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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978-06-06 Info PacketMILRUFILMEU BY JORM MICROLAB Midstates Development, Inc. 412 Pavonia Street Sioux City, IA 51102 Gentlemen: CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES MUINLS, IU,4A Hey 30, 1978 nr-rrr1vr-n MAY 3 11918 7.45 Subject: 10TIFICATI7,i IIF APPROVAL OF FINAL PROPOSAL Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program - New Construction IA05-0030-008 Iowa City, Iowa 01 Elderly Units Your final proposal, dated January 3, 1978, to provide 81 Elderly units of housing at Iowa City, Iowa, has been approved. Annual contributions authority of $315,900 and budget authority of $6.318,000 have been reserved for this project. Thera is no change in the amount previously reservad.in your Notifi- cation of Selection of Preliminary Proposal, dated September 9. 1977. The number, size and approved contract rents of units to be contracted for are as follows. UNIT SIZE NUMUER OF UNITS CONTRACT UTILITY GROSS (TO 7'e �'W�y� o�'{sT _ RENTS ALLOWANCE RENT 1 -OR 81 Elderly $325 None $325. Method of financing subject to FHA firm commitment with IMFA bond financing. If you accept this Notification,, you should submit to this office, not later than Jute 19, 1976, tb final working drawings and spacificatiens- Receipt and retention by Wo of these working drawings and specifications shall not denote or constitute HUD review or approval of such drawings and specifications. After approval of the working drawings and specifications, an Agreement to Enter Into Housing Assistance Payments Contract will be prepared by HUD and ,y--,.3rded to you for execution. Your acceptance of this Notification constitutes a certification and agreelllent that (a) there will not be made any sale, assignment, conveyance, or any other form of transfer of this Notification, the property, or any interest therein, without the prior consent of HUD (an assignment to a limited partnership of which you are the general partner shall not be considered an assignment for MICROFILM BY DORM MICRmL.AB sV.;I.', I M MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES MOINES, IUWA 2 t to Enter Into Housing Assistance Payment' this purpose), and (b) there will not be any pledge, or offer as security or any loan or obligation. an Agreeawu+ nts Contract for this project without prior Contract or Housing Assistance Payne t. written approval by HUD of the instruwnt of pledge, offer, or other asslpga4een of the letter to HUD within ten (10) days Please indicate your acceptance of this Notification by signing in the s c provided and returning a signed copy after the date of this Hotification. If you do not accept this Notification by the specified date, if you accept but fail to submit the architect's certification on the specified d date. HUD may rescind this Hotification and cancel the annual contributions authority rrs�� Sincerely, Norman C. Jurgen Director (Acting) cc: Mayor Robert A. Vevere Eastern Iowa Association of Regional Planning CO"Issions 322 East Washington Iowa City, IA 52940 office of Planning and Prograasntng i MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB .1 CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES MUINLS, IUWA '.ECEIVED 1-0221978 ✓lineAic� (2a&1W4 UUdircvnt d .1&6Lc4a&n7- IM IJIWA C1,MI'AN1' if. 9100 WARD PARKWAY KANSht ITY, MISSOURI 6411.1 May 18, 1978 Mr. Neal Berlin, Manager City of Iowa City 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240 It is a pleasure for me, Mr. Berlin . . . . . . to write you that Mrs. Rosemary Vitosh has been selected the 1978 WOMAN OF THE YEAR by her chapter of the American Business Women's Association. Being chosen a chapter Woman of the Year is a very high honor; such a member must be outstanding as a woman in business. Annually, each ABWA chapter elects a member as its Woman of the Year, based on her advancement in business, continuing education, ABWA participation, and extra- curricular activities. From this outstanding group of business women, a panel of three non-member judges will select ABWA's "Top Ten Business Women." At the same time, the panel selects one of the "Top Ten" as the Association's "American Business Woman of the Year." Special recognition will be given to more than 1500 chapter Women of the Year expected to be in attendance at the Association's Annual National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, November 2-5, 1978. Also, formal introduction of ABWA's 1978-1979 "Top Ten Business Women" and the "American Business Woman of the Year" will be made at the convention. A chapter's Woman of the Year holds the respect and admiration of all ABWA members. You, probably better than anyone else, can attest to your associate's ability as a business woman. I thought you would appreciate knowing that others agree with you. Cordially, 'F� H. A. Bufton r. Founder kj enc. cc: Mrs. Rosemary Vltosh, Woman of the Year K", •4 fT I•i1CROFIL14ED BY 1 JORM MICR6LAB MfCROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND DLS MOINES, 10vU1 CITY OF IOWA CITY CIVIC CEN(ER 410 E. WASHINGTON ST IOWA CITY IOWA 52240 (319) 354.1800 June 1, 1978 Mr. Pat Harding 920 Orchard Iowa City, IA 52240 Dear Mr. Harding: In the last week a number of residents on Windsor Drive have called to express their great concern about the trucks utilizing Windsor Drive for access to your new subdivision. They have been under the impression that you would encourage the contractors and subcontractors to utilize the entrance from Seventh Avenue. I have indicated to them that as a result of the street construction, it probably would be extremely difficult to use Seventh Avenue at this time. However, I also indicated to them that I am sure you intended to abide by your discussions with the City Council and would take action to reduce the amount of truck i traffic on Windsor Drive. After the completion of the concrete paving, the City and the residents of Windsor Drive will greatly appreciate your assistance in requesting the contractors and subcontractors to utilize Seventh Avenue. Thank you for your cooperation. SincereI yours Neal G. Berlin City Manager cc: City Council bcl/16 FILIIED BY I JORM MICR+LAB LLDAIi i2f.�'; 7:. JLS '401:6 /082 M f-0ICRO`ILi4ED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES MOINES, IOWA City y... Iowa 'V 12L AM DATE: June 1, 1978 TO: Neal Berlin, City Council, and the Plann r and Zoning Commission FROM: Dick Plastino, Director of Public Works RE: Change in sewer discharge Oscar Maycr will be building on the BDI tract in the near future. They have asked the City for some relief on our present standards for sewer discharge. We have researched this matter with our consultant and with our Pollution Control Division and find that the changes they recommend will create no problems for our sewer system or sewage treatment process. our present ordinance says that pit for sewage must nm from 5.5 to 7.5. lie wish to change this to 6.0 to 10.5. 1'he ordinance also says that grease and oily substances shall not be present in excess of 100 p.p.m. We would like to change this to 300 p.p.m. This provision is listed under performance standards in the zoning code. Planning and Zoning will need to rule on this and pass the matter on to City Council. /083 �-- 10..., tt 141CRORILI4CD BY JORM MICR�LA6 CLDAR RAITI', • A" 10MLS MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB ORDINANCE N0. CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES 14UINLS, IUWA AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 77-2859 WHICH ADOPTED THE UNIFORM BUILDING CODE STANDARDS, 1976 EDITION AND THE UNIFORM BUILDING CODE, 1976 EDITION SUBJECT TO CERTAIN AMENDMENTS. BE IT ENACTED by the City Council of the City of Iowa City, Iowa. SECTION 1. PURPOSE. The purpose of this ordinance is to amend the Uniform Building Coe y eleting S 304(d)(3) which requires inspections of lath and/or wallboard, by adding S 421 which defines a truss, by amending S 1305(a) & 1405(a) to allow less light area in residential kitchens and kitchenettes, by adding S 1718 to eliminate field changes in trusses without engineering approval, by adding a second exception to S 3305(j) which will exempt stair- ways having less than four risers from the requirement of handrails, and by adding a Chapter 11 to the appendix which specifies construction for covered mall buildings. SECTION II. AMENDMENTS. The 1976 Edition of'the Uniform Building Code is amen a as follows: 1. Section 304(d) is hereby amended to read as follows: ' (d) Required Inspections. Reinforcing steel or structural framework of any part of any building or structure shall not be covered or concealed without first obtaining the approval of the Building Official. The Building Official, upon notitification from the permit holder or his agent, shall make the following inspections and shall either approve that portion of the construction as completed or shall notify the permit holder or his agent wherein the same fails to comply with this Code. 1. FOUNDATION INSPECTION: To be made after trenches are excavated and forms erected and when all materials for the foundation are delivered on the job. Where concrete from a central mixing plant (commonly termed "transit mixed") is to be used, materials need not be on the job. 2. FRAME INSPECTION: To be made after the roof, all framing, fire -blocking, and bracing are in place and all pipes, chimneys, and vents are complete. 3. FINAL INSPECTION: To be made after building is com- pleted and ready for occupancy. 5.... •"�..Y� ROEILMED BY i JORM MICR46LAB Li:Al: ;'%: i',' • .:I 1101';(.5 MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND DIES MUINL., 10W 2. Section 421 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 421. TRUSS is a pre -built and engineered component em- ploying one or more triangles in its' construction that functions as a structural support member. 3. Section 1305(a) is hereby amended to read as follows: LIGHT AND VENTILATION. All guest rooms, dormitories and habit- able rooms within a dwelling unit shall be provided with natural light by means of exterior glazed openings with an area not less than one-tenth of the floor area of such rooms with a minimum of 10 square feet. All bedrooms, water closet compartments, laundry rooms and similar rooms shall be provided with natural ventila- tion by means of openable exterior openings with an area not less than one -twentieth of the floor area of such rooms with a minimum of 1� square feet. All guest rooms, dormitories and habitable rooms within a dwelling unit shall be provided with natural ventilation by means of open - able exterior openings with an area of not less than one -twentieth of the floor area of such rooms with a minimum of 5 square feet. In lieu of required exterior openings for natural ventilation, a mechanical ventilating system may be provided. Such system shall be capable of providing two air changes per hour in all guest rooms, dormitories, habitable rooms, and in public corridors. One-fifth of the air supply shall be taken from the outside. In bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundry rooms, and similar rooms a mechanical ventilation system connected directly to the outside, capable of providing five air changes per hour, shall be provided. For the purpose of determining light and ventilation requirements, any room may be considered as a portion of an adjoining room when one-half of the area of the common wall is open and unobstructed and provides an opening of not less than one-tenth of the floor area of the interior room or 25 square feet, whichever is greater. Required exterior openings for natural light and ventilation shall open directly onto a street or public alley or a yard or court located on the same lot as the building. EXCEPTION N1: Required windows may open into a roofed porch where the porch: A. Abuts a street, yard, or court; and B. Has a ceiling height of not less than 7 feet; and C. Has the longer side at least 65 percent open and unobstructed. EXCEPTION q2: Dwelling unit may be provided with natural light by means of exterior glazed openings with an area not less than 3% of the floor area of such rooms provided that a mechanical ventil- ation system capable of providing two air changes per hour and artificial lighting is provided. E 1 MICROI` IL141D BY JoRM MICR( LAB UJAI i:i6 MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES MOINLS, IOWA Section 1405(a) is hereby amended to read as follows: (a) Light and Ventilation. All guest rooms, dormitories, and habitable rooms within a dwelling unit shall be provided with natural light by means of exterior glazed openings with an area not less than one-tenth of the floor area of such rooms with a minimum of 10 square feet. All bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundry rooms and similar rooms shall be provided with natural ventilation by means of open - able exterior openings with an area not less than one -twentieth of the floor area of such rooms with a minimum of 11, square feet. All guest rooms, dormitories and habitable rooms within a dwelling unit shall be provided with natural ventilation by means of openable exterior openings with an area of not less than one -twentieth of the floor area of such rooms with a minimum of 5 square feet. In lieu of required exterior openings for natural ventilation, a mechanical ventilating system may be provided. Such sys- tem shall be capable of providing two air changes per hour in all guest rooms, dormitories, habitable rooms, and in public corridors. One-fifth of the air supply shall be taken from the outside. In bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundry rooms, and similar rooms a mechanical ventilation system connected directly to the outside, capable of pro- viding five air changes per hour, shall be provided. For the purpose of determining light and ventilation require- ments, any room may be considered as a portion of an adjoin- ing room when one-half of the area of the common wall is open and unobstructed and provides an opening of not less than one-tenth of the floor area of the interior room or 25 square feet, whichever is greater. Required exterior openings for natural light and ventilation shall open directly onto a street or public alley or a yard or court located on the same lot as the building. EXCEPTION N1: Required windows may open into a roofed porch where the porch: A. Abuts a street, yard, or court; and B. Has a ceiling height of not less than 7 feet; and C. Has the longer side at least 65 percent open and unob- structed. EXCEPTION H2: Dwelling unit may be provided with natural light by means of exterior glazed openings with an area not less than 3% of the floor area of such rooms provided that a mechanical ventilation system capable of providing two air changes per hour and artificial lighting is provided. 141CROFILIMED BY DORM MICRI LAB MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS MOINLS, 104k 5. Section 1718 is hereby amended to read as follows: TRUSSES. Sec. 1718. Preparation, fabrication, and installation of trusses shall conform to accepted engineering practices and to the require ments of this code. No alterations, including but not limited to cutting, splicing, or removal of webs, gussetts, or chords, shall be made without approval of a certified engineer and the building official. Any alterations not acceptable to the building official shall be ordered removed. 6. Section 3305(j) is hereby amended to read as follows: (j) HANDRAILS. Stairways shall have handrails on each side, and every stairway required to be more than 88 inches in width shall be provided with not less than one intermediate handrail for each 88 inches of required width. Intermediate handrails shall be spaced approximately equal within the entire width of the stairway. Handrails shall be placed not less than 30 inches nor more than 34 inches above the nosing of treads. They shall be continuous the full length of the stairs and except for private stairways at least one handrail shall extend not less than 6 inches beyond the top and bottom risers. Ends shall be returned or shall terminate in newel posts or safety terminals. EXCEPTION N1: Stairways 44 inches or less in width and stairways serving one individual dwelling unit in Group R, Division 1 or 3 Occupancies may have one handrail, except that such stairways open on one or both sides shall have handrails provided on the open side or sides. EXCEPTION N2: Stairways having less than four risers need not have handrails. Handrails projecting from a wall shall have a space of not less than 1k inches between the wall and the handrail. 7. Chapter 11 in the appendix is hereby amended to read as follows: Chapter 11 COVERED MALL BUILDINGS GENERAL Sec. 1110. (a) Purpose. The purpose of this Chapter is to establish minimum standards of safety for the construction and use of covered mall buildings. 4 14]CROFILMED By ' JORM MICR+LAB (-h)AF. WO!,! .'I! tOCtCS MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES MUINL�,, 10WA (b) Scope. The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to buildings or structures defined herein as covered mall buildings. EXCEPTION: When approved by the Building Official, the following uses need not comply with the provisions of this Chapter: 1. Terminals for transportation facilities. 2. Foyers and lobbies of hotel, apartment and office buildings. 3. Buildings need not comply with the provisions of this Chapter when they comply totally with all other applica- ble provisions of this code. (c) Definition. For the purpose of this Chapter, certain terms are defined as follows: COVERED MALL BUILDING is a single building enclosing a number of tenants and occupancies such as retail stores, drinking and dining establishments, entertainment and amusement facil- ities, offices and other similar uses wherein two or more tenants have a main entrance into one or more malls. ANCHOR STORE is an exterior perimeter department store or major merchandising center having direct access to a mall but having all required exits independent of a mall. GROSS LEASABLE AREA is the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use. The area of tenant occupancy is measured from the center lines of joint par- titions to the outside of the tenant walls. All tenant areas, including areas used for storage, shall be included in calculating gross leasable area. MALL is a roofed or covered common pedestrian area within a covered mall building which serves as access for two or more tenants. OCCUPANT LOAD is the total number of persons that may occupy a building or portion thereof at any one time. (d) Applicability of Other Provisions. Except as specifically otherwise required by this Chapter, covered mall buildings shall meet all applicable provisions of this Code. SPECIAL PROVISIONS Sec. 1111. (a) Automatic Fire -extinguishing Systems. The covered mall building shall be provided with an automatic fire -extinguishing system conforming to the provisions of U.B.C. Standard No. 38-1. In addition to these Standards, the automatic fire -extinguishing system shall comply with the following: 3 4 ,,r MICROFILMED BY I JORM MICR46LA9 m1LROFiLMED BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND DES 1401I+L�, IUWA 1. All automatic fire -extinguishing system control valves shall be electrically supervised by an approved central, proprietary or remote station or a local alarm service which will give an audible signal at a constantly attended location. 2. The automatic fire -extinguishing system shall be complete and opera- tive throughout all occupied space in the covered mall building prior to occupancy of any of the tenant spaces. The level of pro- tection provided for unoccupied tenant space shall be subject to the approval of the Building Official and Fire Department. The respective increases for area and height for covered mall buildings, including anchor stores, specified in Section 506 and 507 of this Code shall be permitted. (b) Standpipes. There shall be a standpipe outlet connected to a supply capable of delivering 250 gallons per minute at each of the following locations for Fire Department use: 1. Within the mall at the entrance to an exit passage or exit corridor. 2. At each floor level landing within enclosed stairways opening directly onto the mall; and adjacent to principle exterior en- trances to the mall. 3. Standpipes shall be installed in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 38 of this Code. EXCEPTION H1: Risers and laterals of dry standpipe systems not located within an enclosed stairway need not be protected by a degree of fire resistance equal to that required for vertical enclosures in the covered mall building. EXCEPTION N2: In buildings where more than one standpipe is pro- vided, they need not be interconnected. EXCEPTION N3. Piping may be hydraulically sized. (c) Smoke Control Requirements. 1. Purpose. The purpose of smoke control is to restrict movement of smoke to the general area of fire origin and to maintain means of egress in a usable condition. 2. General. The smoke control system shall be activated by operation of either the sprinkler system, smoke detectors, or manually subject to approval of the Building Official. Smoke detectors shall be provided within the return air portion of an air-conditioning system and on the tenant side at openings between tenant spaces and the mall. Actuation of either a smoke detector or the sprinkler system shall cause the air supply to the air-conditioning zone in which the fire occurs to shut down. During those hours when the air- conditioning system is not operating, smoke detector or 0 •z, HICROfILIdLD BY DORM MICR6LAB i.I:uAl iU, ::.. .I CiILROFILMH BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES MUIIILS, IUWN sprinkler actuation will transmit an alar only as required in subsection (a), Item 1 of this Section. 3. Mall venting. The mall shall have smoke removal capability installed in or near the roof, Such facility may be either natural or mechanical. 4. Acceptance and testing. Before the smoke control system is accepted by the Building Official, it shall be tested in his presence to confirm that the system is operating in compli- ance with the requirements of this subsection. (d) Fire Department Access to Equipment. Rooms or areas containing controls for air-conditioning systems, automatic fire -extinguishing systems, or other detection, suppression or control elements shall be identified for the use by the Fire Department. (e) Tenant Separation. Each tenant space shall be separated from other tenant spaces by a wall having a fire -resistive rating of not less than one hour. The separation wall shall extend from the floor to the underside of the ceiling. Except as required by other provisions of this Code, the ceiling need not be a fire -resistive assembly. A separa- tion is not required in attic spaces above tenant separation walls nor is a tenant separation wall required between any tenant space and a mall, except for occupancy separations required by Section 1113. (f) Public the system shallSbeSmademaccessibleptolic theaFiresDepaprovided, rtment.stem is (g) Internal Plastic Panels and Plastic Signs. Within every story or level and from side wall to side wall of each tenant space or mall, approved plastic panels and signs shall be limited as follows: 1. They shall not exceed 20 percent of the wall area facing the mall; 2. They shall not exceed a height of 36 inches except that if the sign is vertical then the height shall not exceed 96 inches and the width shall not exceed 36 inches; 3. They shall be located a minimum distance of 18 inches from adjacent tenants; 4. All edges and the back shall be fully encased in metal. (h) Lease Plan. Each covered mall building owner shall provide both the Building and Fire Departments with a lease plan showing the loca- tions of each occupancy and its exits after the Certificate of Occu- pancy has been issued. Such plans shall be kept current. No modifica- tions or changes in occupancy or use shall be made from that shown on the lease plan without prior approval of the Building Official. ncho ore Typesixed I, 11 F.R. ore of II onetion hour construction, and ths between ane mallrortf other leased tenant space need not be protected. 7 IdI01N IVIED BY JORM MICROLAB MIuROiILMED BY JORM MICROLAB EXITS CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS HUINES, IUvii; Sec. 1112. (a) General. Each tenant space and the covered mall building shall be provided with exits as required by this Section and Chapter 33 of this Code. Where there is a conflict between the requirements of Chapter 33 and the requirements of this Section, the requirements of this Section shall apply. (b) Determination of Occupancy Load. The occupant load permitted in any individual tenant space in a covered mall building shall be de- termined as required by Section 3301(d) of this Code. Exit require- ments for individual tenant spaces shall be based on the occupant load thus determined. The occupant load permitted for the covered mall building, assuming all portions, including individual tenant spaces and the mall to be occupied at the same time, shall be determined by dividing the gross leasable area by 30 for covered mall buildings containing up to 150,000 square feet of gross leasable area; by 40 for covered mall buildings containing between 150,001 and 350,000 square feet of gross leasable area, and by 50 for covered mall buildings containing more than 350,000 square feet of gross leasable area. Exit requirements for the covered mall building shall be based on the occupant load thus determined. The occupant load of anchor stores opening into the mall need not be included in computing the total number of occupants for the mall. (c) Number of Exits. Each individual tenant space in covered mall buildings shall be provided with the number of exits required by Sec- tion 3302(a) of this Code. In addition to the requirements of Sec - 3302(a), whenever the distance of travel to the mall within any tenant space used by persons other than employees exceeds 75 feet, not less than two exits shall be provided. otherrthanement of drinkingEandsdiningup A. Divisions establishments,lshallnbe so located in the covered mall building that their entrance will be immediately adjacent to a principal entrance to the mall and shall have not less than one-half of their required exits opening directly to the exterior of the covered mall building. Required exits for anchor stores shall be provided independently from the mall exit system. The occupant load of anchor stores opening into the mall shall not be Included in determining exit requirements for the mall. Malls shall not exit through anchor stores. Malls terminating at an anchor store where no other means of exit has been provided shall be considered as a dead end mall. (e) Distance to Exits. Within each individual tenant space in a covered mall building the maximum distance of travel from any point to an ex- terior exit door, horizontal exit, exit passageway, enclosed stairway or entrance to the mall shall not exceed 200 feet. MICROFILMID BY ' JORM MICR6LA9 MILROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS MOInLS, lO'dA The maximum distance of travel from any point within a mall to an exterior exit door, horizontal exit, exit passageway, or an enclosed stairway shall not exceed 200 feet. (f) Access to Exits. When more than one exit is required, they shall be so arranged that it is possible to go in either direction from any point in a mall to a separate exit, except for dead ends not exceeding a length qual to twice the width of the mallhe measured at the narrowest location e The minimum width of exit from a mall shall be 66 inches. When exit passageways are present to provide a secondary exit from a tenant space, doors to the exit passageway shall be one-hour fire doors. Such doors shall be self-closing and be so maintained or shall be auto - matica closing by smoke detection. Stragys ch are tootheetenants. such exit xpassageways it ashall �be posted swith eservice is prohibited in conspicuous signs so stating. (g) Malls. For the purpose of providing required egress, malls may be considered as corridors, but need not comply with the requirements of Sections 3304(8) and 3304(h) of this Code when the width of mall is as specified in this Section. The minimum width of a mall shall be 20 feet. There shall be a minimum of 10 feet clear width to a height of 8 feet between any projection from a tenant space bordering the mall and the nearest kiosk, vending machine, bench, display, or other obstruction to egress. The mall shall be suf- ficient to accommodate the occupant load immediately tributary thereto. Malls which do not conform to the requirements of this Section shall comply with the requirements of Sections 3304(g) and this Code. or rtl cal (h)griSscoridoorsiwhichlls nareoarparts. Hofiaorequiredntal dmeans ofeegress shall conform to the following: open position during the period 1 They oremain ccupancyy by ured in the full ofgeneral public. 2. Doors or grills shall not be brought to the closed position when there aele exit orr50mpersonsnoccupyingnspacespservedspaces ore by more thanved bone exit. ithin hout the 3. ofe eany special rknowledge ills loreeffort bwhen le rthe om wspace is occupied. use doors or occupied, 4. When two or more exits are required, not more than one-half of the exits may be equipped with horizontal sliding or vertical rolling grills or doors. 0 1 141CRonLMED BY JORM MICR6LAB (AXIL! i6d .'.i.'. i MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB OCCUPANCY CEDAR RAPIDS AND DES MUINLS, IOWA Sec. 1113. (a) General. Covered mall buildings shall be classified as Group B, Division 2 Occupancies and may contain accessory uses consist- ing of Groups A, E or R, Division 1 Occupancies. The area of individual accessory uses within a covered mall building shall not exceed three times the basic area permitted by Table No. 5-C of this Code for the type of construction and the occupancy involved. The aggregate area of all accessory uses within a covered mall building shall not exceed 25 percent of the gross leasable area. An attached garage for the storage of passenger vehicles having a capacity of not more than 9 persons and open parking garages may be considered as a separate building when they are separated from the covered mall build- ing by an occupancy separation having a fire endurance time period of at least 2 hours. (b) Mixed Occupancy. Individual tenant spaces within a covered mall building which comprise a distinct "Occupancy", as described in Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 13 of this Code, shall be separated from any other occupancy as specified in Section 503(d) of this Code. EXCEPTION: A main entrance which opens onto a mall need have no separation. SECTION III. REPEALER. All other ordinances and parts of ordinances in con- flict with the provisions of the ordinance are hereby repealed. SECTION IV. SAVINGS CLAUSE. If any section, provision or part -of the ordin- ance shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or any section, pro- vision or part thereof not adjudged invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION V. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in effect after its final passage, approval and publication as required by law. Passed and approved this ATTEST: ABBIE STOLFUS, CITY CLERK 10 ROBERT A. VEVERA, MAYOR MICROFILMED BY DORM MIC R(�L AB i:EDAP. k�ul!l;ti • :;i`. }fO;'iC5 IQICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES 1401NES, IUWA It was moved by and seconded by , that the Ordinance as read be adopted and upon roll cal t ere were: AYES: NAYS: ABSENT: BALMER dePROSSE ERDAHL NEUHAUSER PERRET ROBERTS VEVERA First consideration Vote for passage: Second consideration Vote for passage: t191vd Y j? AOVED IM MM Ina DrPARTIEd4 11 :-0ICRONWED BY � JORM MICR+LAB CEDAR RAI`i.'.�5 • "JCS MO VIFS milCROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB MINUTES COUNCIL OF ELDERS MAY 19, 1978 -- 9:00 A.M. RECREATION CENTER -- MEETING ROOM A CEDAR RAPIDS AND DLS MUINLS, IUwA MEMBERS PRESENT: Tim Bredow, VNA; Leo Cain, NARFE; Larry Carlton, CoA; Wilma Kincade, Heritage AAA; Cora Pollack, AARP; Don Schaefer, SEATS. MEMBERS ABSENT: Jeannette Moore, Congregate Meals; Judy West, JCSS. OTHERS PRESENT: Julie Vann, City Staff; Barb Ettleson, Institute of Public Affairs, U of I; Huck Roberts, SEATS; Ethel Garrison and Doris Bridgeman, CoA; Lisa Walz, Congregate Meals; Chick Forwald, Heritage AAA; Sally St. John, JCSS. SUMMARY OF MEETING DISCUSSION: The meeting was called to order by Julie Vann. The agenda for the meeting was as follows: I. Summary of activities accomplished to date. II. Summary of upcoming activities III. Clarification of roles IV. Re-evaluation of membership V. Discussion of future meeting format I. Cora Pollack summarized the Council of Elders activities. They held an organizational meeting in March at which eight agencies were represented. In April, Cora Pollack was elected president and Tim Bredow, secretary. They established a general goal to coordinate services for the elderly. They decided to meet the second Wednesday of each month. They planned a Country Fair to celebrate Older Americans Month. It will be held May 26 at the Iowa City Library from 1:00 to 5:00 P.M. II. To summarize upcoming activities, Julie Vann handed out a senior center program planning pamphlet to individuals who had not yet received a copy of the drafted work schedule. It lists tasks to be worked on and also includes dates to serve as deadlines. Discussion ensued centering around the types of programs that people would like to see in the center. Again, it was emphasized that very few programs would ever have a permanent space, but would share space with several other providers. Areas will be provided for Otheruspaceon, health, is availablerandpwilltben, kitchen allocated accordingsto recreation. need. It was mentioned that some of the programs should be aimed at a population target area other than the low income elderly, so that there could be something for everybody. It was the general consensus that all the programs should be as broad -ranged as possible, so that everybody, regardless of income, would feel welcome. Mar MICRUILME0 8Y JORM MICR+LAB i.l.Al.. PA; I-JILROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB -2- CEDAR RAPIDS AND OLS MOINLz,, IUWA There was general discussion as to whether the groups should plan the programs or try to determine the needs first. It was generally agreed that there are a lot of needed programs, however, it was emphasized that merely identifying the need would not necessarily guarantee that the program would be used by the individuals for whom it was planned. The discussion then centered around the need to develop programs that would be both needed and used by people. Again, it was emphasized that the Council of Elders is needed to do tasks, instead of just talking and planning. It was generally decided that small committees should be formed for each of the proposed program areas, and work on the details of setting it up, arranging order to it, and setting goals and objectives. III. A discussion of the following roles followed: A. The discussion was mainly concerned with what does the Council of Elders do. The following responses were given. Be an advisory board to the City Council, Board of Supervisors, and the Joint Project Task Force. 2. Be a voice for the elderly. 3. Back up the people doing the work. 4. Be a conglomerate of elderly groups, identifying workable program needs. 5. Take back information to own organizations, to find out what they think. 6. "Keep the ball rolling" 7. Bring ideas from groups to the Council of Elders for discussion and appropriate action. 8. Aggressively attempt to get elderly input. B. The discussion moved on to define Julie's role in the project. 1. She is the staff appointed by the City to direct and coordinate the development of the Senior Center. 2. She will provide information to the Council of Elders. 3. She will get parking permits for Council of Elder members, for use during meetings. 4. She will receive the responses of the Council of Elders and pass on information to the City Council and report back results. 5. She will answer questions about the progress of the project. 6. She will coordinate with the Council of Elders Chairman in developing agendas for the meetings. C. The next discussion was to clarify the Joint Project Task Force role. 1. Its mission is about accomplished. 2. Its purpose was to negotiate issues of common interest between the owners of two adjacent facilities: the Ecumenical Housing Corp.'s elderly housing project and the City of Iowa City's senior center. 141 CIt0f IU4ED BY JORM MICR�)LAO MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB -3- CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES MUINLJ, WwA IV. The next topic was to reevaluate the membership of the Council of Elders. The group discussed whether to admit new members. The group set up guidelines to go by to accept new members. It was decided to accept members representing organizations that were primarily representing elderly (over 50%) and those interested in elderly projects. The new members accepted also need to represent at least a group of 50 elderly people. It was decided that 15 voting members would be the limit. Letters will be sent out to all service agencies inviting them to apply for membership, with the criteria for membership clearly stated. Larry Carlton, Wilma Kincade , and Cora Pollack were appointed to review the applications and pick enough applicants to bring the voting membership to 15. Each member should also have an alternate available. This person should be kept up to date by receiving copies of the minutes of each meeting. V. The format of future meetings was quickly reviewed and it was decided to have the next meeting June 7 at 9:00 a.m. in the Recreation Center. i Respectfully submitted, ��nn .1 Tim Bredow, Secretary I I Y:... ; . . � IdI LROrI LIdEO BY JORM MICR( LAB CWAIr p.w 12p, • ias, slol%CS r Hi�,O IL; LU BY JORM IdICROLAB • CEDAR RAPIDS AIID ULA I•IUihu, i'J'itll ince the later 1940s, community antenna television systems (CATV or "cable" TV) have dealt primarily in entertain- ment. providing conventional programming or movies otherwise unavailable locally. But another dimension has burn added. It's called interne- tive cable television, which simply means that viewers are participants loo. It may mean a lot more to cities in the long run than just a better television pic. tum or it better financial pic- ture. It may mean a whole new way for citizens to participate in local gm•er unctu. CATV: 1ivo-Way Access to City Hall By Clint Page TIIE READING EXPERIMENT The bn al Social Security administrator is fielding questions from a group of retired people. Nes in an office in downtown Rending, Penn., and the people he's talking with are at three senior citizen's centers in different parts of town. Not only can they talk to each other, but thanks to a two. way video hook-up that links the senior citizen's centers with a remote television crew, they also can all see each other as well. The exchanges are friendly and informal; some are on o first mime basis. " /'m 61," one woman says, "and my husband died last year at the age of 66. Should I collect my widows benefits now; or should I wait until I'm 65 and collect my orn benefrrs?" The administrator answers her question, and then there's another one from someone else, and another and another. Known around cable television circles as "the Reading experiment," this two-way television system linking local government and citizens started as one of three experiments funded by the National Science Foundation. It was begun to study the cots and benefits of using two-way cable television to dcl iver publ is services to elderly residents. Berks TV Cable, a local cable television company, provided three to five hours of time each day for community access, three hours in the morning and one or two at night. The Alternate Media Center at New York University provided programming and monitoring assistance, and local senior citizens provided the audience and the produc- tion staff. The Audience is The Staff The senior citizens, with some technical assistance, produced their own program- ming. They sent remote crews to city hall to cover city council meetings; they created question -and -answer shows with the mayor, city council members, and other local offi- cials; they produced shows on social security, health, end ahcr issues important to them. There is a documentary in the works—a history or the local labor movement, and there arc ..commercials" for such social services as food stamps. The original experiment ended in February, 1977 and the two-way system has grown to something more than the exper- iment called for. It has become a way for the city government and its citizens, or at least the 36,500 subscribers to Berks TV Cable, to communicate on a variety of issues. "The feedback shows that elected officials and even non- elected people have been using the system increasingly in the last six months," says Jerry Richter, executive director of Becks Community TV, the non-profit company that has run the two-way system since the end of the experiment. "The local officials' appear antes once every five weeks have made them more conscious and more aware that periodically they have to go out and face the people." For fNnelal Use There has been "heavy use" of the system by city officials as a forum for public hearings, Richter says. During the winter, the city held hearings on the use of community devel- opment funds—the son of hearings that when held at night at s - :41CRnIILNCII By DORM MrCR6LAB NATION'S CMESIMAY 1978 J i r•1; s,RUi iLIGi.D BY JORM 141CROLAB city hall would draw as few as four or five citizens. They moved equipment into city hall and set up centers at the geographic extremes of the city. 'Men. with the mayor at city hall and other officials at the other center, the city held its hearings on the cable, says Richter. People at the neighbor- hood centers could be seen by the city officials as they took pan in the hearings; viewers at home could telephone their questions and comments in. The televised hearings, Richter says, generated forty-eight specific calls from viewers at home or from people at the centers with questions or comments. "You can't draw people out to meetings like you did be- fore," says Reading Mayor Joseph R Kuzminski, who views the televised hearings as a "tremendous success." The city now holds televised hearings as a matter of course. "We've become a kind of resource that agencies think of when they have problems," says Richter. Paying Is Important While the system was still an experiment it was supported by a National Science Foundadon grant. Having passed the test, the system has moved from being a federally -subsidized project to a community resource that has its own place in the city budget. "In order to fund the system," Richter says, "the board of directors of Berks Community TV decided to place a value on the use of the system according to the amount of time used. That value was set at $300 fora half hourof live programming. We asked the city council to pay for its participation at that rate, which would have worked out to 515,000 a year. NE didn't get that, but the city council does pay $5,000 a year for its use of the system. And the council told other city agencies with their own budgets that it would be good if they would pay for their use of the system on the same basis. And they do." Richter says that Berks Community TV views its payments from the city as payment for services, not as grants. "That way," he says, "there are no strings attached to the money" Judging from the tapes of programming on the system, those who use the system enjoy being able to talk to city hall. "The mayor and council members originally thought of it as a way to talk to people," says Red Bums, executive director of the Alternate Media Cerner, "but they found out that it was a way to hear what people have to say." There aren't any .speeches, she says, simply exchanges; no rancor, no confron. tations, just "people concerned with parks, garbage, potholes, and other local issues." The senior citizens for whom the system was originally created have taken to it, Bums says; they use it as they do the telephone to keep in touch with the city and its agencies and with each other. There is a certain amount of waving at friends in another part of town, a certain amount of personal chatting on the two-way cable. "Participation," Red Burns says, "has been embedded in the total system, including singalongs and socializing." That's important to the elderly people who use the system. What's important in the long run to all of Reading's cable subscribers is that the two-way cable has made the Reading city government accessible in a way that wasn't possible before. "Interactive television is a greater equalizer;' Red Burns says. "It creams a neutral territory—neither the a NATION'S CITIEVNIAY 1918 CEDAR RAPIDS ALIO ULA : )111' mayor's office nor the viewer's home—in which neither party has an edge. And when people learn that they can openly. honorably ask questions, that opens up a series of questions and allows a response. DIAL 1, FOR LOCAL It is Wednesday night, and the disrussian on Channel l.'s live "Mon uatan at l arge" show has been about wife heating. Two women guests have rernunted their experiences with abusive lm.sIxmdt, and the telephone calls that have come in from viewers have been sometimes informative, sometimes poig. nant, sanretimrs heart-rending. Then the telephone rings, and the vuh a of a little girl, perhaps ten -years -old, .says: "I don't know what to do—Afommy and Daddy are fighting right now. "That was an electrifying moment;' says Chuck Sherwood, one of two consultants who have helped develop the program- ming on Channel L, the local government channel of Man- hattan Cable Company and TblePrompter in New York City. It was audience participation at perhaps its most dmmadc, said the people on the program were able to give the little girl appropriate hotline numbers to call. Channel L, two -years -old this month, operates seven days a week from 7:30 p.m. to 11:00 P.M. In addition to the live Ykilmsday night show, it provides live and taped information programs on local issues, and a community bulletin board listing meetings and special events—a "visual Reuters," says John Sandiford, the other programming consultant. Likes Manhattan While 0he Reading system started out with an audience defined by age, Channel L has been aimed at an audience defined by geography. When the New York City charter was ro ern neer 1, Wwen Ca151r IIk WM% QUac .ydM I. 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The franchise provides fur two.wuy com- munications and for sub -districting according to Manhattan's twelve community huwd arcus, but Chinnel I, has not gotten that far yet. It has progressed, however, from its start two years ago with two city council members as "producers." 7bday all city council members and two state assembly members are on the cable regularly. City agencies and departments produce their own information programs; the planning commission, for example, has its own show and has also used the channel for discussion of water quality planning, community development block grants, highways and mass transit. The twelve commu- nity boards themselves produce programs aimed at specific local issues and interests, and so do civic organizations, in. cluding the League of'Abmen alters, the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, who request time on the channel through the city's Once of 7blecommunications Policy. It is these "producers" who determine the content of program, not the city's telecommunications office. Sherwood and Sandiford provide technical assistance to help producers say what they want to say; they don't tell them what to say. Manhattan Cable, the cable television company, provides Channel L with eight hours of production time in its studio each week, plus office space. In those eight hours, Channel L produces a three -and -a -half-hour live program ('Manhattan at ( Large") and does the taping for its other programs. "The format is critical;' Sandiford says. "It's not just a very local UHF sunion.Is's, thing quite exceptional." The live %Wnesday night program is deliberately informal. There are no more than five guests, all seated in a circle, an arrnngcment that Sandiford says allows a great deal of inti- macy. There's no hype. no fancy packaging; it's not unusual to see a camera in the background. The focus is on local issues, and the level of discussion is kept such that anyone can call in with continents or questions. "Depending on the subject, we get ten to twenty calls per night," Sandiford says, "some from regular cullers, some from new ones." The taped community bulletin boards—the "visual Reuters--= a bit more eLsborate than the name implies. The electrunically generated messages about meetings and other events are augmented by music, maps showing the community board area the messages are about and color pictures of com- munity scenes and landmarks—contemporary and historical. Community board meetings themselves are taped and carried over the cable in one four-hour stretch once a month. The relationship to the city is informal. Sherwood and Sandiford are consultants to the cable company, although in other cities they might work directly for the city. (New York City has its own television station, WNYC.) Manhattan Cable and TblePrompter operate under typical franchise agreements overseen by the city's Board of Franchise which is overseen by the Board of Estimate. DW J for Porn Channel L is one of four access channels available in New York City. Channel C is the "beginner's" channel, providing access for individuals or groups who have never before used cable television; Channel D is for "intermediates" who wish to use the cable regularly. Channel 1 is a leased public access channel; time may be leased and the user of the time provides the programming and may even sell advertising. Channel 1's programming has been known to include "The Bulgarian Hour" and other ethnic programming as well as pornography sponsored by local massage parlors. The local government programming on Channel L is re- garded as experimental although Manhattan Cable is comm t - ted to the project through the end of this year. "RB'll spend $78,000 this year," Sherwood says, of which $66,500 will go for production, and the rest for administration." TIIE BIGGER PICTURE IS OUT OF FOCUS Local government channels like Channel L arc a very small part of the cable television scene. In the U.S., some 3,700 cable television companies serve 11.9 million homes in 8,000 communities. Out of all those, it's possible to count on the fingers of two hands the number of local government channels in operation. Local government channels and the other public access channels (like Channels C, D, and 1 in New York City) are the offspring of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In a 1976 ruling. FCC said that by June 1986, cable operators with 3,500 or more subscribers (there are 2,976 such systems) would have to be able to transmit over twenty channels and would have to provide four of those channels for the use of the public, institutions, local governments and people who wish to Continued on page X IICR111 IIIALiI !41' JORM MICROLAB NATION'S CITILSWAY 1978 S ;; wr.�1t 1L?hU BY JORr4 141CROLAB • CLOAit k0lju AtJO uL'� buy time. In February of thi_ ,:ar, however, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that FCC had overstepped its authority with that ruling. The 1974 Communications Act gave FCCjurisdiction over areas ancillary to broadcasting. But that jurisdiction doesn't include such things as channel capacity or public access, the court said. One judge wrote that the act contains "no objectives so broad as to encompass whatever is necessary to get everybody on television. If that major foray be a legitimate goal, it most be established not by the commission or the courts, but by Congress." Congress will have its shot at cable television this year. The 1934 Communications Act is up for revision and two congres- sional subcommittees have been giving it a good hard look. The House Subcommittee on Communications should submit its new bill to the House of Representatives June 1; it will surely reexamine cable television. On the Senate side, the act is being updated, but not completely rewritten; a new section covering cable television is expected to be added. Congress's action on the new legislation may well resolve some uncertainties about cable television; so might FCC's appeal of the court decision. Merry Sue Smoller, cable televi- sion officer for Madison, Wis. where City 12, the local gov. ernment channel, has been linking the city hall with the people for four years, feels that the current "regulatory vacuum" is bad news for cities that "don't give a damn" about access to cable television, good news for those that do. What she means is that without a federal requirement in force, the responsibility for insisting on public access channels would be in the hands of each city as it negotiates a cable franchise. Cities would have to make such access a specific requirement of each franchise and cities that aren't aware of that now might find it hard to accomplish retroactively. CITIES CAN STILL ACT But public access isn't necessarily in limbo, says Harold Horn, executive director of the Cable 71:1evision Information Center at the Urban Institute. "If the decision is upheld," he says, local governments "may find it offers a new opportunity to develop and encourage public access channels." Cities pursuing public access aggressively possibly could go beyond the old FCC rules. With the new legislation due in Congress this summer, and with the general furorstirmd up by the court decision and FCC regulations in general, cable television might be u matter of importance to cities this year. "As a policy arena for cities, it is vital," says Mitchell Moss of the New York University Gradu- ate School of Public Administration. "The city grants the franchise, and it should have the decision over what's on the cable." That cable television has not made tremendous use of the potential for public access is understandabl"ere's no real profit in it for cubic companies. The use that has been made has been the result of efforts by people from outside the conventional television -entertainment -marketing world. The two consultants behind much of the programming on Man- hattan's Channel L, for example, are not electronic wizards, video freaks, or professional broadcasters. Chuck Sherwood is an urban planner by training, and John Sandiford a commu- nity organizer. Tb them, and to many others like them, cable a NATION'S CITIESIMAY 1978 television is , A to be used in community building. THE BIG-TIME IN COLUMBUS, OHIO It has been snowing in Columbus, Ohio and through the studio window snow can still be seen lining the roadside. Inside at a table on the set, "Columbus Alive" host Ron Giles is talking to Mayor Tom Moodv about snow removal problems. Giles then asks home viewers ff they think the streets ate being cleared well enough. "If you think they we, push button number ora on yaw console. If you think they aren't being cleared well, push button number two." At home, subscribers of Warner Cable Television's QURE pick up their consoles—black boxes the size of telephones—to register their opinions. A computer at the studio tallies the responses, and thev are flashed on the screen within u minute or so of Giles' question: 58 percent of the viewers said yes, 42 percent said no. After more conversation and more questions about viewers' impressions of snow removal problems, Mayor Moody ex- plains that snow removal costs money and that to improve the city's snow removal process would call for higher fazes. Then he asks the big question: "How many viewers would pay more rases for better snow removal?" Giles runs through the instructions—push button number one if you would pay more taus for better snow removal, push button number two if you wouldn't. In a minute or so, the results flash on the screen: 74 percent of the watchers that evening pushed button number two—they aren't willing to pay higher taxes in order to get the streets cleared faster. QUBE is the opposite end of almost any polarity one might construct about interactive cable television, local access chan. nels, or maybe even cable television in general. It depends on sophisticated electronics, particularly for its response system. It is slickly produced and flashily packaged. It is the child of AU R01 104111 8V JORM MICR40LA13 ;t.i•;U by JORM 11ICRULAB LEJAif iiAVIJ'� AIJU uL� '11,.'IL ..I marketing and cmertainme .ople. It is a commercial emer. prise intended to make a prof i. It also provides what must be the most elaborate original programming on a cable system; in that regard it is much more like a conventional television station than a cable system. "What QUBE is trying to do," says Ron Castell, the Warner marketing vice president in Columbus, "is not offer more 'Hogan's Heroes' but offer altematives—things that aren't on conventional television." ForS10.95 a month a subscriber to QUBE gets: access to all local television channels, including the university channels; premium (pay) movies and other programs; a live channel that offers a series of locally -produced live programs for children, teen-agers, and adults; consumer information, news updates; a continuous channel of children's progrartuning and other spe. cial programs. The live channel is set up to use the two. way capability of the system and says Michael Marcovsky, QUBE's general manager, it's "one big access channel." Old TFeks for a New Dog "YAk offer an abundance of access," he says, "and we can respond to what's important to people. When the snow started falling, we decided to do some special programming on the live channel. Wb wanted to cover the snow problem, we wanted to infotm people about what was happening, and we wanted to be a companion to people who couldn't get out." That approach to programming --being the individual viewer's companion and contact with the local steno—is "a matter of teaching a new dog old tricks," Marcovsky says. "WE have gone back to some basics in programming, trying to make entertainment informative and information entertaining. It's fun, but we can deal with serious issues." A local highway hearing, for example, got thorough cover- age via QUBE. A crew went to city hall and the hearings were carried live over one channel for subscribers who wanted to watch the real thing; on the "Columbus Alive" program, the remote crew periodically presented highlights and news up- dates. "Wb kept the five coverage going past the scheduled end of the program," Ron Castell says, "past 11:00 p.m. 7lterc were maybe sixty people watching then, but we kept with it." Another Polling Dflemma Werner and QUBE are certainly doing some things that most conventional television stations don't do and the two-way response system built into QUBE is unique in television -- broadcast or cable. There arc questions that can be raised about the validity of the responses: the audience is limited, the responses are only as good as the questions, and there is no way for the audience to qualify responses or ask Its own questions. For example, Mayor Moody's question reached a maximum of 14,773 households—a very small slice of Columbus's 541,000 people. There is also the possibility that because of audience fickleness, QUBE's response system may tum out to be only a gimmick. With very little citizen -government interaction tak. ing place on QUBE, much of the push button response so far involves second-guessing quarterbacks, playing games, or giving a boring performer an electronic hook. It's obvious that QUBE is not doing the things that Channel L, for example, does. "Many public access channels are noble, but ineffective," Ron Castell says. "It's difficult to get 12 NATION'S CITIES/MAY 1978 masses of p : interested in things that are 'gond for them.' Bringing government to the people and to neighborhoods is s noble idea, but what we've tried to do is to put these kinds of discussions in a more polished format." The big question, of course, is: Have we seen the future, and is it QUBE? Columbus is one of the traditional test markets for new products in this country, and Wamer feels confident enough of the experience there to be applying for franchises in Fort Wayne, Ind. and Pittsburgh. The company is also study. ing the feasibility of adding QUBE to a %mer -owned system in Akron. The Columbus system has been a demonstration project ors marketing test, and as aresult the 14,773 subscribers have been getting a bonus. Warner has been paying for the live program. ming and facilities that the viewers might otherwise have been expected to pay for through subscription fees or premium television payments. But while Warner sees Columbus as a lab, it also sees the operation as a business; the money—mote than $IO million --that has gone into programming is seen as an investment in the system's future. "As we move into other cities, we won't have the same costs as we've had here," says Mike Macovsky. "W@ won't have the cost of ourprogramming consultant, we won't have to spend so much developing new talent and new people," In the meantime, QUBE's Columbus subscribers seem to be enjoying the variety the system offers and the chance to push a button and become part of the system. Professional reactions seem mixed, although most people who have been through the studios and watched QUBE in action seem to find it interest. ing. One, writing in Columbus Monthly, noted, however, that the audience was limited and that the system may be more significant nationally than locally. If that's the case, then its acceptance, or tack of it, in more cites will tell Ilse We. ,..._�—III kid ILNta t!r DORM MICROLA6 .1.�:)I ;_>'.. .. L'Y JUkh1 !•IICROLAb The Bottom Line QUBE is certainly unique and it is a sharp contrast to the other two systems currently operating in Columbus. The city passed enabling legislation in 1969 after several years of dis. cussing cable television, but the first system wasn't underway until two years later. Since then, Columbus has developed the third largest cable television system (counting all three operat. ing companies) in the nation's top IBO markets. The companies operate under franchise agreements that arc typical of the cable industry. The business arrangements and legal authorities are those of the standard utility franchise: the city owns the public rights of way, and any private business wishing to string its power lines or television cables above ground or bury them below ground pays for the privilege of using the public right of way. The original franchises negotiated in Columbus set the franchise fee for each company at 6 percent of the base gross receipts, excluding pay television receipts. Now, however, the FCC has ruled that pay television receipts may also be used as pan of the rate base, so the city's 1978 cable income is expected to be greater than last year's $240,000. The FCC has also imposed a limit on franchise fees of S percent. Ralph Squires, the city's cable television administrator, says, "If you want 3 percent, they ask no questions. But if you want the maximum, you have to justify it:' The cable companies in Columbus, like cable companies everywhere are largely purveyors of entertainment. But, says Squires, "as time moves on and the operators become more successful, they can add community services." That is the end to which Squires is working, certainly, and he has ambitions that would eventually call for a cable drop in every home. By the end of this year, he expects that 85 percent of the houses in I,LJAt< RAH,)'J Ah10 JL-, . °- the county or 240 houses would be wired for cable. 7b Each City A Network Lurking in the back of Squires mind—and in any number of proposals in his files—is a government telecommunications center that would provide the government services program- ming "commercial cable operators don't want to do because they can't make a profit at it." The center would link all the cable systems in the city to provide a local network for city government programming. 7bchnology isn't the problem, he says, but money and "determining what services you start with and which ones you add next" are problems. "Columbus has only recently been in a position to use a government channel on cable television," Columbus Mayor Tom Moody points out. There hasn't been the money before, and the uncertainties about FCC regulations and franchise fees that currently abound make him cautions about moving too for tow fast. There are, however, a number of services that Moody feels could be valuable: weather, consumer information, emergency and disaster services, information about govem- ment activities, education. "Given careful thoughtful planning and execution that could all be put together," he says. It would take a considerable commitment of time and money on the part of the city. "Anyway you look at it, you'd have to have a good product," Moody says. "If you don't, you won't attract and maintain interest in a government channel. That's lough on the city's resources and on its pay scale. The kind of person we would need would be the equal of at least a news director ata local station, and we'd need otherpeople not far below that level. And then there are facilities" Squires estimates of the cost of a city telecommunications center run as high as Sl million for the initial investment, excluding real estate, and a minimum of $300,000 a yearto run it. He has a long shopping list of services the center might offer, running from a wide range of informational program. ming to digital communications, air pollution monitoring, records storage, crime and accident surveillance, and perhaps even individual burglar and fire alarms for every house. There is a lot of blue-sky thinking in Squires' list and a la that gas beyond simple two-way interactive cable television. The future that his list anticipates may have to wait a while, though, because people don't keep pace with technology. Cable television is about thirty -years -old, but it is far from universal (only 17.9 percent of homes with television are on a cable system) and its use in creating a sense of community is still largely experimental. "It will be a long time before cities really see cable as a tool," says Mitchell Moss at New York University's Graduate School of Public Administration. "You need an organizations] structure at the local level to do it." In Reading, for instance, the programming capacity is outside the city government; she same is true of Channel L, although New York does have its own station; in Madison, fora contrast, City 12 is run by people on the city payroll. "Cable television has to grow city by city," Reading's Red Burns says," but what matters is not the technology, but the use. It's far more exciting to harness technology to work in favor of an exchange of opinion" Mitchell Moss puts it another way: "7Lchnology won't change the way the govern. ment is done but complement if." ❑ JORM MICROLAB NA710N'S CMESIMAY 1978 13 ;;,.,tars !C'11 J BY JORM 111CROLAB CLOAk RAP(JS AMU JLC Iu:iiL<, States begin to `pay tax' for taxonexempt bodies'; ` By MICHAEL J. McMANUS THE CITY of New Haven, Com., has won a two{mtu- ryold battle to collect cases for providing municipal services to Yale University. It did so with Yale's enthusiastic Macau& The result New Haven Is lowering Its high tax me while Increasing outlays for libraries and schools. An important national precedent has been set that every cormoualty In the country ought to study, since an estimated one-third of W property is exempt from taxation today. The key to New Haven's victory was not a new wUWlpen by Yak to be taxed. Rather, the city will receive $2.9 million In lieu of property taxes from the date government for in - exempt Institutions that serve a wide public: hospitals and colleges and universities. This solution was approved by a vsb od 1g7.1 ts the Connecticut 8ensts teal month, Another braktheot — though not mprat.'edented —''da be uses in Newark, N.J., nit Neatiss ball of ■ new $3.8 MIW04 payer In UK of tans from the state goverment for state-owned properly in Newark. That check Is New Juseys Nit tan notice that its $127 million worth of colleges, universities and other fadh- ties In Newark cod the city money to service with police and tiro protan tion, streets, sewage and street lighting. Tax-exempt property is "ally distributed. It tends to be coocentret. ed In cities, particularly capitals, Of Washington's $18.0 billion worth of ausessed property, $9.9 billion is tax• exempf, $7 billion of It federally owned. In Des Motors tuexesspt property equals about cue -forth of total valuations. Some progress has been wale in recst yam In gang {avaromsots to make payments in lieu of taxon. Thirty-six states now make payments of property taxes directly to local governments, or payments In Hen of Bet Connecticut Is a pioneer to helping communities collect from private taxesarrpt institution such r universities end hospitals. Yak's tax exemption predates the founding of the country and ba been a solve of controversy at since. An 1117 New Havas Register editorial in op- po"on to Wowing Yalles the right to "is ukk "GTtinss of New Haven — you who pay for y�nnment and shoulder your min the mules. — AN you prepared w bow your taxa lugond and your town officers forced upon you by the banmsse !utas of Yale COW with a trats of students at their heels who have no Yore In the public burtbme ihardeni7" On person who bas bass ciao to the Bghi Isn Yak and the city Is Joseph Lieberman, president of Yaws stsdmt body in IM, later assistant dean of YaWs School of Architecture and Plasdng, and mese recaatly, a stab senator from New Haven, now the Senate's majority leader. "This gen a classic Issue In which both sides are right." aye Lieberman. 'Yals is a maintenance burden on New Sam taxpayers. The property lax Y a mala source of revenue — two-WNs of the city's budget Yak I$ given tiro and police protection, swage, and street lights, yet It pays no taro. On the other band, tax• exempt organizations are right that they are performing a public function. Two-thirds of the people who ace patients at Yale's hospital come from outside New Haven Its MOOT I OPO 6Y JORM MICRCoLA6 3 M -et 7 studies have beaefited7he nation and the world. And 13,0DO New Haven's Jobs aro at Yale." This year Yale sat down with the city's representatives and worked out a Joint effort to prey the slate to expand the state's PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxa) program that already was reimbursing cornmeal. tin $7.3 million for stateowned land. New Haven forged solid support by the Connecticut Conference of Mud• clpalltks; and Yak swung many of the state's tax-exempt institutions Into active lobbying — hospitals, museums, private secondary schools, the Connecticut Council on the Arts. ONLY THE churches failed to Join the lobbying eft not of fear that 1! they fought for toe principle of reimbursing local government for cburchowoed land this year, In some future year local governments might tum the churches' own arguments against them to seek taxation of church property. Par more serious exploiters of tax- exempt status than churches aro public authorities, end on the Port Authority of New York and Now Jersey. That agency toot lege million worth of taus co from bridges, tunnels and airports and built the colossal Wald Trade, Cmter. Steve the agency pan only h token In Ike of taxes, its rents are lower than those In taxpaying properties. So tenants moved from 1* equivalent of four Empire State &Adlnp Into the center built with taxpayer dollen, into facilities that pay no taxes. But Connecticut's victory shows that there Is hope. /087 : iL'^.:- by JORM PIICROLAb LLUAK RAP!US ANU ul:, Ail': , . u•„ :..::iii:::: :.:,,tYw::t:v�i•[::Y7,iY,i�.:Sie:::H�',a idv��aw>r� By DANIEL SCHORR n.snnr .ea T m smaaw APPLE VALLEY, CALIF. — The sheriffs, . fire Gki wardens, health y�► officers and adminia- •'�5',rl".4 trators of Loa 1: 'Angela County met ' at this desert resort, staring at doomsday. Doomsday Is an "Alternative Budget" spoiling out the cutbacks that will be forced If Propo. sltios 12 passes. This initiative on the June 6 ballot would, freeze' property taxes at'1 percent of,a rolled -back asinsaml.. !To'reduee a i1.3 -billion -dollar cenoty budget by almost two-thirds, It wasplanned to lay off 20,000 emPI oyees; from" librarians to iHe- guards,' el ose four hospitals and 67 keallh ceatlra, curtail law onforce- "They say they don't believe us, or they don't care, or it serves as right," mourned an administrator. "Our citizens have turned off on us." The rage against soaring taxes bas expanded into a rage against the bu- reaucrais who levy and spend them. It has gathered up all the pet hates about schools that don't teach, potholes not filled, government that doesn't respond. The fury has gone beyond a tax revolt and verges now on class warfare — the middle class against the bureaucrat class, the public against the public servanL The generalized battle cries of "parasite" and "freeloader" recall a phenomenon I witnessed in the Soviet Union. There, all officialdom Is lumped together as "they," the word spat out with loatbing by citizens who feel cut oft from the regime. "They r..r 'Y iatit' E't r i : t� oceangronl, sold Fire Warden Clyde Bra don, il, ,; t {Ik3 Nili'*' :;'In some places, two-thirds of the 4 ,1 ;'�, 114i rflb aksa'J.+%aWstreet lights would be'tumed off," said Purchasing Agent H.E. Davis Jr:, "but'al least people ten wouldn't ase the garbage piling up." Vying with their vision of chaos ahead was another nightmare for to administrators — their Inability to .... ,.,.. communicate with to voters across a boiling chasm of skepticism. The man of the hour, as tater of "Prop, 12," is 75 -year-old tax -haling Howard Jarvis. Dismissed for years as an eccentric, he is an eccentric whose time has come — to catalyst of a revolution. Now he holds daylong court for to media, chortling at his fame, Milling at the bureaucrats, and obliging to politicians to toe Z tax - rebellion line. In to current climate, former Los Angeles Police Chief Edward M. MH Rut II MP; lid JORM MICROLArj E Davis, a Republican candidate for governor, can make points by pro- claiming that football Is essential to ' high school education, but hot lunches are not ' Some candidates In the primaries, swallowing hard, have endorsed Proposition 13. A few, swallowing harder, have opposed It. Gov. Jerry Brown, who a couple of weeks ago •i was denouncing It as a "rip-off' and a I "consumer fraud;" has tamed silent on the subject Prospects for his landslide re- elec-tion In November as a launching platform into the presidential sweep- stakes have dimmed, but Brown may still mastermind a'comeback. County officials say be has been asking them ,. privately whether the National Guard could help II ease- Ual services start breaking down. They speculate on a scenario of a "white kalght" governor dealing with threatened chaos by proclaiming an emergency, calling out the guard,' wresting state surpluses from the legislature to replace local revenues. j That may happen later,, but now Brown, having helped to sow the and - bureaucrat wind, Is reaping the whirlwind. California, for once, is not a cue of Isolated ranlness, but a symptom of national alienation with j bureaucracy —stimulated by po11U- clans who run against to govern. ments they want to lead, President Carter may not have realized It, but when he was seen on television saying In Springfield, N., that he was frustrated by government I agencies "wasting loo much money 1 and doing too little to solve real problem," he was validating Howard Jarvis' cause. There may be short-term pot..... gains In proclaiming contempt for to workings of government, but there are long -run consequences. The ' outburst Is today In California; tomorrow, who knows? / a p, There, may be short-term political gains in:proclaimiitg'contempt for the workings of government, but there are long -run consequences. The, outburst is today in „i%j IgKI jt jai^ Cali pornia•,tomorrow who knows? ment and dismantle half the county's always He to us," a Russian says, and 120 fire stations, along with the pa- there is no need to ask who. ramedlcs of television "ELmorgency" But to Russians, under dictator - fame. . i ship, are mostly resigned. The Call - "We might not be able to control a fornlans, with to democratic bit in canyon fire before It swept to their teeth, are on a rampage. r..r 'Y iatit' E't r i : t� oceangronl, sold Fire Warden Clyde Bra don, il, ,; t {Ik3 Nili'*' :;'In some places, two-thirds of the 4 ,1 ;'�, 114i rflb aksa'J.+%aWstreet lights would be'tumed off," said Purchasing Agent H.E. Davis Jr:, "but'al least people ten wouldn't ase the garbage piling up." Vying with their vision of chaos ahead was another nightmare for to administrators — their Inability to .... ,.,.. communicate with to voters across a boiling chasm of skepticism. The man of the hour, as tater of "Prop, 12," is 75 -year-old tax -haling Howard Jarvis. Dismissed for years as an eccentric, he is an eccentric whose time has come — to catalyst of a revolution. Now he holds daylong court for to media, chortling at his fame, Milling at the bureaucrats, and obliging to politicians to toe Z tax - rebellion line. In to current climate, former Los Angeles Police Chief Edward M. MH Rut II MP; lid JORM MICROLArj E Davis, a Republican candidate for governor, can make points by pro- claiming that football Is essential to ' high school education, but hot lunches are not ' Some candidates In the primaries, swallowing hard, have endorsed Proposition 13. A few, swallowing harder, have opposed It. Gov. Jerry Brown, who a couple of weeks ago •i was denouncing It as a "rip-off' and a I "consumer fraud;" has tamed silent on the subject Prospects for his landslide re- elec-tion In November as a launching platform into the presidential sweep- stakes have dimmed, but Brown may still mastermind a'comeback. County officials say be has been asking them ,. privately whether the National Guard could help II ease- Ual services start breaking down. They speculate on a scenario of a "white kalght" governor dealing with threatened chaos by proclaiming an emergency, calling out the guard,' wresting state surpluses from the legislature to replace local revenues. j That may happen later,, but now Brown, having helped to sow the and - bureaucrat wind, Is reaping the whirlwind. California, for once, is not a cue of Isolated ranlness, but a symptom of national alienation with j bureaucracy —stimulated by po11U- clans who run against to govern. ments they want to lead, President Carter may not have realized It, but when he was seen on television saying In Springfield, N., that he was frustrated by government I agencies "wasting loo much money 1 and doing too little to solve real problem," he was validating Howard Jarvis' cause. There may be short-term pot..... gains In proclaiming contempt for to workings of government, but there are long -run consequences. The ' outburst Is today In California; tomorrow, who knows? / a p,