ilaurltwtpr Sunny Sunny, cloudy today. i j U C j k * n j C D Wednesday morning, W C M I nC iT clearing in afternoon. Details on Page 2. yOVR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER • sin ce 1881 » Single Copy 25« • Home Delivery 20< m . M zone revamp I’.’'. I 'f T S I voted by board tions. By MARY KITZMANN and requirements. LAUREN GARBARINO Developers have opposed the M Besides eliminating scattered zone since its adoption saying the Herald Reporter. buildings and the^ousing mix, the mix requirement increased construc­ new zone incre'ates the square MANCHESTER — Despite strong tion costs and rent for condominiums footage which may be used for con­ opposition, the Planning and Zoning and apartments, cutting the struction. When constructing a two- Commission unanimously voted to profitabiity in multi-family unit con­ story multi-family dwelling the gross revamp the M zone, now Known as struction. floor area can be 30 percent for a the Residence Planned Development A special mayor's committee on two-story, instead of 20 percent for zone. housing conducted meetings with any level under the M zone. Under the-proposal by Alan Lam- deveiopers and recommended at the 'The effect is to increase the area son, town" planner, the RPD zone end of four months relaxing the M allowed for the housing type, and eliminates the M zone’s required zone. allow a variety of unit sizes. housing mix. During the public In October Lamson released his At the public hearing several hearing, about 60 persons objected to proposal and the public hearing was speakers noted the increased density. the change, saying it would destroy conducted in December. One speaker B.D. Pearl maintain^ residential neighborhoods the M zone Mexican President Jose Lopez-Portillo While eliminating the housing mix, the new zone promotes crowding, Juarez, Mexcico, and weR*wiI^ President sought to protect. walked swiftly across the border on the Cor­ the RPD zone relaxed density and which leads to other social problems elect Ronald Reagan Monday. (UPI nhoto) The M zone, introduced in 1972, is open space requirements. such as crime. dova Bridge linking El Paso, Texas and the only zone in which multi-family . The definition of multi-family housing could be built. But under it About four speakers, including a building, of three to eight buildings, one-third of an area’s total site must representative from the Manchester was withdrawn, but a restriction be used to construct apartments or Area Conference of Churches, Nancy placed on the number of buildings per Future meetings planned condominiums while the remaining acre. The RPD zone has a density of Carr, supported the RPD zone. two-thirds are restricted to duplexes no more than 10 units per acre, with Also speaking in support was and single-family homes. no restrictions on the number of units Robert Faucher. chairman of the The RPD zone eliminated the per building. This would allow defunct Mayor’s Committee on Con­ requirements, allowing developers to between Reagan-Portillo greater congregation of units, accor­ dominium Conversions. Faucher construct any or all types of housing ding to Lamson, and provide greater mmntained eliminating the housing WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ronald will and short on specifics. But the quoted as adding. within it. Although the M zone flexibilty in finding land suitable to mix would not threaten Reagan and.Mexican President Jose two made plans for additional There was no set agenda for the r^uired the mix, most developments RPD development as it will be easier neighborhoods, but y^uld make more Lopez Portillo plan a series of future Reagan-Lopez Portillo meeting and, since its inception received excep­ meetings, the next to be held within to meet open space and recreation housing available. meetings on the U.S.-Mexlcan border six months on the American side of according to aides, the president­ to follow up on a “discreet and the 3,IX)0-miIe border with Mexico. elect did most of the listening. elegant” encounter In Ciudad Juarez. The description "d iscreet and Despite the outbreak of new In Washington, Reagan termed elegant” was applied to the talks by violence in E l Salvador, where two Future of program Monday’s meeting “successful and Lopez Portillo, who also exclaimed Americans and a Salvadoran peasant wonderful” and said it “esU blishes. “Magnifico, senor presidente!” leader were slain, that stricken Cen­ the basis for having the kind of when Reagan said he wanted to put tral American nation was not dis­ friendly relations neighbors as close U.S.-Mexican discussions on a more cussed, Allen said. as we are should have.” to be aired secretly sound footing, contending there have Allen told reporters the initial talks Aides said the president-elect been only “half solutions” to many were “enormously successful” and By LAUREN DAVIS SHEA As an independent agency. said this decision was based on pre­ hopes to hold a similiar meeting at mutual problems in the past. said Reagan and Lopez Portillo got Crossroads is run by a board of direc­ the U.S.-Canadian border with Cana­ Herald Reporter sent realities. She said after inter­ "This discreet and e le g u t »»yy»ng tors comiuqiipd .qf (jUPlMnity dian Prim e Minister Pierre filUot will make for elegant im etliitltih the r^MANCHU<C«a Oanoral. viewing all involved parties, the task The meeting was in sharp contrast meiriuei s'. CKmi unra Is a c to n s t n r W ee Relieved tYonroads’ was not Trudeau in the near future, possibly future,” said the Mexican presldpnt. Manager Robert Weiss has called a to the often strained relations child agency of the Drug Advisory financially independent, had no before Inauguration Day. Reagan’s foreign policy adviser, secret meeting for Monday morning between President Carter and Lopez Council. prospects of becoming finanically in­ Reagan crossed the Cordoba Richard V. Allen, sat in on the to discuss the future of Crossroads, Portillo. Members of this council include dependent, and thus should become Bridge connecting El Paso, Texas, meeting and quoted Reagan as the local substance abuse agency. A among others Judge of Probate an offshoot of its funding body: the with Gudad Juarez, to spend two saying, “I have the feeling we have Allen said it was “very recent report recommended the town William Fitzgerald, Superintendent town. hours with Lopez Portillo just south significant” Lopez Portillo walked to takeover the service. spent too much time talking at each of Schools Jam es Kennedy, Savings of the Rio Grande border. He later Weiss Monday called the upcoming The Executive Board of the Com­ other instead of to each other.” the American side of the Cordoba Bank of Manchester President flew on to Washington. session "a staff meeting to munity Services Council voted to “Perhaps we have talked too much Bridge to first greet Reagan, calling William John and Weiss. The get-together was long oh good familiarize me with all the issues.” recommend the Crossroads agency and listened too little,” Rpa<;»n was it a “highly symbolic” gesture. The DAC has existed for 10 years, He added the meeting will be remain independent. \ and at a June meeting its members closed because “It would be inap­ While the task force report and the decided to ask for outside advice on propriate to have the press present at executive committee vote of the the direction the agency should Whereabouts still not known staff-type sessions held to knock out Community Services Council appear follow for the coming years. By United Preu International out of the Iranian Foreign Ministry in attempt, on Dec. 23, to transfer them policy.” to be at odds, efficials stressed this DAC officials decided they are too The United States concedes it does Tehran over the weekend to an un­ from the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Those attending the meeting will wasn’t so. close to the different agencies having not know where all 52 American known location. include the staff of Crossroads, an influence on drug controls, and Ms. Wilson said her task force hostages are being kept and is con­ The three had been at the ministry "They hesitated to be transferred which is presently an independent thus felt an objective agency would focused on realities, while she felt cerned but denies three of the cap­ since Nov. 4, 1979, when they went without knowing where they were organization. Others to be invited in­ be better able to decide the council's the executive committee focused on tives scuffled with Iranians who tried there after Iranian militants seized going, or why, or who in authority, in clude members of the Drug Advisory future. philosophy. Executive Committee to move them. the U.S. Embassy to begin the 14- Council, the Manchester (Community senior authority, had so ordained for At the same meeting, the officials members were concerned that if The reports of a fracas surfaced month drama, now in its 430th day. Services Council Executive Com­ them to be moved. So they indicated heard from resigning Crossroads current financial realities were after three hostages — Bruce State Department spokesman John mittee, the MCSC Usk force, and Director Steve O’Donnell. He argued allowed to dominate, and Crossroads Laingen, Victor L. Tomseth, and Trattner said Monday the three they did not wish to be moved. And “some of my own people,” Weiss was made a town agency, the people Michael Howland — were spirited successfully rebuffed an initial they were not moved.” said. the DAC should continue but include with drug and alcohol problems more community residents instead of would become reluctant to disclose “the powerbrokers who now make up their addictions.