The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 5

Inside: The subject of the Isaiah Project a plan to burn plutonium from the former Soviet Union in Washington state reactors even come up in high-level talks Friday B6 Weather B2 Obituaries B4 The News Tribune South King County Saturday March 5 1994 Federal Way stands by photo radar By Gary Larson The News Tribune ful ofdties in the country to use photo radar But King County police who would have to operate the qystem have serious doubts about whether they legally can use photo radar Police Mqj Bob Evans said the system requires an officer to swear a person receiving a speeding ticket is the same person caj taxed on the photo-radar camera Since sion would have given police authority to issue traffic tickets based on photographic evidence The Spokane city office joined Federal Way in seeking the legislation but the law apparently wont be enacted this session Lake said But Lake said she remains confident King County legal advisers can be persuaded PhotoCop wont jeopardize officers even without the state law Tm not sure that done the depth of research on this that our office Lake said lice radar with a camera system The camera vers and tiwir vehiciafltarose pktesdimi-nating the need for officers to make time-consuming traffic stops More tickets can be issued to violators who receive their citations later in the maiL Last year an Arizona company offered Federal Way one of the systems in exchange for a cut of the rityh ticket revenue The city has since asked for proposals from photo-radar companies and nas received two including one man the original company Federal Way would became one of a hand The Legislature didn't give the green light to photo radar but some Federal Way officials remain hopeful the new traffic-enforcement tool can still be used to catch speeders A bill that would have cleared up a mqjor legal issue over the use of photo radar failed to pass either house of the Legislature this session Federal Way City Attorney Carolyn TjIw mid Photo radar also known as PhotoCop is a new technology that combines traditional po 1 Kids reach into future at opening ofpavilidn By KatWssa Msnymaa The News Tribune Pacific Science Center's stargazers are sending a message into the future as they celebrate the grand opening of their new centerpiece the Kiewit Pavilion At noon today astronomer Dennis Schatz will pop a Comet time capsule into the wall on the ground floor of the Seattle pavilion He will seal it in with a plaque explaining what it is The plaque in- dudes an invitation to open the capsule when Comet Halley swoops put theEarthagain July 27 2061 1 Because predicting the future is a dicey business Schatz has left instructions far opening the capsule in the Science archives and with his sons cers wouldn't be stopping speeding cars there's no way to verify the driver's identity Evans said That potentially could open police to perjury charges Bjlls introduced in the legislature this i I 7 i 1 V' 'C (-H alities from KidStar Radio They will emcee the ceremony and tell listeners not only what's in the capsule but also in the new Kiewit Pavilion i The pavilion is the centerpiece of $56 million in improvements to the 82-yeerold science center A new entrance for school field (zips opens into science playground Upstairs the permanent Tbch Zone exhibit of robots and computers feces the Seattle reflecting pools The time capsule will slip into a hollow wall on the first floor near Please see Comt B5 Sex violence TV top agenda as legislators race deadline By David Postmen The News Tribune OLYMPIA -Friday was deadline day tor the 1994 Legislature -a day of aez and violence as lawmakers churned out dozens cf bills in all-day TM HantsThe News Tribune The deadline is supposed to work like this: Any bill not passed by both houses by 5 pm was dead Those that made it would be sent to ference committees for negotiated The state le bulkUng an onramp to Washington 512 that wit! go through the bam where Cindy Kuzmer keepe pygmy goats on her South HID fann wg94 South Hill residents fear roads bring ruin Mall growth imperils rural life some warn By Qeetln Buttle the News Tribune MORE INSIDE Those who remember when the onfy distiubances on Puyallup's South Hill were the frogs and hawks people who can remember back tour years ago are dismayed by the rapid growth B7 settlements or sent back to the oth- er house for a quids OK But damllinea in Olympia are not ahnys what thy seem In legislative parliamentarian terms it's known as deadline schmedline Friday bffla that looked dead were amended onto those that were Hv- ing Others were passed and will emerge completely different from the closed-door House-Senate bargaining sessions that begin next week And others could come back up again if enough lawmakers agree to ignore their rules but no end to this story said House Republic Leader Clyde Ballard (R-Eaat a little testimony It was very touching -about how quiet ft was when we first moved here and now experiencing heavy Fred Kuzmer said He then leaned where the proposed on-ramp would go going to take out my bam right through the damn he said Kuzmer has since been told the state Department of Transportation plans to buy his end his and help them relocate he said 1 like the Department of lYans-partation telling me I have to he said but added he is now resigned to leave the home hefc owned EM years Last month same of Kuzmers1 neighbors learned from a transportation department mailer that officials want to buy several of their hones fir a park-and-ride lot It would accommodate an estimated 400 can said Mike Horton prqject engineer fix the 94th Ar-enue East expansion prqject Transportation officials planned the lot because some commuters were using the mall eventually a park-and-ride lot will be built in the neighborhood planners said Under state law the half-acre of wetlands to be sacrificed will be replaced by one-acre man-made wetlands paralleling the north side ofthe highway said Mark Sawyex design team leader for the state Department of Transportation When contractors start the bulk of the road i next winter residents say the area sigh its final breath as a quiet rural neighborhood and start to become a bustling regional mall town Fred and Cindy Kuzmer live on four-plus acres of meadow also home to two pygmy goats a family at rabbits two white-feced cows and three dogs If planners have their way there will be Handas on the Kuzmers1 land instead of Herefords The Kuzmers first heard of the ramp proposals in early December when they received notice at a public hearing At the meeting wife got up and gave Many of South Hill residents moved to their neighborhood because they thought it would stay just that: a neighborhood wiffihi rolling pastara but qukk access to Washington 512 But then their biggest neighbor the South Hill Mall assumed a mutating life of its own demanding bigger roads to fill its parking lot with cars The result? Planners preparing recipes of road construction projects that will nourish the maDh newest appendages: Sears JC Fm-ney and The Bon A road-widening prqject is under way on 94th Avenue East Also set expansion is 104th Street East And Washington 512 will get another pair of ramps to supplement the offramps and onramps connecting to 14th Street to the north Wetlands will have to be paved over and lot as a park-and-ride said Bob Holcomb the department's local program engineer -Because of the other proposed changes for the roadway it made more sense to build a lot on the west aide of 94th Avenue where the agency is already planning to pay residents for damage to their properties because of road work Holcomb said The lot will be plaoed at the corner of 104th Street East and 94th Avenue right where Chris LaGassey bought her house six months ago The interior designer paid $135000 for the Please see Mai B7 ee is In e- A bill proposed by Gov Mika Lowry to eliminate 49 citizen boards and commissions died in the Senate when amendments having nothing to do with the measure were tacked on Please see Mympia B3 Readers jam ori the brakes over bill to protect auto dealers growth versus car dealers in the last 20 years? We think the governor and the government should might be stay the Ml out of business because they know noth- Cary Johnson Federal Way ing about it Pardon my ffgrhsrfrr jlz 1 6039 is a very good example of why the citizens of thia state have found it necessary to govern by initiative On numerous occasions it has become apparent some at the people elected to office soon fior-l obligati get they have a moral oh all of special the people in est groups to very frustrating when With all the subtlety of a Ford flattening Gov Mike Lowry's foot BackThlk callers delivered a tank of opinions about whether he should sign a bill that protects auto dealers from encroaching competition: No nope never not a chance nada hyet Ix-nay on the ill-bay t' Of the 35 callers who responded support for the bill was ss hard to find as a Datoun in Detroit It would give local dealers the chance to challenge attempts by competitors to sell the same kinds of cars within an eight-- mile radius of minting dealerships This week's BackThlk question: Should the governor gign the bill into law? Following is a sampling of this weelrt responses think the less government interference in private enterprise the better And I don't think the car dealerships should be allowed to have monopolies in the cities I think the more the merrier free enter-' prise will take care of it" Pat Schwab Puyallup think this bill stinks Are wo going to limit everything we do? Should we only have one bank every eight miles? Should we only have one fast-food restaurant every eight miles? This bill would directly such a bill I think the governor should veto such a bill because competition is the car purchaser's only ally: So kero the state and the tax money out of the car business Oliver Martinson Puyallup don't think he should sign that Ifs free enterprise This is America If Chevrolet or Honda or Ford wants to put in 10000 in town let I mean lower the price Thafs competition nothing but a bunch of -Craig Folk Puyallup is a bad proposal Good car dealers don't need this kind of protection Bad ones do If the governor signs this what is next? Hamburger joints? Convenience stores? This kind of planning was what kept the Russian economy -John Shaw Thcoma The question for next Saturday Backlhlk will appear on B1 of Thursday! News Tribune ed officials attempt to undermine the very foundation upon which this country was founded the free-enterprise system" Paul Downeft Tacoma think this is probably one of the biggest power grabs the state has had in a long time and what it is is a slippery sloped slide into socialism I oppose it very -Marvin Wood Sumner think it's a free country and if you can open a business anywhere you should be allowed to do it no matter near Gary Helweg Spanaway affect my job I do not like it and I will try to discourage it as much as Paula Parker Port Orchard "I do not believe the governor should sign (the bill) In my opinion dealerships in towns that are for away from the mqjor hubs of Seattle and Thcoma -such as Eastern Washington Pasco and Spokane and Longview sell their products to a captive audience for more money More businesses equal working harder to satisfy customers in order to keep the customers Just because you have a dealership doesn't make you the king of that arm as Borne would like to believe In my opinion healthy competition is great for the consumer Has anyone compared population.