Suit Considered for Pool Grading

24 Pages Friday, February 29,1980 University of California, Santa Barbara VoL 60 No. 90 1 . w a A Suit Considered affi. gàf ¿ . -UH.' Vt -’í»* '?7 *"; > r IS I S Ü Ä For Pool Grading .... ;■** * •• J Jjpifrfff' mi Ti - f e r — By BARTON MERRILL himself at an earlier supervisor's Litigation against More Mesa meeting, so I can’t understand why developer Donald Simonsen is he went ahead and did this. ” being considered by the Regional The Coastal Commission is Coastal Commission because he considering litigation against allegedly has filled in the mesa’s Simonsen but refuses to discuss the only Vernal pool. issue prior to a final determination The pool, a sanctuary for en of exactly what has occurred on dangered and migrating birds and the mesa and the extent of damage a source of water and insects for to the Vernal pool. the mesa’s animals, is located near A possible fine of $10,000 could be areas presently used for levied upon Simonsen if he is found agricultural purposes. Egrets, guilty. white-tailed kites, and short- When contacted Simonsen earred owls use the pool as a said,“ I don’t know anything about resting spot. the Vernal pool. I leased the land to In December, residents of Hope Tom Johnson to grow Ranch contacted Dr. Larry (Please turn to p.9, col.2) Bickford, an officer of the More Mesa Land Trust, and told, him that the land had been graded. U.C. Employee Despite a lack of Coastal Commision approval, developer Donald Simonsen Bickford went to More Mesa and allegedly went ahead and graded More Mesa’s only vernal pool. took pictures of the newly plowed field. Is Booked By After seeing the extent of the damage, Bickford wrote a letter to Channel Islands National Park the Regional Coastal Commission “ to protest this obviously blatant Campus Police destruction of the Vernal pool,” Michael Anthony Moya, a for Proposal Approved by Congress Bickford said. mer lab technician for the Kerr According to Bickford, on Feb. 7 Learning Resources Center, was By JULIE POWELL 19 and by a 67-6 vote in the Senate introduced a similar bill to the a large land grader came back into arrested Feb. 20 and booked on A bill to place five of the eight two days later, the bill includes the Senate. the area to level off the land. Due charges of burglary and possession Santa Barbara Channel Islands islands of Santa Cruz, Ana capa, Before the legislation can go into to heavy rain it got mired in the of stolen property from the lear into the National Park system was Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, and effect, the National Park Service mud and had to be towed out. ning center. passed by Congress this month and San Miguel. must establish a management plan More Mesa, a 315-acre parcel of Moya, 25, confessed in an in is now awaiting President Carter’s Congressman Lagomarsino (R- for the park. Extensive studies land fronting the ocean between terview with detective Tom Nelson signature. Santa Barbara, Ventura) authored must be completed for each island Turnpike and Patterson Roads, is of the Campus Police that he had Passed unanimously by the the House version of the bill. to determine visitor capacity and best known as Santa Barbara’s stolen two photograhic lenses from House of Representatives on Feb. Senator Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) the effects of public use on the nude beach. Most of the land is the storage cabinets of the learning natural environment. Currently, uncultivated and remains a center and sold them to the Santa there is only limited access to natural preserve. Barbara camera shop, Discount Leg Council Urges Lid some of the islands and a permit is Columbia University presently Photo, for $300, according to required. owns the land, but has leased it to police. Presently, the Channel Islands Simonsen. Simonsen was granted In conjunction with Moya’s On I. V. Rent increases provide an endangered habitat for approval by the county Board of arrest, Discount Photo’s co-owner some plant and animal species Supervisors in November to and operator, James Alan Butler, By PATRICIA TURNER congressional bill H.R. 4223, which which exist nowhere else in the develop 300 housing units on the was arrested and booked Tuesday A letter asking private landlords would declare the Stanislaus River world. Among these are the Santa mesa. on charges of receiving stolen in I.V. to limit their annual rent near Yosemite, a national wild and Cruz Island Pine, the Santa Cruz Currently some of the land is property. Butler, 37, had allegedly increase to seven percent was scenic river. Island jay, and the Santa Cruz used for growing gypsophilia (or failed to record the purchase of the unanimously endorsed as part of According to Jeff Schloss, a Island fox. All the islands are Baby’s Breath). The Vernal pool is lenses and denied knowing that an ongoing effort to halt spiraling member of Friends of the River, considered to be a valuable adjacent to the gypsophilia fields. they were in the shop. housing costs by A.S. Legislative the Stanislaus is currently being resource as a refuge for rare and “ This land is not a productive In mid-February the in Council at their Wednesday night threatened bv the exnansion of the ancient species and for the study of piece of property,” said Bick vestigation that resulted in Moya’s meeting. (Please turn to p.7, col.3) (Please turn to p.9, col.2) ford.“ Mr. Simonsen said so _____(Please turn to p.3, col.4) Scheduled to be published in this Monday’s Daily Nexus, the letter Outraged at Metropolitan Edison attacks local rental companies for recent rent increases of ap proximately 32 percent. These The Three Mile Island Resident Blues increases are double the 15 percent rate of inflation as stated in the By DAVID KENT work news program s,! they Consumer Price Index. Three residents of Three Mile moved 100 miles away and Representative Tibby Rothman, Island recounted their personal remained there for 32 days. co-author of the letter, emphasized experiences during last year’s Smith evacuated also, |but the need for tenants to actively infamous nuclear accident to a returned eight days later because fight what she feels are unjust rent UCSB audience Wednesday. her husband, who chairs the hikes. Patricia Smith and the Michael Board of Supervisors of the “ Now it’s time for tenants to Glucks all charged that they had Newberry Township, had decided come forward actively. We’re been denied their “ right to know to stick out the crisis. Other of getting screwed once again and I what’s happening,” and all three ficials were not so conscientious. don’t even think tenants realize repeatedly expressed outrage “ My husband called the civil quite how bad it is unless they start that the Metropolitan Edison defense official and found out understanding that the landlords’ utility denied that any significant that he’d already evacuated that excuse of inflation has absolutely accident had taken place during day,” Smith said. She added that no foundation,” she said. the first two days of the crisis her husband is still organizing Currently Rothman is meeting which began on the morning of evacuation plans for the com with Supervisor Bill Wallace March 28. munity and refuses to move regarding the possibility of an Isla “There were two major away. Vista rent control measure, as well releases of radioactivity on “ My husband feels he should as planning rallies and a possible Wednesday and Thursday, stay as an elected official,” she rental strike in order to protest March 28 and 29,” Gluck said, said, “ but I ’m not going to stay. rent increases. “ and Met. Ed. totally denied that So I have a choice. Or rather, I “ What we’re interested in doing anything was going on. On the don’t have a choice." is showing to the big rental com first day the news said that no “ The psychological effect is panies our anger and frustration at radiation had been released and staggering,” agreed Gluck. paying their bogus rental in that everything was under “ We’ve definitely lost our sense creases,” Rothman said. control, so Kay, my wife, who of security in our homes, Rothman also stressed her was seven months pregnant at At a lecture yesterday, Patricia Smith recounted her (property values have plum meted so most families can’t preference of private landlords the time, stayed outside for quite experiences at the Three Mile Island accident. over rental agencies. “ We feel that awhile weeding the lawn. Then on move), and there’s a lot of mental private landlords in the past have Friday the governor asked all anguish throughout the com been much more understanding of pregnant women and preschoolers within a five-mile radius to munity. their tenants' situation and evacuate. “ Every day until our child was born was pure anguish," he added. problems than large rental “ I was very angry and very scared," said Gluck. “ I still fear for his future health. companies,” she said. Anticipating the governor’s warning, the couple had evacuated Gluck, an internist, said that he “ had a patient who lived only one In other business, Leg Council their home and were already ten miles away by Wednesday night. mile away (from the reactor). I advised her to leave town and told voted unanimously to support The next day, after watching conflicting reports on local and net- (Please turn to p.7, col.l) F R ID A P A G E 2 DAILY NEXUS Y.

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