2The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, February 12, 1986
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By GRANT PARSONS
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council heard developers'
and citizens' concerns about proposed building
ordinances limiting height, floor area and building
density during a public forum Monday night.
The ordinances were referred to the. town manager
for drafting and are expected to receive a formal vote
before the end of the month, Mayor Jim Wallace said.
About 20 people spoke during the three-hour forum,
and the council listened in silence, rarely asking the
speakers questions.
The first ordinance presented for discussion, density
caps, would limit the maximum number of dwelling
units per acre to 12, with fewer units required in some
residential zones. The maximum now is 20 units per
acre and fewer in some zones.
Watts Hill, representing the Affordable Housing
Task Force, told the council that reducing the limits
would drive Chapel Hill housing costs higher. The
limits would force developers to build larger dwellings
and charge higher rates to make up the lost revenue
due to having fewer units to rent, Hill said.
"Only building larger units benefits the high- and
high to middle-income people," he said. "You will be
just pricing out of the market those in the lower- and
lower middle-income brackets."
Other arguments against the proposed density caps
centered on residents being forced to have more than
single families in each dwelling to make ends meet,
which would not truly limit growth and would
contribute to traffic overcrowding.
"Lower density does not mean lower intensity of
use," said Burnell Powell, a UNC Law School professor
who teaches real estate law. "People would be
subdividing . . . (apartments) by packing two, three,
four and five familial units into a single family
dwelling." y
Proponents of the lower density caps said it would
reduce traffic overcrowding.
Mimi Cross, co-president of the Estes Hill Parent
Teacher association, said traffic needed to be reduced
to make entering and exiting the schools safer for buses
and children.
"You must be the advocate for us and our children
to make the roads safe," Cross said. "The density
requirements must be reduced."
Residents and developers also spoke about the
proposed lowering of the Land Use Intensity ratio,
which would reduce the floor space allowed on each
acre of land.
Roger Walden, the town's planning director, said
the strong point of reducing the LUI ratings would "
be the reduction of intense development in Chapel Hill.
Smaller building "footprints" would be promoted, and
the overall aesthetics of Chapel Hill would be improved,
he said.
Ron Straum, a Chapel Hill resident, said lowering
RHA
allowable floor space per acre would decrease the
amount of affordable, quality housing.
"Rather than quality growth, well have sub-quality
living structures," Straum said. The landlord must
lower some costs to offset the lost revenues from having
smaller dwellings, so landlords will cut corners in
building quality, he said.
Also discussed at the forum were proposed building
height reductions that would set a maximumim height
of 40 feet for all Chapel Hill buildings except those
in the town center and those zoned office-industrial.
The height limit would make three stories the
maximum, keeping out-of-scale buildings from having
a negative visual impact, Walden said.
Ruth Thomas, speaking for the Chapel Hill Alliance
of Neighborhoods, told the council that higher
buildings would mean more traffic on already
overcrowded streets.
"The higher the buildings, the more traffic that will
come from those buildings," Thomas said. "After
Chapel Hill Center and the Siena Hotel go up, the
town will be gridlocked at the intersection of Franklin
Street and Estes Drive."
Opponents of the height restriction included
developers and architects, who claimed the restrictions
would promote dull buildings in Chapel Hill.
Hill said the council should reconsider the ordinan
ces. "Otherwise, we're going to have a town full of
40-feet tall flat-topped buildings," he said.
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"I think that the respect and the
integrity of this organization has been
damaged," he said.
Area governors from Granville Tow
ers, Scott Residence College, Hender
son Residence College, Stowe Resi
dence College and Mangum and James
dorms voted to endorse Watts.
Watts is governor of Scott Residence
College.
Four other area governors from
Ehringhaus, Craige, Morrison, and the
Morehead Confederation felt that it
was inappropriate for RHA to give an
endorsement and dissented, Fanney
said.
Olde Campus governor Maria Ken
ney was not at the meeting.
Venable said that because the vote
was so close, the decision was not
representative of the whole board.
"When you get a three-vote margin,
I think you can very well assume that
that's a small majority," he said.
Fanney said Watts should not have
participated in the vote.
But Cobb said there was no difference
between Fanney voting and Watts
voting, although Fanney is no longer
in the race. He. said he didn't think
Fanney would have objected to RHA's
endorsing Watts if Fanney had
endorsed him himself.
Cobb said belief in Watts' ability
motivated the board members to vote
for him.
He said, "The people who sit on the
governing board are sophisticated and
mature enough to make decisions based
on more than personal likes.
"I find it extremely, extremely
difficult to fathom that people . . . ,
after a year's experience . . . , would
(not) know better than to vote for
someone simply because they liked
him," he said.
Watts agreed that all the governors
who voted already knew enough about
each candidate to make an informed
decision.
"The RHA governing board does not
want a person running RHA that has
a deep lack of experience and also (is)
a Chi Psi fraternity brother," he said.
"It's hard to trust the dedication . . .
when you're also dedicated to a social
group off campus.''
Watts said the board's vote would
have favored him 9-8 even if he had
abstained from the vote.
Jones said he was not too bothered
by Watts' endorsement but that there
should have been a screening process
for the two of them.
In endorsing Watts, the governors
were not representing their constituents,
according to the results of last Tuesday's
election, Jones said. Watts carried only
Stowe Residence College in the election.
'I don't know if I would consider an
endorsement by RHA this year an asset
or a liability," he said. "I'm glad they're
taking an action, finally."
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Soviets release Skeharamky
om jail to FJest Germaiiy
news in brief
House assessment, voiced Monday,
that, Marcos inevitably would
emerge the winner. "I think it was
premature," he said.
The two men said they were
bothered by delays in counting the
votes and said a quick count had
been considered important in judg
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VcJssa cbsred of tender
GDANSK, Poland A govern
ment prosecutor dropped slander
charges today against exiled Solid
arity leader Lech Walesa, saying
state election officials were "satis
fied" with Walesa's statements that
he did not deliberately slander them.
Walesa said he had not intended
to slander or degrade anyone but he
refused to back down and repudiate
independent figures he released that
questioned officials voter turnout
figures in October elections boycot
ted by supporters of the Solidarity
free trade union.
The chief judge said he was
suspending the case and told Walesa
he was calling off the date for the
next court hearing.
Walesa had faced up to two years
in prison or a maximum fine of
$2,900 - about 27 times the average
monthly salary in Poland if
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Opposition protests vote count
MANILA, Philippines The
National Assembly started opening
sealed vote tally sheets Tuesday to
begin the count that will determine
who won last Friday's Philippine
presidential election, but a walkout
by opposition members stopped the
canvass before a single vote was
counted.
The session was scheduled to
resume Wednesday.
As the first envelope was removed
from the box of Marcos' home
region north of Manila, opposition
assemblymen immediately objected
that it lacked a required seal. Similar
objections were raised about other
envelopes in the box.
From Associated Press reports
BERLIN Soviet dissident Anat
oly Shcharansky walked to freedom
across the snow-covered Glenicke
Bridge Tuesday after nearly nine
years in Soviet prisons and labor
camps. He flew out of Berlin soon
after, on his way to Israel.
Shcharansky, 38, and his wife were
reunited at Frankfurt Airport. There
they boarded an Israeli government
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Tylenol withdrawn from stores
YONKERS, N. Y. Investigators
are trying to determine whether a
woman's death by cyanide poisoning
was linked to Extra-Strength
Tylenol, and a supermarket chain
pulled the pain-killer from its stores
in 24 states.
A&P pulled Extra-Strength
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its more than 1,000 stores on Mon
day after police said a 23-year-old
woman was found dead Saturday
about 12 hours after taking two
Tylenol capsules.
Authorities said other capsules in
the bottle the woman had used
contained cyanide but they would
not comment on whether the Tylenol
container found after the woman's
death had been tampered with.
U.S. group skeptical of count
WASHINGTON A U.S. team
observing the Philippine election
told President Reagan Tuesday
about instances of violence and fraud
in the voting and said it was apparent
President Ferdinand Marcos has the
power to rig the outcome.
But the group's leaders refused to
go so far as to declare the election
invalid because of the irregularities.
"We're not going to make any
comments that President Marcos or
anybody else could use to say that
'We're calling it all off, bad scene,
we're sorry it worked out so badly, "
said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., the
head of the delegation.
Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa.,
another member of the delegation,
expressed irritation with a White
Psychology
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to have more input in the hiring and
firing of new faculty members,' she said.
Galinsky agreed that things were
improving. "Students are on some
committees, but, they 're 'not 'orTotrierS,""
he saidATjta'duate Wdents:re able ioui
participate in the graduate admissions
process through providing temporary
housing for and talking to students who
are considering UNC as a choice for
graduate study, he said.
The department's graduate admis
sions are highly competitive, Apple
baum said. "We look at how well they
performed academically in their under
graduate work, their experience in
research and laboratory setting, their
. . . (Graduate Record Examination)
scores and letters of recommendation,
he said.
Crist said that he found no disad
vantages in coming to UNC for grad-'niate-stadbut
that'rfe',was'laa'he chose
to' 'attetid 'a ; smalt;; collg; for his
undergraduate studies'." 'The "graduate
school here keeps you very busy, but
those are the dues you have to pay to
get your degree," he said.
The flexibility of a major in psychol
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of undergraduate study made the major
a practical choice, Lanum said. "It's
going to help me in my day-to-day life,"
she said. "There is always a need to
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