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College Station City coon-'working on it since it came up, Denison said no, to since it demandlthat flooding the of property Wolf had Bend not Creek,,first Richard Carter League fromjap person who owns the land
cihnen passed with little at an earlier meeting. would applystrictly
discussion Monday a resolution "With the financial and charge rather than energy ,platted, and that the city mi iSrat business district was with Councilman Dozier bght.flrst dwelling house district to apply for rezoning," he said.
allowing the city manager to engineering assistance the city charge. need drainage easements.
;p ght:
moved
begin work on an application will be saved a considerable! Mayor Anderson asked if itl He said the planning and Mayor for Anderson consideration. said there (an that the individual record who title r holder or
for Workable Program cer- amount of money," he ex- would apply to other businesses. Iz o n i n g commission had was was some
tification with the U. S. plained. Denison received
re
Department of Housing and' Also in connection with Bee'couldn t think of any, but it was;theom y lima s be to proved l;ownership of tong p tract and that who the de arming ton re ong
in
Urban Development. 'Creek, Lloyd James, citypossible. "I want to make it!it were approved. l not Mayor D. A. (Andy) Anderson engineer, said the city w city possible.
that we are not creating) An ordinance rezoning a at been informed the oor nmed p until property Frid day ay,:c theommi Sion plan and planning that and zoning
at_ b out
told members that he all !rovide some interim relief by 'a special rate for a specia1l19.748 acre tract of land in the' "I think it is important that these considerations.
several councilmen, the city straightening the channel. icustomer. zoning. plication be approved without
manager and members of the) << -
parks and recreation board had The city will design it and; The council awarded a con-
board a full day with HUD of-,the heavy equipment school will4ract to BW Construction for
s
pent s in Fort Worth. do the construction. The hi,gli-(street improvements on Grove,
ficial
"We found out what programs way department has also in- Harrington, Gilchrist and Nagle.
are available. Once we receive dicated that it will help. l Base bid was $68,836. Young
certification we are w able for "Hopefully we can coordinate Brothers was the other bidder
almost any federal pro this with the Soil Con.t at $73,160.
gram. I servation Service and begin I An ordinance was passed o
would like the council to be
aware that Congress is con- in the next two weeks," James emergency to assess abuttin
aware 9 at matching funds for said. property owners with part o
college oriented cities," l1 The council approved a the cost of improving th
explained. change in electric rates after streets.
College Station still lacks aIbpresentation of a study made The council moved to defer
fire code, a Workable Programy John Denison. action on rezoning a 33.63 acre
requirement, but Anderson said I Denison said there had been tract in the Morgan Rector
the application could Anderson
put i'a problem with the churches League from first dwelling
be ' the mill while the council worksibecause their peak loads came house district to apartment
on the fire code. on Sunday which was con- house district.
After discussion of the agenda sidered an off peak time for Lee Roy George, city planner,
was complete Jim Gardner dalpeak usage. told the council only 23 acres
instructor in the planning "We made a study of this all th the area was the city,
department at Texas A&M, told last summer and read the that there were problems with
the council they were welcome meters every week. These
to use any surveys or in- meters record hour by hour,
formation from student reports he said.
for the Workable Program. Denison said that they
"Also one of the four major I recommended that anyone who
things in the Workable Program `felt his peak usage came at off
is citizen involvement and I peak hours could buy r+
would like to urge the council recording meter, have it in,
beginning appointing some of stalled at his expense and the
,these citizen committees." billing would be on demand
i The council also passed a cresolution allowing the mayor Co0. M. Holt asked
to apply for assistance in ~to if it was possible to "get down
planning and carrying out work the point of charging them
o n improvements to the less than it costs us."
watershed for the city with the
De p a r t in e n t of Agriculture
through the Soil Conservation
Service.
This would include Bee Creek.
Anderson said he had been