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<br />·thieves like flies; '
<br />Continued from Extral
<br />growt.h as a significant factor.
<br />Usmg special-investigation
<br />te.ams, he said, "our future tactics
<br />will be to concentrate on those
<br />a!~as where we know we can·
<br />expect crimes to occur."
<br />'"!{£ Pt./8L./C.. 1-/-9.6 '' seek 7 ccunc11 seats ,
<br />PARADISE VALLEY -Six of • Marty Harper, 4834 E. Mar-
<br />'swat' units ready
<br />. ·These include newly completed
<br />afi:d densely populated areas,
<br />where newcomers are less likely to
<br />notice a strange car and, therefore,
<br />the seven Town Council members ston Drive, attorney.
<br />are running for re-election in the • · Gerald G. Ritt, 7127 E. Sun-.
<br />Feb. 4 primary election, and nine nyvale Rd, pharmacist.
<br />other residents are in the race .
<br />Police escalate war on burglary_-·
<br />in northeast Valley communities_ to repor~ suspicious activity. .
<br />William Simon will not seek a o Kent D. Wick, 7026 N. 66th
<br />fourth two-year term. St., vice president of Judson
<br />· A runoff election, if needed to · School.
<br />fill any of the seven seats, will be --
<br />held March 25. · .~ By CHUCK HAWLEY
<br />Northeast Valley Bureau
<br />Money, like honey, attracts a lot
<br />of pests.
<br />And those pests, in the form of
<br />burglars, ar:e an enduring problem
<br />in the well-to-do communities of
<br />Scottsdale and Paradise Valley.
<br />The past year has seen an old
<br />favorite -property crime -
<br />persist as the most prevalent crime
<br />in the two northeast Valley com-
<br />munities.
<br />"We are an affluent community.
<br />We attract thieves," said Scotts-
<br />dale Police Chief Michael G. Gan-
<br />non. "I think that's a fact of life."·
<br />·Paradise Valley police also will
<br />be taking preventive moves in
<br />.1986. The town has hired a
<br />. ful~-time P.revention officer to help
<br />residents Improve home security,
<br />Wainwright said.
<br />' · . Another emphasis in 1986 will
<br />. be traffic enforcement.
<br />,. "W h i •· , e ave to maintain the level ·
<br />of: traffic enforcement," he said
<br />·h~ting that traffic through th~
<br />·town has increased.
<br />· .Wainwright noted· an· inverse
<br />relationship between traffic cita-
<br />tions and accidents: As the town
<br />~as ~ec~rded .a 4 percent increase . \
<br />m citatiOns Issued,. the accident •--~
<br />rate has dropped by 5 percent. ·
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<br />The councilmen seeking re-elec-
<br />tion are Mayor Joan Lincoln, Vice
<br />I\'layor Robert Plenge and Council-
<br />men Richard Andeen, William
<br />Barber, James Coffee and Russell
<br />Mosser.
<br />The nine others are:
<br />. • Richard Mybeck, 4901 E.
<br />Tomahawk Trail, chairman of the
<br />Planning and Zoning Commission,
<br />patent attorney.
<br />·· e Joan Horne, 6636 N. Smoke
<br />Tree Lane, planning and zoning
<br />commissioner.
<br />$ Robert Kline, 6030 N. 43rd
<br />St., planning and zoning commis-
<br />sioner, accountant.
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<br />. U own Cou_pdl to study ·
<br />buying G wate~ ~YSt~m
<br /><\ J.. By Pat Kossan t ~ •
<br />tT' Gszette Northeast Bureau ou ·Ol·City water customers.
<br />PARADISE VALLEY -The Rei?· ~hris Herstam of District.
<br />Town Council is skeptical about the 24 w1ll mtroduce the legislation
<br />$8.5 million price tag Phoenix has when the next session begins in
<br />hung on part of its water system January. But another fact of life in the
<br />neighboring town of Paradise Val-·
<br />ley is that burglars tend to avoid Michael G. Gannon ,J? the. southeast Valley, Tempe
<br />pohce said they expect an increase
<br />of. 4 or 5 percent in the annual
<br />cnme rate, while Mesa police are
<br />projecting as much as 30 percent.
<br />'.·Both. agencies said they will beef
<br />o William M. Piatt, 5311 E.
<br />Via Los Caballos Road, a director
<br />of the homeowners association.
<br />that serves 1,854 homes in Paradise M
<br />Valley. :, atch ends
<br />burglar alarms.
<br />Police Chief Peter Wainwright
<br />said that through November, there
<br />were 98 residential burglaries in
<br />1985, down noticeably from the
<br />118 reported during the same
<br />period in 1984.
<br />-· "I think the publicity -that's
<br />· been given to the fact that this
<br />town is very burglar-alarm con-
<br />scious has been a factor," Wain-
<br />wright said.
<br />In fact, most Paradise Valley ·
<br />burglaries occur in homes that.
<br />don't have an alarm system.
<br />For the past two years, town
<br />government has operated a bur-
<br />. glar-alarm system that rings di-
<br />rectly into . police headquarters.
<br />up thmr drunken-driving enforce-
<br />ment in 1986.
<br />·:Mesa will add a special squad of
<br />SIX motorcyc!e officers to target
<br />drunken dnvers beginning in
<br />¥,arch, Police Chief Len Kotsur
<br />said. .
<br />\".We think this will really make
<br />a-difference. If anything will help
<br />re?~ce the. n~mber of persons
<br />dl'lvmg while mtoxicated on our
<br />streets, we think it will be ar-
<br />rests." '
<br />o Millicent H. Piazza, 6566 N. ·
<br />43rd Place, a director of the
<br />homeowners association.
<br />o · Sara Dreier Moya, 5119 E.
<br />Desert Park Lane.
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<br />The council unanimously agreed .
<br />last week to fund-its own appraisal .
<br />of the system.
<br />The. study will include ways of
<br />financmg the purchase of the sys-
<br />tem and a cost analysis of running
<br />thesystem. ·
<br />The council said it needs the
<br />study before it can make a decision
<br />on the cost-efficiency of owning a
<br />water company.
<br />C~unciJ members have been
<br />!oo~mg for ways to answer mount-
<br />. mg complains from homeowners
<br />who s~y. they ~re being gouged by
<br />. Phoemx s unfmr water rate struc-
<br />A compromise between the Town/
<br />Council ~nd Loews Paradise Valley'
<br />Reso.rt will allow the luxury hotel to'
<br />use !ts enc!osed tennis courts· for
<br />pubhc mcetmg space.
<br />Complaints from neighbors who
<br />say use of the tennis cour~ for
<br />public events aggravates problems
<br />with noise, traffic and parking
<br />forced .town officials to confront th~
<br />resort m March.
<br />!own officals told Loews, that·
<br />usmff t~e cou~ts for anything but
<br />renms v10lates 1ts operating permit.
<br />Normally, alarms ring at a sccu-Peter Wainwright
<br />rity company, which, in turn,
<br />notifies police, slowing response
<br />'Mary Jo Pitzl, David Cannella, and ;
<br />. _ 'Neal Savage also contributed to .:
<br />· · , this storY, '
<br />. ture. Phoenix charges out-of-city
<br />-cu~tomers double what Phoenix
<br />: res1dents pay for the same service.
<br />The resort admits to' using the
<br />courts for public events since it
<br />opened about two years ago The·-
<br />resort's owneJ'S claimed that' they· ·
<br />had the legal right to use the courts ·
<br />for such events all along.
<br />time.
<br />Wainwright also credits t.he
<br />recent cracking of a burglary ring
<br />for helping to · cut the town's
<br />home-burglary rate.
<br />Property crimes aren't unique to
<br />the northeast communities, how-
<br />ever. · , \.i:..··
<br />Police officials in Glendale and
<br />Peoria report that the bulk of
<br />crimes reported to their agencies
<br />fall into the category of thefts and
<br />burglaries. , : ··
<br />In Scottsdale, Gannon pointed to
<br />-'Swat,' Extra 3
<br />: Paradise Valley residents, unable.
<br />·to vote Phoenix council members in:
<br />: o~ ~ut. of office, say they are being
<br />: VIctimized by an unregulated mo-
<br />.. nopoly.
<br />: : Many of those . residents have
<br />· : organi~d under the name of Citi-i
<br />. : zens for Fair · Water Rates. The .
<br />Both parti~s negotiated through-
<br />out the year m an effort to avoid a.
<br />court battle.
<br />Af~r ihe hotel was able to prove
<br />that Its par~ing space exceeded·
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<br />· group nl:lo has taken its complaints
<br />. : to state kgiHiators and are helping·
<br />; ~to wri~c .a bill that would prohibit
<br />: ... Phocmx from charging more to
<br />. what w~ denianded· by the town
<br />code, council members . voted 4-2
<br />last 'yeek to allow the hotel to hold ..
<br />pubhc events on the 12 660-c· j
<br />square-foot tennis courts. · ' ·
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<br />l:t.lcumbent vows to keep PVIs x·ural]ilestyle
<br />').r p /21fJ ~ ~?;, Cf ,5~ . This is another i~ a series of ar-both lorig-range and short-term.'' deteriorated to be overlaid: and . do everything within our power to
<br />j-14 o ~ ticles ~n the Paradise Valley Town And Barber's voting record shows ~&~&[Q)O §~3 street standards required that an protect the interests of oqr
<br />Council race. he has opposed commercial develop-M & [S[S l3 '\7 improved Invergordon be at least 32 residents."
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<br />·-·~:~-ment and residential lots smaller '\'/ feet. wide. -Higher police visibility.
<br />By SUSAN KEATON than an acre. 13 lS 13 © lf' D@ ~ Another street that Barber said -Stricter enforcement of town
<br />Progress Staff Writer He also worked on amendments to X concerns him is Tatum Boulevard, · speed limits.
<br />Keeping Paradise Valley a com-strengthen the town's hillside especially its sharp curve at Mock-He said 'he opposes commercial
<br />munity of acre lots and narrow building regulations and supported ingbird Lane, which he said is an development and continued par-
<br />streets is the goal of Town Coun-studies of the town's police depart-street." ' "extremely dangerous situation." ticipation in a town-sponsored
<br />cilman William Barber as. he seeks ment and water supply. He suggested that the town take He said the council should conduct burglar alarm system. ·
<br />his second two-year term. He said he is "chagrh;cd. at the better care of its roads so they need an engineering study to determine Barber said town residents sup-
<br />" I think the community has a width of the roads in the (town's) only patching or overlaying instead what can be done to make the curve port his re-election.
<br />termendous desire to stay the way it master plan." Although the new ' of rebuilding or other im-safer. "I think I have done a very good
<br />is," said Barber, a 37-year-old standards allow a range of widths provements. Barberalsosaidhefavors: job," he said. "My attendence has
<br />English and speech teacher at A.r-for roads, he said, "I think they're When streets are improved, he --Investigating the possibility of been outstanding."
<br />cadia High SchooL . . excessive." said, they have to be built to the new buying the portion of the Phoenix He estimates that being a council
<br />Barber said that desire should "No one has proved to me that standards, which in most cases re-water company serving town member takes around 300 hours a
<br />help him in his· re-election bid, wider streets are safer streets," he quires them to be widened. reHidents, or other water companies, year, but, "It has been a very en-
<br />because he has shown his dedication said. "As a matter·of fact, it's my A "perfect example" was an April e.lthough he is unsure the town could joyable experience." -
<br />in keeping the town a rural, residen-belief that it's just the contrary. I council decision to improve and afford such purchases. Phoenix Fourteen other residents,. in-
<br />tialcommunity. think wider streets are more widen Invergordon Road from 22 to charges its Paradise Valley eluding five other incumbents, are
<br />"I have upheld the wishes and the dangerous. They encourage traffic, . 32 feet,·he said. Barber was the only customers double the rates its in-seeking seats in the town's Feb. 4
<br />desires of the residents," said the traffic travels at an excessive council member to vote against the city customers pay. . · election. If fewer than seven can-
<br />Barber, 5525 N. Quail Run Road. "I rate of .speed, and I also think it is final plan. "I don't think the town should be in dictates receive a majority of votes
<br />voted exactly as I said I would, con-extremely disruptive to the The town engineer had said the business at all, if they can help it," in the primary, a run-off election Barber
<br />sistently, for two years, on issues lifestyles of the residents of the road 's bed was too bad 1 y Barber said, "but I think w~ have to will be held March 25.
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