Cedar Rapids City Council Acts On Transit, Utilities, Zoning
Cedar Rapids city council approved a March 9 public hearing for UMTA capital improvements and authorized multiple utility supply contracts. The body also annexed Otis road SE property, condemned Spina parcel for sewer work, advanced I-380 grading and drainage, and modified water pollution facility projects. Reappointments to arts and center commissions and numerous rezoning petitions were noted along with parking and policing related resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
UMTA
Design and Type, Inc
Information Services
Data Systems, Inc
Clow Corp
Water Department
Waterous Co
Resolution
American Cast Iron Pipe Co
Edward D. Broderick
Crimson Drive
Otis Road
Rockford Road
Wilson Avenue
Milo and
Evelyn Spina
IDOT
Third Avenue
6 Avenue
Cedar River
William R. Hennessey and Son, Inc
Department of Environmental Quality
Illinois to allow bond by credit card for traffic tickets
Illinois Supreme Court tentatively approves a rule to let motorists post bond with credit cards via police car machines. The plan could take effect March 1 if major card issuers join, expanding options beyond license, insurer or cash bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Roy Gulley
Illinois Courts
City rezoning readings list multiple district changes
Planning and Zoning notes second and third readings for rezoning requests across several properties. Changes include R-3 to R-T at 901 Thirty-second Street SE by Robert L and Carolyn Berry. Also R-3 to R-4 at 1024 Ellis Boulevard NW for Floyd and Mildred Baumgartner. B-1 to B-2 at Town and Country shopping center for General Growth Management Corp and Armstrong and Associates. B-4 to B-2 at 218% Fourth Avenue SW for R. H Silkscreen Printing Co. First through third readings for airport zoning ordinance. Public hearing with no objections for Dr and Mrs Mohamed Igram rezoning from R-3 to R-T at 1520 First Avenue NW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thirty-second Street
Robert L
Carolyn Berry
Ellis Boulevard
Floyd
Mildred Baumgartner
Town and Country Shopping Center
General Growth Management Corp
Armstrong and Associates, Ltd
Fourth Avenue
R.H Silkscreen Printing Co., Inc
Mohamed Igram
First Avenue NW
Magistrate Court fines tally for numerous speeding cases
Alan Hart 234 Atwood drive SW fined 30 dollars. The list names many defendants from Marion Cedar Rapids Ames Des Moines and other cities, each fined 10 to 30 dollars with costs for various offenses including speeding intoxication reckless driving disobeying stop signs improper passing and vehicle equipment violations. Several individuals are identified by full addresses and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Hart
Atwood Drive
Timothy Hayes
Marion
Richard Havlik
Blairs Ferry Road
Diane Voss
Oakland Road
John Ohrt
Vinton
John Haney
Pineview Drive
Jerry Stevenson
Sixth Street
James Barger
Ely
Timothy Steel
Knollwood Drive
Norman Smith
Blue Reef
Hiawatha
Margaret Hutton
Center Point Road
Barbard Oestern
Medford Lane
Karen Johnson
Ronald Wingert
Tipton
Dixie Myers
Park Towne Lane
Pamela Conner
Davenport
George Pettit
Des Moines
William Waterhouse
Central City
Melvin Ohara
Seventh Avenue
John Hakes
Huxley
Eugene Ferdinand
Washington Avenue
Ralph Murray
Cedar Rapids
Delmar Coburn
Waveland Drive
Randall Conrad
Manchester
Jerold Jeffries
Iowa City
Cecil Spear
Stanwood
Theodore Lindeken
Thirty-fourth Street
Mary Francis
Thirty Fourth Street
Owen Brishlawn
Sixteenth Street
William Wilcox
Sixteenth Avenue
Paul Olson
Independence
Randy Ralston
Cavalier Street
Madelene Jensen
Brentwood Drive
Helen Brenner
Maple Drive
Timothy Armbruster
Thirty-fifth Street
Paul Clark
Robert Jump
Eighteenth Avenue
Richard Julius
John Reger
Ames
Joe Morgan
Ninth Avenue SE
Charles Bottoms
Ninth Street SE
Steve Willcoxson
Quailcourt
Daniel McNamara
Fifteenth Avenue
Kevin Meyer
Worthington Drive
Edward Burnell
Avenue NW
Harold Hansen
Eighteenth Street NW
AMC Plans New Small Car in 1978
AMC announces a new line of luxury small cars for 1978 after reporting a $1.2 million quarterly profit. Chairman Roy Chapin teased further small car design advances for 1979 to appeal to driving enthusiasts, amid past losses totaling about $75 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southfield
Mich
American Motors Corp
Roy Chapin
AMC
Also Mentioned on This Page
C.R. City Hall
Leo Peiffer
Tom Ecker
Ken Hastie
William Munsell
Barnes O'Donnell
Five Seasons Center Commission
Klemish and Associates, Inc
Edgewood
Charles P. Rohde
Central Park
Barlow Foods and Bjornson Investment Corp
Cottage Grove
First Avenue SE
Edward G. Popelka
Twentieth Street
Fidelis Abodeely
Merchants National Bank
Arthur E. Barnes
M.D
Gerald J. Fogerty
Second Avenue
Richard M
Alicia Havlik
C Avenue
Terry Moyle
Bowling Street
Prairie Creek
Forty-third
Fiftieth Avenues
FMC
Eleventh Street
First Avenue
First
Second Avenues
Police Department
Charles Irons
St. Paul
International Assn. of Chiefs of Police
William Byrne
Calvin Trousdale
Iowa Polygraph Assn
Metropolitan Kiwanis Club
Mary Agnes Hennessey
Mt. Mercy College
Brown and Dyer Construction Co
Kirkwood Boulevard
Highway 30
Miller Avenue
Iowa Manufacturing Co
F Avenue
County Board of Health
Donald Hattery
Robert Youngman
Air Pollution Board of Review
Family Practice Center
Eighth Street
O.F. Paulson Construction Co
Land- O-Lakes
Summer Street
William and Frances Toman
Auto Club
Magistrate's Court
Dial
Dog & Cat Supplies
Springfield
Rod
Bird Friends
Thurs
Third Avenue S.E
Killian's
Lindale Plaza
Killians
America
Famous Maker
Lindale
Rae
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