17 Jan 1977
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Newspaper
The Gondolier
Location
Venice, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1977
Page
1
Don Foote, designer for Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey, oversees about 400 costumes per season. He favors bright turquoise and shocking pink, with ostrich plumes and billions of sequins, while ensuring fabrics endure hundreds of performances and packing cycles.
Merchants reassure customers that the Venice Centre Mall is not the old KMI building and poses no danger of collapse. The confusion arose after press stories labeled the nearby Bullpen as the old KMI structure, prompting a drop in mall traffic.
Josephine Bonetti, a former Venice water department customer service clerk, testified at a Sarasota PERC hearing that she was terminated for union activities rather than job deficiencies. She said she learned of her firing last March from city comptroller Tom Holmes who claimed poor typing as the reason.
Venice city attorneys filed a second suit against Harry Pepper and Associates over the reverse osmosis water main. The city demands 15 corrections including uncovering most of the pipeline and moving electrical conduits. Pepper agreed to most but opposed several terms, prompting the legal action.
Planning Commission Chair Eric Edgerton urged rejection of an offstreet parking landscape ordinance that city council had approved on two readings. Industrial landowners warned the rules would devalue property and hinder expansion, prompting a move to place the measure in the zoning code rather than as a separate ordinance.
Three of four city council members call the zoning code too complex to grasp while the planning commission defends it as legally necessary. Council President Bill Freeman questions understandability, and Dr. Lewis Saunders argues complexity is unavoidable yet essential for enforceability.
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