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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Friday. March 7, 1997 Bay Crest Park Carroltwood Carroltwood Village Citrus Park Country Way Dana Shores Drew Park Keystone Lutz Northdale Odessa Town 'N Country Westchase Send comments and Hps trough e-mail to trtmwapfodigy.com or write do The Tampa Tribune, 125 Country Club Drive, Tampa, FLa. 33612 id Commissioners stall traffic deal North wes I Daniel Ruth They hold a public hearing and drag these people down here for nothing. called the county's decision a "betrayal." "I am outraged and disgusted over the view of county government," Eldridge said. "We're right back where we were before." "We pay these people the commission to make decisions and do their homework better," said Twelve Oaks resident Steuart Revis.

"They hold a public hearing and drag these people down here for nothing." The Twelve Oaks governing boards have labored for more than a year to find a traffic and crime solution everyone can live with. A year ago, they'd proposed security gates for the neighborhood's six entrances, but that idea sharply divided the 1,000 homeowners and surrounding SUMMARY: Expectant Twelve Oaks residents are angry and disappointed when their plan to solve traffic problems gets no hearing by county commissioners. By CLOE CABRERA of The Tampa Tribune TWELVE OAKS The two governing boards of this neighborhood thought they'd finally solved their problems. A county commissioner had suggested the solution; a county hearing officer had worked with them on it; county planners encouraged it. County officials even said they would consider helping Twelve Oaks pay to implement the plan if they accepted it.

When 100 homeowners trooped before the Hillsborough County Commission Wednesday, they expected their traffic-calming plan to be approved. They were dumbfounded and angry when the county sent them back to the drawing board. Commissioners voted unanimously to delay deciding on the plan and to give engineers 30 days to meet with residents. "Residents are very divided over this," said Commissioner Dottie Berg'er. "We really need to try and bring them back together." But the subdivision's taxing board and civic association had agreed on the plan, though some residents did not like aspects of it.

Taxing board president Rick Eldridge Cobb plans fall curtain-raising for 20 screens J3 eft JL a fee i SUMMARY: Come October, the neon of Hollywood will beckon movie lovers from Carrollwood to Land O' Lakes and beyond. By PENNY CARNATHAN Tribune staff writer LUTZ The neon lights of Hollywood soon will glow like a beacon across the horse farms and cow pastures of northwest Hillsborough. Construction of Cobb Theatres' free-standing complex to be called either Hollywood 20 or Northgate 20 is under way at North Dale Mabry Highway and Van Dyke Road. It's expected to be completed in October. At five stories tall and surrounded by fields of palmettos, the neon-trimmed monolith will be hard to miss.

"It will be one of the largest theaters in Tampa," said general contractor Ken Weissblum who works for Waas-Phillips-Adler Construction in Miami. "This one will have stadium seating, state-of-the-art sound, nice, wild-looking lobbies with lots of neon." Hollywood 20 will seat 3,700 fans in extra wide, cushy chairs with cup holders. The complex and parking lot for 1,300 cars will take up 13 acres next to the Publix shopping center already at the northwest corner of Dale Mabry and Van Dyke, Weissblum said. The whole shebang will cost about $10 million, said Lock Swift, a vice president of ORIX Real Estate Equities, which is financing the venture. "It's an event to go out to a movie at a place like this," Swift said.

"This isn't a neighborhood movie house, it's more of a regional theater." Hollywood (or Northgate) 20 will Ziymmcmmm i imii IM Steuart Revis Twelve Oaks resident The county stepped in because its approval was needed for the gates. Noting the neighborhood's fractiousness, County Corn-See 12 OAKS, Page 2 be up the street, about two miles, from another Cobb movie house: Northdale 6 Cinemas. That theater will start showing slightly older movies once the new movie house opens, Swift said. Residents of the area have mixed feelings about the theater, the first solid evidence that Tampa has reached them. "Personally, I think it's fine," said David Chernoff who has lived in Calusa Trace subdivision, behind the theater, for three years.

But not all his neighbors agree. For the most part, he said, that's because they didn't know about it beforehand. "We moved in knowing the possibilities. I don't understand why people don't look into zoning before they buy a home." That would not have helped the Atchison family, who moved to Van Dyke Road just east of Dale Mabry 11 years ago. "We moved here from Northdale because it was too congested," said Carol Atchison.

"The whole idea of moving here from Northdale was the peace and quiet. "I never believed I'd be living down the street from a 20-screen theater." Atchison said she tried to rally residents to fight the theater plans when she first learned of them about three years ago. She also tried, unsuccessfully, to restrict the height of the theater's atrium it will be about 50 feet tall. Now she said, she's fed up. With zoning recently approved for a 1.28 million-square-foot regional mall on the corner opposite the theater, Atchison is ready to pack her bags.

"I love Lutz," she said, "but we will move. Absolutely." CANDACE C. MUNDYTribune photo pal Jamie Byron, 8, reclines on their cause to believe were soliciting prostitutes. Defendants could pay a $500 civil penalty plus towing and impoundment charges to get back on the road. "This gives our police department an extra tool," said Councilman Bob Buckhorn.

"It will also instill some sense of public shame." The ordinance includes an identical procedure should police find small amounts of marijuana in a car stopped for any legal reason. Police are allowed to seize vehicles in felony drug cases, but the new law would apply it to misdemeanor marijuana cases. Councilman Scott Paine said the proposal will hit crime at its source. 8m CITY, Page 2 ft BAYVIEW Tom Scott is a very fast learner This much is certain. One look at David Lewis and it's pretty clear at least he's not missing any meals.

The 2,972 elderly, though, who depended on Lewis to provide them hot meals through a county food program, well, that's another matter. On Monday, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneer player's company was supposed to begin fulfilling a $1.2 million county contract to deliver hot meals to mostly housebound senior citizens. You could say Lewis' rate of quality control was about the same as his former employer. Over the course of the next three days, nearly 3,000 meals had gone undelivered. And of the very few that were served to the seniors, the food was either badly burned, or, in at least one case, not even cooked at all.

Raw chicken what a culinary delight. What do you call that? Redneck sushi? Oh, by the way, the name of the company run by Lewis and his wife, Marilyn, is called the Fun Factory. Oh, by the way, are we having fun yet? Tom Scott to the rescue Just imagine the chuckles, the yucks, the hardy-har-hars some octogenarian cut loose with, after opening what was believed to be a piping-hot dinner, only to find a cold chicken. A regular Shecky Greene is oP David Lewis. Of course, even more of a rib-splitter is why the county approved a $1.2 million contract to provide a service where lives are involved to a company that had virtually no substantial means to do the job in the first place.

For 20 years, the food delivery contract was held by G.A. Foods, with very little folderol or fanfare. But late last year, when the contract was up for renewal, Lewis' Fun Factory underbid G.A. Foods by nearly $50,000 and won the job. Leading the charge to help the Fun Factory bid was new Hillsborough County Commissioner Tom Scott, although county officials had expressed concern the Fun Factory, despite its low bid, could not adequately do the job.

The Fun Factory lacked sufficient equipment to prepare nearly 3,000 meals a day and deliver them. But when Scott and Fun Factory attorney Henry Nobles raised the specter that Lewis, as a minority contractor, was not being treated fairly, well, it was cold chicken time. Yummy. It's the strangest thing. Back in December, when the Fun Factory won the contract, in an interview with the Florida Sentinel Bulletin, Scott claimed an extra-crispy chunk of credit for intervening on Lewis' behalf, saving the day for the company.

Lewis who? That was then. This is now. Thursday, the commissioner insisted he barely knew the couple, had never even been inside the company's door and, for good measure, barely even reads the Florida Sentinel Bulletin. "My conversation with the Lewises was extremely limited," Scott said. "I rarely spoke to them." Wow, it didn't take very long for Scott to learn how to be a county commissioner, did it? Indeed, so detached was the commissioner from the Fun Factory bid effort that, the issue of whether they had the ability (to do the job never came up." Well, why should it' It's only a $1.2 million government contract.

Ability? What a silly question. But because Scott was more interested in Lewis' status as a black contractor than he was with his ability to serve 3,000 meals a day, lives were endangered and the effort to draw more qualified minority contractors into the county bidding process tragically undermined. And that's what happens when you play chicken with a public Steel roofing beams, foreground, await the Cobb Theatres complex at N. Dale GARY RINGSTribune photo installation as masonry work continues Thursday on Mabry Highway at Van Dyke Road. Detectives hope drawing helps catch 'golf shooter Beating the heat Krystal Tucker, 10, looks to shore, while her raft this week at Ben T.

Davis Beach. 'Johns' ordinance moves ahead gave detectives a general description of the man they saw leaning out the window of a passing car and holding a gun, said Hillsborough County sheriffs Sgt. Rod Re-der. He is white, 18 to 20 years old, 5-foot-10, 140 to 160 pounds, with short dark hair and a mustache. He was wearing a gray or blue T-shirt and was a passenger in an older, faded maroon or blue Ford Escort or Chevrolet Vega.

"If it's a Vega, we've got a pretty good lead," Reder said. "If it's an Escort, then God help us." Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call Crimestoppers at (800) 873-TIPS. Tipsters do not have to give their names, and may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000. Other than a little soreness, Belmont said she's doing fine. In fact, her doctor cleared her to return to the links Thursday, but heavy lifting is still a few months away.

"I just had a third set of X-rays today and they're just going to leave the bullet in, unless it starts moving," she said. The day she was shot was only the second time she'd golfed, but she's planning to start lessons soon. She said she'll go right back to Countryway. "The golf course people have been great with me," she said. "It's not their fault somebody shot me.

My husband has been back there several times." SUMMARY! Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives release a sketch of suspect in Feb. 23 drive-by shooting that injured a woman at Countryway Golf Club. By PAULO LIMA of The Tampa Tribune COUNTRYWAY A quick glimpse of a distant gunman in a moving car is all sheriffs detectives have to work with as they try to crack a 2-week-old drive-by shooting. Authorities released a composite drawing of the man they say shot 49-year-old Connie Belmont as the real-estate agent stood at the sixth tee of the Cbuntryway Suspect Golf Club Feb. 23.

Detectives hope the sketch will generate the lead they need to solve the case that left one veteran investigator wondering, "If it isn't safe on the golf course, what else is sacred?" Belmont, 49, had just teed off on the sixth hole of the course at 11111 W. Waters Ave. when she felt a sting 2 to 3 inches above her elbow. She realized she'd been shot and went to St. Joseph's Hospital, where she was treated and released.

Other members of Belmont's party SUMMARYi Proposed city ordinances that would crack down on prostitution and ban roadway soliciting edge closer to adoption. By JIM SLOAN of The Tampa Tribune TAMPA The Tampa City Council forged ahead Thursday with two proposed laws, one that would seize the cars of "johns" who solicit prostitutes and another that would ban money-seekers from roadways. The council gave the prostitution ordinance the first of two required readings and called for a public hearing on the fundraising ban. Under the first proposal, police could the cars of people they had probable.