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/ . • * East Hartford PZC approves apartment plans... page 9 JHanrl|f0tpr lEuptitug UpralJi A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 Vol. XCVII, No. 217 - Manchester, Conn., Thursday, Juno 15, 1978 Single Copy 20 Cents New office among housing plan goals By GREG PEARSON town’s government. The subcom The subcommittee also Herald Reporter mittee proposed two alternatives for recommends a review of existing providing housing services in town. zoning and subdivision requirements. A subcommittee of Manchester’s One proposai, which is endorsed by Some of these may be cost-inflating, Community Development Advisory the subcommittee, would be to es the report says. Committee has developed a draft tablish an Office of Husing and Com It suggests review of such items as report of proposed housing policy munity Development in the Human lot size and density, minimum in goals for the town. Services Department. terior space, roadway width, granite The report includes suggestions It would include an employee to curbing, storm sewer drainage and that the town take such far-reaching serve as the town’s housing coor other environmental requirements. steps as establishment of an office of dinator and would oversee housing- Other steps that might be taken in Housing and Community Develop related matters, such as grant clude the following: ment and review of zoning applications, preparation of the • Promotion of housing programs requirements that may result in in Housing Assistance Plan and im which offer a proportional mix of creased housing costs. plementation of the proposed housing subsidized housing. This would The nine-page report will be the policy. achieve “spatial deconcentration of subject of a public hearing Monday at The endorsed proposal also in lower-income families,” the report 7:30 p.m. at the Mayfair Gardens cludes expansion of the housing im says. Community Hall. Copies of the plementation functions of the • Promotion of housing which report are available for public in Manchester Housing Authority. offers clustered developments — spection at the Human Services of The second proposal mentioned in “Thereby reducing housing costs, fice. the report would be the establish conserving energy and preserving Before any of the recommen ment of a Department of Housing Manchester's environmet,” the dations are adopted by the town, they and Community Development within report says. Constuction of con Clowning around at school have to be approved by the entire the town government. This depart dominiums, row housing, duplexes, Community Development Advisory ment would absorb the duties of the multi-family homes and garden Committee and the Board of Direc made up children’s faces with clown make MHA. The MHA’s staff would be apartments would meet this goal. Youngsters at the Early Learning tors. The committee has scheduled a transferred to this department. up. Here he paints a smile on the face of The subcommittee report also Resource Center at Robertson School meeting June 28 to vote on the Both proposals include the es suggests that the town government clowned around Tuesday morning. David Laurie Smith. (Herald photo by Pinto) proposal. It plans to present its tablishment of a Housing Advisory act as a housing advocate and Tabatsky, a clown from Arts Encounter, proposal to the directors at the Committee to monitor housing provide information to residents board's July 5 meeting. programs and a Housing Task Force about all housing assistance The subcommittee has worked to to review housing plans and coor programs. develop a profile of the present dinate efforts that effect the town’s The town should “Maximize oppor housing market in Manchester. Its housing conditions. tunities for homeownership while en Police resume digging nine-page report includes suggested The advisory committee would be suring that there is a diversity of housing goals and ways of meeting made up of community membrs; the housing opportunities available to them. task force would be made up of town Manchester residents of all economic Some of the steps mentioned in staff department heads, according to levels," the report says. to search for bodies clude the direct involvement of the the siibeommittee’s proposal. WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. to a laboratory for blood tests. (UPI) — Police today resumed chur “ Really, Chief (Thomas! Police in New York City believe ning up the ground behinij the tightly McNamara is doing the right thing the victims may have been picked up guarded hut of a mysterious pawn here by digging — if there are bodies in Greenwich Village and brought to CD panel OKs school broker, in search ' of the alleged — to wait until we give up and then the shack where they were graves of “six or seven” suspected lead everybody right to the spot and homosexually assaulted and tortured homosexual rape victims. tell them to start digging,” said a before being slain and buried. A second backhoe was brought to police officer standing guard at the Only the bones of a dog have been as new senior center the scene today to join another which property. found since police began searching during the previous two days dug Residents along Piper Road where the property Tuesday. By SUSAN VAUGHN amendments to the plan in the area Center and the Board of Education deep furrows into sections of a 4-acre there are many $50,000 homes, Appleby, who owns a pawnshop in of fair housing. A $20,(XX) allocation to show that the Green School would Herald Reporter plot owned by Kenneth Appleby, 27, described Appleby as living across Springfield, has pleaded innocent to implement the fair housing plan was cost about $4,000 a year more for accused in a New York warrant of the street from some of them in the being a fugitive from justice and the The Community Development Ad part of the $519,000 approved by the utilities. That amount is without the kidnapping. squalid tarpaper shack hidden behind kidnapping charge. visory Committee gave is support to CD committee for the entire fourth improvements such as insulation and Children, some with their curious high stockade and wire fences. the acquisition of Green School by year plan Wednesday night. new windows. Mason said. Insulation parents in tow, began to assemble at Wednesday, a judge ordered Authorities said attention was the Senior Citizens in a vote at the In a report to the committee would cost about $9,000 and new win the scene, which is surrounded by Appleby held on $100,000 ball on a kid centered on Appleby after New York school Wednesday night. Wednesday, Alan Mason, Human dows about $30,000. two tall fences erected by Appleby, napping charge while police used a City police talked to a man who was The vote was taken after a group of Services director, presented infor He also said the parking spaces at which give the garage-sized shack backhoe to dig up the ground around an alleged rape and kidnap victim senior citizens who attended the mation relating to the use of Green Green School number 32 in the and land behind it a fortress-like the hut. and who later turned informant. meeting asked for the endorsement. School by the senior citizens. Figures parking lot and about 15 on the street. appearance. Inside the one-room shack, police Authorities said Appleby’s home had Prior to the vote, the committee ap obtained from the Senior Citizens Police have obtained a 10-day seized a cache of swords, chains, been under surveillance for two to proved a $223,000 allocation for a new —See Pune r»ehe search warrant on the property and whips, guns and drugs and took them three weeks. senior center, as part of the fourth year Community Development Plan, but it was noted by Alfred Stern, com mittee chairman, that the allocation, Inside today did not name the Green School Solon accuses state specifcally. Irene Bissette, chairwoman of the Manchester Connecticut senior , citizen building site com The Community Development Commerce Commissioner mittee, urged the action by the CD Advisory Committee has ap Edward J. Stockton, in a talk of ‘hiding’ contracts committee, noting the hard work by proved a plan for loans to Talcottville, predicted a bright the seniors put into the efforts to absentee landlords in the down economic future for the state. See HARTFORD (UPI) - Sen. MacKinnon was lired by Gov. Ella to put together a list,” Mrs. Owens acquire the school which will be town area to improve substandard page 2. closed next week. Richard Bozzuto, R-Watertown, T. Grasso' last month. She said he said. “But I started going throug . rental units. See page 2. today accused the Department of was bullying employees trying to do files, anyway.” The seniors presented the CD com Skies promise to be clear The nation Public Works of trying to hide the their jobs. MacKinnon, however, said “All of a sudden Bill Mill, (public mittee with petitions containing the tonight for graduation exercises information officer for the Ad names of 1,288 senior citizens who for Manchester High School and The House votes to deny pay in names of the contractors, engineers he was trying to get politics out of the creases to itself, all upper-level ministrative Services Department) support Green School as a center. East Cathoic High School. See and architects getting state work. agency. He said his efforts were government officials and judges, ”We can only assume they are told me there was a problem and that There was no opposition expressed page 12. blocked by Charles “Chad’’ to the acquisition by the CD com and to cut its expense allowances. trying to hide the fact that those McColIam, Mrs. Grasso’s chief aide. I would have to stop going through mittee Wednesday.