Scottsdale Daily Progress (Newspaper) - March 28, 1973, Scottsdale, Arizona General plan gets 1st okay r The City Planning Commission voted 6-to-l last night to recommend city council approval for the revised general Only dissenting vote came from Commission Chairman Richard E. who said he objected to increased densities in the especially in North The vote of came after a four-hour public hearing during which several lawyers objected to the plan because of zoning areas plotted in a way to affect properties of their Attorney Harry eavanaugh appeared for the Herberger family to object to proposed zoning which would cut into the total of 20 acres of property controlled by the Herbergers at Scottsdale Road and Shea Attorney Lou Jeckel said he objected because the revised plan proposed a reduction of SO per cent in commercial zoning for Malouf properties on the northeast corner of McDonald and Granite Reef Other objections were voiced by Attorney Fenton McDonough who said he thought it would have been appropriate to propose commercial zoning for the northeast and northwest corners of Scottsdale Road and Lincoln residential zoning was proposed for the acreage owned by McDonough s Mrs. Pearl Gordon Davis of Wilsey and city consultants hired to revise the plan at a cost of explained that modifications made by the commission cut increases in densities in the north area to two per cent and one per cent over the total city He said the existing adopted in 1965, proposed a total population of 175,000 while the plan recommended last with maximum would provide a total population of 176,500. The plan which had been presented by the consultants on March 22 would have provided For a total population of 184,000 There were including members of the North Scottsdale Homeowners who objected to proposed zoning in seven square miles of the city east of Pima Road and north of Shea The land was proposed to remain zoned for homesites with provisions that Planned Community District zoning could be used which affords a maximum of 2.5 living units per Commissioner Charles Smith defended this saying that if the whole of North Scottsdale was zoned at one home per acre that of the homes to be to have to be built top one acre Charles Montooth said he was talking for the architects and staff of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West when he March 22 presentation by Davis was not clear on several points which he presented in a typed Montooth seemed satisfied when Davis answered his queries on increased lack of impact and environmental studies and what was termed lack of a of aesthetics in the overall Davis defended the saying his firm worked 18 months on the study under the direction of the city planning and made every effort to follow recommendation of the citizens of Scottsdale in today Request in the news By United Press International & Hunt gets trial immunity WASHINGTON - The Watergate trial judge today granted E. Howard Hunt total immunity from prosecution in an apparent effort to persuade the convicted conspirator to tell a grand jury all he knows about the U.S. District Judge John Sirica took the action at the government's Hunt invoked the Fifth Amendment every time he was asked a question during appearances today and yesterday before the grand Cong have 1 more SAIGON - The Viet Cong says it has still another American prisoner of war to A Cong news officer in Saigon identifies the man as Robert It says he is an Air Force man who was born in Virginia and was captured on Nov. 11,40miles southeast of CIA testimony to be bared investigators planned to make public today testimony of a CIA agent that was expected to give more information about a fund allegedly designed to prevent the 1970 election of Marxist Salvador Allende as president of reported PINE S.D. - Today there's talk of mutiny among the Indians holding Wounded Knee in South A government spokesman said an informant inside the besieged hamlet reports there was a falling out between the leaders of the American Indian that reached the point of armed The spokesman said that about 100 of the Indians may decide to leave Wounded 2 vetoed After recommending approval of the city's revised general the planning commission last night took actions affecting three large parcels of land in North Members voted approval of PCD zoning for 640 acres of the Gainey Ranch where Developer Dick said a championship golf course and surrounding residential units will be The proposed general thwarted efforts of A. Wayne Smith and Associates to get approval for PCD zoning for 160 acres on the southeast corner of Hayden and Thunderbird The commission voted to deny an application for a revision in the plan which would have allowed PCD zoning for the acreage owned by an out-of-state insurance company which planned to develop the land for use as its corporate Commission members also voted to deny a request for a plan revision which would have allowed swing on 275 acres at the northeast corner of Scottsdale and Cactus Business said exonerated PHOENIX - The Nixon administration has tried to erase the impression of American business it is in the dog with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst said was a time so far as Washington was American business was in the dog or at least had the feeling that it was in the dog Kleindienst administration's approach is entirely We believe that through mutual education as to the meaning and intent of the mistakes by business can be avoided and many head-on confrontations by both sides can be The attorney general made his remarks in a speech prepared for delivery before the Ninth Circuit Conference of the Federal Bar are not lying in hoping that you will make a misstep and fall into one of our legal he you after our sincere efforts to keep you acquainted with the then the processes of justice will most certainly have to take But we assume you are innocent until proven Scottsdale Vol. No. 23 YOUR AWARD WINNING HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER MARCH 28, 1*73 40c Per Week - 10c Per Copy 4-1 Scottsdale residents Tuesday overwhelmingly defeated by a 4-1 margin a million budget override proposal in the largest balloting recorded in a school election in the past eight An unofficial total of 11,714 ballots were cast on two questions requesting approval of funds to improve The elementary proposal lost by 7,177 votes with for and 9,411 The high school question was defeated by 7,601 2,240 for and 9,441 District officials had estimated an increase of per property from to if the budget override had been The estimated tax rate is now defeat was said Board President Robert the part that is troublesome is the negativism projected by some areas of the press and especially by House Majority Leader Burton Barr regarding his proposed legislation which brought a good deal of the no vote in my Barr recently unveiled a legislative plan to control school district and local government spending which would deny homeowners rebates of taxes resulting from the portion a school district budget which exceeds the state's six per cent limit on annual Another leader of opposition to the passage was William a Scottsdale homeowner and attorney representing W. R. and a firm operates large apartment complexes in the school Hickey headed a committee named CAUTION See Pg. 3 Against Unnecessary Taxes in Our which campaigned against the referendum Hickey said today the defeat of the measure signifies a new awareness of the taxpayers in the district and the need to take an active part in the expenditure of school Hickey said his group also would campaign against a possible million bond proposal to construct schools in the northern part of the scheduled for Supt. Gabriel Reuben said today that class sizes may increase by an average of one in the elementary district to 31 and by two in the high school district to an average of 32 students as result of Another effect in the high school district will be restricting students to taking only five classes instead of six now providing for another high school district also will hire teachers next but this will not be as serious in the elementary school Dr. Reuben Dr. Reuben also said supplies will be affected with inflation hiking The referendum would have increased supply expenditures from to per pupil in the high schools and from to in the elementary The district's budget within the six per cent state is expected to get formal approval at Tuesday's school board Meat meeting Progress photo by Paul Brown About 25 members of the newly formed Beef Against Meat Tuesday picketed a meeting of the American Meat high costs of red meat in the Phoenix The group met with Herrell institute at at the Biltmore Hotel where the institute was holding a See related stories Pages 2 and 3. Heavy snow At Scottsdale Airport warned in north POW to be welcomed A heavy snow warning issued by the Phoenix office of the National Weather Service remains in effect through early tonight for Arizona's central Weather forecaster Jack Hales said that six inches or more could accumulate in those sections by tonight before the snow showers are reduced to flurries late tonight or early Gusty winds sweeping the snow into blowing drifts will reduce visibility to near zero in some the weather service The forecast for the Valley calls for variable cloudiness tonight and Thursday with a 20 per cent chance of rain tonight and 10 per cent Highs Thursday will be in the lower 60s, the weather service after lows tonight in the low 40s. Country Club Drive and Scottsdale Road crossings were open to traffic this A special homecoming reception for this community's first released Navy Lt. Cmdr. Dennis A. will take place Friday morning at Scottsdale Municipal Moore and his retired Naval Cmdr. Truman O. Moore of 3132 N. Granite Reef are scheduled to arrive by private plane at 11:40a.m. Lt. Cmdr. Moore reportedly will be on a 90-day Representatives of the Phoenix area organization of families of will be in the reception according to Mrs. Sue Thompson of wife of an The public is invited to especially those who have been wearing she Lt. Cmdr. a 34-yeanold visited here briefly last month before going back to Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego for medical examinations and He - had been listed as a POW since 1965. He was the first POW with Scottsdale ties to have been released by the North one of the first 143 freed under the cease-fire Released since then were Air Force Capt. Larry E. Green Beret Sgt. William McMurry Jr. and Marine Capt. William K. consider hospital expansion lawsuit Doctors A doctor's building committee at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital has been empowered by staff physicians to whatever actions are considered - including instituting a lawsuit - to push through expansion plans at the local The staff doctors i voted unanimously Tuesday night to authorize the committee to spend to a year to finance the expansion A survey of active and associate staff doctors shows that the vast majority are willing to launch and support a drive to gain approval for an eventual 380-bed capacity at Scottsdale At the quarterly staff meeting Tuesday the doctors were in favor of pushing for the but there was some difference of opinion about the best method of doing Dr. Jack O. McFarland said there is a lot of feeling among the staff for These alternatives include petitioning the hospital to institute a class action suit against state and county health authorities on behalf of Scottsdale area Another approach would be to have the staff itself file the suit using staff dues and assessments to defray legal A third choice discussed last night would be to join with the hospital in a suit and pledge financial McFarland said other alternatives could include handing out pamphlets to patients urging them to contact health authorities and back the expansion In this same a petitions and newspaper advertising also could be McFarland One doctor suggested that go ahead and build it proposed six-story and let them sue Other doctors pointed out that a court injunction probably would be obtained prohibiting the hospital from Dr. Robert chief of explained that the hospital has received approval from the State Board of Health to expand to 262 an additional 30 plus allied But the hospital plans to press for permission to construct space for the ad- The State Board of Health has turned down this request in the citing an excess of beds in the Dr. Skipton said the board is scheduled to meet with hospital officials April 30 to review the 30-bed He added that the meeting probably will be postponed until July at the hospital's Dr. McFarland said that Seymour attorney lor Scottsdale believes the staff should not get involved in a law suit this He told the doctors that Sacks thinks the hospital win in since it plans to present plans for the full addition to the board of Dr. McFarland noted that the advantage of filing suit would be to the heat health He said the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to require an agency's approval of expansion plans if state funds are not Scottsdale Memorial does not use any federal or state funds and is in the midst of a million fund drive to help finance the proposed
