crimes reported in these apartments and 453 code enforcement actions. |
Photos of Existing Housing at Sunrise-19th Site (taken on September 13, 2009) |
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5. To begin cleaning up the housing at Sunrise-19th, the City Council approved spending $2.7 million of federal housing stimulus money (not $8 million as rumored) and $2 million of local affordable housing funds. It cost $35 million to cleanup the Arden-Guthrie site. 6. This project will permanently eliminate 60% of the existing apartments at Sunrise-19th! The project will demolish 144 apartment units and rehabilitate 100 units by placing them under ownership and management by a nonprofit with tough tenant screening and accountability to the City. The remaining land will be cleared and rebuilt with senior housing and single-family homes. For more information on the nonprofit housing owner/manager, Mary Erickson Community Housing (MECH), please visit their website www.maryerickson.org. Here are some photos of housing that MECH rehabilitated, and now owns and manages in Orange County: |
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Arden-Guthrie Site |
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Contracts are underway to rip up the streets and utilities, and make this site a commercial center. |
Arden-Guthrie and Sunrise-19th: Get the Facts |
THERE WILL BE NO HOUSING HERE! |
Sunrise-19th Site |
Why should I believe you are presenting me the "real facts" about Arden-Guthrie? Because the facts presented below are taken from the Economic Development Agency (EDA) staff reports and agreements approved by the Mayor & Common Council. You can read them on the City's website by following these links: |
Project will demolish 60% of the existing crime-infested housing on this site ... just like at Arden-Guthrie. |
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THERE WILL BE NO ADDITIONAL HOUSING BUILT HERE! |
Some politicians in our city don't want you to know the facts. They don't want you to know our city is cleaning-up crime-infested housing. To serve their political agenda, they want you confused. They want you to mistakenly believe your Mayor and City Council are building more low-income housing, and that this housing will be occupied by parolees and criminals. Nothing could be further from the truth! Presented below are facts about the Arden-Guthrie commercial development and the clean-up of adjacent crime-infested housing at Sunrise Lane and 19th Street. We all get angry when politicians mislead us, when they "hide the ball" and play political games with information. So read the facts below and make sure you know the truth! Here is a flyer with these facts that was mailed to San Bernardino voters. It contains quotes from Congressman Lewis and a school board member emphasizing the importance of these facts. |
Site is vacant |
7. The federal housing money being spent to cleanup Sunrise-19th cannot be used to acquire and resell foreclosed homes all over the City. This particular federal money has very tight geographic restrictions. Other federal housing money received by the City is less restrictive, and the Council recently approved spending $8.3 million to buy and resell foreclosed homes to owner-occupants in targeted neighborhoods throughout the City. These are all facts. These facts are laid out in explicit detail in the EDA staff reports approved by the Mayor and City Council. This is not political rhetoric. Go investigate. Go pick up the EDA staff reports and read the facts, or you can click on the links at the beginning of this page for the staff reports. It is tragic that some would incite fear in our community by spreading false rumors that directly contradict these facts. This kind of fear-mongering prevents our City from moving ahead. We have hundreds of grossly blighted crime-ridden housing units at Sunrise-19th that should be cleaned up to increase our public safety. That some would use lies to prevent this progress is sad. |