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Sustainable Freedom Lab 1 Why Une loin Said "NU" to t-.tUt.) rage z or o <br />Letter from the Castle Rock Town Council to HUD Grantees <br />(Linkto original letter) <br />Note* The Town Council letter was addressed to the following grantees... <br />Exec. Dir. Audio Information Network of Colorado <br />Reg. Dir. Catholic Charities of Central Colorado <br />Exec. Dir. Crisis Center of Castle _Rock <br />Exec, Dir. Douglas County Housing Partnership <br />Exec. Dir.. DougtasiElbert Task Force <br />Vol. Chairman Parker Task Force for Human Services <br />Exec. Dir. Southeast Community Outreach <br />Grants Mgr Society of St. Vincent de Paul <br />Thank you for your letter concerning CDBG funds and the Town of Castle Rock, Last year, when faced <br />with the question of whether the Town should become an entitlement community under the CDBG <br />program, the Council declined to pursue that Status because it would resu`t In unclear and <br />unwarranted interference from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) For years, <br />Castle Rock has accepted various grant monies offered by HUD through Douglas County. This money <br />was parceled out by Town Council mainly to fix alleyways and make curbs ADA accessible. But last year <br />HUD added very alarming strings to the grants, 377 pages of new rules that give HUD drastic new <br />powers over our cities and counties that :r affect el;m nate the zoning and plann'ng powers of your <br />local elected officials which can now be overruled by HUD bureaucrats inVVashirgton•DC. <br />If we continue to accept the HUD grants, we will be forced to prepare detailed taxpayer -financed <br />studies of our schools, retail, housing, and other cot :Iun,ty aspects to HUD who will decide if our <br />neighborhoods are "furthering fair housing.' i hat means that even though our town has never been <br />found in violation of the anti -discrimination hous.ng rules that have been law For over 50 years, HUD <br />on a whim could force us to build low-income, government subsidized housing into our neighborhoods <br />if HUD decides we aren't racially balanced enough This is already happening across the U.S.: just <br />google Westchester County, New York. <br />Ore example according to HUD, if your family home sits on a quarter -acre property,.your <br />neighborhood is potentially discriminatory. It would be much less racist if a high-rise low-income <br />apartment building went up next door, never mind local zoning regulations. <br />hftn'/I nstninnhlefreetjom h ori 1/ 016v04/26!whv-one-town-said-no-to-hudi <br />/2 <br />12/14/2016 <br />