The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 3

Pantagraph A3 Bloomington-Normal, III. July II, HH Order halts building in entire subdivision 1 tided. The wide building ban carries impiicatiuiis much more M-rious that the original liiterprt tation. TV orinal suWiM-l and the three fclliii to it whn were approved mote At ti VraM hji't Codt.tin I lot, most of wl.xh have Irrti built u-ii But the remaining 211 V' ate Vaa'it f-r the nv-st p.irt (ttw maj buiWrng pr jet In tlx- arr.i In un the witr. but tl- re ar plan (or two restaurants in that area in Ihe hatfN of building Inspect rs I'rrmits Wef fietteJ Im sued thu week f'-r the restaurants.

I'nless tde ban Is lifled. construction of those restaurants will be dclaved Tlie rnitj-r projnt which may nt a'htied is ti re Illinois Ibuh Si'bnol Aswi.i!i..n fliJ'uarters at 2lS Miilraw Irive. Tlie II ISA. headquartered in Chicaco since lis received a permit from the city List wek to begin Cun-struiiun A ptumbmj permit was also Issued for the II ISA building, but beating and rlee. trlnil pirmits have not been approved thus far, Inspectors said construction on the 1IISA building could continue.

They said the shell and f-r interior walls could erected before any delay faced because of heating and electrical work. The restaurant plans being held In the building safety office are be Ireland s. which would I a restaurant with a lounge, and Mr. Sicak. a se lf service steak house.

By Bill Will The ban on new construction In Broadmoor Subdivision was expanded Tuesday afternoon to cover the entire subdiv ision bordered by Oakland Avenue, S. twi, Lincoln Street and llershey liotd. The expansion wasn't new action on the part of the Bloomington City Gnjra il. It was merely a clarification of the Intent of Councilman Richard Bucha-run's rtwtion Monday flight. Buchanan received the backing of three other council mcmliers Councilman Karl Pasmore p.issed-Mon-day night to halt new construc-iion In the subdivision until street lights are in Mailed and operable In the original subdivision and three of seven additions to It.

The city's Department of Building Safety, which Issues new construction permits. Interpreted Buchanan's motion as ban on the original subdivision and Its first three additions. Ivinald Ferguson, director of engineering and water, had the same Interpretation. In fart. Ferguson's office prepared maps for the building safety office showing which areas of the IMl-acre subdivision were covered by the new construction ban as the director Interpreted IL The ban on new construction permits for the entire subdivision came as a shock Wednesday to a contractor.

too. A representative of Bloomington Home Service, which Is connected with Baumgart Building Center, appeared at the building safety office to obtain r. mils to build Ihum-s on Kinbury Court and Mornn'KMdc Drive. lnh street are outside the urea originally believed to have been involved. The h'inte building permits were denied IMiefl Tmb.

viie resident of Knti rpriws Inc. (the developing firm I and business manager for Broad'rxair. said Wednesday nv.rnrg that he didn't care to comment about the Litest development. Tomb said he planned to talk with the corporal) attorney ard secretary, lioliert Fleming. thi afternoon City Officials S.ikI li'e morning that court nction against the tl'y had been threatened by the developer if the ubdivsioti wide building ban Is not lifted There was no Indira'ion Wednesday nofin that the ban would be lified.

There was precedefit ir the Cornell's action Monday nicht. Major Waller Butner called it the most drastic Mep ever taken by the city acmnM a suMivider. There is no wtnn of the ordinance Milling out a building const ruction ban as a remedy to git utilities In a subdivision within two years from the time a subdivision plat Is approved. But there Is a section which provides for a fine up to loo per day upon conviction for not complying with the city's land subdivision code. Based on the firm per day fine, developers could face fines totaling $100,000 ur more if prosecuted and con- 0 (P I) inttafltd and operable in original Subdivision and threo of seven additions to it before city will lift building ben.

Dovtlopor had no comment Wednesday- (P'ntagraph Phote) Lights from hemes prtvkk ely lllw-. minetton in Broadmoor Subdivision. In rnn Hark Lk PfmP, uu" erdr halt to rw centtrvctioff in entire tUecre subdivision. Light must -J. Urb an renewal projects cut By Bill Wills There will be no urban renewal work In the arras west and north of Park HiU Cemetery.

The W.OOO program for new t-idewalks In the northwest quarter cf Blooming-ton's central business district has been drrpped. I'larw to landscape each side of the proposed crossovers in downtown Bloommgton have boon sidetracked. AH of the above are caused by the reduction of the city's Neighborhood Renewal Program budget from 14 million to $2.2 million. It was announced last month that Bkmington would receive 12.1 million for urban renewal work downtown and in Forty Acres. When Donald Tjaden.

director of urban renewal, received his approved budget from the federal Department of Housing and I'rban Development illt'Dl, the actual budget totaled tt.229.615. But the $2 2 million is mt new money to be spent. Bloominctin's allocation for new mn-ey totals $868,510. 'With the exception of S144.0O0 for rehabilitation grants, Tjaden said, the remaining money Is that which was budgeted during the last fiscal year but not rpent. Tjaden said the sidewalk program for the northwest sector of the central business dbtrict was eliminated by HIT) because sidewalk reconstruction without removal of substandard structures would not substantially reduce neighborhood deterioration.

The landscaping was dropped, he said, because the city is not requiring similar landscaping of private developments on urban renewal property adjacent to the crossovers. Tjaden said there Is a possibili'v that landscaping may be reconsidered near year's end if there is any surplus money. He emphasized the "if." Tjaden Is happy with one Item that was more or less thrown into the application as a feeler. He budgeted about SC0.0O0 for extension of a mini-mall concept downtown. The rrini rrall was listed as an extension because plans for such a development on the north side of the 100 block of West Jefferson Street is now on the architect's drawing board.

Final architectural plans for that project are to be presented for bids in late August or early September. Downtown merchants have been referring to the mini-mall, which will extend over the parking lanes in the 100 block of East Jefferson but will not block the traffic lanes, as "Skvlijjht Square." The name was suggested by the architectural firm of Lundeen. Iliifinger It Asbury. which Is designing the mini-mall. The name is actually a carryover from a grandiose plan presented about two years ago to tear down the existing courthouse and cover the area with a dome connecting buildings on all four sides of the courthouse square.

Tjaden said the buiget approved by IIL'l) provides for an extension of the mini-mall concept to the east side of the 200 block of North Main Street. The location noted in the budget has no real meaning, Tjaden said. A location for a mini-trail extension has not been designated. In fact, the city council has not even approved a mini-mall extension downtown, although council members have indicated that they favor the idea. Extending the mini-mall idea to either the e.ist, west or south sides of the courthouse square poses problems of underground utilities.

Tjaden said the mail extension was budgeted "in cae." Planned projects Planned urban renewal projects downtown which were provided for in the new budget include: Kd i Ja vii I .1 -Resurfacing Front S'reet from Lee to McLean. Resurfacing Grove Street from Main to McLean. Resurfacing Albert Street from OlJve to Grove. Constructing sidewalks around the two-block county courts-jail complex site. Tjadt said there was only one major deletion in the Forty Acres urban renewal area.

HUD would not allow any expenditures in the seven block area east of Catherine Street which was added this year to the original Forty Acres development area. Projects approved in Forty Acres Include: A water main on Division Street from Sherman to Allin. A water main on Ewing from Seminary north. A water main from Seminary north to the end of Western Avenue and then east to connect with an existing main on Ca'houn. A sanitary sewer from Seminary to the north end of Western Avenue.

A sanitary sewer from Seminary to the north end of Morris. A sanitnry sewer along Calhoun to the northern city limit. The sewer's prime user will be a proposed shelter care and intermediate nursing home to be built on urban renewal land at Calhoun and Seminary. Repair and resurfacing of Morris Avenue north of Seminary. Repair and replacement of sidewalks in the Sheridan School area bordered by Hinshaw, Chestnut, Western and Perry.

Tjaden said federal funding of urban renewal projects is only assured through next May 30, therefore no new projects may be started which cannot be completed by that date. Meeting set The unspent money was not surplus, Tjaden said. It was committed toward P'-ojects, but the projects were not completed and therefore payments were not made when the city's fiscal year for urban renewal ended June 30. Tjaden said he will go over the entire budget and all of the programs approved through Mar 30, 1974, at a combined meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday.

The meeting was called for members of the Citizen's Community Improvement Committee, Central Project Area Committee and Forty Acres Committee. Absorbed Vandafc' ride on defasseler destroys acre of seed corn It was a grnd day for ic crtam Tuesday. And it tastes even better when you can focus your whole 'Mention on it get the cool cream on your hands and fact. Eddy Hrynkow's cone was wonderful. He is the two-year-old son of Mr.

nd Mrs. Dennis Hrynkow, 507 E. Mulberry, Normal. (Paragraph Photo by Lrry Meyer) McLean County sheriff's police said. An acre of "priceless" seed corn was destroyed Monday night when vandals drove a detasseling machine through a field owned by Funk Seed International McBarnes suits undecided hief Normal pol ice The machine, its steering mechanism damaged in the spree, was left on its side in a ditch near the field two miles west of Funk's Grove, police said.

Charles Anderson, field supervisor for the seed company, told police the corn was to have been used for breeding and could not be replaced. A similar incident June 29 destroyed an acre of Funk's seed corn on a farm near McLean. A tractor was driven through a field on the Fred Murphy farm, ruining about $250 worth of corn, the company said. officer suspends By Mark Spencer At the end of two hours of hearings into three suits regarding the McBarnes Memorial Building Wednesday, a past commander of the Bellflower American Legion Post approached the judge and asked, "Where do we stand?" Dale Clifton of Bellflower told Circuit Judge John T. McCullough that he did not understand "all these legal technicalities." Clifton and five other members of county veterans' organizations had sat patiently through the hearings which at times concerned motions to dismiss motions to dismiss, and whether the County of McLean could continue with one of the suits because the word "the" had been omitted from the suit's heading.

man after serving for a year as a civilian radio operator with the department. He will be a probationary officer until Feb. 28, 1974. Commercial property City considers maintenance code McCullough attempted to explain that; the Bellflower post and other county veterans' organizations, were named a. respondents in one of the suits because' the memorial building was constructed for use of all the organizations.

He said the suit is "to determine what rights your post as well as the other posts it! the county have to this building." Clifton said his post was small and could not afford an attorney to represent it. i At that point, an attorney for the Legion's state organization offered to take Clifton aside and explain that the veterans' groups do not have to hire their own attorneys, and that their interests will be watched by the attorney for the Louis E. Davis Post in Bloomington. Two of the three suits involving the memorial building were filed by the Davis Post. One of these questions whether the McLean County Board authority to lease a vacant lot behind the building to the county's Association of Commerce and Industry.

The second asks that the ACI, which is constructing an office building on the lot, be The third suit, filed by State's Atty. Paul R. Welch, asks the court to determine whether the county board or the memorial building's board of management controls the building and lot. McCullough, of Lincoln, said Wednesday that he will ruie within a week on the several motions heard. He said Ihe county and the Davis Post will have until the end of the month to respond to hi- rulings.

McCullough also said he will proceed first to consider the merits of the Davis Post's suits involving the county board and ACI. Normal Patrolman David R. James has been suspended for five days for off-duty conduct and behavior which "tended to bring discredit" to the Normal department. Police Chief Richard McGuire suspended James Tuesday afternoon after completing an investigation of a complaint lodged against the probationary officer. James was sent home at 11 p.m.

Monday night by the chief prior to the completion of the investigation. The officer works from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monday counted as the first day of the suspension. Chief McGuire refused to discuss the type of misconduct which led to the suspension.

Under regulations, the chief can suspend an officer for up to five days. The officer has 24 hours in which to request a hearing before the Board of Fire Police Commissioners. Paul Glazier, head of the board, said Wednesday noon that James had not requested a hearing. Chief McGuire indicated Wednesday that he did not think James would make such a request. The suspension terminates any payment to the officer during the five-day period.

James Is to report back to work at 11 p.m. next Monday. His days off are Wednesday and Thursday. James was hired March 1 as a patrol- commercial property until it becomes dangerous or a blighting influence on the community. Tjaden emphasized that no federal loans or grants will be available from his office to comply with the property maintenance code.

Compliance will be at the owner or occupant's expense. The proposed code has been reviewed by several downtown businessmen's groups. The most static received thus far, said Tjaden, concerns a section requiring two exits from each floor used. One of those exits may be an elevator. The same section will apply to basements if they are used for other than dead storage, said Tjaden.

In some instances in downtown Bloomington, the director said it will be impossible for store owners or occupants to provide a second exit onto public right-of-way. In those cases, Tjaden said, he would repairs when a building is considered dangerous to life or limb. "We don't want to wait that long," Tjaden said. "This is not a condemning code. It is a maintenance code-." Inspectors from the fire department now inspect commercial buildings, but their reports, are advisory because the city's fire code has little teeth in it, Tjaden said.

With the property maintenance code, some things will be suggested. Others will be mandatory. Tjaden said he hoped that all of the various city personnel who inspect commercial buildings can coordinate their activities to have a single inspection instead of having two or three departments duplicating efforts. As an example of what the proposed code can do, Tjaden noted that there are laws to force a homeowner to clean up his property. There are no such laws for Bloomington may become the second city in the Midwest to adopt a code requiring maintenance of existing commercial property.

A public hearing on such a code proposed by the city's urban renewal department will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at city hall. Donald Tjaden, director of urban renewal, said the only other commercial maintenance code that he is aware of in the Midwest is in Ohio. Regulations in the ordinance are not new to Bloomington, Tjaden said, but they now pertain to new buildings or buildings which are reconstructed. A maintenance code, he said, goes hand in hand with downtown renewal.

"We are obligated to rehabilitate to code standard those buildings which will not be acquired through urban renewal." A property maintenance code, Tjaden said, is not a condemning code like the building code, which is used to force urge adjoining property owners to build "knock-out partitions" between their buildings so persons inside can exit through an adjoining building if trapped by fire. A second exit may sound like a minor thing, said Tjaden, until the day arrives when a car hits the front door of a store and erupts in flames, blocking the store's only exit. The code establishes minimum safety standards for light, ventilation, space heating and sanitation; for safety from fire; for space, use and location, and for safe and sanitary maintenance, and for cooking equipment in existing buildings. The code also spells out the responsibilities of the owners, occupants and operators of all structures. Tjaden said copies of the proposed code may be looked at in his office at 309 W.

Market prior to the public hearing. He plans to present the proposed code to the city council during a work session in August for adoption in early fall..