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3-No. 276 Bryan College Station. Tex. Sunday, May 23, ili6b^ 38 Pages In Four Secttona IS cents
nun il c Anne 181
CS C xes Acresm
irwice
By ED HORN
100 more rioted that way,
Iy ltd to the council vote to
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McGraw, head of the urban
de-annex the area and bring it
ege
o
tallon City
planning department at Texas
into the city agalM with
h
finally- annexed a 1 n17-
ALM, said many owner., who
t
e
zoning designated
A Friday night-urlce,
asked for business zoning have
.
first go-round. the
no immix iale plans for their
Fitch said he had a prospect
,rmight in the area -
property, adding that the cow-
for development an a tract at
the old city lints and
cfl might be building to paper
the northwest corner of High-
o
to the West Hypm -
value in the land where none
way
and the Bvpam, but he
holly for singe-family
exists, it the requt' were
w•wld have to go back and tell
granted.
them there would be moll- de-
wncll had planned to
Councilman Bill Cooley noted
lay.
r other zones in the
the council had received only
Ile said he frankly wrnted to
m area and delnhed an-
two objections to zoning change
slip his request for commercial
more than a month to
requeslx in the lost month
inning through on the awexa-
perty nwmetts time: to
Councilman James Do7ler
tion to avuld the controversy
luvAts for zoning ulhcr
said he would favor Turing a
Which au: nds zoning change re-
gle-family residence.
100-foot strip on both sides of
queals befwe the council
men decided not to do
Stale Highway a and along the
Ile urged the council to (anew
'er, xfan it wtc print-
West Bypass for businrs use.
the mkor rf the Phm,nng and
u them that snive of
A spectator remarked, ,now,
Zoning i'ommtsston anJ iLa pro-
rty on which ti!e Plan.
y e're 1:.Tftig se"se.••
fessional planner, •,•;sni ing
I 7rring CununKAwa
asked what's wrong with strip
that had not been duns in the
hearing`s and made
zoning, McGraw rephed the city
past.
rnlatiens was tmprop.
would wind up wlth nothing but
"This sounds like It criticism
n4fx1.
^
pizza parlors with insufficlent
M the coune'I," said Filch
main .
. H. titan dct
parking and the potential for a
,
"but it really i•m't intended that
McCraw voted ngainst
lot of traffic accidents,
way..,
cation on th= [Usti
"I don't want It to look like
Councilman Dozier replied to
:er a lengthy db•,cus-
Everytown, U.S.A.," he said.
Fitch, saving the council votes
t ihi proposed ront iy
After the first annexation
on the Infornntion It has, which
k nitre before the lack
vote, several land owner; in the
may be incomplete, and tries to
lan•1 uescriplinns was
audience objected about their
be fair.
m~sidentjal
er Property
a
d
also red that everybody
contended the a
P
ft
one
thro
g gh all
u
-
is for planning. two when hen it af.
ly-100 acres proposed
the cod
tape of request,, and
fecLs their ptopeaty, they want
aton as business dis-
hearings.
spot zoning.
g
too much.
William D. Fitch, president
"We've
ot a hell of a lot ut
the city has 0 acres
of the Area Progress Corp ,
zoning In College otatiun," said
1 commercial uses and
made the pitch which ultimate-
(See 1,097 ACRES Page BA)
Councilman Blasts
Court
Council-
Car
S
i
right-ol•way if It is needed for
of the people at Brazos County
on
y
uct
College
mbasted
i
l
D
highway widening. and for
live within College Station and
oz
er
a
man James H
Brazos County Commission-
th
curbs, ggutters and storm sewers
~n," said l
s z ere of d he
si
ht
e
the road
i
os
g
ers Court Friday night (nr what
.
ling
a
tact that the vast malonty of
be termed Its "rural approach"
Be pointed out the city could
dl
taxable property in the county
to community problems.
s-
leave its boundaries some
is in College Station and Bryan. '
Dozier struck his biows during
tante back Irian the highway
the
contended
rim
The co
a review` of the financial effects
and try to kave the county lia-
oners
l
has
coon
commissioners a
of annexation of some State
hle for any additional needed
man: rural approach" to city
Highway 6 mileage an the t
ight-[tw
were
i
h
rtiblenu than it should.
fu
Dozier said the annexation
a
h her said it t
ty
e c
$
"I don't think this is right,"
day
which was approved Friday
ld
to do that a College al
"but that's the way
said Dozier
night, would make the coy re-
y wou
os County fight probably would
.
it
hponsible for obtaining more
erupt if the estm [tight-of-way
_
is ever needed.
BRYAN BUILDING AND IRAN
OU
D N T E R E S T
f
1 think the county e
ASSOCIAT[ON-Your SAVINGS
irgs
ONLY Y at at
DAILY s
A
t o
sinners court has lout sigh
t
t
Adv.
Center since 1810.
Tru
s
First Rank k & Trust. -Adv,
y ori
y
the fact that the vast majori
Off icials Act on Trailers,
Housing,
In it mecung which will orob-
tbly have more tar-reachitig el.
L-cis than anv it has ever held
fin-viouay. the college Station
City Council Frdhv night:
ADOPTED a ndnimum hous-
ing standards code.
ADOPTED a mobile home
park ordinance which one
c%nOman and a park operator
said is so strict it will keep
mobile home parks out of .ol-
lege Station,
A!xlrrf:n a revised electri-
cal ordinance which only non
court-6mw said he had studied
in depth.
The minimum housing stand.
ards nrdinance Was approved
unantmously by thet council.
Not one spectator said one
word before the vote, though
such ordfuances are
115115 y
tmong the most controversial
any city con adopt.
At the April 28 council meet-
Ing, Councilman C. H. Ransidell
Will) prcpmed the ordinance,
sold:
"In all essence this is the
19% edition of the southern
Minimum Standard Housng
Code. 1 can't see anything con`
treversial to this. As far as 1
tan see it is the minimum kind
of housing we would want our
people to live in.
It" said the code tncludrs
mnimum flour area, ventila-
tim. sanitary facility and light.
but requirements.
A. spectahrr at that meeting
skid, "Substandard conditions
are olten alleviated by great
s3crlfice by the people who
can't afford it"
Mayor pro tem 0. M. Halt
Electrical Codes
to be hooked up to all utilities
and to be anchored. It restricts
minimum sire for a park to two
acres and omits mobile home
park operators to providing
rot, mublk home spaces per
acre.
The ordinance also requires
proviston of puvtd streets and
s!dewalks in mobile home parks
and Bela a city inspection tee of
53 per unit per month.
"I think what you're going to
do;' said n mobile home park
operator, "is run them all out
of the city limits." Ile said he
would have to charge 575 pn
space per month to he able to
+fford to [Heel the require.
ments. Councilman Bill Cooley
tgmc^_ with the first statement,
(.See COUNCIL Page 8A)
Home
trot Had the thret minute bum
been unsuctesrful the iii
nauN would have been doomed
tit remain in the moon's orbital
grasp
After a suspenseful wait dur-
ing the 90munuto radio silcme,
the spat'PCtat whipped into ra-
dio range and Stafford an-
nounced"We're returning it) earth."
With that. the exultant astro-
naul< turned nn a tape record.
ing of "Going Back to Houston."
"tiled to have you on the way
hack home. ID."•waid a<tnmmd
Joe Eagle from the ground.
(See INJILL0 Page HA)
replied at the time that "[here
ix nut going to be a house closed
u^ in College. Station because
5ituaw,ne ix not able to pay (for
h•'rgtng it up to tmnimum
standards)."
Maynr D. A. (Andy) Antler.
son pointed up at the earlier
meeting the possible adoption
of ilw standards might make
improvement funds available at
a low rate of interest.
"This is the one item we are
shntt an in obtaining a Won,
:01c
Program, Councilman
Dan R. Davis said at the time.
The mobile home park ordin•
inre, based on a model sug•
g-sued by the federal govern.
mcnl, wits recommended by the
P'an-mg and 7,enma Commis-
sion.
y requires :ail inomle homes
CATE Director
Wants Franchise
Bryan city commissioners
have been urged to require the
applicant for a second common.
try antenna TV franchise to pro.
vide service to schools in the
community to facilitate the use
of educational television (ETV).
Thnmts J. Moffett, director of
the Texas ALM Creative Appli-
cation of Technology to Educa-
tion (CATS) Center, made the
suggestion In a Miter to Mayor
femme G. Nack) %ubik.
Copies were sent I,, city com-
nLvvioners and to ,drool wpcr-
Eagle Ext,lusihe
ntendants Afton 0. Bowen of
irvan and W. T. Riedel of ALM
'nnsolidated.
Moffett pointed out many
ities require cable TV firms, to
rovide a free connection to ev-
rp school, with the schools
rnviding distribution facilities
alhin their buildings.
Ile noted Bryanloilege Sta-
in schools du not have an nde-
uate F.TV signal available from
ie air or from the present cable
or the ETV stations to Houston
rid Austin.
Moffett reported ALM sonn
III have a UIIF channel opera-
ng but said it will nut br, able
1 do a complete ETV job. "One
can not offer all the
atvgrams at elementary,
Igh and high school ley
said.
If the cable applicants
be required to make
e:
ustmu and Austin Ei'V
the
proposal had not been on the
agendn.
Second reading of the fran-
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