The Flagstaff City Council is schedule on Jan. 21 to discuss a possible ordinance that would protect or compensate residents in the event of a student housing development at the Arrowhead Village trailer park in Flagstaff. AmigosNAZ file photo.
FLAGSTAFF — The Flagstaff City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 to discuss adding to a future city council agenda a proposed Resident Dislocation Ordinance, the Northern Arizona Interfaith Council reported in a media release.
The proposed ordinance, which is designed to protect residents and require proper notification and fair compensation when residents are displaced, is in response to a proposal by Landmark Properties to build student housing at the site of the current Arrowhead Village trailer park in west Flagstaff.
Residents of the trailer park, who say many in the neighborhood are low-income residents, have expressed their concern that they will either have find a place to relocate their trailers or lose them and find a more expensive place to live if the development is approved.
Officials with Athens, GA-based Landmark Properties first notified residents of the proposed five-story student housing development during a Plaza Vieja meeting held in October 2013. A follow-up meeting was canceled by the developer after residents of the trailer park raised a number of issues about the project.
“Our City Council will be deciding whether or not to support moving the Resident Dislocation Ordinance forward as a future agenda item next week!! We need your support NOW in asking for Council to give this ordinance a chance,” NAIC officials reported in a media release.
“PLEASE help us Ask Council to allow this item to move forward by sending in a letter and by asking one other person to do the same … Asking Council to support this ordinance as a future agenda item does not mean that you or Council will support the final ordinance but it allows Council, City Staff, and residents the opportunity to work together on this very timely and critical issue!! The more letters Council receives on this issue the more they will understand that their constituents feel strongly about this issue and that we want the chance to discuss it.”