The Flagstaff City Council. Pictured from left to right, Jim McCarthy, Austin Aslan, Mayor Coral Evans, Charlie Odegaard, Jamie Whelan, Vice-Mayor Adam Shimoni and Regina Salas.Jake Bacon. / Arizona Daily Sun
By Adrian Skabelund | Arizona Daily Sun
Flagstaff may be seeing a new commission, this one dedicated to finding solutions to Flagstaff’s issues of affordable housing, after a decision from the Flagstaff City Council earlier this month.
The purpose of the body would be to make recommendations to Council on how to address issues of affordable housing in the city, be that through changes to zoning code, changes to city housing programs or another bonding question, said Mayor Coral Evans, who brought up the subject.
Councilmember Jim McCarthy agreed, adding the commission should not be restricted to finding solutions through purely government action but also how the city may be able to get private business to help combat the issue.
