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New Mexican plaza to generate jobs, revenue By LINDA HILL Plans for a Mexican marketplace which could bring jobs and thousands of dollars to South Tucson now are being finalized, Assistant City Manager Richard E. Kaf-fenberger said. The city will lease one block of land at 1600 S. Sixth Ave. for $1 per year to a firm which would build a plaza including restaurants, craft shops and a Spanish -language movie theatre, he said. A "call for preliminary proposals" will go out to developers in June or July, he said, adding that he hopes the project will be completed in 18 to 20 months. A plaza with permanent structures and vending booths would be a tourist attraction and "capitalize on the unique heritage of South Tucson," Kaffenberger, who also is the director of community development, said. "South Tucson's great hope," Kaffenberger said, "is to become a focal point for the whole Mexican- American culture of the Tucson area." The plaza would directly benefit South Tucson residents by providing construction jobs as well as sales jobs. The stores would bring increased tax revenue to the city, he added. Retail stores that would attract city residents as well as tourists may be included in the plaza. Now, many city residents do their shopping outside South Tucson, Kaf-fenberger said. To help finance the plaza, South Tucson's El Independiente Volume 1, Number 1 South Tucson, Arizona `Desirable place to live' Friday, May 7, 1976 City's first zoning ordinance may attract new businesses By CHDCK VIAL rOht A proposed zoning or-dinance, the first in South Tucson since it was in-corporated in 1936, will attract higher quality businesses and make the city a more desirable place to live, officials say. A 15- member land -use committee met April 29 at South Tucson City Hall to review the proposed ordinance and zoning map, presented by Assistant City Manager Richard M. Serrano. Serrano explained that the proposed ordinance would prohibit businesses which the community feels are un-desirable, such as junk yards, mobile home parks, and new bars from being built in the city. At present," Serrano pointed out, "We have warehouses, bars and junkyards in the middle of residential areas. A zoning ordinance would give the city legal power to prohibit this." Under the ordinance, areas of South Tucson would be designated for specific uses-single- family residences, mobile homes, industrial, and three classes of commercial use. Serrano described the three commercial zones as: C -1: Neighborhood com- Inside today Mariachis 4 Police controversy 5 Sister city 10 School segregation? 16 Crisis center 18 mercial- atrocery -,orec, beauty shops, and restaurants. C -2: Light industry-4 including wholesale warehouses, welding and auto parts shops and light manufac turing. C -3: Industrial park area -u similar to C -2, but with higher standards for setback, spacing and landscaping. Apartment buildings and other multiple -family dwellings might be classified as residential or C -I, Serrano said. Industrial classification would be for heavy industries which might offend residents with noise, vibrations and pollutants, he said. Anyone who violates the ordinance could be cited and fined up to $300 or imprisoned for up to six months under the proposed draft, Serrano said. "Under any zoning or-dinance," Serrano said, "We could not close down any existing business or residence which violated the ordinance unless the property were vacated for 90 days, according to state law." Because of this, Serrano said, benefits of the zoning ordinance will not be seen immediately. Serrano said he hopes to have a final draft of the or-dinance ready for a vote by the mayor and council by the middle of June. "We saw we had a problem in February 1974, when the city adopted a building code, which set standards for things like electrical wiring, plumbing, ventilation and structural support," he said. "As long as a business met these standards, we had to give them a building permit regardless of what kind of business was being opened," said Serrano, who is the city ldh'r ^ffic=ai, a d insuas the building perriits. "A man set up a warehouse in the middle of a residential area, another man opened a 'junkyard in his back yard," Serrano said. "We would get a rash of complaints every time a new business opened, and legally there was nothing we could do." When the land -use com-mittee was formed in December 1974, it designed a plan which called for a zoning ordinance and a building moratorium on new businesses in the city. "The moratorium is still in effect until a zoning ordinance is approved," Serrano said. $150,000 in federal money has been requested from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These funds are part of a $350,000 preliminary grant application the -city has sub-mitted for next year. "However, we will definitely go ahead with the plans for the plaza regardless of whether or not we get this sum," Kaf-fenberger said. South Tucson has already received approval for a $76,000 grant from HUD for home improvements in the Yaqui village. The funds should arrive within three weeks, according to the community development director. A five -member Citizen's Grant Review Board will be formed to distribute funds in the form of grants or loans to owners of the 33 homes in the village. Home owners would use the funds to bring the residences up to building specifications, by improving such things as plumbing and roofing, he said. Kaffenberger said he is hoping "dramatic im-provements" would be seen in the village within a year. The village is located on 37th, 38th and 39th streets between South 10th and South 12th Avenues. The $76,000 HUD grant was awarded under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Kaffenberger said half of the $200,000 requested for building improvements in next year's grant is designated for a "high Please turn to page 3 Wanted: New owner for Pima Hospital By SUSAN TRYNISKI and JOHN BULLOCK Despite a formal request by South Tucson officials to maintain Pima County General Hospital as a medical sub-station, the county Capital Planning Committee (CPC) has recommended the facility be sold for commercial use. The old county hospital, 2900 S. Sixth Ave., built in the 1930's, will be phased out when Kino Community Hospital opens in October. James J. Murphy Jr., c,)d'r!nan n CPO and d3puty Pima County manager, said the committee could not foresee a need to use the building as a county facility. The recommendation was made in a CPC report planning nine -year county space needs and five -year capital im-provements. The report was forwarded to the Pima County Board of Supervisors for consideration last week. The supervisors will make the final decision concerning the use or demise of the facility. The South Tucson mayor and city council had requested the facility be kept open for a 24- hour out -patient clinic and emergency service facility for South Tucsonans unable to reach Kino, 2800 E. Ajo Way. Mayor Dan W. Eckstrom said South Tucson can do nothing to fight the CPC's recom-mendation to the supervisors except "exert some influence in the form of a request or resolution." Board of Supervisors Chairman Joseph A. Castillo said the board will begin study sessions concerning the Pima Please turn to page 2 A} á1t,,Lá1O:i en Esparot Entre los artículos que publica en este numero "El independiente' figuran unas sobre la desegregación, medicaid, yyla educación de adultos. Están en las paginas 12, 13, y 15. Hay también un ensayo en fotos y un articulo sobre Ures, Sonora, la nueva ciudad - hermana de South Tucson, que están en las páginas 10 y 11. Se incluiran artículos en el idioma español en "El In-dependiente" sobre temas y asuntos locales. Two clients at the Gateway LARC participate in a game of checkers. LARC, open 24 hours a day, provides counseling and referral services to alcoholics. See story page 6. - Photo by H. Darr Baiser
Object Description
Title | South Tucson's El Independiente, 1976-05-07 |
Description | Published in Tucson, AZ. Published monthly during fall and spring semesters. Later title: El Independiente |
Publisher | University of Arizona, Department of Journalism |
Date | 1976-05-07 |
Type | Newspaper |
Source | Newspaper |
Language | Spanish & English |
Relation | Historic Mexican and Mexican-American Press |
Coverage | 1967-1984 |
Rights | The contents of this collection are available to the public for use in research, teaching, and private study. U.S. Copyright and intellectual property laws may apply to the resources made available through this site. |
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Title | Page 1 |
Type | Newspaper |
Full-text | New Mexican plaza to generate jobs, revenue By LINDA HILL Plans for a Mexican marketplace which could bring jobs and thousands of dollars to South Tucson now are being finalized, Assistant City Manager Richard E. Kaf-fenberger said. The city will lease one block of land at 1600 S. Sixth Ave. for $1 per year to a firm which would build a plaza including restaurants, craft shops and a Spanish -language movie theatre, he said. A "call for preliminary proposals" will go out to developers in June or July, he said, adding that he hopes the project will be completed in 18 to 20 months. A plaza with permanent structures and vending booths would be a tourist attraction and "capitalize on the unique heritage of South Tucson," Kaffenberger, who also is the director of community development, said. "South Tucson's great hope," Kaffenberger said, "is to become a focal point for the whole Mexican- American culture of the Tucson area." The plaza would directly benefit South Tucson residents by providing construction jobs as well as sales jobs. The stores would bring increased tax revenue to the city, he added. Retail stores that would attract city residents as well as tourists may be included in the plaza. Now, many city residents do their shopping outside South Tucson, Kaf-fenberger said. To help finance the plaza, South Tucson's El Independiente Volume 1, Number 1 South Tucson, Arizona `Desirable place to live' Friday, May 7, 1976 City's first zoning ordinance may attract new businesses By CHDCK VIAL rOht A proposed zoning or-dinance, the first in South Tucson since it was in-corporated in 1936, will attract higher quality businesses and make the city a more desirable place to live, officials say. A 15- member land -use committee met April 29 at South Tucson City Hall to review the proposed ordinance and zoning map, presented by Assistant City Manager Richard M. Serrano. Serrano explained that the proposed ordinance would prohibit businesses which the community feels are un-desirable, such as junk yards, mobile home parks, and new bars from being built in the city. At present," Serrano pointed out, "We have warehouses, bars and junkyards in the middle of residential areas. A zoning ordinance would give the city legal power to prohibit this." Under the ordinance, areas of South Tucson would be designated for specific uses-single- family residences, mobile homes, industrial, and three classes of commercial use. Serrano described the three commercial zones as: C -1: Neighborhood com- Inside today Mariachis 4 Police controversy 5 Sister city 10 School segregation? 16 Crisis center 18 mercial- atrocery -,orec, beauty shops, and restaurants. C -2: Light industry-4 including wholesale warehouses, welding and auto parts shops and light manufac turing. C -3: Industrial park area -u similar to C -2, but with higher standards for setback, spacing and landscaping. Apartment buildings and other multiple -family dwellings might be classified as residential or C -I, Serrano said. Industrial classification would be for heavy industries which might offend residents with noise, vibrations and pollutants, he said. Anyone who violates the ordinance could be cited and fined up to $300 or imprisoned for up to six months under the proposed draft, Serrano said. "Under any zoning or-dinance," Serrano said, "We could not close down any existing business or residence which violated the ordinance unless the property were vacated for 90 days, according to state law." Because of this, Serrano said, benefits of the zoning ordinance will not be seen immediately. Serrano said he hopes to have a final draft of the or-dinance ready for a vote by the mayor and council by the middle of June. "We saw we had a problem in February 1974, when the city adopted a building code, which set standards for things like electrical wiring, plumbing, ventilation and structural support," he said. "As long as a business met these standards, we had to give them a building permit regardless of what kind of business was being opened," said Serrano, who is the city ldh'r ^ffic=ai, a d insuas the building perriits. "A man set up a warehouse in the middle of a residential area, another man opened a 'junkyard in his back yard," Serrano said. "We would get a rash of complaints every time a new business opened, and legally there was nothing we could do." When the land -use com-mittee was formed in December 1974, it designed a plan which called for a zoning ordinance and a building moratorium on new businesses in the city. "The moratorium is still in effect until a zoning ordinance is approved," Serrano said. $150,000 in federal money has been requested from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These funds are part of a $350,000 preliminary grant application the -city has sub-mitted for next year. "However, we will definitely go ahead with the plans for the plaza regardless of whether or not we get this sum," Kaf-fenberger said. South Tucson has already received approval for a $76,000 grant from HUD for home improvements in the Yaqui village. The funds should arrive within three weeks, according to the community development director. A five -member Citizen's Grant Review Board will be formed to distribute funds in the form of grants or loans to owners of the 33 homes in the village. Home owners would use the funds to bring the residences up to building specifications, by improving such things as plumbing and roofing, he said. Kaffenberger said he is hoping "dramatic im-provements" would be seen in the village within a year. The village is located on 37th, 38th and 39th streets between South 10th and South 12th Avenues. The $76,000 HUD grant was awarded under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Kaffenberger said half of the $200,000 requested for building improvements in next year's grant is designated for a "high Please turn to page 3 Wanted: New owner for Pima Hospital By SUSAN TRYNISKI and JOHN BULLOCK Despite a formal request by South Tucson officials to maintain Pima County General Hospital as a medical sub-station, the county Capital Planning Committee (CPC) has recommended the facility be sold for commercial use. The old county hospital, 2900 S. Sixth Ave., built in the 1930's, will be phased out when Kino Community Hospital opens in October. James J. Murphy Jr., c,)d'r!nan n CPO and d3puty Pima County manager, said the committee could not foresee a need to use the building as a county facility. The recommendation was made in a CPC report planning nine -year county space needs and five -year capital im-provements. The report was forwarded to the Pima County Board of Supervisors for consideration last week. The supervisors will make the final decision concerning the use or demise of the facility. The South Tucson mayor and city council had requested the facility be kept open for a 24- hour out -patient clinic and emergency service facility for South Tucsonans unable to reach Kino, 2800 E. Ajo Way. Mayor Dan W. Eckstrom said South Tucson can do nothing to fight the CPC's recom-mendation to the supervisors except "exert some influence in the form of a request or resolution." Board of Supervisors Chairman Joseph A. Castillo said the board will begin study sessions concerning the Pima Please turn to page 2 A} á1t,,Lá1O:i en Esparot Entre los artículos que publica en este numero "El independiente' figuran unas sobre la desegregación, medicaid, yyla educación de adultos. Están en las paginas 12, 13, y 15. Hay también un ensayo en fotos y un articulo sobre Ures, Sonora, la nueva ciudad - hermana de South Tucson, que están en las páginas 10 y 11. Se incluiran artículos en el idioma español en "El In-dependiente" sobre temas y asuntos locales. Two clients at the Gateway LARC participate in a game of checkers. LARC, open 24 hours a day, provides counseling and referral services to alcoholics. See story page 6. - Photo by H. Darr Baiser |