Report Says UMG Site Quake Prone

L A U T N E X U S Vol. 60 No.44 University of California, Santa Barbara Monday, November 12,1979 ¿ É -i Report Says UMG j a y ¿ .u & ' Â ÉÜ ' ' « S V ' J l i l i l í Site Quake Prone Jf ÊÊÉ By KAREN CLABEAUX Richter scale near the Pt. Con The proposed liqified natural gas cepcion site. terminal site at Pt. Concepcion Pt. Concepcion is located near may be subject to large ear the Arroyo and Beach faults, a set HH h £ ( H § % £ $ P -7$ i lg§f¡!|3 thquakes from the Santa Ynez branching from the larger Santa fault according to a U.S. Ynez fault, located three miles from the project. Geological Survey Report released ç by the State Resources Agency last If the terminal is constructed, O week. over 900 million cubic feet of h The survey said that possible natural gass in liquid form will be ® ruptures at the earth’s surface unloaded daily at the site. •i n could reach as high as 7.5 on the Approved in July, 1978 by the i Public Utilities Commission, the o if site was ordered to undergo ex « -i \ ‘r i la. U.C. Regents tensive seismic investigations. 5 X Incomplete as yet, the exploratory ¿Sí." i ® digging has been slowed due to the Visit Livermore objections of Indians protesting the Last week’s rain showers caused this stream at Red Rock to swell. For today’s placement of the terminal at a site considered sacred. weather forecast turn to page 2. The Geographical Survey Report Laboratory Site noted that the area of the site is To observe firsthand the rising by as much as one-eighth of Supervisors Alter Land Use Plan operations of the Lawrence an inch a year, but because of Livermore Laboratory, the limited data, the survey team was University of California Regents’ unable to make any further To Limit Coastal Development Committee on Special Research estimations. Projects visited the facility last Endorsed by Governor Jerry By HELEN BASSHAM been opposed by landowners in the vote; Bill Wallace and Robert Tuesday and Wednesday. Brown, the Pt. Concepcion site has Development potential in much area because it removes their Hudlund supporting limitation of Although all 26 of the regents been called by Norbert Dahl, a of the local coastal zone was option to subdivide and sell down to extensive development and Robert were invited to attend the meeting, Sierra Club lobbyist, as “a political limited by the board of supervisors five-acre lots. The minimum acre Kallman and Harrell Fletcher only a few besides the ten on the fix” to give Brown an energy issue at a special meeting held Wed limit serves to maintain favoring such development. David committee showed up. to use in his presidential bid. nesday to re-establish land-use agricultural land in parcels too Yager represented the swing vote. University of California Lee Stitzenberger, a designations. large to be subdivided into lots Kallman maintained that President David Saxon and the spokesperson for Citizens to In the Carpintería Valley the viable for non-agricultural pur agriculture was viable in five-acre directors of the four laboratories, Protect Pt. Concepcion com supervisors changed the poses. parcels, but Wallace claimed that the Lawrence Livermore mented, “We basically construe designation from five-acre The move to install 10-acre the five-acre estates would be Laboratory, the Lawrence this (the report), to be. walking .minimum parcels to ten-acre minimum parcels in the Car owned by “gentlemen farmers, not making use of the land.” Wallace Berkeley Laboratory, the Los (Please turn to p.12, col. 4) minimum parcels. This had long pintería Valley passed with a 3-2 Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and added that he thought larger the Laboratory of Nuclear parcels were needed to prevent Medicine and Radiation Biology at Coops speculation. UCLA were also present. These Proposal To Establish In More Mesa, the board voted to labs are operated under contract allow the development of 300 units with the U.S. Department of of housing. Originally, one Energy. As Alternate Housing O ffered developer had requested 540. The According to an LLL By PATRICIA TURNER students,” Thompson said. “We and the incentive to keep the land had been zoned for spokesperson, since DOE sets the A proposal to establish more wouldn’t have as bad a problem as apartments in good condition. agriculture. research goals and the university’s university-owned coops as an we have if we had more coops.” Under the coop system,students Santa Barbara Shores, an un work is mostly administrative, the alternative form of student Absentee ownership, high rental have direct control and developed 233-acre lot, was committee is merely an “oversight housing was presented Thursday rates and the declining quality of management of their building. designated under a one-acre-per - group’’ whose periodic visits are to university officials by the apartment units are among the “The people who benefit from the dwelling development in a cluster “more nominal than anything Rochdale Housing Coop in coor housing problems which university coop are the same people who work housing system. The local coastal else.” But because the university dination with the Isla Vista coops could help alleviate. At on it,” said Patty Newman, program staff had called for a 100- is involved with the laboratories, Community Development Cor present, “students don’t have manager of the Rochdale Housing acre minimum parcel size limit. said the LLL spokesperson, the poration. control over their buildings,” said Coop. Wallace recommended a rural, or regents “just like to keep abreast Citing the present student James Green, director of the CDC. “Rapid turnover of ownership” agricultural designation for the of what we’ve been doing. ’ ’ housing shortage, CDC Currently, over 90 percent of Isla is one of the factors cited by the area. Current zoning allows William A. Wilson, the com representative Frank Thompson Vista apartments are owned by proposal as responsible for high development of 1,072 units. mittee chair, said the committee is emphasized the ability of student non-residents, thus forcing I.V. rental rates. For Haskell’s Beach, the “a liaison between the Board of coops to give students a measure of students to communicate their According to Don Winter, supervisors passed a recom Regents and the four control over the I.V. housing needs through rental companies assistant vice chancellor of ad- mendation for subdivision in 40- (Please turn to p.12, col.2) market. “They reserve spaces for which generally lack the means (Please turn to p. 12, col. 1) (Please turn top.12, col.l) Local Church a 'Potentially Dangerous Situation' Sources Say EOC has Total Authority Over Members By STEVE BARTH disgrace them, as they have seen done to friends. Identifying what they believe to be a “potentially Church leaders challenge these sources to meet dangerous situation,” several sources have openly with them. “If there’s someone who thinks responded to a series of Nexus articles on the they’ve been treated unfairly, we are willing to meet Evangelical Othodox Church claiming that the with such people,” said Bishop Jack Sparks. church exercises total authority over the lives of its Bishop Richard Ballew added, “Let’s not sneak members. around in the dark, let’s come out into the light.” After that series, which ran in the Nexus from Oct. Referring to former members of the church, Ballew 17-19, the information in this second series of articles said, “We’ve got a complete record on every case. ” has been confirmed by over 24 sources and hundreds Initially many sources expressed concern over the of pages of documents. EOC’s attempt to gain political power in Isla Vista. One former member commenting on this said, *“I This is the first in a series about the power structure would say you’ve got a very serious problem.” within the Evangelical Orthodox Church and its ef Church members Gary McFarland, David Lewis fect on the community. In tomorrow's paper the and John Sommer were elected to local office last second part of the series will outline the history and Tuesday; McFarland to the Goleta Water Board, development of the Evangelical Orthodox Church. Lewis to the I.V. Sanitary District and Sommers to Many people around the country seem to fear the the I.V. Community Council. With these church power of the few leaders of the EOC. Of the former members gaining office, some believe the EOC will members and associates of the leaders of the EOC take over the town. contacted by the Nexus, more than two dozen refused “Ultimately,” said one former member, “I think to allow their names to be associated with their they want total control of I.V. Their goals from the comments. beginning- to convert ‘sin city’ (I.V.) into spiritual Some fear for their personal safety. When one city.” woman told her husband she was going to talk with While some were hesitant to use such strong terms, Richard Ballew, bishop of the Santa Barbara Diocese the Nexus, he warned, ‘“tf your’re going to use our others fear that the EOC has the potential to do as name, I’m going to go out and buy a gun.” For the much damage as the People’s Temple. One former of the Evangelical Orthodox Church and one of the most, part, however, the people contacted are afraid member called the situation,.“a powder-keg.” Some dgQpmination’s founders. ................ ................... the leaders oT the church would attempt to publicly < Please turn to p.8, coL3) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1979 PAGE2 DAILY NEXUS HEAIDONIEIES' The State The Nation_____ The World SAN FRANCISCO — Butchers Union mem MIAMI — 10 small U.S.

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