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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1971 Incumbents List Priorities for City ImprovementsCouncil Elections (Continued from page 1) enough tax money to authorize this." Dozier also listed the need to extend sewer and water lines to areas brought within the city limts, improve the sewage treat- ment plant and acquire a site for a sanitary land fill as im- mediate problems to be solved. Anderson also listed the sewage problem as critical. "The university doesn't want the city to use the present land fill any longer," he said, "so we have to locate a new area, employ an additional man as well as buy additional equipment to handle it." The problem is, he added, that wherever the city wants to put it, no one wants it. Anderson said he hoped for ap- proval this year on the HUD Workable Plan Status for federal aid, particularly in housing. "The requirements to fulfill this are almost unlimited," he said. "Time has been used for surveys in the needed areas, and this is only partial fulfillment. It's a matter of there not being enough hours in the day." Another major problem, Ander- son said, is bottleneck and hazard- ous intersections. Due to the daily increasing traffic, particularly during rush hours, he said, many intersections need stop lights. "This is not completely a prob- lem of the city's," he said. "When the intersection at South College and University Drive was con- structed from the old circle, $30,000 was set aside for stop lights. Then the Texas Highway Department informed us that the lights weren't needed." He said he also would like to see the park include an olympic size swimming pool, possibly built with the help of federal funds. The only public pool presently in College Station, he said, is the one on campus. Ransdell included the new park as one of three reasons for run- ning for re- election. The other reasons he listed as the need for improving and extending the wa- ter and sewer system, and the need for new and improved streets. -We've needed these improve- ments for a long time," he said, "and I'm running with the hope of getting them accomplished in the near future." He said the city's doing every- thing it can to finance these im- provements without going into debt. "There are different ways of providing finances, some of which include the sale of bonds," he said, "but we don't want the city in debt beyond its financial abil- ity." Incumbents For C it y By Bob Robinson Battalion Staff Writer Street and sewer improvements are the main concern of incum- bents seeking uncontested seats in today's College Station City Council election. Mayor D. A. (Andy) Ander- son, Dr. C. H. Ransdell and James H. Dozier listed streets, sewer and water mains, development of a park and zoning on the priority list in separate interviews with The Battalion. Dozier listed the new sub -divi- sion and zoning ordinances as primary on the list of jobs to be completed this year. "Over two years ago," he said, GREAT SAVINGS PLANS made even better by new legal rates at FIRST BANK & TRUST. Adv. List P riorities Improvements ����� "the city hired a firm to prepare an up -to -date zoning ordinance. Since that time, the Planning and Zoning Commission has been ed- iting it to fit our community. It was a prototype ordinance used throughout the United States." Dozier said he hoped the work on it would be done by this year and brought before the council for action. He added that a revised and up -dated sub - division ordinance has already been completed by the Planning and Zoning Commission and brought before the Council for action. Dozier also said he preferred the "pay as you go" plan in the financing of city street improve- ments. This plan allows for streets to be paved and sidewalks put in on a voluntary basis. A petition is signed by 60 per cent of the property owners along a street, after which the street is paved and all owners assessed $4 a foot. A petition to put in a sidewalk must be signed by 100 per cent of the property owners. In cases of extreme need for paving or sidewalks, Dozier said, such as the street being a safety hazard for children, the city has the power to complete the work and assess the owners. "This method is preferable," he said, "because you'd have to go to the people for bonds every year, otherwise, and there's not (See Council, page 3) University National Bank "On the side of Texas A &M." —Adv. ncumbents List Priorities or City Improvements By Bob Robinson Battalion Staff Writer Street and sewer improvements are the main concern of incum- bents seeking uncontested seats in today's College Station City Council election. Mayor D. A. (Andy) Ander- son, Dr. C. H. Ransdell and James H. Dozier listed streets, sewer and water mains, development of a park and zoning on the priority list in separate interviews with The Battalion. Dozier listed the new sub -divi- sion -and zoning ordinances as primary on the list of jobs to be completed this year. "Over two years ago," he said, GREAT SAVINGS PLANS made even better by new legal rates at FIRST BANK & TRUST. Adv. "the city hired a firm to prepare an up -to -date zoning ordinance. Since that time, the Planning and Zoning Commission has been ed- iting it to fit our community. It was a prototype ordinance used throughout the United States." Dozier said he hoped the work on it would be done by this year and brought before the council for action. He added that a revised and up -dated sub- division ordinance has already been completed by the Planning and Zoning Commission and brought before the Council for action. Dozier also said he preferred the "pay as you go" plan in the financing of city street improve- ments. This plan allows for streets to be paved and sidewalks put in on a voluntary basis. A petition is signed by 60 per cent of the property owners along a street, after which the street is paved and all owners assessed $4 a foot. A petition to put in a sidewalk must be signed by 100 per cent of the property owners. In cases of extreme need for paving or sidewalks, Dozier said, such as the street being a safety hazard for children, the city has the power to complete the work and assess the owners. "This method is preferable," he said, "because you'd have to go to the people for bonds every year, otherwise, and there's not (See Council, page 3) University National Bank "On the side of Texas A &M." —Adv. (Continued from page 1) enough tax money to authorize this." Dozier also listed the need to extend sewer and water lines to areas brought within the city limts, improve the sewage treat- ment plant and acquire a site for a sanitary land fill as im- mediate problems to be solved. Anderson also listed the sewage problem as critical. "The university doesn't want the city to use the present land fill any longer," he said, "so we have to locate a new area, employ an additional man as well as 'buy additional equipment to handle it." The problem is, he added, that wherever the city wants to put it, no one wants it. Anderson said he hoped for ap- proval this year on the HUD Workable Plan Status for federal aid, particularly in housing. "The requirements to fulfill this are almost unlimited," he said. "Time has been used for surveys in the needed areas, and this is only partial fulfillment. It's a matter of there not being enough hours in the day." Another major problem, Ander- son said, is bottleneck and hazard- ous intersections. Due to the daily increasing traffic, particularly during rush hours, he said, many intersections need stag lights. "This is not completely a prob- lem of the city's," he said. "When the intersection at South College and University Drive was con- structed from the old circle, $30,000 was set aside for stop lights. Then the Texas Highway Department informed us that the lights weren't needed." He said he also would like to see the park include an olympic size swimming pool, possibly built with the help of federal funds. The only public pool presently in College Station, he said, is the one on campus. Ransdell included the new park as one of three reasons for run- ning for re- election. The other reasons he listed as the need for improving and extending the wa- ter and sewer system, and the need for new and improved streets. "- -We've needed these improve- ments for a long time," he said, "and I'm running with the hope of getting them accomplished in the near future." He said the city's doing every- thing it can to finance these im- provements without going into debt. "There are different ways of providing finances, some of which include the sale of bonds," he said, "but we don't want the city in debt beyond its financial abil- ity " Council Elections