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Smaller Bathrooms. The world's major innkeepers knock on Tabler's door because he has developed a McNamaralike precision for slashing frills and space out of his buildings to make them cheaper to construct and operate. At Denver's Brown Palace annex, he eliminated 100 light fixtures (at $50 each) by doing away with the "up" and "down" elevator signal lights in the hallways; instead, he placed the lights just inside the elevator cars, where they show as the doors open. By installing towel hooks next to the wash basins, he encouraged customers to make do with...
Sheldon Dietz '41 and the Harvard Co-operative Society will appear in Massachusetts Superior Court this week to see if plans for the Coop's new $2,000,000 annex meet zoning law requirements...
Cronin said yesterday that, even if the Coop loses the case, work on the new annex will not be delayed, because the annex is to be built in two phases. Phase I is now under construction. When it is finished sometime next fall, the Coop will transfer its textbook section there, tear down the present Coop annex, and build Phase II of the new annex...
...petition for injunction is identical to one refused in late March, but Dietz's lawyer is resubmitting it on the grounds that the trial over the annex's alleged zoning violations has been moved up until June. Dietz, a local property owner, claims that the annex, as currently designed, exceeds the permissible 4-1 ratio of floor area to plot and does not allow enough space for an off-street truckloading dock...
...injunction were issued--and then the court eventually upheld the legality of the annex's design--the Coop would probably "sue Diets for getting an unlawful injunction," Cronin said. The Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal has a ready rejected Dietz's argument that the building violates the City's zoning code...