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-i rtfroducad THE LATEIviTTto plan -Introduced yesterday in--, 850 feet talbThere was Ifdudes 59 floorsand is 752.5 feet high. The buikiing has 2.12 million square feet and. features an arch-improvements to thejp yvay to let Bght through. Under the developers plan, he ctty was to receive 1 20 units of tow-income housing would be built in the community and $12 million to $15 million in sub--way improvements would be made, one-third paid by the developer. The city is to receive $337 million.

Accord on Columbus Circle New design allays fears of Central Park shadows protest march that included such celebrities as Jacqueline Onassis and Bill Moyers, amid complaints that the building would cast huge shadows on Central Park. Both Zuckerman and Kent Barwick, chairman of the Municipal Art Society, a civic design group whose lawsuit blocked the original plan, said the most recent plan is a compromise between concerns about design and overdevelopment on the one hand and the city's economic needs on the other. The compromise included the society along with Community Boards 4, 5 and 7. The two tallest towers will reach 59 floors, or 752.5 feet. The structure will have 2.12-million square ft of space nearly as much os the Empire State Building 5 percent less than the pre- By Harry Berkowitz Ending a fierce three-year battle over a giant office and condominium complex to replace the New York Coliseum at Columbus Circle, Mayor Edward I.

Koch and civic groups that blocked the prqject agreed yesterday on a newly scaled-down version. The compromise, which further reduces the size of shadows that opponents complained would be cast on Central Park, virtually assures that the Board of Estimate will give final approval for the plan at a May 4 meeting. It also sharply cuts the chances that a lawsuit will block the project, as happened with the original version. The plan, carved out by the Koch administration and the civic groups in the past week, lops off six floors from the top of the towers and punches a 130- lion price tag on the original version introduced in May, 1985. The developer will also pay one-third of the $12-mil-lion to $15-million cost of subway improvements, with the city and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority each picking up one-third.

The compromise appears to resolve what has been one of the most controversial development proposals the Koch administration has supported and to help defuse a potential issue in the mayoral campaign. The original design drew a firestorm of protest, including a foot-high archway into the middle of the complex to let through more air and light. It also requires that the developer, Mortimer Zuckermans Boston Properties, will build 120 units of single-room-occupancy housing somewhere near the complex for homeless people and include 4,000 square feet of public space in the complex for cultural and community activities. Boston Properties will pay the city $337 million for the site, $20 million less than a revised version introduced last June and down fron(the $455-miI- Please see BUILDING on Page 33 City Gets 30 Days to Correct Jails Judge wants daily progress reports NEWSOAY. THURSDAY, APRIL 20.

1989 in receiving rooms has been largely corrected in the past week. He also disclosed that the dty is seriously considering the conversion of a shelter for homeless families into a jail. The Forbell Street Shelter in the East New York section of Brooklyn, a converted office building that houses up to 125 people in large rooms, has been criticized as inadequate by advocates for the homeless. Koehler said he also has begun submitting to administrative judges 1981 order that bars housing of inmates in the receiving rooms. The Legal Aid Society has asked that the dty be held in contempt of court for violating the order, but agreed yesterday to the dtys request for the judge to wait 30 days to Bee if jail conditions improve.

Lasker agreed to wait, saying that City Correction Commissioner Richard Koehler had presented a significant plan for new action to be taken to improve the jails. After the hearing, Koehler said that the problem of housing inmates By Paul Moses Warning that conditions in city jails violate a court order, a federal judge yesterday gave the Correction Department 30 days to house inmates properly. U.S. District Court Judge Morris E. Lasker also ordered the dty to give him daily reports on its progress in finding space for inmates he said had been forced to sleep on the floor in jailhouse receiving rooms.

The judge said theres no question that the dty had violated a Judge Morris Lasker I i I li III Please see JAILS on Page 33 A A A A A A A A.