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Tlre Colorado communities of Aurora, Boulder, Cortez, Florence and Sterling havc received a $21,990 URA grant to prepare plans for their growth and development. Refer: W. M. Williams, director, Coloraclo State Planning Division, 130 State Office Bldg., Denver 2. Plumas county, California, has had recertified its workable program to eliminate slums and blight in the unincorporated communities of Quincy and American Valley and environs. Quincy, 87 miles west of Reno, Nev., is one of the few built-up areas, the county seat, and a tracling center for lumber and cattle-raising sections. County officials stated that substandard housing in the Quincy area, headquarters for Plumas National Forest, is contributing to costs of fire, health and welfare services, and they indicated that one colony housing lumber workers-against which a public nuisance abatement compliance older has been issued by the State Dept. of Housing, would be removed. A revisecl building code will be adoptecl within a year. Sectiorr 221 FIJA mortgage iusurance assistance will be used for construction of low-rent housing for relocation of displaced families. A grand jury inquiry into substandard housing rvas reecntly made through citizen interest. Refer: E. J. Humphry, chairman, Countl' Board of Supervisors.
Seaside. California. has had recertified until 1960 the workable program by which it will unclertake to eradicate its slums and blight and direct its future development. The city in Monterey county, southwest of Salinas and south of Santa Cruz, has the Noche Buena area renewal project, which was originally scheduled for total clearance but is novv slated for conservation, spot clearance and rehabilitation. Unincorporated territory on three sides of the city is the last sizable residential land available to it. Establishment is expected of an Area Planning Cornnrission to represent the county and five municipalities on the l\{onterey peninsula. Establishment of a new Planning and Building Inspection Department is in the plans for 1960. Refer: Gordon H. Howe, citl. manager.
The state of Washington ltas received a $109,552 CFAdvance to finance preliminary planning and site and facility investigations {or a proposed penal institution to cost an estimated $8,595,759. The governor has stated he will request the project and proposed legislation was tlrafted for presentation to the 1959 legislature. Refer: Garrett Heyns, director, Dept. of Institutions, Olynrpia, Wash.; Project No. Wash. 45-P-3042.
The Urban Renewal Commission has made an $8,940 federal grant to two Montana communities, Bozeman and Missoula, to prepare comprehensive plans for growth and development, including preparation of subdivision'regulations. Refer: Perry F. Roys, director, Mor.rtana State Planning Boarcl, Sam W. Mitchell Bldg., Helena, Mont.
The Urban Renewal Comrnission has made a $25,000 federal grant
