to - MANCHESTER HERALD, Tuesday. Sept. 17, 1985 MANCHESTER FOCUS SPORTS WEATHER Town logs complaints 11 Too many tomatoes? 11 New backfields key Fair, cool tonight; on housing violations 11 Then make lingulne! 11 for MHS football |sunny on Thursday The convenience ... page 3 ... page 13 ... page 11 ... page 2 oi five more cigarettes per pack. ilaurhcHtcr Mcralb Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village____rsi Charm_______ * \A/oHnooHflwWednesday, Sept. 18, 1985 — Single copy: 259 Plan seeks m to shape town through 1995 By John F. Kirch Herald Reporter f t v . The Planning and Zoning Com- Inside: miagion today proposed the adop­ \K tion of a comprehensive poiicy that Manchester's increasing would guide land use and zoning changes in Manchester for the next population is getting older 10 years. and finding more employ­ Members of the PZC and the ment in town. m town planning director released the proposed new Comprehensive ... p age 4 Plan of Development this morning AI at a news conference in the Lincoln With the creation of new Herald photo by Tarquinlo Center hearing room. housing zones in which proposed new plan of development was released. The The 38-page plan — the second of densities are designed to be Planning Director Mark Pellegrini explains details of a its kind for Manchester — and two map behind him designates the town’s preferred land different. Planned Resi­ map marking Manchester’s road classifications during a accompanying zoning maps define news conference this morning at which the town's usage for development. the town's goals and objectives for dence Development will not housing, the economy, transporta­ be a “floating” zone. tion and community development through 1995. The new plan would ... p a ge 4 replace a 1963 plan that officials Relief is finally in sight for have said is almost useless. Town needs new roads, plan says A public hearing on the plan will planning officials in conducted by the PZC on Sept. 30. Manchester, who have The Planning and Zoning Com­ ing spurred in the northern section After considering the comments Town officials anticipate little mended that it “ be reviewed operated for years without a mission recommended the con­ of town by the widening and made at that hearing, the commis­ relief from highway construction periodically as planned develop­ struction of four new roads to help relocation of 1-84, the plan said. sion will decide whether to revise viable development guide. activities, including those related ment occurs” because of antici­ accommodate anticipated growth “ The resulting employment and the plan before adopting it, ... editorial, page 6 to 1-291, that are expected to be pated heavy demands on the over the next 10 years in a proposed population growth is expected to members of the PZC said today. completed by 1995 “ since they are street. new Comprehensive Plan of Devel­ The proposed plan is based on offset some of the benefits of the intended primarily for interstate The plan also proposes reclassi­ opment for Manchester released four years of research by members 1-84 widening,” the plan said. or intertown traffic, ’ ’ the plan said. fying some of the roads to keep today. of the town staff and the PZC, who The plan also lists a number of pace with recorded traffic volumes amendment to the zoning regula­ In the southern end of town, the studied social and economic trends problem roads in town. Among the and growth. tions brought about by the new The plan recommends building plan said, benefits expected from in Manchester over the past 28 roads that have reached or are ' plan would be looked at individu­ roads between Buckland Street the connector being built between years and used those trends to approaching their capacities are The plan also lists as one ol its ally as it come before the PZC. and Hale Road north of Interstate 1-84 and 1-384 will be lessened by predict future growth. Main Street, West and East Middle objectives a “ systematic upgrad­ Public hearings would be held for 84, between Buckland and Slater the fact that 1-384 ends in Bolton. The PZC also reviewed com­ Turnpike, West Center Street, ing of roads.” To that end, each amendment to the streets south of 1-84, between Should the highway eventually be ments coming from the commun­ Broad Street and portions of developers would be required to regulations. Keeney and South Main streets, extended to Providence, R.I., the ity, commission members said. Tolland Turnpike. Ail of those subject more comprehensive traf­ The plan is broken down into and between Charter Oak and town could expect reductions in The PZC would update the entire roads have high accident rates, the fic studies with development prop­ three major policy categories: Spring streets. traffic on Center and Spencer ■*5^' plan every five to seven years if the plan said. osals and the town would develop -Mj land used for commercial and The first two are intended to streets, Middle Turnpike and Hart­ proposal were followed. Although Buckland Street was criteria for establishing road- industrial development; land used offset increased development be- ford Road, according to the plan. “ We have hundreds of pages of recently widened, the plan recom­ improvement priorities. for residential areas; and the Information,” Planning Director provision of public utilities and Mark Pellegrini said this morning transportation to urban and rural at the news conference, "and we areas. 6 more Britons expelled managed to get it down to 40 pages and these two maps.” The proposed plan was initiated Commercial Development by the PZC in 1981 and was Some members of the PZC completed after workshops this expressed concerns in June about Soviets fire latest diplomatic salvo summer. Pellegrini said that the commercial development trends proposals will help the town catch along Interstate 84. They feared up to development now under way. such development could spread By Louise Branson will make the rebuilding of our In Cairo Tuesday, Thatcher said fall, when Mikhail Gorbachev, Commission members called it a down North Main Street and into United Press International relations more difficult. That she hoped Britain’s expulsion of then believed to be the second- ILTER “ policy guide,” and a "blueprint" residential areas. rebuilding remains our objective.” the six Soviets would be the final most-powerful figure in the Krem­ to help both the commission and Those concerns were translated MOSCOW (U PI) - The Soviet The Soviet order was the latest move in the diplomatic battle. lin, made a highly publicized visit developers plan future in the new plan into proposals to Union today expelled six Britons — diplomatic barrage in a spy war “ We both have to live in the same to Britain. 5»r- • .-..i development. keep industrial and commercial five embassy officials and a that began last Thursday, when world and we do not wish to have Gorbachev later succeeded Kon­ “ f t (the plan) makes growth in the northern section of journalist — in apparent retalia­ British officials ordered the expul­ conflict between the Soviet people stantin Chernenko as Soviet F| L T e R Manchester an updat^ commun­ town. tion for the expulsion of six Soviets sions of 25 Soviet officials identi­ and our people,” Thatcher said. leader. Cl a r ity," said commission Chairman from Britain in the two nations’ fied as KGB spies by Oleg Western diplomats in Moscow G ( The plan proposes a “ special The latest list of Britons ordered T^Tes Alfred W. Sieffert Sr., who at­ “ spy war.” Gordievski, the KGB chief of said representatives of the Soviet mixed-use district” along the 1-84 out of the Soviet Union included tended the news conference along The British ambassador to the station in London who defected. Embassy in London were holding corridor Hhat would allow high- two diplomats, three embassy with other members of the Soviet Union, Sir Bryan Cartledge, Two days later the Soviet Union an urgent meeting with officials of intensity industrial, commercial employees and a journalist with commission. was summoned to the Soviet repsonded with the expulsion of 25 the British Foreign Office. and residential land uses. It is the the Reuters news agency. Six “ The plan is a policy guide,” Foreign Ministry and given a list of British diplomats, businessmen British officials had vowed that a only land the PZC would designate British journalists have now been Pellegrini said. “ The adoption of the six Britons ordered to leave the and journalists that it said were second expulsion by Moscow would for commercial, retail and service expelled from Moscow. this doesn’t necessarily change the uses, allowing existing shopping country. spies. bring another retaliation by zoning regulations.” districts to "fully develop and “ This is a vengeful and spiteful Britain called Moscow’s move London. “ I am extremely disappointed. The proposals, if adopted, would stabilize.” act directed against wholly blame­ “ totally unjustified,” and, on Mon­ The British-Soviet clash comes I ’ve been here for over two years be slowly im plem ent^ through “ I think everyone feels to take less people who have in their day, ordered another six Soviets to at a time when the Thatcher and I felt this was an exciting time revision of the zoning regulations, respective fields been working leave. government is seeking increased to be in the Soviet Union,” Reuters Pellegrini said. He said that each Please tarn to page 4 hai^ and conscientiously to im­ In I.A>ndon today, the British trade with the Soviets. Represen­ correspondent Martin Nesirky prove Anglo-Soviet relations,” Foreign office confirmed the new tatives of a Scottish trade delega­ said. l i g h t s 25 Cartledge said.