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By ANNE-MARIE DOWNEY
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Planning Board Tuesday
recommended denial of a special use permit for the
conversion of Graham Court Apartments to
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The Planning Board split 3-3 over the proposed
conversion until Chairman Roscoe Reeve cast his vote
against the request.
The proposal has met strong opposition from Graham
Court tenants.
The Planning Board voted against the conversion of
the 24-unit apartment complex on McCauley Street,
despite the town planning staffs recommendation that
the special use permit be granted. Both the staff and
Planning Board recommendations will be sent to the
Town Council for a vote on Feb. 11.
Part of the debate over the proposed conversion
focused on the legality of issuing a special use permit for
the Graham Court complex, which currently does not
confo"Ti to the town's zoning requirements because of
its large size. The town's zoning laws were passed after
the 20-year-old apartments were built.
Opponents of the conversion argued that since the
Graham Court Apartments are a non-conforming use,
the special use permit should not be granted. But Town
Attorney Emery Denny said a special use permit could
be denied on this basis only if the conversion increased
the nonconformity of the use. Condominiums would not
be more nonconforming than apartments, he said.
With the legal issues dismissed, the Planning Board
discussed whether conversion would violate Chapel
Hill's Comprehensive Plan, which outlines town growth
and development goals. The plan encourages a mix of
housing in town neighborhoods. -
Reeve said he voted against the conversion because he
felt the change from rental units to condominiums
would violate the Comprehensive Plan by decreasing the
stock of moderately-priced housing in that area.
, But, Chapel Hill Planning Director Mike Jennings
said he did not believe that the change to condominiums
would diminish the neighborhood's variety of housing.
Rental housing is not always moderately priced, he said.
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Frederick Mueller, UNC physical
education professor and chairman of the
review board. "We're interviewing girls
from the sorority and members of the
fraternity. We've been charged with
looking at the fraternity and its past
history and also to look at this latest'
incident ' and make a response to
Boulton."
The strongest sanction the committee ,
could recommend is withdrawing
University recognition of the fraternity
and closing its doors, Mueller said. The
lightest sanction imposed could be some
sort of probation, he added.
An earlier article in The Daily Tar Heel
reported that the Student Honor Court
was supposed to begin its investigation
into the incident sometime last week.
Student Attorney General Gary Jones
would neither confirm nor deny reports
that the Honor Court investigation into
the incident has begun, saying that all
cases his office handles are strictly
confidential.
Tim Lucido, outgoing president of the
Interfraternity Council, said she IFC is
waiting to see what action Student
Affairs takes before considering any
further action.
uWe don't want to submit the fraternity
to any type of double jeopardy," he said.
Lucido added that if the. I FC was satisfied
with the sanctions imposed by the Zeta
Psi national chapter and the Office of
Student Affairs, then it would formally
condone those sanctions. However, if
these sanctions are not considered
sufficient, the IFC will take actions it
deems appropriate, Lucido said.
Actions the IFC could take range from
. social probation to revocation of Zeta
Psi's membership in the IFC, he said.
McElroy said the provisions taken by
the Zeta Psi alumni against the UNC
chapter of the fraternity and some of its
individual members, include the
following:
The Alumni Board of the fraternity
will assume supervisory control over the
UNC chapter. This control includes but is
not limited to supervision of the
fraternity's finances, activities and
conduct.
No organized social functions,
parties, mixers or gatherings may be
held by the fraternity for an indefinite
period of time, at least through the 1 979
1980 academic year, including summer
school.
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Each member or pledge of the
fraternity as of Dec. 2 must participate in
a campus and community aid program,
collectively contributing a minimum of
500 hours of community and campus
service before June 1.
There will be no further Christmas
parties at, in, or by Zeta Psi fraternity at
UNC. ...
A $50 fine and possible suspension
will be imposed on any Zeta Psi member
for internal or external damage to the
fraternity house. ,
The chapter will issue a formal
written apology to Alpha Omicron Pi for
its conduct Dec. 2. (This apology already
had been presented to the sorority.)
The Alumni Board will publish the
rules and regulations of Zeta Psi and
present these to the UNC vice chancellor
for student affairs. These rules are to be
unconditionally accepted by each
member of the UNC chapter.
If there is no unanimous written
consent and future adherence to these
rules, the Alumni Board for the UNC
chapter will take action to close and
dissolve the active Zeta Psi chapter.
The three individuals suspended from
the fraternity cannot set foot in or on the
property of the Zeta Psi house at UNC,
and cannot attend any social function
organized by the fraternity. Violation of
this directive will result 'in permanent
expulsion of these individuals.
If further investigation results in the
suspension of .other individuals, they
shall be subject ",to, the same rules of
suspension.
Zeta Psi at UNC had its charter
revoked once before in 1978 for excessive
rowdiness. .. '
Yack' photo exhibition
An exhibition of photographs by
members of the 1980 Yackety Yack staff
opened this week in the South Gallery of
the Carolina Union.
Both black-and-white and color
photographs are on display, including
some pictures from the 1980 edition of the
Yack.
The exhibit will continue through the
end of January.
The 1980 Yack may be ordered for $1 1
1-5 p.m. weekdays in Suite D of the
Carolina Union.
By JOHN ROYSTER
Suff Writer
The town of Carrboro is studying a
proposal to implement a Public Safety
Officer program, based on a report
submitted Tuesday night to the Carrboro
Board of Aldermen.
The report was prepared by Kennon
Briggs, a North Carolina State U niversity
student doing research under a Public
Service Fellowship.
If adopted, the program would select
and train police personnel to perform as .
firefighters, the report said.
"This group will retain their capability
as policemen, but will, be reclassified as
Public Saftey Officer. In a fire
emergency, they.. .will be capable of
performing as firefighter-engineers," the
report said.
The report praises the effectiveness of
both the police and fire departments in
Carrboro but predicts that adjustments
will be necessary in the future as the
number of fires and crimes increase and
as Carrboro annexes more land.
The report said the PSO program
would help curb rising costs by
eliminating the need for hiring additional
firefighting personnel in the near future.
The aldermen referred the proposal to
their Procedures Committee for further
study. The committee will probably meet
in February, Carrboro Mayor Robert
Drakeford said.
Fire Chief Robert Swiger, Police Chief
Sidney Herje and Town Manager
Richard Knight also will meet on an
undecided date to discuss the proposal.
"It wouldn't be an expensive thing to
implement," Drakeford said. Initial
investment would be about $15,000, he
said, and further costs would not be great.
They (the aldermen) don't want to
shove anything into the faces of the
citizens." Drakeford said. "But if the cost
is right, and the people want it, then we'll
go ahead with it."
"It's not going to hurt us any," said Fire
Chief Swiger. "As a matter of fact, it
would give us more personnel in the
daytime.
"The report was very well put together,
but there are still some things I'm
concerned about."
Swiger said equipment costs are one
thing he intends to find out more about
before giving his approval to the
program.
Public safety programs already have
been implemented in Durham and
Chapel Hill, and Carrboro officials
agreed that those towns have experienced
some problems with the system.
"I don't think Durham has had quite
the problems with it that Chapel Hill
has," Drakeford said. "I know (Chapel
Hill has) had a large turnover in the
program."
Drakeford said problems other cities
have had with PSO programs would not
necessarily occur in Carrboro. Carrboro
officials agreed that the proposal should
be considered for its possible merit to
Carrboro, without too much emphasis on
occurrences in the other cities.
At Tuesday night's meeting, the Board
of Aldermen also announced that troops
from the Army's 18th Airborne Corps,
stationed m Fort Bragg, will assist the
town in clearing land for a new
community park. The soldiers will work
in April or May.
Carrboro Town Manager Knight also
told the aldermen that the state
Department of Transportation has
announced plans for improvements to
North Greensboro Street between
Weaver Street and Estes Drive
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