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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1975)
Urban development Civil systems planned for CS THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1975 Page 3 By HORACE GRANT Contributor The city of College Station in March accepted a Comprehensive Development Plan for proposed improvements to the city. Pinnell, Anderson, Wilshire & Associates, Inc., an urban plan ning firm, has worked on the plan for three years and has made rec ommendations to the city regard ing sanitary sewage systems, major thoroughfare and water distribu tion systems, police and fire sta tions, city hall and the organiza tion of the city’s administration. Plans determining land use in implementing these recommenda tions evolved from individual studies that have been made, Wil lie Koehler, College Station city planner, said. But none of these studies are independent of the others, he said. “Land use depends on the city’s capacity to serve it and the needs of the private market in its development,” Koehler said. One thing of immediate im portance is capital improvements, he said. The city council has to determine where they will get the money to implement these pro grams and which ones have the highest priority. The council will appoint on Monday, a Capital Improvements Committee. City manager North Bardell said this committee will do two things. “They will determine the prior ities of the proposed development recommendations and also the starting dates of capital improve ments projects.” The project funds are derived from bonds and other sources such as the Environmental Protec tion Agency and the Economic Development Administration, Bar dell said. One particular problem that the council runs into is time. “The city, just like any busi ness, has to have some idea of where we are going in future years,” Koehler said. For instance, the sanitary sew age system plant takes anywhere from three to four years from the time you start the design until the time it’s in service, he said. “You can’t wait until you are at capacity or over capacity be fore you start doing something. During the period of design, ad justments have to be made to keep pace with needs of that par ticular time,” Koehler said. In a long range program, prior ities will also have to change to keep planning flexible, he said. Some of the proposals have been implemented long before the study was completed and the plan presented to the council. Koehler said the city made some changes in ordinances and some review processes in other ordinances in accordance with these recommen dations. “We did not wait for the tab lets to come down from Mount Sinai before we started imple menting things that needed to be done and were worthwhile to do,” Koehler said. The city works independently of the university in its expansion programs. Both are, for the most part, unaware of each others’ ac tivities until some conflict of ex pansion presents a critical prob lem, Koehler said. “We have very little infor mation as to what’s going on out there,” he said. “It’s not terribly essential that we do have that in formation because the university provides so many of its own serv ices.” Even though the city operates independently, both the city and university cooperate with each other, he said. “We cannot dictate to the Uni versity nor them to us,” Koehler said. With all the proposals sub mitted to the council, and the committee on capital improve ments working at its best to adopt the proposals, the people of College Station should see some changes in their city in the near future. 8rt*oimrs SUNSHINE LAUNDRY 3815 £.■ 29tli ST. _ BRYAN, TEXAS 77801 PHONE 846 7921 Open 7 nays Weekly ? 10 Mon.-Fri./8-8 Sat.-Sun. 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Membership reflects a commitment to continuing advanced education to better serve the financial security needs of families, individuals and businesses. m l| PROTECTIVE LIFE® " IIMSURAIMCE COrVlPAIMY MOfVlE OFFICE - BIPMVUlMGHAfVJ, ALABAMA By DON MIDDLETON Staff Writer John the Baptist never looked sharper in his tails and high- topped tennis shoes and J.C. him self caused quite a stir sporting red, white and blue overalls and a “Superman” t-shirt. As for the rest of the cast of “Godspell,” traditional togas and sandals were discarded for long underwear, multi-colored suspend ers, basketball knee pads and a wide array of headgear as the Aggie Players took on their first major musical. Never were there so many smil ing faces and honestly happy per formers on the stage at A&M, and what the cast lacked in experience it made up in sheer enthusiasm. Twelve of the actors were making their first appearance with the Players, but without a program in front of me I couldn’t point them out. The musical numbers were elaborately choreographed, every song rating “production number” status. Several vocalists stood out as being extraordinary singer- performers, including Jean Fischer, Russel Harris and Jo Montgomery. When you go to see “God spell,” which I recommend you do, prepare for the unexpected— unless, of course, you don’t think Jesus and John the Baptist doing a softshoe complete with canes and straw skimmers is unusual. Maybe you expect to see a group of dis tinguished philosophers ranging from Socrates to Buckminster Fuller singing and dancing in a boxing ring. I didn’t. Nor did I expect to be invited down on the stage during inter mission by J.C. for wine. And even though the pagan pink Rip ple I expected turned out to be Hawaiian Punch, it was the first time I had seen an audience danc ing and singing with the perform- iers. 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The Players heartily deserved the standing ovation they re ceived. Even the rushed lines, dropped cues and dialogue that dragged didn’t keep the evening from being time well spent. Open ing night jitters are easily over looked when it’s obvious that the actors are excited about what they’re doing. Several other members of the cast deserve recognition for out standing performances, including Neil Badders as John the Baptist and Celina Ellington who played a convincing “lady of the evening” type. Philip Hafer, Cheri Lind quist, Jim Aldrich as J.C. and Michele McCormick also turned in excellent performances. It looks as though the Aggie Players have hit upon a style of theater that they not only can do well, but that Aggie audiences are likely to appreciate, if Thursday night’s group is any indication. Hopefully we’ll be seeing more musicals in the coming year. 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