The Ephraim City Housing Authority buckled to pressure from adjacent homeowners and voted last week not to pursue development in Danish Fields, where it had preliminary plans to use a federal grant for affordable single-family homes in the upscale neighborhood.
Until last week’s vote, the developer had a verbal agreement to sell the remaining land to the housing authority for the affordable-homes subdivision. The homes would have been approximately 1,400 square feet—just 100 square-feet shy of the minimum house size permitted under covenants in adjacent Danish Fields. Sanpete Messenger
