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IP) I iric Ml "i i jHfc.c! Panel: Study ways to implement mini-zones 3 Zoning Commission recommends mini-zoning districts but rejects consultants' proposed building design guidelines. would bring its findings back to the Zoning Commission next November, and another year could pass before the plan is carried out, town Building Director Bob Moore said. The consultants, Urban Design Studio of West Palm Beach and Duncan Associates of Austin, Texas, were called upon to recommend ways to curb the sizes, or appearance of the sizes, of new homes. The council asked for the study after several homeowners com plained that large new houses were compromising the architectural integrity of their neighborhoods. As part of the $90,000 study, the consultants were asked to examine the characteristics of four town streets, each representing a distinct development pattern.

The streets are Jamaica Lane, Seaspray Avenue, Mediterranean Road, and North Ocean Boulevard from Queen's Lane to Onondaga Avenue. If the council approves, the town staffs task during the next year will be to determine how to apply the mini-district concept throughout the R-B Zoning District, which includes most of the interior of the North End and smaller areas in the center and southern parts of town. "We believe we need the overlay districts," Zoning Chairman James Bertles said. If it takes another year to study Please see ZONING, Page 5 "monster" houses. The Zoning Commission recommended that the Town Council direct the municipal staff to study ways to implement the proposal of two consultants calling for mini-zoning districts or "overlays." If the council approves, the staff By WILLIAM KELLY Daily News Stafj Writer The town moved a step closer Tuesday to adopting mini-zoning districts that would protect individual neighborhood characteristics and discourage construction of large i Bertles 'We need overlay Day School Preserves Pilgrims' Heritage 'Dimpled' ballot issue returns to judge today Si a4- f.

fn By MICHELE GELORMINE Daily News Staff Writer Circuit Court Judge Jorge Labarga will take center stage again today in the presidential election fracas during three separate hearings one on the disputed "dimpled" ballot At the same time, Democrats and Republicans await word from the Florida Supreme Court whether recounts from three counties, including Palm Beach County, will be counted in the state's final tally. Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters said Tuesday afternoon that the court does not have a timetable to reach a decision. Attorneys for Republican George W. Bush filed a brief to the state's high court Tuesday telling the justices they have no authority to set rules on which presidential ballots can or cannot be counted. Locally, the Florida Democratic Party is asking Labarga to order the county's canvassing board to count indentations, or dimples, as votes.

According to a motion filed Monday, the canvassing board is ex-Please see ELECTION, Page 5 TT aw Children relive Plymouth's pride Palm Beach Day School fourth-graders celebrate the school's annual Colonial Day in style Tuesday. Above: Michael Lazzara, 9, left, and Connor Reich, 10, learn to write with quill pens in Megan Constantino's class. At right: Alexandra Browne, 9, helps Elisa Leonard, 9, with a scarf. Dressed in colonial fashion, the pupils also completed lessons and played outdoor games from that period. At noon, they feasted on a colonial banquet.

Daily News Photos by Jacek Gancarz 'Fiddler' musicians demand raises, threaten to strike By JAN SJOSTROM Daily News Arts Editor Patrons attending the Palm Beach Broadway Series' Fiddler on the Roof at the Kravis Center this weekend are likely to encounter pickets. Local 655 of the American Federation of Musicians, which represents the pit musicians, has given SFX Theatrical Group, producer of the Broadway series, until 5 p.m. Friday to meet its wage and pension demands or face a strike of its touring shows in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Strike or not, SFX says its shows will be accompanied by musicians. "There will be musicians there to play," said Steve Winton, SFX's chief operating officer.

"They Please see MUSICIANS, Page 5 1 iFashion exec a boost for Neiman 'Voice for fashion' Joan Kaner oversees launch of store's Worth Avenue opening today. I III j- 6 $15.25 million Lake Trail home sale sets record By STEPHANIE MURPHY Daily News Business and Real Estate Writer A Boston couple who bought a Palm Beach lakefront home sight unseen has closed on 203 S. Lake Trail for $15.25 million, a town record for an Intracoastal Wraterway property. Darlene and Gerald Jordan apparently took their Connecticut broker's advice in October when he told them they'd better make an offer quickly, based on how often real estate agent Carol Digges was showing the $16.9 million listing. The sale closed Nov.

15 and also is a career record for Digges, who is with Brown Harris Stevens. The sellers were Wendy and Howard Long, who own Coronet Foods, a produce company based in Wheeling, W.Va. The Longs paid $5.5 million for it in 1995, Please see RECORD, Page 2 Marcus branch slated to open this morning, Kaner paid a four-day visit to the island during the pre-opening preparations, spending the majority of her time on the sales floor. As she walked through the store Friday, she answered questions from local management and sales staff about the women's apparel carried in the Worth Avenue branch. The New York City native said she has always had fashion in her blood.

"When I was a little girl, about 4 or 5, I used to sit with a maiden aunt, who was a custom milliner," Kaner said. "I'd look at fashion magazines with her, opening up a spread and asking her to compare the clothes in the photos and asking, 'What do you like "I was bitten by the bug very early on." Before she joined Neiman Marcus 11 years ago, Kaner worked as a fashion director and buyer at Ma-cy's, I. Magnin, Bergdorf Goodman, Fiorucci and Henri Bendel. During her tenure, Neiman Marcus has emerged as the most prominent purveyor of designer merchandise in the United States. "Joan is key," said Marylou Luther, longtime fashion observer and editor of the International Fashion Syndicate, an industry organization based in New York.

"She has been and still is the key to determining Neiman Marcus' position as the No. 1 retailer of designer-label fashion in not just the country, but the world. She is a definitive voice for fashion." When Kaner was presented with Please see KANER, Page 5 By ROBERT JANJIGUN Daily News Fashion Editor Joan Kaner is a front-row fixture at fashion shows worldwide. She's a familiar face to regulars on the New York, London, Paris and Milan fashion circuit. The senior vice president and fashion director of Neiman Marcus, Kaner serves as the store's arbiter of style and taste.

Her decisions and suggestions have a direct impact on what customers choose from when a Neiman Marcus store wherever it is. From her Manhattan base, she oversees a team of New York editors, with whom she serves as the eyes and ears of buyers for the high-style Dallas-based retailer on the women's fashion, footwear, jewelry and accessories fronts. With Palm Beach's Neiman Daily N'rws Pholo by Jacek Gancarz Neiman Marcus senior vice president and fashion director Joan Kaner in her realm, in the women's fashion department. r- i lliohi thriiiM hp in fli Inuvi- 7fl with Liuc in the Crossword 4 II! jansjoMrom i ttUJti H-i I Copyright 7000 Palm Beach DAy News Vol. 104, No.

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