Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 16

Suit filed in test of property law A Superior Court suitchal- lenging the Arizona law governing the establishment of improvement districts filed Tuesday. The suit was filed as a class action for 80 families in the Estrella Dells ment District, which was formed in 1971 to improve water services to property owners in an area near Buckeye. Steven Friedman, Phoenix attorney who filed the suit, explained the challenge this way: Under state law- owners of 51 per cent of property in a given area can start an improvement district to provide such services as new streets, overhead streetlights, or water services. Consequently, if one person owns 51 per cent of the property, and 49 others own 1 per cent each, the one with 51 per cent has control over assessments placed on properties of others to pay for the improvement district. In the tfstrella Dells District, said Friedman, petitions presented to the county Board of Supervisors asking the district be formed contained signatures of persons owning 79.3 per cent of property in the area, but only 9.G per cent of the total number of owners.

Friedman argued due process of law was denied the majority of property owners. Property owners were assessed a total of $632.000 to cover the installation of water lines and construction of a well, the lawyer said. Several land owners in the district recently received their assessments, some for thousands of dollars, Friedman said. Among defendants named in the suit are the county board of supervisors and the board of directors of the water improvement district. Chris-Town to add multi-level mall Insurance chief urges no fault bill Stale Insurance Director Millard Humphrey said Tuesday he would recommend that the legislature enact no- fault car insurance in Arizona next year.

Commenting after his return from a White House coherence of state insurance commissioners, Humphrey said the President wants states to enact their own no- fault programs. The alternative could be congressional imposition of a national no- fault plan, and few states want this, Humphrey said. He said commissioners for slates with no-fault plans indicated the plans have not reduced collision insurance costs. But he added that prompt payment of injury victims by their own insurers under no- fault apparently is discouraging lawsuits over pain and suffering, resulting in lower costs for this coverage. States appear to be "gelling away" from to legislate "threshold" points at which the victim is deemed to have suffered sufficient damage to justify such a suit, he added.

Humphrey said the trend among states appears to be in the direction encouraged by the White House, though mosl no-fault states exclude motorcyclists. They also have the problem of how to handle visitors from other states with conventional car insurance, he added. By CLARENCE W. BAILEY A $5 million Chris-Town Shopping Center expansion featuring a 100,000 square foot, multi-level mall for 25 retail stores, a theater and a restaurant, was announced Tuesday by Sam Grossman, the shopping center corporation's president. Grossman, at ceremonies attended by Mayor John D.

Driggs and singer Barbara Police head asks binding arbitration By GORDON ROBBINS The National president of the Fraternal Order of Police said Tuesday Phoenix "should get a new City Council" because of the outcome of a recent police salary dispute. Fred Harrington, attending a FOP state conference at the Holiday Inn, also claimed "compulsory and binding arbitration is the best and most satisfactory way of settling wage disputes involving law enforcement officers. Harrington said his home state of Pennsylvania as well as Michigan and Rhode Island have binding arbitration laws used for settling law enforcement officer salary requests. "These are exactly the same type laws used in settling railroad worker wage disputes so transportation is not interfered with," he said. Harrington based his criticism of the Phoenix City Council on a statement by City Manager John Wentz last week that the city has the money to give police officers a 15 per cent hike.

The council approved an 11.7 per cent wage increase for 386 veteran officers and granted some 600 officers an estimated 4.6 per cent cost-of- living increase. The police officers had been asking for the 15 per cent hike. Harrington refused to endorse strikes or work slowdowns by police officers and said this manner of demanding salary increases is not endorsed by the FOP. "The struggle for increased wages must be accomplished in a proper manner," he said. Harrington estimated he has served on 200 arbitration boards in recent years.

'he police keep working the arbitration is going on. Once the (arbitration) decision is made, it cannot be overturned by any court," he said. Some 500 FOP members, associate members, and auxiliary members are attending (he conference, which ends today. Streisand, said the expansion will be called the South Mall and will be completed in lime for the Christmas season. He said major lending institutions and retailers recognize Phoenix as one of the outstanding marketing areas in the nation, and added.

"We at Chris-Town are particularly proud to be a major part of that growth and expansion. "The additional stores will generate $8 million per year in sales and employ 250 additional people, providing the city and state with an estimated $320,000 in additional sales tax revenue." One of the occupants of the addition, which will connect with and extend south from the east end of the present Chris Town mall, will be a United Artist "6 Plex" theater. Architect Bernard J. Friedman said the mall design is considered novel because the entrance to the theater will be up a stairway from an enclosed court, Chris-Town vice president Eioy ball field to open in July ELOY The land is leveled and all of the equipment on hand for the softbail field at Eloy North City Park, to be in use by July 15, said Leo Rosbach, city manager. He said six new 50-foot light psts for the park have been installed.

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Officials said the structure will be comparable to the existing shopping center, but William Van Loo, of Coe Van Loo Engineering, consultant to the architect, said a large section of existing water line and sewer pipe had to be replaced because building regulations do not allow them to be underneath buildings. Grossman said the addition will be Chris-Town's fifth expansion in nine years, and boosts the 900,000 square feet of the shopping center to more than a million square feet. Homes Son Construction Co. is general contractor. Friedman Jobusch Co.

is architect and engineer. Grossman and Pederson said Chris-Town received cooperation from the City of Phoenix, particularly in relocating Montebello Avenue 200 feet south. Montebello is being expanded to (iO-l'ool width and controlled by traffic signals at 15th and Avenues. Seventeenth Avenue is being extended to connect with Montebello. Stores which have leased space in the South Mall include: "Judy's of California, Walden Book Store, Docktor Pet Center, The Gap, Rutherford's Shoes, Maharani Creations, Gibson Greeting Cards, Gold Art Creations, Standard Optical, Bloom's Tall Men's Shop, Swiss Colony Cheese, Sunset House, Flake Typewriter, First National Bank, Pizza DeArmore, and Cobbler's Bench.

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