I Section rosse Pointe ews A VOL. 42-NO. 35 "'''II.h.cf •• Slcood CI... Melf., .1 the '0.1 Office .1 D.lroll, Mlchl'.11 GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN, THURSDA Y, AUGUST 27, /981 JOc '" Copy 42 Pages-Three Sections $13 '" Veor Woods approves downtown zone Members of the St. Paul Vaca. tion Bible School held a song filled program last Friday entltled "All By Gregory Jakub Things Bright and Beautiful." The Grosse Pointe Woods city planners set the stage this week for program consisted of songs. crea. allowing the development of a "downtown" district at the 12.5 tive dramas, dance and finally, a launch of prayer balloons over acre site of the 7-Mack Shopping Center. Lake St. Clair that had children The Woods Council and Planning Commission Monday night and parents alike soaring nearly as reviewed a proposed "high intensity Clty center ciistrict" pIau wI1;~;' high as the balloons they released. the council adopted as a chapter of the city's new zoning ordinance As the balloons floated above St. on Aug, 3. Paul Church Shores Trustee Patti Galvin and her twin children John The plan provides the Jegal guide. ert Fraley concurred that the city and Julie, " wished them a happy lines to encaurage the deveJopment of center plan is partially aimed at head. voyage. a combination commercial, office, and ing off the hospital's expansion. Photos by Tom Greenwood residential complex similar to those While most of the talk was about in downtown Kalamazoo, Grand Rap. the possibility of high.rise develop- ids, or Chicago's John Hancock ment at the 7-Mack site or possibly Center. el,ewhere in the Woods, there were According to the plan developed those who advocated maintaining the by Gerald Luedtke and Associates, city's current "low. profile" of single- Inc., the high Intensity city center family detached r':lsidences. district's purpose is to "crea,te a "THE MAJOR ISSUE is how much strong community focal point and to intensity of residential and commer. promote welfare by enhancing. the cial does this city want," said Rogers city's tax base." summarizing the options open to city The exact location of the city cen. (Continued on Page ter district will be in the revised 2M zoning map to be finalized later, Although the plan would allow high rise developments, city officiaJs Man drowns built in certain controls that will al- low the city to determine the size and shape of such projects. at Neff Park Even though a downtown develop- nlp-nt project could be 20 years away, there was a sense of urgency at Mon. By Susan McDonald day's meeting caused by the Woods' Lake St. Clair claimed its rapidly expanding neighbor-St. John Hospital. third victim of the season in Grosse Pointe on Wednesday, St. John's parent company, the SI. Aug, 19, when a 39-year-old 81. Clair HeaJth Care Corporation, owns Clair Shores man drowned after the 7-Mack Shopping Center. Woods a late night boat ride. officials said that part of the city C'enter pJan's purpose is to protect The victim was Gerald E. Lamb, of their tax base by preventing the hos- St. Clair Shores, a truck dril'cr and pital from developing the 7-Mack father of four children. area ,on a tax~xempt basis. Police said the accident oc:urred "(The Woods) has no desire to after Lamb returned to the City's have Sl. John make all their prop. Neff Park Marina at about 1 a.m. erty taK exempt. (The new ordinance) Wednesday after a cruise with his keeps all of Grosse Pointe Woods' wife, mother-in-law, and brother and tax base at least 85 percent taxable," sisters.in-Iaw, City Public Safety Of. accarding to Woods' planning can. ficer John Onstwcdder and his wife. sultant Brandon Rogers of Parkins/ Witnesses said Lamb was the first per. Rogers and Associates, Inc. who in. son to get off the boat and was seen corporated the city center plan into standing on the dock. the new zoning ordinance. "When we looked again, he was • Woods City manager Chester Peter- just gone. There was no splash, no Teleprompter begins cable tests In sen and Planning Commissioner Rob. yell, nothing," said PSO Onstwedder. Police, Co..st Guard and volunteer divers searched the lake until 2 a.m. By Susan McDonald ing the system's accuracy. The test nology equi'pment needed to conduct Association at the time the unusual, will last about 90 days after all 200 the tests, according to Grosse Pointe five-city cable TV franchise agree. when Lamb's body was found under Two hundred Grosse Pointe volulfteers have been signed up and City Manager Thom'lls Kl'essbach. ment wa!. developed. Inside the hull of a large sail boat by vol- City households will be asked to insta'!led. I unteer Leon Sehoyan. He was de. help Teleprompter Corp. test City Councilman Lorenzo Browning, Under the agreement substantiaJ Business 12A clared dead on arrivaJ at the hospital. Councilman Rober,t Nugent, who who last year abstained from votes control and profit from Grosse Cable TV, local 13A new, computerized meter read- Two other per.!)ons have died this reviewed the proposal, said it could on Datavision tests because he is a Pointe's television system is placed in Classified 3C ing devices under an agreement summer in the lake off Grosse Pointe. even,tually saVe the -city money by company official, voted in favor of the hands of the War Memorial As. EditoriaJ, , , 16A approved last week by the city Gregory Wojcik, 15, of Ridgemont reducing the manpower needed for the agreement with Teleprompter. sociation, through a non. profit cor- Feature , 14B council. Road, drowned June 25, after he manual meter reading. poration called Grosse Pointe Cable Obituaries 6A City May David Robb, abstained TV, Inc. Other shareholders in Grosse Prime Time .4A was struck by the propellers of a The tests will make me of Grosse "We have no doubt about the tech. from the Aug. 17 vote on Teleprompt. Pointe Cable TV are Teleprompter Society 1-8B cruiser. That acd:lent occurred ab::>ut Pointe's recently installed cable TV nology. We 'believe we'll be doing a er tests because he "has represented and the five cities which awardeu SpOrts 1.2C 200 yards out from the Crescent Sail lines to tran&nit water meter data to service to citizens," Nugent sa,id. Teleprompter and Grosse Pointe their franchises in 1979: Grosse Club where witnesses said Wojcik a computer at a remote location. The Cable" as an attorney. The measure Pointe City, Farms, Woods Park and • Deadline Change: Advertisers was swimming with two friends on computer I1rocesses the information OLher advantllges to the system, was approved by a 4,0 vote, wHh Harper Woods. The Shores' contract who want pJacement in the Society a rubber raft. No charges were filed and hills are printe-d, re-ady to mail. according to' Nugent, are its ability Councilmen William Montgomery and and Sports Sections of the News' againE,t the driver of the bont. to lie in burglary and smoke alarms went to a Cox Cable system in George Henry absent and not voting. southern Macomb Caunty. Sept. 10 edition must submit their The objectiVe af Ule test is to prove for 24-hour a deay service. If the copy by 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, be. A Detroit man, Stanfer C. Brook. system is adopted by ~he City after shire. 47, drowned June 5, after he that this new service is a "reliable, Mayor Robb has been one of a The law firm, Rickel, Urso, Wok as, cause of the Labor Day holiday. accurate and cost eUeclive aHernative the tests are compJete, alarm services handful of local residents at the Earle and Robb, also has represented News Section adverti.sing deadline dove into the Lake near Windmill to manual meter reading," according may be offered for a l>rice,he said. forefront of cable development in Teleprompter and Grosse Pointe remains Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 11 Pointe Drive to swim to friends in a to Teleprompter's Robert D. Bilodeau. Grosse Pointe, both as mayor of the Cable TV, Inc., in legal matters, in- a.m. Efforts to call classified ad. boat. Brookshire, known as "Chicko," (j,irector of new service development. The new round of tests are simlJar City and in other capacities. He is cluding the recent sale of more th:m vertisements in by Friday, Sept. 4, fished regularly off shore near the to ones conducted over telephooe legal partner of John' Rickel, who $7 million in bonds to finance im- aJ~o will be appreciated. Helin property. His bodv was found Teleprompter will eventually oUer Jines more than a year ago by the was president of the War Memorial provements to the system. several days later ill' the Detroit firm Datavision. severaJ dozen City River. the service at a cost to GrOSSe Pointe City and other communities in which hCOles were involved with those ex, it has franchises. periments which proved successful, accord:ng to company offieia'ls. Plans and progress on Hill set in concrete TEST HOUSEIlOLDS will not be This time, the data will be trans. requiret! to subseribe to any cable mitted over Grosse Pointe Cable, Inc.'s By Tom Greenwood Reached in his office, Cottage Hos. TV services. accord.ing to Tele. Bologna told the council on Aug. 24 coaxial Jines, made af a core of wire, pital Administrator Ralph Wilgarde with the apening uf three !lew busi- prompter's Bilodeau, Participants must that he found conditions on the Hill surrounded by foam, surrounded by The proposed builders Df a confirmed that the hospital is still nesses in the last fcl\' weeks, plus ;,lIow the firm's representatives in.