Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 20

Wednesday, February 14, 1979 20-Reno Evening Gazette Commissioners reject developer's first estates zoning request Th nncsooA nf tho resolution allows a Dubllc noted that the Washoe County District Health Department had recommended denial of the project until the proposed package sewer plants' efficiency could be proven. The package plants were to have been supplied by a new firm. Birmingham, through his attorney, Edward Hale, asked the commission Tuesday to set a new hearing so that Pleasant Valley, could present new evidence concerning traffic and sewage disposal. The commission had given Birmingham a year to appeal its January decision. Although Hale said that the project did not have to be presented before the RPC again, the commission voted to do so.

Chan Griswold, legal counsel for the commission, recommended that the project be brought back to the RPC because of revisions in the sewer treatment plants. The commission also passed a resolution of intent to enter Into an agreement with the city of Reno to purchase Rancho San Rafael from the Public Employees' Retirement System. The planning commission suggested that the commissioners deny approval of the change In land use tecause Flint's proposal did not conform to the general land use plan for the area and that airport noise would not make the area unsuitable for single-family unit development. Commissioner Steve Brown added that the proposal lacked an adequate plan for traffic access to the project. Birmingham, owner of the 550-acre Pagni Ranch, continued his quest to change the ranch's zoning from Its' current one-acre minimum lot size to smaller single-family and multiple family dwelling lots, as well as light and general commercial zoning.

Birminghan has proposed to build 980 housing units on a 270-acre section of the ranch. Last January, the commission denied Birmingham's request because of traffic and sewage prob-' lems. During that hearing, Commissioner Jean Stoess By ROD FOO A request by developer Herb Flint to change a 107-acre parcel south o( Huf faker Hills from second agricultural to first estates was denied by the Washoe County Commission Tuesday. In other business, the commission also considered a request by Richard Birmingham, head of Pleasant Valley, to rehear his proposal for rezoning the Pagni Ranch. In another matter concerning a ranch this time the Rancho San Rafael the commission established a public hearing date for discussion on the possible purchase of the ranch by the county and the city of Reno.

Flint had sought to rezone the parcel near the Huffaker Hills subdivision to allow one dwelling per 15,000 square feet. Currently, the parcel is zoned for one dwelling per 2.5 acres. The commission in denying the rezoning cited the Regional Planning Commission's negative report on the project. Doody to head Blood Center Nevada Blood Service has announced the appointment of Tom Doody as the executive director of the Regional Blood Center located at 390 Kir-man Ave. Doody has worked for the parent organization, Blood Systems for more than 10 years.

Most recently, he served as executive director of the Regional Blood Center Favorable report due Arson hearing scheduled A favorable business renort is srhprtiiifxi t.i Michael B. Vann, the 21-year-old man charged in connection with an office building fire in Reno last week, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Feb. 26 on a charge of first degree arson. Vann was arraigned on the charge Monday in Reno Justice Court. He originally was booked on a charge of second degree arson.

The Reno Fire Department reported Vann had been discharged by the janitorial service which cleans the Ram Investment Corp. building at Cor-done Avenue and Vassar Street. The same night, the building was badly damaged by fire. hearing to be set up on the purchase of the ranch, a requirement that must be met before the county enters into a purchase agreement. The public hearing is scheduled for Feb.

20 at 9 a.m. In the commission chambers. The retirement system purchased the 408-acre ranch last December and has offered to sell It to Reno and the county for $7.5 million plus 15 percent Interest a year. The city and county plan to use the ranch as a regional park. The commission also approved an agreement with Burrows, Smith and municipal financial consultants, to assist the county with the Issuance and sale of the bonds needed to finance the purchase.

Disqualification of judges asked A motion seeking to disqualify all seven Washoe District judges was filed Tuesday by the attorney for accused murderer Kenneth McKague. Attorney Michael Specchio asked Judge James Guinan to order that an Independent determination be made of the bias and prejudice of the Judges which he claimed was the result of a finding last week by one of the local judges that his client was guiltv of murder. McKague, 25, Is facing a possible death sentence if he Is convicted of the Dec. 21 murders of William and Irene Hemry. His cousin.

John McKague pleaded guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced last week by a three-judge panel to life Imprisonment with a possibility of parole. For the 18-vear-old John McKague to be given the hope of being set free in 10 years the possibility of parole provision the three sentencing Judges had to find circumstances that mitigated the penalty of a life in jail. Key among those circumstances, according to the findings of the three Judges, was the fact that John had not done the actual killing. Instead, they found it was Kenneth who pulled the trigger. Since Washoe Judge William Forman participated in the sentencing and the finding of guilt against the elder McKague, attorney Specchio claims that finding is to be imputed to the other six Judges.

"As the generally accepted procedure in the District Court of Washoe County, the order of one department (Judge Forman) is binding on the remaining departments (judges)," Specchio's motion claims, "hence the Defendant Is no longer cloaked with the presumption of innocense." The result, Specchio says is to "deny the accused a fair and impartial determination In Washoe County." District Attorney Cal Dunlap, who says he'll oppose the request, said, "The statute (on which Specchio's motion is based) does not contemplate the disqualification of a whole court." He said he doesn't even believe Judge Forman would have to be disqualified on the basis of what the three-judge sentencing panel found. "For that one proceeding, Dunlap said speaking of the sentencing, "findings of fact are entirely proper. But it only applies to that one proceeding." Guinan scheduled a reappearance of McKague for this afternoon, although he would not say if he would be making a decision on the motion at that time. in Lafayette, La. Previously, he worked in Chicago as director of donor development and in Houston as director of public information and education.

A native of New Jersey, Doody received his college education at St. Peter's College where he graduated in 1954 with a B.S. degree in mathematics. He went on to graduate studies in theology, receiving bachelor and masters degrees of divinity in I960. In 1972, he completed the executive management development program at the University of Houston.

While working in delivered to stockholders of the Nevada Livestock Production Credit Association and the Federal Land Bank Association of Reno, when they gather for their joint annual meeting Friday at the Sparks Nugget Convention Center. Both associations experienced increased loan volume and favorable lending operations last vear, say Land Bank Association president George Frev and Production Credit Association chairman Chris Gansoerg. Dr. Heartsill Wilson, a widelv-traveled lecturer, also Is scheduled to speak. His" topic is "The Success Mystique." The meeting is due to start at 11:30 a.m.

A business session will follow a luncheon. The LB A makes long-term real estate loans to ranchers and farmers in Nevada and fringe areas of California. PCA provides short-term operating credit. Both organizations are part of the Farm Credit System, owned and controlled by participants and financed privately without use of government funds. Sands: Partial opening The Sands Hotel will open part of its vet-to-be-completed tower addition for the President's Dav weekend, if the addition passes a series of inspections.

The Reno City Council Monday approved partial opening of the hotel's new tower, on Arlington Avenue, provided the rooms and casino to be opened pass inspections by the city's building and fire departments and the county health department. Bob Bledsoe, director of sales for the hotel, said the early opening would add between 100 and 125 rooms and a ground floor casino to the current 100-room hotel-casino complex. When the tower is completed, the hotel will have a total of 400 rooms, Bledsoe said. By opening early for the three-dav weekend, which includes Presidents' Day, Feb. 19, the Sands hopes to convince tourists it is a major hotel, rather than a smaller enterprise, according to Bledsoe.

"It's a very major weekend," he said. TOM DOODY named director Man arrested after chase The man arrested by Reno police Monday for reportedly threatening to shoot anyone who" pursued him in sagebrush north of the city was identified as Darrell D. Metcalf, 20, of 1045 Hoge Road, Reno. Police surrounded and arrested him after a foot chase. He was unarmed, but police seized a shotgun found nearby.

Police booked him on a charge of obstructing and resisting arrest He subsequently was released on $250 bail. Police said the incident apparently resulted from a family dispute. Truckee motorist cited TRUCK EE The California Highway Patrol has cited a motorist on a charge of felony drunken driving as a result of a Sunday night accident on Slate Route 267, east of Martis Dam Road. The motorist, Andres Baeza, 33, and passenger Juan Contreras, 43, both of Truckee, were admitted to Tahoe Forest Hospital. Patrolmen said Contreras was thrown from the car.

The car went off the road on a curve and overturned, patrolmen said. Louisiana, Doody served as a board member of the Lafayette Kiwanis Club and the Southwest Louisiana Rehabilitation Center. He was a member of the Mid-Louisiana Health Planning Council, Southwest Louisiana Hospital Association and the Chamber of Commerce Health Committee. He was also one of 14 members of the Hemophilic Advisory Board for the Louisiana Department of Health and Human Resources. His wife Irene and their two children will join him in Reno.

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