Jlanrlipatpr Mpral/i Tuesday, Dec. 6. 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Drainage threatens mail work By Nancy Concelman for comment today. Manchester Herald Larry Costello, a spokesman for Homart, said today the The town may have to is.sue a company has hired a soil scientist stop-work order to the developers to evaluate erosion-control mea­ of the Pavilions at Burkland Hills sures at the site. The scientist will if continuing erosion problems at probably conduct an inspection the mall site aren’t corrected, the on Wednesday, he said. town planning director said But, Costello added. "W e're Monday. confident that we’re meeting all Planning Director Mark Pelle­ the regulations.” grini told commission members The state Department of Envir­ they may have to require the onmental Protection has also Homart Development Co. of threatened to take enforcement Chicago to install additional action against the mali devel­ erosion control measures at the oper, Pellegrini said. site of the $70 million mall. Responding to a complaint At the Monday PZC meeting, from Cathy Lankford of B.'sa Pellegrini read a Dec. 2 letter Tolland Turnpike that runoff Rtglntld Pinto/Manchtsttr H«rald from Zoning Enforcement Of­ from the mall site is polluting a IT RUNS THIS WAY — Eighth District President Thomas were meeting Monday to iron out differences over the ficer Thomas O’Marra to com­ pond near her home. DEP i nspec- Landers, left, explains part of a map showing lines proposed agreement between the town and district. mission Secretary Leo Kwash. tors checked the site Oct. 13 and between town and district jurisdiction to town Directors Story on page 3. O’Marra said in the letter that found that some erosion-control Ronald Osella, center, and Theunis Werkhoven. They numerous visits to the mall site devices needed minor repairs and during spring and summer others were "not adequate” to showed “several deficiencies” in protect watercourses and ponds maintenance and installation of near the site. erosion control measures and Senior Environmental Analyst inland-wetlands protection A Marla Butts, who checked the site Road opponents called a ‘minority’ compliance inspection is sche­ in October, inspected it again last duled for Wedne.sday. week. Butts would not comment By Nancy Concelman Purnell Place and Oak Street reconstruction. portation to conduct an environ­ "It is anticipated that the Monday on the latest inspection Manchester Herald A group called ADAPT. A “ There’s no misrepresentation mental impact study on the results of that inspection may because she said hadn't com­ Downtown Association to Pre­ whatsoever,” Marlow said. effects of the access road. The require action by the developer pleted her report and sent a copy A group which has threatened vent the Thoroughfare, is circu­ Representatives of the Down­ statement is required by state subject to the jurisdiction of the to Homart. legal action to block construction lating the peiition against the town Manchester Association and federal law, Beck said. (Planning and Zoning) commis­ Lankford complained that her of an access road during the $15 road among downtown business hope to meet with Mayor Peter P. Beck said ADAPT wants to sion,” O’Marra wrote. pond is turning red and said she million Main Street reconstruc­ owners. The group is headed by DiRosa Jr. this week to discuss cooperate with town officials, but Pellegrini told PZC members feared runoff from the mall site tion project has little support Dr. Robert Fish. Heritage Group business owners’ feelings about left open the possibility of legal that the developer has tried to may be polluting the pond and from downtown merchants, the president, who said he will the road, he said. Fish said action to block construction of the combat the erosion-control prob­ underground wells that supply president of the Downtown Man­ present the petition to the Board Monday the directors have been access road. lem but hasn’t been completely her with drinking water. chester Association said today. of Directors, led to believe that most downtown successful. Apter said the suit should have Bernard Apter said business Fish said Monday that there is business owners support it. been filed years ago. when the O’Marra could not be reached See R U N O FF, page 10 owners are being misinformed widespread opposition to the Apter said he didn’t think the road was proposed. The recon­ about the project and coaxed into road, but Apter said today many directors would risk sacrificing struction project is scheduled to signing a petition opposing the downtown business owners aren’t the entire reconstruction project begin in spring 1990. access road. He criticized aware of the exact plan for the because of the opposition of what The Downtown Manchester As­ Nathan Hale PTA members of Heritage Group, road. ADAPT members are pres­ he called a minority. sociation has been meeting with enting the road proposal in a which owns an office condomi­ “ I don’t think they (ADAPT) Heritage Group representatives negative way, telling business nium on Main Street, foropposing have much ground to stand on,” over the past few months to help the road. owners they’ll lo.se parking spa­ Apter said. ’’They’re only inter­ them find parking spaces in has remap option Heritage officials claim the ces, Apter said. ested in them.selves, not in the another area, he said. road will result in the loss of 30 Fish could not be reached for betterment of downtown.” "This plan has been in effect for parking spaces. The road plans comm ent this morning but Manchester attorney Bruce three years.” Apter said. ” If we By Andrew J. Davis versial redistricting plan un­ also would require moving or ADAPT member George Marlow Beck, who represents ADAPT, don’t go ahead with this plan. Manchester Herald veiled by the school administra­ demolishing part of a commer­ said downtown will lose close to said Monday the group has asked Main Street will never be tion last week calls for the cial building at the east corner of 200 spaces during the overall the state Department of Trans­ reconstructed.” Parents of Nathan Hale School students to attend Martin School next school year. pupils, disgruntled with a redis­ tricting plan that would .send their The school administration plan children to Martin School, have was drafted to accommodate the drafted another redistricting reopening of Highland Park Gorbachev has moderate face for U.S. proposal that would allow many School in September of 1989. The to stay put. plan, proposed by School Superin­ By Mark J. Parubcansky Wednesday. During his trip he human rights, a settlement of York is expected to become a The Assaclated Press will also address the United regional conflicts, and the devel­ The plan proposed today by the tendent James P. Kennedy on ” hom-honking urban paralysis” Nations, visit Cuba and Great opment of bilateral relations,” Nathan Hale Parent-Teacher As­ Nov. 28, has drawn heated of Americans seeking to get a MOSCOW — President Mikhail Britain. It said Gorbachev's decision to glimpse of the Soviet leader as sociation would keep pupils opposition from many parents. living on School and Wells streets The administration plan also S. Gorbachev departed today for In a dispatch by a diplomatic address the United Nations was a thousands of Christmas shoppers New York, where he is expected correspondent distributed sign of Soviet regard for the world at Nathan Hale School. A contro- would change boundary lines for pack the streets. to put a moderate face on Soviet shortly after Gorbachev’s depar­ body as an "indispensable mech­ In a front-page report from Buckley School and would reduce Nathan Hale’s enrollment by foreign policy and show himself ture, Tass said Gorbachev in­ anism in the quest for a peaceful New York, the government news­ E d u c a to r s about 100 pupils so the school eager for arms control progress tends to discuss the entire range solution to international issues, paper Izvestia pointedly told its with the new U.S. administration. of U.S.-Soviet issues with Reagan for resolution of crisis situations, readers that Gorbachev’s behav­ could become a magnet school. A The Soviet leader and his wife and Bush. and for settlement of other global ior at the U.N. will differ magnet school draws pupils from throughout a community with a Raisa left Moscow's Vnukovo 2‘ "The Soviet leadership intends problems.” markedly from Nikita S. Khrush­ o n w a y to specialized curriculum. airport about noon on a gray, to talk about important substan­ In several reports on the eve of chev’s shoe-thumping in 1960. slushy day. tive matters Concerning real The school board is scheduled Gorbachev's departure, official Izvestia, without naming He was being accompanied by political cooperation between the to vote on the administration media emphasized the new style Khrushchev, recalled ” how our arbitration top foreign policy advisers For­ two countries on the broadest of Soviet diplomacy and the need leader looked then in the hall of proposal at its Dec. 12 meeting. The Nathan Hale PTA ap­ eign Minister Eduard A. Shevard­ range of problems, including the for speedy progress on arms the General Assembly, how he nadze and Politburo member state of affairs and prospects for control issues when Bush takes By Andrew J. Davis proved the alternate redistricting jumped up from place, trying to Alexander N. Yakovlev, and by further headway in the fields of office in January. Manchester Herald plan at its Monday meeting. Debbie Streeter, one of the Deputy Premier Vladimir Ka- arms limitation and reduction.