By Scott Unger • Of the News-Register • 

Church wants to raze Methodist building to make way for apartments

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tagup

If a hotel was denied, hard to see how apartments should be approved. The traffic pressure from 72 units in that area seems problematic to me.

B

No! Just no.

CubFan

Hmmm... so looking at a Google aerial of this property- there are currently less than 50 parking spaces. Under this plan, some of the parking spaces would be removed to make room for the 72 unit building. This story says there will be 59 parking spaces with their new plan. Something's not adding up! How could they possible gain parking spaces? Yes, we DO need affordable housing, but we also must be mindful of the parking needs for the new builds, along with the impact of parking for surrounding homes/businesses.

Otis

Mold, asbestos, leaky roof, needs new wiring / plumbing, not up to earthquake code.

Knock it down.

Ron

Surprised not!
Just can’t stop filling the city with more garbage apartments. Does anybody ever talk about a single family dwelling anywhere in McMinnville?Maybe Habitat for Humanity.No because any piece of land that becomes available is already earmarked for these eyesore apartments with no parking.Stamp it approved. Heather Richards already approved it.She
Can get more Rent assisted by the government funneled through her fingertips to give more handouts. Close enough to third Street to finish off more small businesses. People aren’t gonna walk when they can’t park on third Street. Now the apartment dwellers will be there instead buying nothing from the local vendors.

Otis

City workers and business workers need affordable housing in the city:
Firemen, nurses, restaurant staff, shop clerks, etc...

Single family homes are all way too expensive for these folks.

Gotta build up instead of out to accomplish this if inner city real estate is scarce.

leo

That is way too many apartments for that location. Scale it down to two stories and 20 apartments.

Mona Ellison

The low interest funding for this is likely coming from the federal Rural Development, which falls under the Department of Agriculture. That agency provides low interest funding to developers to build low income housing (among other programs), with a separate "farm worker housing" funding program. Without this federal funding, no developer will build low income housing. There are several of these apartment buildings around - I think there's one in Newberg and there's one in Salem, and they all look very nice (they are required to have an on-site manager), but I don't think any of them are right smack dab in the middle of town. They're usually located within the outer limits of town because that makes them closer to the rural farmland where they work. With the restriction on parking spaces, maybe they expect to use those large transport vans? I'm not opposed to these apartments in general - people who work in agriculture deserve our respect and a decent and safe place to live - but putting that large apartment building downtown on that block without enough parking spaces sounds CRAY-ZEE!!

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