The Guide

SLOWLY, BUT SURELY the steam roller grinds away, inch by inch, the property of Clarence A. Brandes and his wife. The Brandes are home owners who object of the gobbling up of chunks of private property for the widening of LeJeune Rd. Here the Brandes watch in dis- may as the roller grinds by them unheedingly.

Land Owners Won't 'Give' LeJeune

A majority of property owners along LeJeune Rd. have declined to turn over rights of way for widening of LeJeune Rd., City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. said Jan. 30. The homeowners object to turning over without compensation small portions of land for turning radii at intersections. Robinson said that the matter will probably have to go to Circuit Court for condemnation procedures, but that the City's role ended with trying to acquire the land for the State Road Department as a cooperative gesture. Pick Up Tab The county, which is paying the $738,000 cost of widening to 60 feet-70 feet including sidewalks-will now have to pick up the tab, Robinson indicated. No existing buildings are to be moved under the widening plan, but several walls, built beyond normal setback lines, will have to be moved back, Robinson said. These include portions of the architecture at both the Miracle Mile and Alhambra Circle intersections. But the arrangements left at least one homeowner unhappy. Mrs. Clarence A. Brandes, 365 Malaga, said that the city had failed to properly protect property owners. We're not going along on the radii," said Mrs. Brandes. The Brandeses have repeatedly asked the City Commission for rezoning of their property to compensate them for the fact that LeJeune has been "converted into a truck route." Built In 1925 Their property, built along LeJeune Rd. back in 1925 before Coral Gables was incorporated, according to Robinson, never had adequate setbacks from the highway and wound up in a depression years later when sidewalks were installed a foot or so higher than the property. The Brandeses purchased the property in 1925 long before LeJeune traffic volume became a serious problem. Mrs. Brandes said last week that she and her husband have tried unsuccessfully for years to have that portion of LeJeune Rd. near San Sabastian residence hall changed in zoning to enable sale. As the property stands, she said, it is unliveable and can't be sold because nobody wants it. "All we want is to duplicate the property elsewhere," Mrs. Brandes said. Their problem was brought before the City Commission by Commissioner Robert Searle recently. Robinson and City Attorney Ted Semple are now studying what relief can be granted. Robinson said Monday that rezoning of the Brandes lot adjoining LeJeune Rd. to commercial was not likely, but that he might recommend that another 40-foot lot the Brandes own adjoining their home could be zoned to enable them to build a duplex on it. But any final recommendation will have to await a conference with Semple, who might have some new ideas on the subject, Robinson said. The city manager said he expected to have his recommendation to the City Commission next week.

Merchants Seek Sign Controls

Alarmed by an apparent increase in the use of large signs in the windows of some retail establishments, the Retail Merchants Division of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce has authorized a study to determine the feasibility of tightening local controls of such signs. Albert Friedman, president of the merchants group, said that Gerard Pucci, local attorney, has been retained to frame an ordinance incorporating the desired controls It is expected that the City Commission will be asked to consider the ordinance when it is ready. "The use of fire-sale tactics in the form of oversize window signs is destructive of the atmosphere which Coral Gables merchants have spent years in fostering, Friendman points out. "We will stop it if we can," he said.

Donna Cleanup Total Cost Is $109,414

The final figures are in on the cost of cleaning up Hurricane Donna in Coral Gables-$109,414. City Commissioners last week approved the transfer of this amount from the Special Benefit Reserve fund to the Trust and Reserve Fund to the General Fund. Of the total, $62,074 went for salaries and wages; $31,355 for rental equipment; $6835 for tools and supplies; $4114 for additional incinerator fuel oil; $2787 for repairs to buildings and grounds; $1516 for power saws; $640 for clearing the Mahi canal and the balance for insurance and assistance to the City of Everglades. Damage to private property was not included in the total and was not estimated officially. Estimates ran to several hundred thousand dollars, mostly to trees and shrubs.

Guatemala Is Big

Guatemala, facing both the Caribbean and the Pacific, has the largest population of any Central American republic, the National Geographic Society says.

Special Matinee Performance of the Opera MARTHA by Flotow

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