A Mighty Leap Forward Well Into the 21St Century Under Way at CSUF

Property of Fullerton Public Library, Local History Room Community and Fine Arts Calendars p. 9-12 Fullerton Observer Fullerton’s Only Local Independent NewspapenpHnted on recycled paper) No.259 May 15 , 1996 Council Reverses Council Stiffens Earlier Decision Rental Housing To Transfer Hous Inspection ing Rehab Monies Program Owner requested strength to Repair of C ity ’s ened Code to take effect in 60 Infrastructure days. _________ By Jack Harloe________ Plan to transfer $300,000 of Growing concern over steadily deteriorat CDBG funds for lighting, ing conditions in the Baker Street and Garnet alleys, sidewalks and street areas has prompted the Council to ask city staff to recommend measures to strengthen reconstruction canceled on city efforts to clean up stressed neighbor surprising 3-2 vote. hoods, first begun in October, 1990 with By Jack Harloe Operation Cleanup in the 300 and 400 block o f West Valencia. On April 16 Council, while approving City Development Services Director Paul CDBG fund expenditures for many other Dudley reviewed past efforts, characteriz agencies and programs, voted to study the Marc Fresquez, 10, and Alexandra Fresquez, 12, of the Fullerton Feeders, ing the present approach as a program with feasibility of using $300,000 in Community Breeders and Seeders 4-H Club, won Best of the Show in the canning and a “soft hand.” Soft or hard, it is obvious, Development Block Grant funds to support drying categories at the 17th Annual Youth Expo, which ran April 19-21 at the Dudley said, that not only must more strin gent measures be applied, but that many the city engineering effort to reconstruct Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. street lighting, alleys, sidewalks and street individual apartment house owners, stressed reconstruction. to the limit, are demanding positive enforce After meeting with the Community De ment. velopment Citizen’s Committee chaired by Many were in the council chambers audi Le Nelle Cittadin, city staff and the CD CC A Mighty Leap Forward ence Tuesday, May 7 when the council con jointly arrived at a decision to recommend sidered the problem. Ironically, also in the reducing the amount to be transferred from audience was Rich Lambrose, an executive the Housing Rehabilitation Program to Well into the 21st Century o f the Apartment House Owners Associa $200,000. Cittadin told the Council that if tion of Orange County. she had her “drothers” she would stick with Lambrose urged the city to keep its efforts her Committee’s original recommendation “complaint driven”, so that owners could to use the money for housing rehab, not city Under Way at CSUF expect specific action only on individual infrastructure repair, but that the proposed conditions, not an ordinance-driven, recur $200,000 transfer was “acceptable and ‘Computer Telephony Integration’ a first any ring, reinspection program in which owners workable.” would feel uncertain about the future. Councilmember Jan Flory moved to re where in the U.S., maybe the world, official says. Apartment house owners in the audience, turn to the policy recommended by the By Carroll Gewin expressing themselves as favoring tough CDCC on April 16. Councilmember Julie Using funds authorized by the State for the new system. As the campus has reinspection, did not seem to share Sa, saying that all of the [CDBG] money is Legislature two years ago, Cal State Fuller grown, staff, faculty and students required Lambrose’ philosophy. needed for rehabilitation o f rental housing ton is well along the road to completing an more and more telephones, a strain on the The proposal presented to the Council was in the three city target areas of W. Baker St., ambitious $10 million project that will cata system. in the form of an amendment to Title 6 of the Valencia Drive, and the Garnet area, quickly city municipal code governing annual rental pult the campus’ communications capabili New technology, in the form o f fax ma seconded Flory’s motion. Sa had previously housing inspections. Dudley described its ties well into the 21st century. chines, exacerbated the problem. Each time voiced a willingness to use such funds only purpose as “to extend and expand the rental a fax machine was installed, another tele for seniors and the disabled. First step in the huge job was to hardwire housing reinspection program by redesig The ensuing vote was 3-2 (Norby, the entire campus with fiber optic cables, phone line was required. nating the 2300 block of W. Baker Avenue Godfrey opposed). That quickly, what ap replacing old-fashioned copper wire, to ac Thirdly, the proliferation of personal and Valencia Drive as target areas and add peared to be majority support for employing com m odate a state-of-the-art-and-then- computers and modems added to the prob ing the 3000 and 3100 blocks of Garnet Lane more CDBG funds for the city infrastructure some digital communications system that lem, since they, too, required more phone (E. Fullerton) as a third target area.” turned into majority support for not using the links together telephones, computers and lines. Importantly, Title 6 would be amended to funds for that purpose. fax machines, according to Gene H. Dippel, allow for enforcement of property mainte Fiber optics, which have hundreds of City officials had intended to employ an associate vice president, information and nance violations, eliminate the three-year times as many channels for voice and data equivalent amount of Federal HOME funds sunset clause, and establish fees. telecommunications service, who is heading communication than copper, will allow the to replace the CDBG drawdown on housing The amended code defines the applicable up the project. school to embark on the next step in the rehab funds. However, Federal regulations target areas, describes in detail the rental The advanced PBX system, called “com process, replacing 3,000 existing telephones limiting eligibility of recipients would have housing inspection program, specifies an puter telephony integration,” will be the with advanced digital models. limited or made their use for this purpose appeal procedure, details costs of inspec only one of its kind in the United States and more complex. Requests for proposals will soon be issued tions, and lists reinspection fees. Earlier, on April 2, 1996, Mayor Norby, probably the world when completed, Dippel to AT&T, Rolm Corp., Northern Telecom But underlying the pragmatic efforts o f and Councilmembers Sa and Godfrey indi- said. and Fujitsu Corp. to bid on the job, estimated the city to ensure decent standards in the Continued on p. 7 Many factors have contributed to the need Continued on p. 7 Continued on p. 15 MORE INSIDE Kennedy Hon- “My Car-Free Life” by Dennis Lueck Page 3 ored on Com- City Council Approves Hillcrest Park Master Plan ‘In Concept’ Page 4 fc W mission’s 25th ■jflfA M It’s Spring, but Thoughts Are Turning to Politics; Not Love Page 17 Birthday pages I Troy High School Science Olympiad Team Is State Champion Page 20 FULLERTON OBSERVER Bulk Rate Commentary Page 3 **C020 CAR-RT Sort Council Doings Page 4 POST OFFICE BOX 7051 Jim & Nadene Iyens U.S. Postage PAID School Subjects Page 5 FULLERTON, CA. 92634 1229 Crestview Drive Permit No. 1577 About Fullerton Page 6 Fullerton, Ca. Fuilerton CA 92633 Classifieds Page 15 Property of Fullerton Public Library, Local History Room Page 2 FULLERTON OBSERVER NEWS May 15,1996 Hughes Selects Commonwealth Bicyclist of the Month for May Partners to Form Strategic By Ralph A. Kennedy Mrs. Louise Schatzman of West gasoline prices. “Cycling is really good Brookdale Place in Fullerton can’t drive exercise for me, and is saving me money Partnership for Fullerton Property an automo besides,” she Hughes Electronics Corporation an preciative of the confidence Hughes has ex bile because noted. nounced today that it has selected the firm of pressed in our firm,” commented Michael o f her hy Mrs. Commonwealth Partners as its strategic part W. Croft, one of the principals of CWP. pertension; S c h a t z m a n ner for the planning and disposition o f its “We believe this site represents one of the but she came to Ful nearly 300 acre site located in Fullerton, most significant planning and development doesn’t let lerton from California. opportunities in Southern California,” added that stop her New York in The North Orange County property was Croft. from get 1950 and has developed By Hughes beginning in the William D. Messori, Manager of Real Es ting around lived on West 1950s, and has been used primarily by de tate for Hughes, stated that Hughes “is very town with B r o o k d a l e fense businesses. At its peak, over 12,000 pleased to align with Commonwealth, whose her “adult sin ce 1958. employees worked at the location in almost principals have extensive experience in tricycle”. She is the two million square feet of space. planning and developing major sites compa Equipped mother of 8 As a result o f reductions in the Defense rable to the Fullerton property, while also with both children, two budget, Hughes closed virtually all o f the working successfully with cities and com foot and o f them step facility at the end o f last year. Hughes had munity groups in a responsible manner. hand brakes m children from been considering various options for the “We view this property as the highest real for safety, her second property, before announcing its decision to estate priority for Hughes, and we are anx and 3- h u s b a n d ’s align with Commonwealth. ious to move the process to completion as speeds for first marriage.

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