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GROSSE POINTE NEWS, OCTOBER 19, 2006 2A NEWS Yesterday's headlines 1956 50years ago this week • MUTUAL AID FIRE- FIGHTING AGREEMENT SIGNED: The City of Grosse Pointe became the last of the Pointe municipalities to ratify a mutual aid fire fighting agreement with the other Pointe communities and Harper Woods. The plan was first introduced more than three years ago. Under the plan, each community would fight its own fires but could call upon,neighboring departments for manpower and equipment. • PARKING LOT EXPAN· SION DELAYED: Opposition to the proposed development of the parking strip at the rear of the Muir propertY line, to augment parking facilities in the Hill business district, appears to be as strong as ever. Residents again packed Grosse Pointe Farms council chambers to object. Mayor William Connolly Jr. presented seven recommendations designed to reduce the impact. Councilmembers postponed action for six weeks so more study could take place. • EXCHANGE CLUB PLANS TOOTHBRUSH SALE: Members of the Grosse Pointe Exchange Club are preparing for their annual toothbrush sale to benefit char· ity. Toothbrushes W:iIl be sold in the shopping centers and on corners. The unusual fundraising campaign supports Little League Baseball and Basketball, model aviaticlinand youth rehabilitation. 1981 25 years ago this week • LEARN THE ART OF THE RUBIK'S CUBE:Math instructor Sharon Falk,of Grosse Pointe Park, W:iIl teach a work- shop on solving the Rubik's cube. Falk, 30, with an undergraduate degree in math, is working toward her master's degree in educational psychology. But, she said anyone can solve the cuhe. It took Hungarian architect Erno Ruhik a month to solve his own invention. • IANSING 1RIES AGAIN TO CONVERT MUNICIPAL COURT: After five months of work, legislation proposing a new Grosse Pointe district court is scheduled to he introduced in Lansing. The problem seems to be in getting all five Pointes to agree on where the new court W:iIl be located, how it W:iIl be funded and whether a central dispatch and jail can be included. • TIME STORY IS HARD TO SWALLOW:Grosse Pointe public school officials are calling a Time magazine story highlighting Grosse Pointe's cafeteria operations "erroneous, inaccurate and totally untrue." The story focuses on the high cost of federal entitlement programs, like the school lunch program for families under a certain income level. In the story; Grosse Pointe officials are accused of allowing families to cheat on their applications. 1996 10years ago this week • WOODS, SHORES TO SHARE MUNICIPAL JUDGE: In response to recent changes in state law regulating Michigan courts, Grosse Pointe Woods City Council approved an arrangement to share municipal Judge Lynne Pierce with Grosse Pointe Shores. The five Grosse Pointe com· munities are in a single judicial district that permits the cities to elect municipal judges. But, there is no provision in the new laws for the election of a municipaljudge in a village. • G.P. SCHOOLS ADOPT POllCY ON HAZING: The Grosse Pointe school board ap- PHOTO BY FRED RUNNELLS. 1956: GPHS Junior Red Cross to assist blood drive The some 60 members of the Grosse Pointe High School Junior Red Cross are busy doing advance pUblicityfor and W:iIl assistwith the upcoming blood bank drive at St. Paul Ev.Lutheran Church. The women have been making posters, distributing them, and washing car windows before applying promotional stickers to them. Shown, from left to right, are: Diane Dickey, Barb Stone, Lois Anne Rupp, Marie DiCenzo, Peggy Johnson, chairman for the Junior Red Cross, and Sue Slick. From the Oct. 18, 1956issu~,of the Grosse Pointe News. proved a regulation prohibiting the practice of "hazing" to initiate students into clubs and athletic teams. The regulation defines haz· ing as, "any activity which endangers the physical safety, produces mental or physical discomfort, causes embarrass- ment, fright, humiliation, ha- rassment or ridicule, or degrades the student regardless of the willingness on the part of the student or the student's parents or guardians to partici- _~ .:.....___________________________ pate in any such activities." The policy was developed as a result of incidents that administrators encountered, said Superintendent Suzanne Klein. • DETROIT BUYS LAND AROUND AIRPORT: Rumors Bon Secours Cottage Congratulates Our Top Docs 105 members of Bon Secours Cottage Health Services' medical staff have been recognized by their peers as the area's 'ITopDocs" in Hour Detroit magazine. Medical professionals throughout the Detroit metro area were asked to name those doctors they would recommend. We are proud to have the follOWing physicians as members of our Five Star Team. Addicticm Medicine Youssef Rizl
I I I CITY OF GROSSE POINTE Parking topayfor newdeck Meter, lease rates to go up l to finance new $3.5 garage By Rebecca Jones Staff Writer Increasing parking rates from 35 to 50 cents an hour is one way the City of Grosse Pointe intends to nickel and dime its way to paying for a new parking structure, The $3,5 million project - replacing the existing structure hehind the Kercheval Place development - would be paid completely through the parking system, requiring rate increases for shoppers, store employees and office workers in the Village. Parking rate increases were approved at the Monday, Oct. 16,city council meeting. "The intent is to fund the parking structure by users of the parking system without having to touch the general fund, without having to tax property owners in the city," said CityManager Peter Dame. Starting in January, lease spaces would increase from $30 per month to $40 citywide. Leases are expected to increase again to $45 in 2008 and up to $50for the new structure. Parking at two-hour meters in lots will increase from 35 cents to 50 cents per hour. Onstreet parking in the Village will cost 75 cents per hour, up from 50 cents. Short-term parking in the new structure would cost 50 cents per hour to a maximum of$IOperday. Rates are based on a comprehensive study of the Village parking situation conducted by Walker Associates of Kalamazoo. The change in rates will generate about $234,500 more per year in parking revenue, Dame calculated. For frequent Village shopper Bee Davis of Detroit, the 15 cents an hour increase is acceptable. "That's not too bad. I'm up here for an hour and I would pay the 50 cents," she said. "You're in and out pretty fast. It I usually doesn't take iliat long." Charlene Blondy, owner of Posterity: A Gallery, also approves ofthe new rates. "If we want to consider ourselves a first-class shopping district, we have to understand that there are costs associated with that," she said. "Our parking rates will be in line with parking rates in the Farms, certainly in Royal Oak and Birmingham." Bloody said she likes the fact that shoppers from across the Pointes and greater community will be helping to pay for the Parking rates will increase from 35 cents to 50 cents per hour at off-streetlt1eters next year. deck. Motorists in the new Kercheval Place structure would pay at a central automated station inside the garage and get a receipt, rather than pay an attendant. That means the structure could be open 24 hours per day. Under the proposed system, stores could offer validation for free or discounted parking in the garage. Specialty grocer Trader Joe's has expressed interest in doing so should it open a store at Kercheval Place, Dame said. In the future, the city may convert surface .lots with metered spaces into gated parking lots similar to the one behind businesses on the Hill in Grosse Pointe Farms. In fact, parking in the City will start to resemble parking in the Farms - right down to the charge for parking tickets. Instead of $5, meter violators would pay $10 next year. For City of Grosse Pointe resident Fran Pawsat, that's bad news. She doesn't like to see anyone get a ticket. "It's a shame. Look at what that does to our business," she said. Meter rate increases would go into effect as the city replaces mechanical meters with electronic ones in the Village - something the city council also' approved at Monday's meeting. "This goes under the category of you have to spend a little money to make money," Dame said. The city will buy and instal! about 400 remanufactured electronic meters, which will cost about $51,000. Thatproject won't start until after the holiday shopping season, he said. It makes sense to do this now, Dame said, because when the rates change, the city has to adjust a parking mechanism inside the meter anyway. Electric meters are also more reliable and will reduce complaints about defective meters and disputes about improper ticketing, he added. Should the city convert to gated parking lots, the electronic meters will be moved to other parts of the city. "Itwill be money well spent," Dame said. That's how Village business owner Nancy Renick feels about building the new parking structure. "It's going to benefit the entire community because we need the parking spaces," said Renick, oWner of Village Toys. "It's really for (Kercheval Place), but it's Imllerative that it be done." The City of Grosse Pointe will replace its mechanical parking meters in the Village with electronic meters, like this one on Kercheval. Parking rates on Kercheval will increase from 50 cents to 75 cents per hour. GROSSE POINTE NEWS, OCTOBER 19, 2006 NEWS 3A PHOTO BY REBECCA JONES Fran Pawsat of the City of Grosse Pointe walks to the Village. The City will replace the parking deck behind her to accommodate Kercheval Place. DECK: Fund surplnsmay be backup Continued from page lA big difference to Trader Joe's, Dame said. "The developer has signed a letter of intent with Trader Joe's," he said. But, an incline in the parking structure would send shopping carts rolling into parked cars. In order to finance the construction of a new garage, the city would need to issue bonds. Parking revenues and a surplus in the parking fund will be used to repay the debt. Parking ,rate increases for metered and lease spaces were approved at the Monday, Oct. 16,city council meeting. The change in,rates wiltgenerate about $234,500 more per year in parking revenue, Dame calculated. "That amount of new revenue from the whole parking structure should be able to pay for a capital improvement of $3.3 million," Dame said. "But we're not quite there." COOK: Breakhtg windows? Continued from page lA WELLS: Increases will raise $19,320 Continued from page lA taining the marina." The cost of a boat well under 21-feet in length rose from $605 to $635. Wells 21 feet to Under the worst-case scenario, a new structure could cost up to $4 million, which would nearly deplete the City's $1 million parking fund surplus. The city cannot raise taxes to repay the limited tax bonds. If revenue projections weren't met, the city would raise parking rates again, Dame said. However, he added that his calculations were conservative and he doesn't believe that will be necessary. The developer, Grosse Pointe St. Clair Associates, will pay $100,000 toward the cost of the structure, in exchange for an e3.llement, or permission to use city property, between Kercheval Place and the structure. "We asked for a lot more," Dame said. The developer has also offered to spruce up the area behind Kercheval Place with pavers, lighting and landscaped planters, he said. Contingencies are built into the plan. For one, the city would not demolish the old structure until the developer has an executed lease with Trader Joe's, Dame said. Parking projections show the structure would help meet The instaliation of water and sewer will take five days and DTE Energy and MichCon should be out soon to start their part of the project. Residents expressed concern boys and girls hitting 25 feet rose from $685 to $700 and wells between 25 and 28 feet increased from $750 to $810. Other cost increases are for boat racks ($130 to $175), dry dock use ($325 to $500), daily boat launch ($10 to $12) and seasonal launch ($70 to $75). The increased fees will generate an estimated $201,690, an increase of $19,930 from 2006. demand for the Kercheval Place development, leaving a surplus of 90 parking spaces in the Village's parking system. Under Dame's proposed timeline, the city would hire an architect in November, invite the community for two designing sessions, demolish the old structure early next year and begin construction in April. "The quIcker we can get to designing, the better off we are," Dame said. The city considered rehabilitating the existing garage, built in 1973. Fitting it with some flat parking and bringing it up to code would cost more than $1.5Itll1lion. The city consulted a real estate and development anaiyst, Birmingham-based Allen & Associates, to analyze the Kercheval Place redevelopc ment and redevelopment of the City-owned garage. Its report calls the project viable. "The special needs of the Kercheval Place project have generated the need for a new facility; however, the Village will benefit from the overall rehabilitation of the building and the deck," the report concludes. home runs would break the windows of the schoolhouse if it is placed beyond the ball diamonds at Ghesquiere Park. "The schoolhouse should be far enough away for someone to not break a windoW; but we can always put plastic coverings on the windows just in case,"'Dickinson said. "This 10- ,IKIM • edmund t.AHEE jewelers 20139 Mack Avenue Grosse Pointe Woods 313-886-4600 Some on council questioned whether the garage would be sufficient. With an anticipated peak demand at Kercheval Place of 240 employees and visitors, the 220-spot structure doesn't quite add up. Some people who have leases may not be able to find a place to park. "The general premise is that the ground floor should be primarily retail and the upper floor primarily for leased spaces," Dame said. In fact, the developer may contribute money toward building an elevated walkway between the &ructureandsecond~ooro~ fices. "People would have to be parking elsewhere outside the structure," councilman Kris Phaeler said at the Thesday, Oct. 10 meeting. "Do 'iVewant to spend money to build (another floor on the structure?) or do we accept thiffa:cfllial:ir is going to be tight?" In the future, it would be possible to add a third story onto the parking deck as needs dictate. "It would be wonderful for the council to be debating that in five years," Mayor Dale Scrace said. cation is closer to city hall and more accesible for seniors who want to use it." Once the move is scheduled, the <strong>History</strong> Channel may document it for a future show. Cook schoolhouse is the oldest building in the Grosse Pointes and one of the original schoolhouses in the area. MORE 15 MORE LAYER IT ON FOR THE LATEST FASHION-FORWARD LOOK. LEFT, PEARLSIN MOTION. RIGHT, STRAND LARIAT •
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