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Small businesses, developers debate resort affordable housing

It wasn’t long ago that Chris Roebuck enjoyed the benefits of owning a business in one of the country’s premier resort areas.

"We bought out a shop in Ketchum in 2006 and that year we did 40 percent more business than the former owner had done the previous year," he said. "But the following year it just dropped. It was like somebody just pulled the plug."

In late 2007 the owner of Hailey-based Christopher & Co. jewelers closed the Ketchum shop.

Roebuck blames a lack of affordable housing in the Wood Valley, where the wealthy are increasingly building expensive second homes.

Full Story: http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/02/04/ap-state-id/d8uj56f00.txt

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