THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1981
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ASaM students finish
shelter at aboretum
Staff photo by Dave Einsel
James Blackburn, of the recreation and parks area in Bee Creek Park. The project is a requirement in
By JENNIFER WAYMAN
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M students enrolled
in a park maintenance and opera
tions course are putting the
finishing touches on a shelter they
built to be used as an information
center and meeting room at the
Brazos County Arboretum.
The 35-foot hexagonal shelter,
built by the 38 members of Dr.
John Blackburn’s recreation and
parks class, will be used as a meet
ing place for the association and
for students of all ages to study the
arboretum, Blackburn said.
The arboretum, established by
the Brazos County Arboretum
Association, is an area of land adja
cent to Bee Creek Park where the
public may observe varieties of
plants and trees.
Although the arboretum be
longs to Brazos County, the city is
in charge of maintenance because
of its use as a park, City Forester
Eric Ploeger said.
The City of College Station paid
for the $8,086 shelter from city
parks land dedication funds, Ploe
ger said. An additional $2,000 will
be spent to light the shelter and to
landscape the area around it. The
shelter, Blackburn said, was
started about four weeks ago as a
community service project to
teach students basic skills for park
maintenance. He said the shelter
will be ready for use in about two
weeks.
Each semester, Blackburn
assigns a similar project, which
“I chose to have the stu
dents build the shelter
because it was a unique
project. It gives them
something a little hit dif
ferent to do. ” — Dr.
John Blackburn, profes
sor in the recreation and
parks department.
has included building play
grounds for city parks and elemen
tary schools.
“I chose to have the students
build the shelter because it was a
unique project,’’ Blackburn said.
“It gives them something a little
bit different to do.
Blackburn said the class is
taught with “safety first” in mind.
The first required project is build
ing picnic tables. This exercise
teaches students how to use tools
safely as well as proper use and
care of them.
“In the five years I have been
teaching this course, we have had
no injuries other than a splinter,”
Blackburn said.
The students worked on the
shelter three hours a week during
their lab times, Blackburn said,
and many spent extra hours on the
project.
He said he found that the
women in the class enjoyed work
ing on the project as much or more
than the men because many had
never done anything like it before.
Ann Lautzenheiser, a senior
parks and recreation major, said
she enjoyed the project because it
combined fun with learning.
Next semester’s project will be
an octagonal picnic shelter at
Olson Field, Blackburn said.
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By RANDY CLEMENTS
I Battalion Staff
fte construction of a new
tiru ntary school in Southwood
Ry was approved Thursday by
Christum k College Station Planning and
Miing Commission,
he school, planned to be on
acres facing Deacon and
Ihers streets, is designed for
(students, Dr. Donald Ney,
|tant superintendent for admi-
ative services, said.
'ith some modifications when
d, Ney said, the school will
bmodate 900 students. The
pi is planned to open with 600
3stoseelK»fi ents ' he said,
eir madritB 10 school district has planned
B school to be built there for
rforthedijM y eiirs > he said,
said theiili’pjjg school bo ard wanted to
was so - tte the new school where the
e them jJjfy warranted it, he said.
"feople in the area are anxious
|et us (the school board) to
the school because they cur-
Jy have to take their children
Iral miles to College Hills
Jnentary School. We are trying
■minimize transportation and
jjjptain the neighborhood con
i’’
he school is expected to open
1983, Ney said.
[Chairman Jim Behling said the
Iplan for the school should in-
lle the bicycle parking plan,
Bscaping, extra parking spaces
id a pedestrian circulation plan.
The site plan should then be
sent back for consideration as soon
as possible, he said.
The commission also approved
rezoning 22 acres on the south
side of Southwest Parkway and
600 feet from the East Bypass,
from single family residential dis
trict R-l (maximum of eiglit units
an acre) to townhouse district R-
1A (maximum of 12 units an acre),
low density apartment district R-3
(maximum of 14 units an acre),
medium density apartment dis
trict R-5 (maximum of 24 units an
acre) and neighborhood commer
cial district (C-N).
However, the request to rezone
from R-l to administrative-
professional district (A-P) was de
nied.
Commissioners Jim Gardner
and Anne Hazen said the A-P
wasn’t needed since there is A-P
zoned on the north side of South
west Parkway and recommended
it be zoned low density apartment
district R-3 instead.
The owner and developer of the
property, Ron Cruse, said the
commission was “living in a smoke
screen if it thought the property
along the East Bypass would de-
velope as R-3.
“Few people want a freeway at
their back door,” he said. “It
should be a higher-use (zone) such
as offices, clinics or a hospital
(which are in the A-P zone). The
economics just won’t work for R-
3.”
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