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Will stadium expansion affect Spartan City? Gates said he doubts By BILL PATERSON to be completed until late 1975, con- Since Beall voiced his discontent, study. He refused to elaborate on Dr. Burton said he would support a expansion will What effect will a $6 million troversy recently flared prior to a commission hearings on the subject what these elements were. program for removal of Spartan City, adversely affect residents. Spartan Stadium expansion have on planned San Jose Planning Com- have been cancelled three times. However, a recent letter from bon- designed as temporary housing He said the projected number of dates nearby residents of Spartan City, the mission knaring on the city's impact But Beall's comments are not the ding attorney Richard Salladin to the during World War II, only if matching tor the expanded stadium south campus married -student report. reason for the delay. city revealed a general dis- accomodat ions could be found. would be about the same as it 'snow. housing? Monday afternoon the San lose satisfaction with most of the report. However, he said this isn't likely "Any impact on Spartan village This could be answered when the lames Beall, a youth advisory City Council gave the city's Public He cited 11 pages of improvements with Pres. Nixon's scrapping of the would be speculative," he added. But the projected use city completes its $10,000 revision of member of the commission and San Works Department $10.000 to revise including a better presentation of Department of Housing and Urban of the stadium raises another an environmental impact report on lose State University student, its impact report. traffic, air, noise, and litter factors Development's [HUD) college question. the joint city-campus profit sharing contended the report Was incomplete, According to Larry Benson, San around the stadium. housing program. Why has the city council, without venture, scheduled for construct ion failing to consider the environmental lose civil engineer, the project's bon- "As you know, I have consistently "I'd like to see both stadium expan- going to the voters, unanimously ap- early next year. effects expansion could have on ding attorney asked the report be felt that a serious effort must be made sion and married student housing," proved expansion when the city Although the expansion from residents of the 148 unit Spartan City changed because several "general" to comply with the California En- Dean Burton said. lacks any major sports enterprises? 18,000 to 37,000 seats is not expected community. elements were lacking in the original vironmental Quality Act of 1970," he Bill Allison, Auxiliary Enterprises Councilman Joe Culla said the wrote. manager, said. "We just won't get any council voted for the plan because it Beall believes Spartan City will be more married student housing as will serve as a "multi -facet" facility included in the revision because "the long as Nixon is in office." for various university sports as well city wants to be sure this project is Allison, who wrote a proposal over as high school teams. He said th.. okay." He cited recent legislation, the summer for additional married expansion could attract a profes- effective last week, making impact student housing said Spartan City sional football exhibition. reports more detailed and stringent. "just isn't the most desirable place to Colla explained the issue was not 'rhe city doesn't want to get sued live." Although he has yet to see the put before the voters because he said because of a shoddy impact report," city's original impact report he they would not understand the total Beall said. believes expansion could produce merits of the project. Parking lot? hazards to residents with increased "Somebody should take the Beall became more vocal last week noise and traffic levels. leadership," he added. when he claimed at a student plan- Spartan City may go Ills apparent university officials ning meeting, Spartan City might "I don't want to lose what we've have been sensitive to student become a parking lot. Beall's remarks got," he said. "But eventually it is criticisms of the project. confirm the apprehensions of some of going to have to go." Soon after university, city. and the residents of Spartan City (see And Spartan City was supposed to business officials met with ap- related story). go, at least according to the prehensive student representatives But city and SISU officials do not university's 1972 "Environmental in February of 1972, Pres. John H. forsee any major hazards or the Quality Report" on the stadium Bunzel sent a memo to Dean Burton closing of the university owned com- expansion. asking him to find "some way of munity when expansion is com- "The University plans to replace minimizing (student) objections." pleted. the South campus student housing Since that time the city and Executive Dean C. Grant Burton, with permanent facilities in another university have quietly reached a who has been coordinating the location as soon as funds are joint-operating agreement under university's role in the project for available for the purpose," the report which the university provides the close to a decade, said he does not see stated. land while the city pays the bill. any adverse effects for the residents Even if Spartan City remains, city The Board of Trustees has yet to of the community. Parks and Recreation official Bill approve the agreement. Spartan City dwellers blast U.S Maori It Spartan Stadium is expanded and Spartan City. the married - 'push' for stadium expansion students housing complex is torn down, children like David and Love story? Monica may not have a place to live and play. Some residents of Spartan City municipal projects as more im- resident of the Santa Clara Valley. believe the city of San Jose as well as portant ways to use the city's money. "If they expand the stadium they Wednesday, April 1 1 , 1973 the university have more important However, some residents would can kiss this (Spartan City) good- priorities than "pushing" stadium not give their names, fearing bye," he said. expansion. repercussions from university of- He said Spartan City provides the Although a number of the residents ficials regarding their views. residents with children the op- couldn't say one way or another what One of these was a 31 year-old pos- portunity to continue their education environmental effects could result tal clerk living on the Seventh Street without worrying about large mon- from expansion, they did view side with his wife and two children. thly rents. He said the area also Spartan Dail. student housing and housing for the He would only give his first name, provided the children with Serving California State University at San Jose Since 1 934 elderly, as well as improved John, and said he was a long time recreational facilities not available around the campus. "Without it it will hurt a lot of kids bill who are finishing their education," Only 3 members debate John said. He believes expansion is a poor idea, that it will increase traffic hazards for children and an economic Council opposes '1 0 A.S. fee elimination disaster. He called it a "turkey." "I think with the increased traffic By JACKIE EASLEY implicatiri i Iiloll be sent to Johnson, Assemblyman the A.S. would be totally inellective necessary avenue of grievance- that the city will turn this into a giant size and GAIL SHIOMOTO Lack of knowledge John Vasconcellos, D-San lose, in funding these programs, yet none A.S. 159 would restrict. parking lot," he said. Last of a series The council, in response to a member of the Committee on of these are instructionally related He believes the functions of Melinda DeMatteo, who lives in San Jose State University's resolution proposed by Stephanie Education, SJSU Pres. John H. activities," she said. student government, although Spartan City West on Ninth Street Student Council last month voted Dean, voted unanimously against the Bunzel, and Assemblyman Leroy unknown to many students, are said, "I think the school has more im- Council member Greg English said unanimously to oppose Assembly bill, although debate over the issue Greene, R-Sacramento, a co-author necessary for proper student portant priorities than football. The the bill "would kill student Bill 159, but only three council was confined to three council of the bill. representation. city has a hell of a lot of other ways to government." members had ever seen the bill. members. spend the money," she added. She Ms. Dean, who sees the role of Ms. Dean said there is still hope of The legislation, introduced by An admitted lack of knowledge of an alternative fun- said housing is the most important. student government as a service- He proposed students influencing the Committee Assemblyman Ray E. Johnson, R- the bill's content was expressed by a which would in- oriented program said, "A.B. 159 ding method on Education decision later this Mike Brooks, a political science Chico, would put the funding of majority of the members present distribution of would be fine and good if we just corporate an equal month in Sacramento. major, said he did not know what related activities prior to voting. instructionally funded IRA, but we also fund other fees to IRA and student services. effects expansion might have on his student services in the Although voting in favor of the bill, "We are the official voice of the (IRA) and student services too." With $5 of the $10 fee going to the ad- community. hands of individual students.