The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, June 21, 1962 CORAL GABLES TIMES 7

Backers of Seven Gables Hotel Fail Again to Get City Approval

Backers of the proposed Seven Gables Hotel on Coral Way were turned down Tuesday on their request for a rehearing of their case by the City Commission. The Commission indicated an informal conference would put them "on the spot." In a letter to the Commission, attorneys for Seven Gables owners, Robert Sullivan and Eugene Wilhelm, said they had completed negotiations to buy additional land which would enable them to furnish an additional 70 to 100 parking spaces. They also said that revision of their parking layout would increase immediately adjacent parking to a total of 89 spaces. This additional information, they said, should entitle them to a new hearing on the matter, as well as an informal conference preceding it. The Commission didn't think so. At the beginning of the discussion, they indicated that they would not be inclined to grant a rehearing on the basis of the additional information. They did not think it provided adequate justification for one. They were not adverse to an informal conference with the proponents however, until Commissioner Franklin Evans suggested that there was no point in continuing the discussion any further because the Commission knew that they would not approve plans for the hotel. "It would put us on the spot," said Evans. "We would be put in the position of making suggestions that if followed we would only have to turn down ourselves." A move to deny passed. The commission voted against the $1.1 million, 102 room hotel at the first public hearing July 7, when it was made apparent that property owners near the area did not favor it. Reasons cited for the opposition included extension of commercialization along Coral Way, inadequate parking, noise utility taxes, and lack of need. Also cited was opposition to the issuing of a liquor license, for which the 102 rooms would qualify the hotel. The vote was four against with Commissioner Joe Murphy abstaining because his law partner Edmund Russo represented proponents of the hotel. Both the Chamber of Commerce and the Miracle Mile Merchants Association have taken action in support of the hotel.

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Rodney W. Vestal, 1550 S. Dixie Hwy., has been appointed district chairman of the National Federation of Independent Business for members in the Southwest district comprising mainly Coral Gables and South Miami. He is the 16th chairman in this area. The largest organization of its kind in the country, the Federation issues to its members a monthly bulletin called the Mandate, listing four or five of the more important bills pending before Congress. Members vote upon the bills, expressing their opinion for or against, and mail the ballots to their district chairmen, who tabulates them. The chairman then sends the tabulation and ballots to his congressman and an identical tabulation with ballots to the state senator. Through approximately 3,000 chairmen throughout the United States, the non-partisan Federation compiles a nationwide summary which is reported to congressional and state level representatives. Chairmen in the Dade area include Judge Irving Yelen, Harvey R. Klein, Thomas A. Horkan Jr., Leonard P. Cardone, R. L. Edgar, George H. Light, Glenn B. Smith, J. H. Loverin, Hugh R. Wilson, John L. Ricciardelli, Fred E. Gowing, Clarence C. Morris, Jerome D. Carty, Samuel Feldman, and R. H. Higgins. Jack Clark, 6270 SW 20 Ter., WVCG Sunday Symphony commentator, is the district manager for Federation in Dade County. RODNEY W. VESTAL JACK CLARK

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Services for Mrs. Mary Hannah Todd, 92, of 1552 Murcia Ave., who died Wednesday will be held Friday in the White Temple Methodist Church with Philbrick's Coral Gables Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Todd came here 36 years ago from St. Paul, Minn. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. E. R. (Dulcie) Swensen of the above address and Mrs. C. B. Coe, of Miami; four sons, including Kenneth P. of Miami; 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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