On Attucks Street^
Aldermen
By GREG BROWN
Chronicle Staff Writer
Winston-Salem's Board of
Aldermen took a get-tough
stance against dilapidated housing
Monday night when it voted
unanimously to demolish an Attucks
Street building described as
a blight on the neighborhood.
The aldermen passed an ordinance
authorizina the citv's
Community Development
Department to raze a house at
- 1530 Attucks St. which hadn't
been livable for 15 years.
The owner of the house, Silas
W. Settle Jr., a black c?.J.
Reynolds employee and part-time
junkman, had brought a contractor
to the meeting and pleaded
for time to bring the structure up
to acceptable standards, triggering
some blunt comments about,
the house and Settles' failure to
properly maintain it and other
property.
"That house has been a
disgrace to that neighborhood,"
North Ward Alderman Larry Little
told Settles. "The house has
been that way for the last 10
years. I don't have a lot of sympathy
for that situation."
Bob Bowles, Settles' contractor,
said it would take between
six and eight weeks to repair
structural damage to the house,
but said it would take several
months of steady work to make
the house livable again. Bowles
said Settles had signed a contract
for the initial repair work and
that a more detailed contract for
more work would be signed upon
its completion.
Settles told the aldermen that a
city inspector had recommended
a contractor to him and that he
had paid the contractor $6,000 to
work on the house. When the
contractor quit working, Settles
said, he himself worked on the
house for about a year, but had
to stop. Since then, he said, he
had hired a new contractor,
Bowles.
But city officials said the first
contractor had quit more than 10
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years ago ana inai me nousc naa
been vacant since 1969. They said
that whenever 50 percent or more
of a structure requires rebuilding,
the structure has to meet the state
building code, which requires the
use of new building materials.
Most of the work on Settles'
house had been done with
second-hand materials, they said.
" I do think you have been
given time to clean up the structure,"
said East Ward Alderman
Virginia Newell, "and for the last
few years the neighborlujjgd^has
borne the brunt of a situation you
enjoy.
"I don't think they should
have to tolerate someone who
flagrantly violates the health
code."
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.... That -hai^ -been doncT said
"Wilson, despite somer~4fcate arid"*
federal administrations that have
been unsympathetic to the needs
of the poor. The Nixon administration
threatened to
eliminate the program altogether,
former North Carolina Gov.
James Holshot >er Jr. similarly
threatened to close down all the
Community Action Associations,
of which ESR is a part, and the
Reagan administration has dealt
almost 4'fatal" blows to social
service agencies, Wilson said.
Under President Reagan, the
federal government has
eliminated separate funding for
social service agencies and groups
all funding for social programs
into community service block
grants, from which all agencies
have to vie for money.
"I've heard it for so long and
I've had to deal with it," said
Wilson, when asked if she feared
that funding for ESR and other
programs like it will someday be
eliminated. "It gives me incentive
to go forth and prove them
wrong.
"We aren't worried about
Reagan; ESR will be here."
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But Northeast Ward Alderman
Martha Wood offered a motion,
seconded by Southeast Ward
Alderman Larry Womble, to give
Settles 90 days to rebuild the
house. If the house isn't repaired
by that time, the city should tear
it down with no further discussion,
she said. 4
"I don't see how another 90
days is going to hurt us," Wood
said.
Little, however, bristled at the
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that, we ought to throw these ordinances
off the books/' he said.
"If there ever was an instance
when we needed to act, this is it."
AfterT the aldermen defeated
Wood's^ motion, the board voted
unanimously to demolish the
house, used to store building
materials and junk.
In a related issue, the aldermen
approved a plan to spend half a
million dollars in city community
development funds for
rehabilitating 40 single-family
homes for low-income tenants in
the East Winston neighborhood.
Under the plan, developers
David Shannon and Brice Shearburn
will provide an additional
$685,000 in private funds for the
rehabilitation, averaging $29,625
per house.
The tenants will continue to
pay rent for the houses for a fiveyear
period. At the end of the five
years, the tenants will be given
titles to the homes and may
finance loans to continue buying
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But Northeast Ward Alderman
Vivian Burke questioned whether
the plan would work.
"My concern is that some of
the area is very substandard,*'
she said. "I am concerned about
the substandard streets, and also,
some of the vacant lots are cleaned
off, but aren't very clean. 1
have reported this on various occasions.
What are we going to do
to make people want to buy these
houses?"
Joe Berrier, of the city's Community
Development Department,
told Burke that pride in
ownership shoulc^e an incentive
for the buyers to maintain the
area properly and that steps will
be taken to teach the
homeowners how to keep the
houses in good condition.
The plan was approved
without opposition.
In other action, the aldermen:
Authorized $12,378 to fund a
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But that funding will be exhausted
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Reappointed Southwest Ward
Alderman Lynne Harpe and
travel agent Mary Jane Williams
to three-year terms on the Forsyth
County Tourism Development
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Approved selection of The
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ATTENTION OWNERS AND I
STRUCTURES WHICH CAN
FOR RESIDENT!*
The Community Development Department of th
Housing Authority of Win ston-Saiem seek proposa
Certificates for the rehabilitation of housing units
structures into housing which have not been used I
one year prior to the date of this proposal. The Mo
federally subsidized housing program for very lo<
Through the program, a fifteen-year subsidy is
titicates.
The units must consist of up to eleven (11) oneeight
(58) two-bedroom units; up to three (3) threi
three sizes.
The rehabilitated or converted structures may
boundaries of the Winston-Salem city limits. The
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owners selected pursuant to this request for propo:
will be negotiated at rates of up to five percent
Development financing, interest rates tor loans, to t
non-Community Development financing, will be nei
cent (9%). All loans will be amortized for a period
munity Development Department desires to make p
consider creative financial arrangements. Assis
Developers secure tax-exempt financing.
Each proposal must include a fifteen (15) year c
tion of financial feasibility. Information contained ii
may be reviewed for comment by certain Commui
Owner/Developers will be responsible for comp
dinances and laws such as zoning and parking ri
Proposals shall be received by the Community
than 5:00 p.m., November 30, 1984. For inform
contact:
Florence Creque, Assistant Direc
Community Development Deportr
Suite 1SOC, First Union 8ulldlnf
Winston-Salem, NC
Telephone Number 727-8S9J
Hours 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.rr
or
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Housing Authority of the
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