Study: Garden City, Finney County lack affordable multi-family housing
Garden City Telegram
The Garden City and Finney County commissions took a close look at housing needs during Monday s joint meeting.
Carol Davidson, Neighborhood Development Services director, gave an update on the Rural Housing Incentive District and the housing needs assessment study, or CHAT, that was completed.
Davidson said the housing study tells where the housing needs are and how many homes are supposed to be built each year to keep up with demand.
As of 2019, the total need is 1,200 homes for the next 10 years, so 120 need to be built each year.
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Dodge City Daily Globe
City manager Nick Hernandez gave an update on the City of Dodge City during the State of the City Address on Wednesday at the Boot Hill Casino and Resort Conference Center.
Among Hernandez s talking points were the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on city s saying that the national and state response was met with mixed responses while Ford County saw prosperity due to agriculture and energy sectors, as well as impacts to small businesses such as retail and services. When I m talking about the ag sectors, I m talking about the mills, the plants, they were able to continuously run throughout this entire pandemic, Hernandez said. The energy sector in wind energy didn t stop and got it producing energy in this area.
1. Despite local residents Bill Strenth and Gerry Dennett speaking during the meeting’s public input period to express concern about changes to the city’s platting requirements, the commission approved the changes to “update and streamline” the platting requirements on a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Cheryl Brooks voting against the changes.2. The commission appointed Sarah Colyer and Tara Grassie to the city’s Downtown Advisory Board.3. The commission approved a