The Daily Herald from Chicago, Illinois • Page 42

2-- Section I August 15, 1972 THE HERALD ACLU Backs Suburb Law-Income Housing Built By CHA by ANNE SLAVICEK A plan calling for tow-income housing units to be built in suburban communities by the Chicago Housing Authority or the Cook County Housing Authority is being advocated by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU proposal is a suggested judgment in a court case currently before U.S. District Court Judge Richard Austin. The rough draft of the proposal, filed in June already has prompted suburban mayors to form a coalition to develop their own program for low and moderate-Income housing development within the suburbs. Jack Pahl, a commissioner on the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission and a former Elk Grove Village mayor, began the coalition in response to the ACLU's suggestion that suburbs be forced to accept their "fair share" of low-income housing and that the federal court rule as to what that fair share is (or each community.

Pahl hopes the suburbs can avoid a court-ordered distribution of low-income housing if the communities begin now to establish a plan to choose locally sites for housing for persons of low and moderate Incomes. But he admits that the mayors have no assurance that their proposal would deter Austin from enforcing the ACLU's suggestions and bringing the low-income housing into the area as part of a federal court order. If the ACLU has its way, 61,696 dwelling units for low-income families will be built in a wide geographic area which includes metropolitan Chicago and many of its suburbs. A FINAL plan for the ACLU's recommended judgment is expected to be submitted to Judge Austin Sept. 25.

The rough draft already in the judge's hands is an indication of what the ACLU is seeking. ACLU Atty. Al Polikoff prepared the rough draft. He said the ACLU wants the court to provide requirements that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) evenly distribute 61,000 low-income dwelling units in the metropolitan area.

The ACLU calk such requirement "effective relief" and says it is preferable to HUD and CHA proposals which amount to their promising their "best efforts" to build adequate low and moderate-income housing. In his rough draft of the proposal, Poli- koff includes a map of the area to be included in the court judgment The map includes the bulk of the Northwest suburban area, although the Lake County section of Buffalo Grove, the western edge of Hoffman Estates and the Harrington area appear to be excluded from the proposed site location area. Polikoff explained in the proposed judgment that the entire six-county area in northeastern Illinois is too large an area to be used in assigning locations to the low-cost housing. INSTEAD, HE recommends that the housing be distributed within the "Chicago Urbanized Area." A small scale map of the area included shows the northwest corner of Cook County is excluded as is the western portion of Lake County. Generally the area where the ACLU wants the housing includes most of Cook County, a substantial portion of DuPage County and the eastern portion of Lake County.

This "Chicago Urbanized Area" includes 89 per cent of the population of the six-county Chicago housing market area, Polikoff said. The housing should be allocated to various communities within the Chicago Urbanized Area on the basis of six cri- teria, Polikoff wrote He said a "fair share" plan designating generalised locations for the units will be included in the final draft of the proposed order to the court. The criteria he will use in deciding a community's fair share will include the ability of an area to absorb new pupils into schools, the location of major job centers, the existing concentration of low-cost housing, the tax base, available vacant land and population. Each of the criteria point to the Northwest suburbs as an area destined for a substantial share of the dwelling units, if the court accepts Polikoff's recommendations. Polikoff said the major defendants in the lawsuit before Judge Austin HUD, the CHA and the City of Chicago "agree in principle that additional housing provided as relief in this case should be located throughout the metropolitan area and not concentrated exclusively in Chicago." HE POINTED to the fact that blacks make up 32.7 per cent of the city's population but only 3.6 per cent of the suburban population.

He quoted a HUD official as saying, "Central cities are losing whites and gaining blacks. In spite of a gradual increase in the number of blacks and other minorities living in the sub- Assessed Valuations To Be Increased This Year by ROGER CAPETT1NI The assessed valuation on virtually every parcel of real property in Wheeling and Palatine townships will be increased this year as a result of a new system of assessing land in the county assessor's office. The increase in assessed valuation, however, will not necessarily mean a corresponding increase la taxes will be experienced by the property owner. The new assessing system also will mean increases in assessed valuation for the townships of North, Lake View and Roger Park in Chicago and suburban townships of Evanston, New Trier, Nlles, Northfield and Harrington. The increases win be noted by property owners In those townships, all the subject of the 1973 quadrennial reassessment, as notices are received from the county assessor's office.

Notices of reassessment began arriving In Palatine Township last week and are expected to be mailed to property owners in Wheeling Township in about two weeks. The increases in assessed valuation will result largely from a new system of assessing land, be it vacant or unproved, although buildings on the land are also being reexam'ined. DENNIS DUNNE, director of communication for County Assessor P. J. Cullerton, said the new assessment system is being used by the office in an attempt to achieve greater uniformity and comparability in assessments.

A revamping of the assessment system was necessitated, Dunne said, by: --A requirement of the new constitution which allows classification at no greater than a two and one-half to one class. Previously, a four or five to one ratio existed between some industrial properties compared with vacant land. --A desire to bast assessments on fair market value rather than the former "brick and mortar" technique of basing assessments on reproductive costs', with little regard to comparable market values. Des Plaines Students On Illinois Dean's List The dean's list for the 10 undergraduate academic units of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the 1971-72 spring semester includes the following students from Des Plaines: Elizabeth Baldo, 851 S. Wolf Jonathan BaMo, 851 S.

Wolf Evelyn Basile, S17 S. Mount Prospect; Carol Beam, 2073 Webster Jean Beck, 436 Harvey Robert Biggott, 1889 Big Bend Tina Bocskay, 1970 Koehler Jack Carriglio, 233 King Penny Chase, 1140 Alfini Constance Defotis, 615 Jill William Defotis, 615 Jill Susan Degenhardt, 2061-B Pine and Thomas Delaet, 1372 Earl Ave. Susan Dixon, 74 N. Cumberland; Kevin Dole, 110 Stratford Kathleen Duffy, 525 W. Dempster Gayle Durham, 1209 Wayne Kurt Fritscher, 1150 S.

Wolf Teresa Cast, 285 Columbia Karen Gatsis, 2024 Plainfield Martin Goerger, 411 W. Algonquin; Kathleen Gragg, 442 Radcliffe; Annette Grody, 570 S. 4th Judith Harrison, 717 Madelyn. Arlene Hegg, 6901 N. Cora; Diane Henrikson, 27 N.

Meyer John Jacobs, 20 Cornell Martin Jakubek, 950 Home Thomas Jason, 1756 Birch Aaron Kass, 94S1 N. Hamlin Jo Kinder, 1120 Jeannette William Knoles, 856 Webwter Karen Krett, 82 S. Meyer Donna Kuhn, 2072 Eastview Andrea Lake, 9316 Parkside D. A. Lauffenburger, 1950 Tures Sandra Lauffenburger, 1950 Tures Peter Lebtond, 860 2nd Laura Levy, 9332 Home Christine Lund, 1126 2nd NORMAN MARKWORTH, 1622 Walnut Donna Merles, 1524 6th Joan Mkhalik, 654 Oakton, Steven Miller, 1634 Cora; Robert MoehUng, 395 N.

8th Daniel Moll, 1322 Harding Robert Montgomery, 740 Golf Thomas Na- pier, 1704 Whitcomb Linda Naslund, 178 8th Valerie Neal, 404 Pinehurst; Nancy Oddi, 9418 Unnea Lizbeth Packard, 322 Davis Glein Peterson, 348 Debra Keith Pischke, 926 Walter Pamela Potter, ft s. Meyer Donald Prorak, 40 E. Kathleen Steven Prorak, 40 E. Kathleen Gregory Relnhart, 2450 Dale Amy Forest Mary Seal- Ion, 1184 Spruance Kurt Scheuneman, 1940 Plainfield Cheryl Schmidt, 1328 6th Quentin Schultce, 815 Oakton; Christine Schwarz, 1493 Webster Lee Sonin, 9328 Parkside Daniel Steinken, 535 Good Terry Stoner, 1878 Fargo Susan Terp, 314 N. Wolf Gerald Thain, 131 E.

Millers Janice Thain, 131 E. Millers Rd. Frank Utes, 1095 S. Wolf Fd; Karen Vandevusse, 1024 Irwin Bruce Vosburgh, 1865 Everett Carol Warchol, 3031 S. cott; Barbara Weaver, 1800 Cedar Ct; Charles Weber, 77 W.

Walnut; Patricia Weber, 77 W. Walnut; Bruce Wiltons- tein, 9069 Barbery David Atkinson, 1352 Margret Paul Austermuehle, 516 Pinehurst Robert Channon, 8801 W. Golf; Richard Edelman, 8906 Knight Edwin Ernst, 1235 S. Penn; PatU Falconer, 331 Stratford Eileen Fisher, 1184 Hewitt Vivienne Geiger, 758 Laurel; Nancy Hardto, 9635 Brandy Robert Johnson, 354 Woodbridge. Gene Kalin, 9231 Twin Oaks Peter Wages, 3 N.

Cumberland; Nancy LUja, 1715 Stockton Steven Mervis, 9023 Washington, Stephen Pallardy, 1068 Van Buren, Jeanette Platt, 1635 Woodland W. F. Robertson, 1713 Forest Raymond Rosner, 1900 Koehler; Randy Schaeffer, 8894 Knight; Cheryl Sehueter, 825 Tuns Gary Smith, 1646 Ash Thomas Warren, 19)0 White St; and Ira Wolff, 8901 Western Ave. Resisting Arrest Charged A 17-year-old Arlington Heights youth was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct following a disturbance Sunday night at a Des Plaines restaurant. Brian McHugh, 17, of 503 Noyej was arrested at McDonald's Restaurant, 727 Golf after be allegedly pushed Dea Plaines Patrolman Michael Bauer several white Banner was trying to arrest him.

According to reports, Banner and patrolman Stephen Truver wort called to the restaurant after the management reported that a large number of youths loitering in the restaurant and creating a disturbance. Banner reportedly asked the youths to leave several times and attempted to arrest McHugh after he refused to leave. Banner said in his reports that McHugh began pushing him and tried to pull away when Banner attempted to make the arrest. Banner said after McHugh was handcuffed he continued restating until finally placed in Banner's squad car. McHugh was released on a $1,000 bond and scheduled to appear in the Des Platoes branch of Cook County Circuit Court Sept.

14 at 11 a.m. --Increased construction costs experienced in the Chicago area since 1959 when the assessor's manual was printed. Since that printing, the manual has not been updated to reflect either increased construction costs nor changing market values. THE MANUAL, when printed, contained built-in factors of market values according to different areas and neighborhoods in the county. Those factors, however, have become obsolete with the growth in the county since 1959.

Dunne said homes in Wheeling Township have appreciated about 7 per cent in each of the last few years. Until the quadrennial reassessment, residential land was normally assessed at a front foot figure, corrected for depth, shape and other variables. Those assessments were adjusted every four years in an attempt to maintain comparability among properties according to market value. No particular proportion of actual market value was required, only an attempt to maintain comparability. According to Dunne, this year the county, in- view of the constitutional requirement on classification ratios, made (Continued on page 41 Suit Against Harper Is Set For Trial On Sept.

5 urbs, the fact of the white noose around the country's largest cities is largely an unchanged Those facts are complicated by the reality that while the black families are in the central cities, "The major economic growth representing many thousands of jobs is taking place in outlying suburban areas," Polikoff quoted the HUD official as saying. Between 1959 and 1970 nearly 87 per cent of the Chicago metropolitan area's ne-v employment opportunities were suburban, not central city, opportunities," Polikoff said. He said others who believe the suburbs must accept their share of the burden include George Romney, who is named as the first defendant in the suit and Vice President Spiro Agnew. "The suburban resident who thinks he has fled the city's problems, but can still enjoy its benefits, must realize that if the city dies if the core rots then the whole- apple goes," Polikoff said. "He can't intelligently take the attitude, "I've moved out; to hell with it," the quote attributed to Agnew says.

SUBURBAN opposition to an influx of low-income housing can be overcome by seeking court orders to enforce the terms of Judge Austin's ruling, Polikoff suggested. He cited court rulings that local political boundaries are "a matter of convenience and not of sovereignty." "They may be disregarded when necessary to vindicate federal constitutional "ights," he said, basing his position on Supreme Court, lower federal court and state court rulings. "There is no doubt that the court has the authority to require metropolitan location," he said. The poor quality of urban education is another reason to locate some of the sites in the suburbs, the ACLU attorney alleged. Lower income minority families like those who filed the suit against the CHA and HUD, "attend largely segregated Chicago schools while most suburban schools remain overwhelmingly white," he says.

Yet another reason to place the housing in the suburbs is that 95 per cent of all the vacant land in the Chicago area is in the suburbs, Polikoff said. "Although redevelopment of obsolete commercial and industrial areas within the city affords significant potential for the new housing, the reality is that vacant land may be developed far more quickly than unproved land," Polikoff told Judge Austin. Polikoff said under federal housing law up to one half of the units should be made available to eligible community residents who already live in the area where the sites are being developed. The remainder would go to low-income families now living in ghetto areas like those Polikoff is representing in the court case. Pahl's plan called for including moderate-income families such as senior citizens and single people who grew up in the suburbs as among those eligible for the new dwellings.

But the proposal Polikoff has made is only for low-income, single-family homes and low-income, multiple-family units. Federal standards define families living on less than $6,000 per year as having a low income while families with incomes from $6,000 to $12,000 are defined as having moderate incomes. The figures vary by family size. Polikoff said it is undesirable to have excessive concentrations of public housing in single areas. "Mini-ghettos and the creation of new a i a impacted areas must be avoided," he said.

Therefore, he said, the order must eon- tain appropriate provisions for the location of the new dwelling units on a scattered basis, "to assure against excessive concentrations of low-income housing within a community." "Fair share" techniques are necessary to assure the sites will be dispersed among communities, although not every community will necessarily be assigned a given number of sites, Polikoff said. The Chicago Housing Authority has the statutory authority to operate anywhere within the state, he said. In case there is an existing regional housing authority within the area, such as the Cook County Housing Authority, the CHA would need the agreement from that authority before it could name the sites. A local housing authority should have the option of providing its own housing to meet the requirements of the court order, he said. But opposition from any local housing authority like that from individual communities should be met with court action if necessary to make sure that the dwellings are built, Polikoff said.

A 1969 -suit charging Harper College with violating the civil rights of teachers Mrs. Betty Enbyik and Edward Kalish is slated for trial Sept. 5. Federal Court Judge Philip Tone will review, the teachers' complaint that col- officials violated their right of freedom of speech by refusing to give reason for not renewing their contracts in December 1868. The two former teachers claim they were dismissed for their activities in the Harper College Faculty Senate rather than their teaching ability.

The suit calls for $350,000 in damages and renewal of the teachers' contracts. According to the plaintiffs' attorney, Richard Wexler, the teachers have failed in the past three years to secure new teaching positions because "the college damaged their reputations." The case was first submitted to Federal Court Judge Abraham Marovitz who ordered both parties to submit evidence, which in the college's case included reasons for not retaining the teachers. In the sprang of 1071, Marovitz found the college's reasons were "insufficient under the law and had to be proved at a trial." COLLEGE OFFICIALS cited incidents of poor teaching techniques and an independent attitude toward administrative procedures as reasons for their dismissal. More than a year's delay followed as the attorneys waited for a ruling'from the U.S. Supreme Court on two similar cases.

Wexler said the court ruled last month that teachers are not entitled toa hearing unless they are given reasons for their retention. Hozever the court also ruled a teacher's contract cannot be terminated because he exercised his freedom of speech. ANNEN Florence Moore Purves Mrs. Florence Moore Purves, 74, of Des Plaines, died yesterday after living most of her life in this city. She was born on May 17,1898.

Visitation is from 3 to 10 p.m. today at the Oehler Funeral Home, Lee and Perry streets, Des Plaines. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the funeral home, with the Rev. Garry A.

Seheuer, Jr. officiating. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Dr. A. M.

Purves and A. H. Moore, Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Bonnie (James) Eck, Des Plaines; Mrs. Sue (James) Milburn, Park Ridge; and Mrs.

Florence (Stan) Holbrpok, Mount Prospect; and ten grandchildren. Deaths Elsewhere Victor A. Vracke, 69, of St Petersburg, died Friday. Funeral services were held yesterday at St. Emily's Church in Mount Prospect.

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