Relations board wrestles with housing shortage By SANDY WESLEY in all urban areas are facing today, Raton do purchase their homes on a 25 some cases and apparently do not exist "All they have to do is give me or traffic signs indicated that there were Despite a flurry of concern last Hutkin said. to 30-year-loan basis. in others. anyone else on the board a call," children in the area. Hutkin checked spring, an acute housing shortage "Although the black residents of However the problem is where can a According to Hutkin the employment Hutkin said. "We have a special in- into it and the next day "slow" signs continues to plague the city's black Boca Raton are probably worse off man find a home for $12,000 today situation "appears to be not at all vestigating committee which does were posted in the area. community, according to Max Hutkin, than in other areas because of the high when costs of living have skyrocketed? bad. everything it can to solve the problems Not all of the grievances are con- chairman of the city's Community cost of land here," Hutkin said "lots The answer, Hutkin feels, might lie "Six months ago we placed un- that come up in the area." sidered legitimate, but they too are Relation's Board. are available if the Negroes want to in the modular or prefabricated homes employment blanks at the Chamber of Problems which have come up which investigated. Like the time eight Hutkin made the observation as the buy them. However they've hesitated similar to those presently being built in Commerce building and with George Hutkin listed as legitimate teenagers, black and white, went into a board ended its first full year of to buy them because of the high cost of Pompano Beach. The homes, which Spain, a member of the Community grievances included a need for better local restaurant after a dance at the operation with a record of some building." cost from $13,000 to $15,000, not only Relations Board. No one ever came in trash pickup in the area. "We called community center. achievements and. some near Even so, according to a survey made meet Boca Raton's building code, but to fill them out," Hutkin said, "so the city hall and the next day a truck Hutkin received a call from one of achievements in its attempts to assure by the Community Relations Board also come complete with kitchen based on that we're assuming that was in the area picking up the trash," the mothers the next day. She said the equal opportunities for all of the city's last year, 23 families in the Pearl City facilities, carpeting and drapes," everyone is working. he said. teenagers told her they had not been residents. area are able to afford a $3,000 to $4,000 Hutkin said. "We feel certain the residents of Other problems involved a much- served properly. During its first term, members of lot plus a $12,000 house if they are Hutkin indicated that although the pearl City trust our board," Hutkin needed playground in the Pearl City Hutkin went to her home and talked the 11-member board found that while willing to make the payments on a 25 to housing problem still exists, it's just a said, "and they know that we will area, which was solved through the with the eight young people. residents of the Pearl City area have 30 year loan. matter of time before the solution is never misuse that trust. They know we efforts of the Rotary Club and the city "After talking to them I didn't think other problems, they are minute in Hutkin indicated that this ought not found. are on the level and we are on their Recreation Department. they had a legitimate complaint," he comparison to the housing problem, to be too much of a problem since most As for the other problems Pearl City side when they have a legitimate However, when the park was opened said, "and I told them so. They one which community relations boards middle income residents of Boca residents face, they are minute in grievance. residents found that there were no dropped the charges." BOCA RATON NEWS Vol. 14, No. 134 Thursday, Oct. 9, 1969 26 Pages 10 Cents Sewer planning s» "" •! * OK'd bvJ council Preliminary engineering work for south boundary of Spanish River Park, that 1971 was suggested as the date at sewer line extension to the north beach roughly the point at which residential which water and sewer service would area was authorized this week by City development now stops. be required. Council. At the present time, the city has a 12- Councilmen, however, hedged on a Emmette P. Waite Jr., who inch water main extending as far north firm commitment to extend the city's represented BC&E at Tuesday's from Palmetto Park road as the San water and sewer lines all the way Council meeting, said there were no Remo development and a six-inch along A-l-A to the north city limits. engineering considerations which main extending beyond that to what Instead, they instructed the firm of would preclude splitting the project would be 32nd street. Some areas Black, Crow and Eidsness, consulting into two parts, either for planning or immediately north of Palmetto Park engineers for water and sewer construction purposes. However, he road already are served by city sewer projects, to draft the plans so that the said that he and representatives of the lines, but other disposal facilities are project could be bid and built in two city had met with owners of land to the used north of that. parts if desired. north of the park and that development San Remo has its own miniature The dividing line would be at the plans are being prepared. He added treatment facilities and Spanish River Park is temporarily using septic tanks. The consulting engineers' original i recommendation called for extension Accident rate increases of sewer service by means of a force main. Estimated cost of the main, from the outfall station to the north city limits, was set at $380,000 in- over last •year's/ totals cluding engineering. Distance in- When the cry goes out "the bluefish are running," e^ :a h?« ice chest and was still catching more around volved is about three miles. / .anglers appear like m&gic on ? ea Raton's feeaehes. This noon j """. i '"day. (More pictures on Page 8A) The proposed water main extension angler was fishing just south oi Jap Rock. He had several Accidents in Boca Raton are running Four traffic fatalities have been would run from the south boundary of well ahead of last year and "it won't recorded in the city this year and the park in a 12-inch pipe to the north get any better," David Messer, ac- property damage has run around $28,- city limits. Costs, including cident records officer, said yesterday. 000 so far. engineering, were estimated at "As of midnight Tuesday," he said, City petition asks data on "Traffic didn't really slow down "the Boca Raton Police Department Deputy Mayor Harold Maull had investigated 832 accidents. On the much this summer," Messer said. "And it's getting much heavier. We suggested the possibility of going same date last year, we had a total of ahead with the sewer line project only 508." still have two and one-half months to go with November and December two as far as the park. He pointed out that The city is already running 136 the city could not recover assessments proposed county bonds of our big accident months. wrecks ahead of the entire total for the from the 1,650-foot stretch running year 1968, according to police records. "We're just getting more cars than past the public park property. A petition asking for more in- HEARD that most of the obstacles — Alford said that pipeline easements for Federal highway has been the site of a we have streets to put them on," he "The city," Maull said, "would have formation on Palm Beach County's short of dredging the Intracoastal future maintenance dredging must be major portion of them. concluded. to swallow 1,650 feet of assessment proposed $6 million beach bond issue is Waterway — in the way of acquisition obtained by the city. The city can that would be of little or no value to slated to go into the mail this week to of a marina site on Lake Wyman have obtain the site from the Florida Inland Spanish River Park." County Commission Chairman E.D. been cleared. City Manager Alan (Continued on page 10A) Maull also suggested that it seemed Gaynor. to him "ironic" that the city should City Councilmen Tuesday approved consider water and sewer line ex- the petition and yesterday the tensions in the north beach area where document was only awaiting Mayor Debate, not protest the improvements might serve to Emil Danciu's signature. Generally, encourage more development. He the petition simply asks for more pointed out that there are areas in the details on the proposed general city which already are developed and obligation bonds. still not served by city sewer lines. The breakdown of proposed ex- scheduled at FAU Councilman Sid Brodhead expressed penditures in each of three beachfront concern that some difficulties might be areas of the countyalso was requested. Florida Atlantic University faculty coordinate involvement on the cam- encountered in the assessment Boca Raton is at the south end of an members and students will join pus.