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More than 100 residents of the Observatory Hill area, however, submitted a petition last Tuesday to the Council to down-zone the block of land owned by the University on that site. Although the zoning change, if passed, will not affect Radcliffe's plans for the athletic facility, the process of changing the zoning map may delay the granting of a building permit, Duehay said...
With the pressure bearing down on him from all sides, Lance moved last week to ease the strain in at least one area-his precarious financial position. He put on the selling block his posh Northside Atlanta home, purchased in 1975 for $400,000 and fondly dubbed "Butterfly Manna" by LaBelle. Asking price: a neat $2 million. LaBelle said the intended sale "is just a sign we plan to be in Washington for a long, long time." In the capital, a great many signs were pointing in the other direction...
...compact it, roll it, lay two inches of black top and dedicate it to the town?and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt and 1½ inches of topping and Belgian block curbing." The result of these and other requirements is that an $8,000 lot may cost another $8,000 to develop, v. $4,000 six years ago. Says Schoeck: "The cost had doubled before the house went...
More than 100 residents of the Observatory Hill area, however, submitted a petition to the Cambridge Planning Board last Tuesday to down-zone the block of land owned by the University on that site. Although the zoning change, if it is passed, will not affect Radcliffe's plans for the athletic facility in the long run, the process of changing the zoning map may delay the granting of a building permit, Francis H. Duehay '55 said yesterday...
...reserves the right to preempt the state if it deems that a state is not following federal guidelines. Some Governors are grumbling about that. Utilities are upset by the promise of federal cash to people fighting atomic plants; environmentalists are disturbed because they nonetheless will get fewer chances to block a "nuke." Says one official of the Government's Council on Environmental Quality: "The bill is a real stinker...