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The city would like to solve the parking Bill Cutler, director of business ser problems of its residents and businesses. vices for the Foothill Community College The district wants to be a good citizen District, has said that there would be an within the community by helping to solve even swap. Present parking lot asphalt the community parking problem and at the will be dug up and planted with grass and same time provide for the needs of its stu trees to compensate for the loss of any dents and faculty. green area turned into a parking lot. The easy way to solve the problem is to Cutler says that the problem is that dig up the orchard and lay down the as Flint patrons do not want to walk along phalt. Seems as though this has been our dark campus walks to get to the parking approach for many years. There is talk lots. He said that the orchard property will about food shortages throughout the world provide 350 new parking spaces. and we go right on laying down the as Another problem being considered is phalt. Are we the captors of the auto The Facu1ty -S ta ff House is surrounded the orchard and the use of perimeter campus roads which mobile? It’s a question on which we’d bet the grounds, as we'' as the orchard are open to students are used during the peak traffic periods by ter do some hard thinking. as a place to get away from i t all. commuters wishing to avoid the Stelling- Stevens Creek intersection. Bert Viscovich, director of public works EDITORIAL for Cupertino, says that the next step is the presentation of the engineers’ report in July at which time their directions will go out to bid. The City Council has appointed Master plan unreasonable the attorney and engineer for the assess ment district. The assessment district will be set up at an open hearing on July 15. If the M aster plan for the design of the De Anza be held on July 15, but according to Security Chief Richard Cutler stated that “ the legal clock has Campus is implemented on schedule, by the fall quarter a Aberago “ I don’t know whether students will be asked.” started in that the proJect has to be funded variety of maJor changes will begin to take effect. Of fore A nine man committee was formed to advise the board by the assessment district.” most importance is the tearing down of the orchard be of trustees of possible complaints and problems. It is Jim Jackson, Cupertino City Council hind Flint Center. made up of Chief Abrego, Opia, Campus president Robert member, says that more parking space is This raping of the last remaining block of wilderness Dehart, District director of business services, Bill Cutler needed, not just rearranged parking on campus represents an irrational use of the land and and others directly concerned with the issue. space. A petition with from 50 to 100 names wasted spending of money which this district could use so Eric Opia stressed that for each parking space put in, a has been received by the city of Cupertino effectively in other ways. present parking space would be town out and grass and from residents of the apartment on Mary, As we see it, the primary concern for paving over the greenery planted. Cutler estimated that the new lot would complaining about Sandpiper restaurant orchard is providing Flint customers with adequate park have 325-350 parking spaces and that as many as 375 patrons and Flint Center patrons usurping ing. Complaints have been raised by the Sandpiper res spaces would be ripped up. the apartm ent p ark in g spaces and taurant that Flint Center patrons park in the restaurant’s Bob Klang, Faculty Senate president elect, expressed creating a hardship on the residents. Jack lot. support for the proJect which would turn the present area son said when the new m ovie theatre com And yet on June 2, at 8 p.m. the night of a Flint en around the information booth and visitor parking lot into plex is built, the problem will be even gagement, a survey done by La Voz showed that of the green space. Thus no parking would be gained. We have to greater. 2571 seats in the center, 518 were filled. At the same time question the financial waste involved in tearing up an l l according to the reservation desk at the Sandpiper the existing parking lot and paving over an existing orchard. restaurant was filled and had a thirty minute wait. It is a definite waste of money and rape of ecology. Despite the restaurant being filled, only 53 of their 95 Even if the plan proposed more parking, De Anza doesn’t parking spaces were filled. need any more parking. Rand Tanner, former ASDAC Thus we can contend that on this night few of Flint president, estimated 70,000 people attended last Sunday’s Center patrons parked in the Sandpiper lot and that the De Anza Day and yet campus security reported no maJor situation described by the restaurant earlier has either parking problems. dissipated or that the Sandpiper exaggerated the situation Thus it appears that outside pressures are putting from the beginning. through the Flint Center parking lot in the name of con venience for the center’s patrons. It also appears the Others contend the lighting along the walkways from district is rushing the proJect, and using the August 1 parking lot A to Flint Center is poor. Yet Maurice Federal money deadline as an excuse for not getting more Galipeaux, district engineer, says the lighting is adequate public opinion. and that next year with the planned installation of M er little response has been solicited from the students, cury Vapor lighting, the walkways will have 25 per cent and we fear the silent months of summer will only add to more lighting. the uprooting of the orchard. Cutler has said that con The orchard, once part of the Euphrat complex, is now struction could be under way by Fall. owned by the district and is open to any students who wish La Voz strongly urges the advisory committee, and the The question of how to solve the traffic to use it. We found after talking to many students that few Board of Trustees to postpone their decision on the park and parking problems seems to have people knew of its existence. ing lot issue and scrutinize further student, faculty and several different sets of perspectives, According to Eric Opia, Faculty Senate President, a community reactions to the plan. An issue as important depending upon to which group one is decision will have to be definite by August 1 due to and expensive and permanent as this parking lot deserves listening. The faculty and students on Federal financing involved. An open public hearing will complete discussion. campus who are concerned with environ La Voz Staff La Voz Editors SERVICE Fdllor-in-Chief, Becky Young Marv Hurchert. leff llvler. Al Coffey. Tom Curran. Fer rvltH1 BLACK i WHITE- .Marla Stein nando Ifecena. Fred Kelli. Mark * > DEVELOPING & PRINTING - Kenton, Stephanie Karp. Hay Kong, P H O TO G R A P H IC ^ kooachrome movies t s i f d t s News Kditor. 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Sub scription and advertising rates upon request. Friday, June 7, 1974 La Voz Page 3 INQUIRING REPORTER Editorial B o a rd Students questioned w e lc o m e s on orchard issue in p u t WHAT COMMENTS DO YOU HAVE FLINT CENTER AND BUILD Learning is the most important factor in the Foothill CONCERNING THE PROPOSAL TO ANOTHER PARKING LOT? Community College District, but a Board of Trustee’s TEAR DOWN THE ORCHARD BEHIND meeting can be an education in itself. Mick Sullivan: What they are doing is Often the picture conJured of any controlling or senseless due to the fact that they have not governing board is that of a high tribunal seated aloft in looked for any alternative solutions to the its mighty formation, glaring down at any lowly being who Rich Schleef: They’ve already built problem.