Wednesday, October 26, 1983The Daily Tar Heel3
OWASA requests end of mandatory restrictions Council adopts revised thoroughfare plan
From staff reports
The Orange Water and Sewer Authori
ty called for an end to mandatory water
conservation measures Tuesday as the
level of University Lake rose to 39.5
inches below full.
OWASA sent letters to the mayors of
Chapel Hill and Carrboro and to the
chairman of the Orange County Board of
Commissioners asking for the removal of
Stage II mandatory restrictions.
OWASA spokesman Pat Davis said the
decision was based on the continued im
provement of the lake level and the recent
trends in water consumption.
The lake was 57 inches below full Sun
day but rose to 43 inches below full Mon
day. Tuesday the lake level rose to 39.5
inches below full.
Davis said water consumption in the
past few days had been averaging about 4
million gallons a day, considerably less
than the 5.5 million gallon target set by
OWASA when the crisis began. Man
datory clamps on water use were imposed
on Sept. 6.
The lifting of restrictions will become
official when local boards make procla
mations declaring an end to mandatory
restrictions.
But Davis urged water customers to
continue conserving water. Stage I volun
tary water restrictions will remain in ef
fect, he said.
Davis also said OWASA would stop
purchasing water from Hillsborough.
The local utility had been buying about
1 .5 million gallons a day from that town.
"The average daily demand has been
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Monday's consumption
level 4 million gallons
OWASA Target Level
S-S million gallons
dropping," Davis said. "We (OWASA)
felt fairly comfortable that we will have a
sufficient amount of water on hand in the
coming months."
New campus party wins seats on CGC
By MARK STINNEFORD
SUff Writer
A new progressive political party on campus scored its first
victories Tuesday, winning two seats on the Campus Govern
ing Council.
Carol Solow, a graduate student in the School of Social
Work, was elected to represent district 2. Solow, the only
candidate on the ballot, received 18 of the 19 votes cast in the
race.
Bill Barlow, a graduate student in the department of city
and regional planning, was elected in district 4. Barlow, who
ran unopposed, received 34 of 40 votes cast. Write-in candi
dates split the remaining six votes.
Solow and Barlow were sponsored by Students Effectively
Establishing a Democratic System, a coalition of campus
progressive groups. They propose making UNC a nuclear
free zone, establishing a water conservation plan for the Uni
versity, expanding UNC s anti-discrimination policy to bar
discrimination based on sexual preference and forcing the
University to divest its holdings in companies that operate in
South Africa.
Solow and Barlow were elected as part of balloting to fill
five empty graduate student seats on the CGC. Students
receiving votes in districts 3, 5 and 8 were all write-in candi
dates, and the results in thoe nr w?H probably not be con
firmed until this afternoon at the earliest, said Elections
Board Chairman Chris Cox.
In all, 107 votes were cast in the five races. Unofficial
results are as follows: ,
In district 3, 29 votes were divided between nine write-in
candidates. Bill Vining was the top vote-getter with 11.
Former CGC member Rebel Cole received 3 votes in the
race. Cole represented district 4 until August when he was
forced to resign because he transferred out of the district.
In district 5, 6 votes were divided between four candidates.
Alex Rossitch received 3 votes. The three other write-ins
received one vote apiece. Rossitch won the seat last February
but resigned shortly thereafter.
In district 8, 13 votes were divided among nine candidates.
Jeff Pitts was the top vote-getter with 5.
Cox said he received complaints from some graduate
students who said they didn't know about the elections. But
the lack of interest and information was partly due to the
small number of candidates, Cox said.
In the future, the Elections Board will give greater pub
licity to elections through campus publications, posters and
leaflets, he said.
"We should publicize elections, but not who's running or
what the issues are," Cox said. "That's the candidates' job,
not ours."
Grenada
From page 1
In London, the domestic news agency Press
Association said Britain had been asked to con
tribute troops to the invasion force but refused.
It did not say if the request came from the
United States or the Caribbean countries.
The Organization of American States called
for an emergency meeting in Washington this
morning.
Nicaragua's left-wing Sandinista government
asked for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Securi
ty Council.
The resort island has been under Marxist
sway since a coup in 1979. But in a new
upheaval that began two weeks ago, a military
. led group that was identified by Washington as
hard-line Marxists took command, and Prime
Minister Maurice Bishop and some of his top
officials were slain.
The new "Revolutionary Military Council"
was headed by Gen. Hudson Austin.
The U.S. administration said the island, 1,500
miles southeast of Miami, posed a strategic
threat-to the United States because Soviet-bloc
aircraft might eventually use the airport at Point
Salines, whose runway was being extended by
the Cuban work force.
Reagan, appearing at a White House news
conference, listed three reasons for the invasion:
to protect American lives, "to forestall further
chaos" and to "restore order and democracy."
The president asserted that the island had
been under the control of "a brutal group of
leftist thugs."
He said the joint operation had been
mounted at the request Sunday of the OECS.
But a senior State Department official in Wash
ington, who declined to be identified, said the
decision to invade was made in the "middle of
last week."
The prime minister of Dominica, Eugenia
Charles, appeared with Reagan before reporters
and said the operation was aimed at "prevent
ing this thing (Marxism) from spreading to all
the islands."
A Reagan administration official said
Grenada's British-appointed governor-general,
Paul Scoon, who had been under house arrest,
has the power to form a provisional government
that would plan elections.
Seaga told the U.S. Cable News Network that
the U.S. forces would remain on Grenada only
a few days, but the Caribbean nations' forces
would stay up to six months.
LOCAL ELECTION FORUMS
TONIGHT: CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN AND WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2: CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL
THURSDAY:
MAYORAL CANDIDATES, Carrboro Town
Hall, 8 p.m. The fjprum is sponsored by the
League of Women Voters.
CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL AND
MAYORAL CANDIDATES, Village Cable,
Channel 14, 7 p.m. The forum is sponsored by
Village Cable.
AND MAYORAL CANDIDATES,
Culbreth Junior High School, 7:30
p.m. The forum is sponsored by the
Chapel Hill Homeowners Associa
tion. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS TUESDAY, NOV. 8
By DEBORAH SIMPKINS
Staff Writer
After 10 months of foot-dragging and debate, the Chapel Hill
Town Council unanimously adopted a revised Thoroughfare
Plan Monday night. .
The town has been working from a Thoroughfare Plan
adopted in 1968. Since that time," town planners have made
several recommendations for revisions to the plan, but no
definite proposals were adopted.
The proposal that passed Monday, however, was not the
plan proposed by town planners in January.
The Estes Drive extension and the one-way pairing of Frank
lin and Rosemary streets were deleted to form an alternate
Thoroughfare Plan.
The Parker Road extension, the most debated element of the
plan, will cross the UNC Botanical Gardens as a parkway, as re
quested by the University.
As originally proposed, the Parker Road extension would cut
across the Mason Farm tract, used by the University for bio
logical research and teaching.
In February, UNC Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III
sent a letter to town officials asking that the adopted thorough
fare plan not include the Parker Road extension.
But University arid town officials recently reached an agree
ment on the proposed extension. Fordham said the University
would support the extension provided that several guidelines
were followed.
Those guidelines include restrictions on vehicle speed and
weight, highway width and designation. According to the stipu
lations, the road will be named the Laurel Hill Parkway.
Although the original plan called for the extension of Mc
Cauley Street to Merritt Mill Road, Chapel Hill Town Manager
David Taylor said Merritt Mill Road would be upgraded instead
of extended.
According to the plan, Pittsboro Street would be extended
across Cameron Avenue and West Franklin Street and join Air
port Road. This plan would require partial or total removal of
the Kappa Alpha and Zeta Psi fraternity houses and Walker's
Funeral Home.
The Pittsboro Street extension, another controversial ele
ment, remains part of the Thoroughfare Plan. Council member
Winston Broadfoot said he did not favor the extension.
"I personally don't like any part of it (the plan), but I'm go
ing to vote for it," he said.
The Thoroughfare Plan now goes to the N.C. Department of
Transportation for final approval. The adopted Thoroughfare
Plan will aid local governments in obtaining state funds for
specific road projects outlined inthe plan.
In other action, the council approved a 250-space parking
proposal to be developed on a town-owned lot.
Municipal Parking Lot 1 is located on the rear part of the
Post Office property extending to the area beside Rosemary
Street, east of NCNB Plaza.
The parking proposal passed unanimously after council mem
ber Bev Kawalec amended the wording. The re-wording gives
Chapel Hill a say in the development's use and makes the Post
Office property an optional development.
Environmental impact called small
By SUSAN OAKLEY
SUff Writer
University officials agree that the
Thoroughfare Plan approved Monday
night by the Chapel Hill Town Council
will h ave a minimal environmental impact
on the area.
Even the most controversial part of the
plan, which would extend Parker Road
across the University's Botanical Garden,
will be met with little opposition as long
as the town remains in agreement with the
conditions outlined by UNC Chancellor
Christopher C. Fordham III in his letter
to Town Manager David R. Taylor.
These conditions stipulate that the
road, which would be named the Laurel
Hill Parkway, be built similarly to the
Blue Ridge Parkway with only two lanes
and with restrictions on speed and vehicle
weight limits.
He also requested that the town and
University work jointly on all plans and
site selections that would involve Univer
sity lands. Noise, erosion and pollution
also should be controlled to the max
imum extent possible, he said, both dur
ing and after construction.
"The Botanical Garden and Mason
Farm Reserve area is critically important
as an irreplaceable natural area and lab
oratory for the study of plants and
animals and the intricate biological
systems of which they are a part," Ford
ham said.
The plan approved Monday night will
be the least disruptive to these resources,
he said.
"I personally feel we have made a ma
jor step forward," said Dr. Haven Wiley
of UNC's biology department, which
worked closely with the town on the
Thoroughfare Plan.
"I think we have a good solution to the
town's transportation problems that will
result in the absolute minimum disrup
tion to the University," he said.
The former plan, which would have bi
sected Mason Farm, would have made
the land useless for University research
programs, he said. But because the town
has agreed to work with the University,
the road will produce only a minimum
impact on the gardens and the farm, he
said.
Dr. C. Ritchie Bell, director of the
Botanical Gardens and a UNC biology
professor, agreed with Wiley that the
town and University should work to
gether on the plan.
The approved plan is the best compro
mise that could be made," he said. "It
would have been nice for us if we didn't
have to have a road, but this really would
not be fair for the town." He said if
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Fordham's suggestions are followed, the
University and its research programs
should be in good shape. '
While reactions from the University are
mostly favorable, a spokesman for the
Triangle Sierra Club voiced much skep
ticism about the plan.
Robert Smythe's objections arise from
the process by which the town council ap
proved the plan and the way the town
plans to finance the project.
"The Thoroughfare Plan was never
submitted to a planning board or the
public," he said. "It was railroaded .
through by the town manager."
UNC student struck by bicycle was slightly injured
A UNC student was slightly injured when he was struck by a
bicycle Tuesday as he was walking across the crosswalk in front of
the Bell Tower. .
Timothy Miles, 23, a senior communications major, was
treated and released at North Carolina Memorial Hospital follow
ing the accident. Miles said he had stopped when he saw the bicy
cle approaching. v
"I always stop and let bicycles go by me," he said. "I was
walking across the walkway in front of the Bell Tower, and I saw
him coming, so I stopped," he said.
Miles said the pedestrian light was on "walk" while he was
crossing South Road.
"I was knocked down and went unconscious, and the next
thing I knew I was in the ambulance with the attendants," he
said.
Police said no charges had been filed late Tuesday.
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