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115 It Interim Problems in Tech Corridor Development ent Seen by FRANK MUNGER News-Sentinel staff writer County Commission apparently sees sunny days ahead for the Technology Corridor, but some commissioners are bracing for stormy weather in between. So far, the commission has been supportive of efforts bring hightechnology industry to Knox County, nodding its approval to plans as they develop along the Pellissippi Parkway. But the tough part lies just ahead, when the county's legislative body will be asked to restrict the use of large chunks of land in the northwest sector. Some commissioners expect trouble. "We do have concerns with the taxpayers and the people who are directly going to be impacted," said Commissioner Bill Pavlis.

"I've heard some complaints. They're not major. But, of course, we're still in the preliminaries. Once this thing really gets going, then the fur will start to fly." Members of the Technology Corridor Development Authority met with County Commission yesterday, providing an update on corridor plans and answering questions. Many questions dealt with the proposed technology overlay zone and the rezoning of major strips along Pellissippi Parkway for Scientific Production (SP).

The corridor authority wants prime sites on the corridor rezoned SP, which effectively would ban heavy industry and severely limit commercial enterprise. Numerous development and design restrictions would be imposed to encourage high -tech office growth in a park-like setting. "The tough thing we're going to be deciding now is do we want to have a Scientific Production zone, and are we going to be committed to that to the degree that we will continue to control that environment," Bill Arant, chairman of the authority's board, told the commission. "I think there are going to be a lot of tough questions along the way. We're going to be challenged.

But what we hope we can do is be one body (commission and authority) of thought." "If you get high -tech industry into this corridor, and they're willing to spend $50 million, they need protection. We've got to be hardnosed about this," said Rex Norman, a commissioner and authority board member. But some commissioners questioned the legality of predetermining land use' by rezoning property owned by others. "We're going to spend some time in court," said Commissioner Jim Harbin. County Law Director Dale Workman said the commission, in principle, has the legal right to such action.

In many ways, the commission already uses its power to control development for the betterment of the county, he said. "To that extent, you exercise that power, weekly or monthly, when, say, a person in agriculture wants to go to RV zone," Workman said. "When you decide to deny him the RV zone, you control a forced situation by what you permit him to do with his property. Here, in essence, you are making a legislative Architect on Anderson School Work Chosen by CLEVA MARROW from the recently enacted News-Sentinel correspondent sales tax. Since the recent' annexation of CLINTON After weeks of South Clinton by Clinton, questions discussion with firms bidding for about who will be responsible for the contract, the Anderson County the renovation cost at South Clinton Board of Education last seElementary have arisen.

The buildlected an architect for a $2.2 million ing is still owned by Anderson school-renovation project. County, but it may be transferred The successful bidder, Architec- to the Clinton school system. tural Techniques Corp. (ARTEC), a Knoxville firm, will receive ARTEC's fee will be $69,500 if the South Clinton work is removed $106,500 for preparing design and from the project. engineering plans.

The includes new roofs In other business, County Attorproject nine of ath- ney David Stuart said the board for schools, completion Anderson County will not have to provide lifetime anletic facilities at School, installation of fire nual medical examinations for 17 High nine schools, replacement persons exposed to asbestos dust in alarms at at Norris Ju- 1981 at Lake City High School. Stuof the heating system nior High School, incorporation of art said the Occupational Safety measures at and Health Administration (OSHA) schools and renovation at South requires annual examinations for School. workers who are continually exClinton Elementary posed. The county plans a $3 million bond issue to pay for the work and The board employees were exfor work done earlier. The bonds posed while removing asbestos mawill be retired with tax revenues terial from the school gymnasium.

Wreck Charge Sent to Jury A charge of vehicular homicide Oct. 1 accident on Maryville Pike. against a Knoxville man was sent to Police say that Lucas crossed the the Knox County Grand Jury yes- center line and struck the Burns' terday by County Sessions Judge car at about 10:50 p.m. Harold Wimberly. A test of Lucas' blood revealed' Herman Lee Lucas, 41, 1000 an alcohol content of .16, police say.

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The station will broadcast from a.m. until midnight. Programming will include a mixture of syndicated shows, sports and classic movies. Locally originated talk and community affairs shows also will be ried. Studios will be on Central across from Star Sales with transmitter on Sharp's Knoxville has three stations nected with the networks.

Dan Sullivan, who has been WTVK Channel-26 for the past 10 years, is general manager at the new station. Owners of the new station are Knox Family Television Limited and include local partners. 5 Pinned in Night Wreck Night Wreck squadsmen freed the occupants about 4 a.m. All five were treated at Sweetwater Hospital for minor injuries, Conley said. He said the car was driven by Wayne Hampton, 22, Madisonville.

The other occupants were identified as Linda Kyle Moore, 19; her two children, Amy, 3, and Hattie, and Brent Keys, 19, who walked to a nearby house for help. UAB Probe Prompts Suggestions for FDIC by RICHARD POWELSON News-Sentinel Washington correspondent decision as to this particular area on how property owners are able to develop their property. So it's a part of the zoning practice." The authority's attorney, Bob Stivers, earlier this week questioned whether it would be legal for the authority to request the rezoning, saying he could find no legal precedent. "There's a difference between those two issues," Workman said. "That's another ball game altogether." "I think what you're seeing now is the potential for conflicts," Commissioner Jim Carroll said.

"The overall (corridor) plan is a good idea. If we're not going to support it in the future, then we don't need to be supporting it now. "If you feel like you're going to be politically compromised every time it comes up, then you really should save yourself a lot of trouble and vote against the zone. I'm not in that category. I think it's solid planning.

I think we're going to have to stick to our guns." "I think the commission can support that," Commissioner Frank Leuthold said. "I think this next year is the crucial one. Once we stay with it, I think we'll be in good shape. Then I think people will, essentially, live with it." Pavlis said he was "110 percent supportive" of the corridor, but he still has questions. "The thing that the group, the corridor authority, is not really abreast with is that the commission deals on a day-to-day basis with the taxpayers and our constituents," he said.

"I can see land being landlocked, more or less, for a 15- year period with no available use until it (high-tech business) is expanded to it. I've got a problem with it, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to support it." from staff reports MADISONVILLE Five persons, two of them children, were pinned in a wrecked car off an isolated Monroe County road for six hours overnight before one was able to escape and get help. Deputy Ron Conley said the accident occurred about 010 p.m. on Pumpkin Hollow Rd. west of Madisonville.

Deputies and rescue WASHINGTON A House subcommittee chairman yesterday criticized the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for not acting sooner to take tough enforcement actions against United American Bank of Knoxville to stop six years of "an unrelenting series of unsafe, unsound and conceivably unlawful banking practices." Rep. Doug Barnard Jr. chairman of the Government Operations Committee's subcommittee on monetary affairs, directed hearings last March to examine the failure of UAB and how the FDIC handled its examinations of the bank. Barnard said the subcommittee's study of the FDIC's actions has resulted in a report making recommendations for "essential improvements which are necessary in the (FDIC's bank) examination process" and in how federal and state banking agencies coordinate their activities, particularly with chain banks.

sta- The FDIC should implement the recommendations, Barnard said, to be- "minimize the likelihood of further large bank failures caused by insid7 er abuse and mismanagement." The specific recommendations are contained in a report which the full committee will consider Nov. 15. The report will not be released car- to the public until after the committee approves it, Barnard's aides Street said. the In studying the FDIC's handling Ridge. of UAB's problems, the subcommitcon- tee's staff talked with banking offi.cials and examined "hundreds of with banking agency documents." Among the subcommittee's findings were: The FDIC knew for "many years that the bank was being operated in an unsafe manner by an unreliable management and yet failed to use its considerable enforcement powers against senior officials to end abusive practices." As early as 1976 the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve Board "had extremely negative regulatory experiences with Butcher banks" and the FDIC itself participated in a November 1976 joint examination of Butcher banks that produced "serious questions about the commitment of the Butchers to sound banking practices." The FDIC's early and continuing problems with the Butcher banks "should have caused the FDIC to take effective and tough action to halt abusive practices.

Instead, the FDIC relied on the promises of the Butchers to end these practices until the bank was only days away from failure." Barnard said the subcommittee's report on recommendations for the FDIC's procedures should be adopted by the full committee and taken seriously by the FDIC because the country continues to have a large number of problem banks. In the March hearings in Washington, FDIC Chairman William Isaac conceded in his testimony that UAB "had always been considered a 'near problem' or 'borderline' bank not sufficiently bad enough to trigger a formal enforcement action but sufficient to require closer than normal scrutiny and frequent. jaw-boning." David Meadows, regional director of the FDIC in Memphis, admitted the FDIC may have made some mistakes with regulation of United American Bank of Knoxville, but he added, "The bottom line was we found it. "Nobody's perfect. We may not have been doing everything right, but on the balance, I think we did an outstanding job," he said.

Metler Owner, Denton, Dies from staff reports NEW MARKET David W. Denton, 43, New Market, owner of A.J. Metler Trucking Knoxville, died yesterday at Jefferson Memorial Hospital of a heart attack. Denton was a member of Pied-. mont Baptist Church.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Alta Ruth Renau Denton; daughters, Lorri Ann and Kristi Lynn Denton; son, David Richard Denton, all of New Market, and brother, Harold; Denton, Knoxville. Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Piedmont Baptist Church, with burial in Hillcrest Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at Farrar Funeral Home, Dandridge.

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