Longview Daily News from Longview, Washington • 9

The Dily News Longview Washington Tuesday November 28 1978 Station robbed Developer postponing plans for Homesteads -Locally Land use hearing slated "ow''tz County Planning Commission will hold a hearing Wednesday to consider relaxing land use planning guidelines concerning rural areas The hearing will be at 7 pm In the commissioner's chambers of the County Administration Building Planning commissioners are asking whether the county comprehensive land use rural-small farm designation should be reduced from 2Vi acres to possibly one acre Much of the rural land is classified rural-small farm Commissioners are only seeking opinions about the proposal No action is expected at the meeting In October Planning Commissioner Martin Carty asked that the change be considered would be extended across adjacent property if that is ever developed Monday he said it would cost him $15000 to pave the extra street segment required which would lie on a lot otherwise worth $13000 Kudlacek said he will write a letter to the Longview planning staff withdrawing his request for approval of his preliminary plat Because he had indicated he would do so before the deadline for legal notice of a plat hearing that item has been withdrawn from the commission's Dec 6 agenda The commission can still act on the street plan it adopted at the workshop however In September the commission ap- ByTomPaulu Dally Newa Staff Writer A Longview Homesteads resident says he has postponed plans for developing his land because a proposed city street plan would make it too expensive The proposal by Donald Kudlacek 3412 Oak St for 11 single-family homes on his lot and an adjacent one has drawn vehement opposition from other Homesteads residents during the past few Planning Commission meetings At a workshop Nov 15 the commission tenatively adopted a street plan that would require Kudlacek to build an L-shaped street on his property if he develops it The Longview police were notified early today that a young man armed with a knife robbed an attendant at USA Petroleum a self-service gas station at the Fred Meyer Shopping Center Police said an undetermined but small amount of money was taken The attendant who was alone at the station told police he was approached at the booth about 1 am by a young man who asked to use the telephone When told that the phone working the youth drew a knife from his right coat pocket and told the attendant the The attendant said he removed currency from the till along with quarters and dimes and placed the money on the counter He told police the robber took the money picked up a screwdriver and went into the back room of the station briefly before leaving through a sliding glass door of the booth The victim said he saw the holdup man running south toward Ocean Beach Highway Police could not find anyone The attendant said the robber appeared to be about 18 or 19 stood about 5 feet 9 and weighed approximately 165 pounds He was said to be wearing a light blue Levi jacket green trousers and dark colored cowboy boots proved original plat which contained a cul-de-sac street but the City Council refused the give it final approval because of the lack of a street plan and sent the matter back to the commission think the decision was unfair and told I could take it to court but rather get Kudlacek said hold off" He said he will try to get owners of adjacent property involved in developing their land along with his and might have another proposal late this year The Homesteads located between Pennsylvania Street and the cutoff slough and 34th and 38th avenues is an area of large lots many of which have cattle Some residents fear that families moving into new developments would eventually form a majority of the population there and push to have it rezoned R-l which doesn't permit cattle Others simply say they prefer open space to dense development The narrow rough Homesteads streets and the lack of a stoplight at 34th and Ocean Beach Highway the chief access to the area also draw complaints from Homesteads residents School tour slated A tour of the newly expanded Beacon Hill Elementary School is on the Kelso School agenda when it meets at 7:30 pm Wednesday in the school library Board members will tour the 12 new classrooms handicapped education room library covered playcourt multipurpose room and kitchen The project which was started during the summer of 1977 cost some $12 million and with the exception of the new high school athletic facility was the largest single item in the current $4 million-plus building program In other business the board will hear a report from architect John Crook on projected costs of modernizing Wallace Elementary School and will also hear progress reports on the high school grandstand and athletic field construction Former resident dies sons Douglas of Spanaway and Allen of Olympia five brothers Oscar Faulkner of Longview and James Edgar Lawrence and Wallace Faulkner a sister Stella Carbo of Yakima: The services will be held at the Mountain View Garden Chapel in Tacoma -and interment will be at Mountain View Memorial Park Funeral services will be held at 1 pm Thursday for former resident Willa Morton 81 who died in a Tacoma hospital Saturday Mrs Morton was born in Birdseye Ky July 20 1897 and lived in Longview from 1933 to 1955 when she moved to Tacoma Surviving are two daughters Patricia Graunitz of Kelso and Lillian Leadbetter of Tacoma two LCC schedules concerts Two concerts by Lower Columbia College music students will be held in early December according to Dr Colleen Snyder the new music instructor A free concert of chamber music will be presented in the LCC library Sunday at 4 pm Applied music students and a variety of chamber ensembles will be featured On Friday and Saturday Dec 8-9 the Music Department College Singers will perform the Christmas concert in the Center Stage theater at 8 pm each evening They will be performing Admission is $250 per person and tickets are available at the door Inflation strains Cathlamet deal (Ceot WTlhi A bounty of savi on best selling records tapes an accessories the way you want By Richard Spiro Dally Newt Senior Stall Writer CATHLAMET Inflationary pressures are straining the 16-month-old law enforcement contract between Wahkiakum County and the Town of Cathlamet The town has been paying $2000 a month for law enforcement services provided by the Department which was beefed up by the addition of one deputy and a dispatcher to handle the added load them any harder have lots of complaints" He wanted to know what would happen if the city canceled the law enforcement contract with the county either party has a 30-day cancellation option and Commissioner Leon Aimer replied probably dump one man off the force and reduce the No decision was reached as the city officials explained they could do nothing until council meeting The county budgets must also be adopted Monday ON RSO STEREO ALBUMS AND Andy Gibb "Shadow ON POLYDOR 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