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QUEENS DIGEST page 3 ILLEGAL OT page 12 PHONY DOC page 12 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING INSIDE August 23, 1989 XQ 1 mightly and has produced a mouse a deformed mouse," said Pat Dolan of Kew Gardens Hills, a second vice president of the UCC and a member of the Alliance. The appointed commission is working to revise the Charter because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on March 22that found the -city's most powerful body the Board of Estimate violates the one-person, one-vote principle. UCC leaders say the proposed charter consolidates too much power in the Mayor's Office and dilutes the Borough Presidents' clout. Many community-group leaders view the Borough Presidents as their strongest advo- currently have on the Board of Estimate.

"(The Borough Presidents) will be in the driver's seat on development," said Frank Mauro, the commission's director of research. "Developers will have to bargain with the Borough Presidents, because they won't want to go before the City Council (for review)." Mauro said opposition from community groups will die down after leaders review the 600-page plan closely. But Dolan, who attended almost every Charter Commission hearing and has read the entire plan, scoffed at the notion. "It's fatally flawed," she said of the plan. cates in City Hall and an important check on the mayor's power.

Further, UCC leaders said, the plan undermines local control over land use. Currently, the Borough Presidents have the final vote on the Board of Estimate for land-use proposals. But under the commission's plan, the City Planning Commission would make land-use decisions. The plan also empowers Borough Pres-idents and Community Boards to request that a 51-member City Council review decisions of the Planning Commission that they do not like. But UCC leaders said com munity groups prefer the current system because they believe it will be simpler to lobby one Borough President rather than several members of the City Council.

"Each councilman has his own bailiwick and he doesn't care about other slices of the pie," said UCC member Michael Moriarty of Bayside. "Anyway, if we couldn't get them to talk to us when they had 35 members, how are we going to get 51 councilmen to talk to us?" A spokesman for the Charter Commission said the proposed charter gives Borough Presidents as much power over land-use matters as they By JAMES DAO Daily News Staff Writer One of the largest community organizations in Queens has declared grass-roots war on a sweeping proposal to change New York City's government Leaders of the United Civic Council of Queens have vowed to go door-to-door and to employ dozens of newsletters to encourage voters to reject the revamped city charter in November. The group is an umbrella organization for 27 block and civic associations with a total membership of more than 100.000, its leaders say. In addition, about half the borough's Community Boards have members in UCC. Only the beginning? The group's announcement could be just the opening salvo in a widening struggle against the proposed charter.

The Alliance for a Better Charter, a citywide coalition of community groups, is expected to work against the plan as well. "The Charter Revision Commission has striven in siaying Detectives continued yesterday to canvass a five-block radius of Woodhaven where a teenager was gunned down and killed by a mysterious gunman firing a pistol from a distance of more than 70 feet. The teen, Danny Martinez, 16, of Jamaica was felled by a single bullet to the chest Friday night as he stood at the corner of Jamaica Ave. and 76th not far from his home. Detectives said they had no clues or motives for the shooting, but were pursuing various leads.

"We are pursuing all leads, but we are not making any assumptions (about the shooting)," said ne of the investigators from the 118th St Station. "We don't even know if he (the gunman) was aiming at any particular target." A Mass of the Resurrection has been set for 9:45 a.m. today at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 87-19 88th Woodhaven, where Martinez 4tevila. 1 Si -Wu VAX 402' By ALFRED LUBRANO Daily News Staff Writer The 8:42 rattled out of the darkness of the Main Street Station bound for Times Square, among the first IRT No.

7 Flushing Line express trains to rolL in four years. The 43 people standing and sitting in the air-conditioned third car creased their newspapers in that unique, New York-commuter vertical fold, read hot romance novels, or glanced at the bad-news ads that line the tops of subway cars in the city these days like a frieze depicting social woes: Don't do drugs, do use condoms, choose our abortion clinic, use our roach remedy. No one seemed particularly excited that the train was skipping 11 stops, saving six minutes and rumbling along Roosevelt Avenue at a relative speed that made the pace of local trains seem positively glacial. 'About time' "Hey, it's about time," shrugged Robert Dunn of Flushing, echoing sentiment in the car. Commuters didn't look on the express as a Transit Authority gift, but rather a convenience that was due them since a $70 million repair job begun in May 1985 eliminated express service.

Not everyone was -pleased to see the Manhattan-bound 8:42 whiz by, though. On the platform at the Woodside Station at 61st St, which has been eliminated as an ex- press stop, folks were grousing Monday morning. "I've lived in Woodside 20 years and ihis was an express station," said Ann SHE'S WAITING for an IRT No. 7 express inat'll never come in. Well, it'll come into tne Wooasiae Station at 61st St.

and Roosevelt but it won't stop. The stop has been eliminated, said a Transit spokesman, because so many riders got on and off at Woodside, it made the train late. Figures. bhliuitmbuu. daily news press stop because the great volume of people who boarded the express there would slow trains on the entire line.

Both cursed and praised on its run, the 8:42 made it to Times Square by 9:15 a.m., a couple of minutes behind schedule. The doors opened and people scrambled out Few things in life are certain, but it was a good bet that they'd -all' be backtfterriext day, and the next for the Woodside folks who used to enjoy express service, though. "The TA doesn't give a about the public," he added. "That's the truth." Transit spokesman Ter-maine Garden said that no one disrupted service on the No. 7 Monday, despite threats that people might throw garbage on the tracks.

He added that Woodside, which con-nects-with 4ha' Long- Isiand Rail Road, is no longer an ex Fuchs. "It's very unfair. Five to six minutes makes a difference when you're running late for work. Everyone who comes into the station should sign a petition to the TA to ask for a re-evaluation." Tony Cianfarra, a conductor on hand to inform people that the express would not stop at Woodside, said, "They look at me like I'm nuts when I tell them to stand back jvhn the lrar comes lie couldn't help but feel sorry.