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SummitiMIerald ... Summit's only ~ real newspaper Vol. 95 No. 8 Saturday, September 24,1983 Price: 25" In the Planners schedule blight news investigation hearing for Summit's Sally S.Minshall Broad-Morris Ave. area By PEG THURLER Across Chestnut Ave. in Block 54, No. The legal notice; concerning public '' Vote the issues, not the party.'' I lot owned by the City of Summit, is "It's a man's world unless women A public hearing on declaration of a hearing is published in this issue of the section of land bounded by Broad St. and landscaped as a small park. Lot 2 is own- Summit Herald. vote," says dynamic Sally S. Minshall, ed by Carlo and lean Scarpati of Union, state president of the American Associa- Morris Ave. abutting Chestnut Ave. as a blighted area by the Planning Board is N.J. The 80 x 35 foot area on the corner The hearing is required under law tion of University Women and a Summit of Chestnut and Broad, contains a pizza resident. scheduled Oct. 19th at 8 p.m. at City before the Planning Board can make a Hall. Community Development funds to shop, 414-418 Broad St. declaration of blight, and it enables pro- Women are urged to register to vote, purchase the parcels are available. No. 3 on Chestnut Avenue is owned by perty owners, neighbors and the public to and to take responsibility for making r! v • • 'y^ ;v!oprr;t'!H pk'JM h?w* h^\, '.n the- A'-,g-.-l»J?.'-^i cfJVesifield, NJ. Th.>«x ;:pe2k fyror ;tgi!;nrt-the move. """ decisions on issues, ratiier than bths works for almost '.en years with the goal- 70 foot lot is 37-39 Chestnut Ave., con- sweet-talked into thinking lhat men will to upgrade the area, not just tear down tains dwellings. take care of them. The legal notice described the meaning buildings, accc ding to Councilman The corner lot, No. 4 at Morris and of the word "blight-" as it applies to The AAUW of NJ is inviting women Donald Nelson, liaison to the Planning Chestnut, is owned by Rufino and buildings and vacant land. Preliminary from all walks of life to join them in get- Board. Delores Gonzalez of 303 Morris Ave., the surveys made by the City indicate that the ting women to register so they can vote in "The City is required to pay a fair address also of their business. The Gold area does qualify for the term to be used the important 19S3 legislative and 1984 Mine Deli and Restaurant. in describing it. gubernatorial, congressional and price, plus the costs of re-locating presidential eleclions. To this end, a New residents and businesses," said Coun- Jersey rally to kick off a national cam- cilman Nelson. Then a re-development paign to get out the female vote is plan could be created, and the land sold scheduled Oct. 29th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. by the City to a private developer for one at Wood Lawn on the Douglass College commercial development. Chestnut Ave. No room for parking, but campus in New Brunswick. would be closed off between Morris and Broad. Joining the AAUW in this gigantic undertaking : the League of Women "In addition, anyone displaced by Diet Restaurant gets okay Voters of New Jersey, the New Jersey Government action is eligible to receive Division on Women, Douglass College, top priority in vacant publfc housing," the Center for American Women in said Nelson. With Glenwood Housng, BjPEGTHURLER final vote at the Zoning Board Oct. 3 Politics of the Eagleton Institute, Rutgers Weaver St. project, and the plans for SUMMIT — Customers may not find meeting more decisive in favor of the University and 30 other state organiza- senior citizen housing, tenants of the parking at the planned Diet Restaurant at variances. Seven board members will be tions. blighted area would have access to multi- 327 Springfield Ave. But then walking is voting and a majority of four is needed Forty three women's rights groups with ple opportunities for new homes. good for the figure, and good figures are for passage. a combined membership of over 15 million "The timing would be done to minimze what diets are all about. Architectural firm women, have been involved in a year-long the displacement problem," said Nelson. The Zoning Board gave preliminary ap- wants to enlarge quarters national Women's Vote Project. ' 'No one would be displaced until housing proval to Norjani, Inc. last Monday even- A shortage of parking space was the The rally will be both fun and educa- was available." Councilman Nelson em- ing to open a diet restaurant in the block reason for another business to ask for a tional including talks by VIPs, comments phasized that the Board will act for the of stores east of Summit Avenue. The variance, this time the architectural firm by representatives of sponsoring public good and is sensitive to the needs vote was 5-2 to grant variances for the of Chapman & Biber of 422 Morris Ave. organizations, entertainment, informa- of the individual. business even though at present no park- The firm presented plans to the Zoning tion and sales booths and a picnic. Seven parcels of land in Blocks S3 and ing is available lor the customers. Board at its Monday meeting for enlarg- 54 are under consideration as a blighted Board members who supported gran- ing its present building to make room for r area. These parcels are owned by a variety ting the variances noted the positive effect a computer, storage space, and room for Mayor Gibson of people and groups, and include private that a restaurant would have on the area its interior design work area. There would dwellings as well as commercial enter- as bringing in more business. Despite the be no new employees, and four or five of as Governor? prises. protests of Waldron Avenue neighbors, the present workers would be out of the Lot owners are investors the board maintained that the restaurant building "quite a lot," according to ar- CARDINAL Mario Luigi Ciappi, O.P., recently spoke at the Dominican Nuns Monastery of Our Lady of the Mayor Kenneth Gibson, encouraged by and business owners will not change the problems they express- chitect Peter Biber. Rosary during his one month visit to the United States. The mass was offered to all the Summit public ser- the Harold Washington victory in Lot owners include Dr. Jordan Burke ed at t he public "caring. "A whole new dimension in architec- vants. Cardinal Ciappi lives in the Vatican City in Rome and is the Pro-Theologian to Pope John Poul II. Chicago and Wilson Goode ending up on of Short Hills, who purchased 404-412 All agreed that the parking problem ture design is planned," noted Biber, (Photo by: Joe Gallo) top in the Democratic mayoral primary, is Broad St. which currently contain would be solved if a group called the "with the computer plus a vacuum planning on orchestrating a few victories residential units. He has asked for Association which controls the parking printer. Laborious details will be of his own. What with Jesse Jackson run- variances from the Zoning Board to con- lot behind the proposed restaurant, would eliminated and a person has already been Heffernan was asked whether such a con- unsuitable for additional parking space, ning a continuous registration drive, struct a 50 x 38 foot office building for permit the restaurant to use the parking. hired to run the computer. He employs a dition would take points off a property Biber testified that representatives of the Mayor Gibson feels it is now or never. himself and a partner, who are Members of the Association have made highly technical staff, with no draftsmen, value assessment by Board member Housing Authority would be willing to However, there is only one little pro- ophthalmologists. He is currently appeal- no commitment or assurances to only a totally trained architectural staff." Eugene Zelazny. Heffernan did not rent spaces to his firm in the Weaver blem.Both Chicago and Philadelphia ing the Board's decision to deny the cooperate. An attendant at the entrance A hardship exists in that the building is answer the question directly. Street housing development. He assured have much larger numbers of black variances. to the lot admits cars whose drivers tell set back 60-65 feet from the property line, The new addition would come within the Board there was never a need for on- voters,than Newark, so Mayor Gibson Joseph and Marilyn Schindler of him they intend to shop at one of the preserving a wooded area, and leaving a three feet of the Southerly property line street parking along Morris Avenue. will have to win over large numbers of Chatham, own 42-44 Chestnut St., block stores listed on a sign at the entrance. green, landscaped expanse that makes the on the side toward Board of Education suburbanites-no easy task. 53 lot 2 (shown on the map in the legal Former tenants at No. 327, Radio building unobtrusive. property. The adjoining lot includes a 25 "We've never had to ask anyone to What has happened in Newark that notices columns). St.Teresa's Roman Sales, had their store's name listed at the Parking is at the rear and along the side loot casement for a drainage ditch and park on the street," he assured the crowd. Mayor Gibson can point to as examples of Catholic Church owns the vacant lot entrance. The new proprietors are hoping of the driveway, with some spaces locked wooded area, and beyond that is a Sum- No decision was reached on the his leadership? marked 2A in Block 53 on Chestnut Ave.