Council delays decision on apartment complex parkin • By ADRIENNE M. LINDH Collegian Staff Writer The possible loss of 35 spaces at a Col lege Avenue development caused more parking woes for the State College Borough Council at its meeting last night. The council will continue to fret as it examines that possibility. Council tabled a motion for the pro posed elimination of 35 required spaces for The Gateway Project, under con struction on East College Avenue. The project's owners, Gateway Partners, want to replace the parking spaces with landscaping in order to improve the Philadelphia wants more state funding for By LEE UNDER Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA The city, in a lawsuit with potential nationwide impact, wants Pennsylvania to provide millions of additional dollars to restore services for mentally retarded people living at home. But a group that also joined in the legal action to be argued today in Com monwealth Court wants the state to go further. Without the aid, thousands of retarded may be forced into institutions, which their families oppose, in order to get help. Such an option was suggested recent ly by the 3rd U.S. Circuit of Appeals, which ruled that reducing services didn't violate a retarded person's con stitutional rights, and sent the case back to state courts. Brothersßr:od »f4.tiga DoWitto GOod e, ?WI MN, unl Y al2 Lt Phikt MIS at 120.5. 314. Plain **au.`:z + ::; . :. 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According to a presentation by the project architect, Martin McGann of Sweetland Engineering, the landscap- In support of the landscaping, Fred ing is being proposed to reduce noise Fernsler, a consultant to Unico Corp., and beautify the complex. the project developer, said: "No matter But some council members objected what we do with this project, there is to the proposal. President Gary A. Wis- going to be a parking problem in State er said the the loss of spaces will be College." inconvenient for State College residents. Fernsler said he might propose pay- In the past, when apartment dwellers ing over Old Main lawn to create a lot were not provided with spaces or were but added, "I'd be ridden out of town on presented with high parking fees, they a rail, and rightly so, because there are have parked their cars along the some things in this town more impor streets. This problem caused the council tant than parking." "This could involve more than 100,000 persons with retardation across the country," attorney David Ferleger said of the at-home services issue at the heart of the lawsuit. Ferleger represents the Philadelphia Police and Fire Association for Hand icapped Children. The group wants the state to extend the services to all retarded who are being cared for by their parents, even though they had not been covered before financial cuts placed thousands of retarded on waiting lists. Richard Gold, fast deputy city solic itor, said budget constraints since 1933 in mental retardation programs have forced the city in the last two months to end or reduce "minimum essential services" to retarded people living at home. "We contend they have a right to con tinue to receive those services under ASIA a ow Take out .... ,4iii,, './ - - '\ to restrict parking on the streets. Res idents are affected because they can no longer park in front of their homes, Wiser said. state law, and the state is obligated to pay 90 percent of those costs while the city picks up the rest of the bill," Gold said. No way, responded Assistant Attor ney General Gwen Mosley. Mosley said the Department of Public Welfare has budgeted about $105.3 mil lion, of which Philadelphia's share is approximately $2O million, and that the state is doing all it is required to do. "Some people need residential serv ices and they can't get it, and some need at-home services and they can't get it," she said. "There are waiting lists. The need outstrips the resources available." Gold said his lawsuit doesn't affect anyone who never received such serv ices before, which is where Ferleger's group stepped in to guarantee those services for all retarded people living at home. "Mentally retarded Philadelphians Tonight at the rA CHRIS MINCER ukKa.) I KI'N VALE SRO- 51`1:°5 ONLY H/601 Cil (Mu ry_ alc - ic - / ciAz_d_y Li cc.vs vo Phoovr.7 - 5.„ tvo aA 56 ME W r A - oga-r/VES NeRE 1 A NM 1 1 I 1 1 1. 4 %. gib x f ik t • Although the idea of trees, flowers and a courtyard with a sculpture was attractive to most council members, the loss of parking spaces prevented them from approving the design change. The beautification design and the pro fessional and cooperative manner in which the Gateway developer worked with the borough and its committees caught the mayor's eye. "I was pleased to see a developer who comes in with a plan that includes park ing. I disagree . . . with in-lieu parking. We ought to make every developer sup ply the parking," Mayor Arnold Addi son said. who live at home with their families will suffer irreparable harm as a direct result of the result of the refusal to allo cate the funds necessary," the lawsuit says The funds sought are for such serv ices as day care, workshops and coun seling now provided to retarded adults still confined to institutions or who don't live with parents or other family mem bers. "Nationally there is a clear right to community services for people who leave institutions," Ferleger said in an interview. "There is a large group of people, however, who are left behind. They are the people who were never in institutions, who stayed at home and were cared for by family, and who we believe are entitled to exactly the same services in the community as those for merly in institutions." Ferleger called that "the key issue." LIONS PRIDE .146tueut C716 1 -E- • rtgF"AP 41 CflO► soc The in-lieu fund, started in February, allows developers to pay a fee to create borough parking spaces instead of con structing the required spaces for their project. Addison said that the council should not be arguing over 35 spaces when the developer is providing a parking garage that will supply 291 spaces for 226 apart ment units. Yet, council allowed con struction of The Graduate, 309 E. Beaver Ave., with about 20 spaces for the whole building, he added. "There is inconsistency here," he said. Compromises on the layout of the site mentally retarded For Gold the issue is getting more money from the state to pay for the services that retarded adults at home were already getting as of June 30, when many were cut off because of the shortfall. "Our lawsuit is not open-ended," Gold said. "We recognize that some people never received the services, and need them. But all we want now is to guar antee that those who were getting the services continue to get them. "Last year the federal court forced the state to pay the 90 percent, and now we are asking the state court to fmd that these persons have a right to have serv ices continued and paid for by Pennsyl vania." Mosley said with budget shortfalls the state DPW "is required by law to dis tribute the limited monies among all 67 counties in a a fair and reasonable man Protect yourself from Health Club Fraud. At HEARTWORK we guarantee your membership! workout at * Next to the gap 204 W. College CARDIOVASCULAR FITNESS CENTER 234-2283 o 0• O ° 10—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Sept. 6,1989 sportswear 112 E. College Ave • Downtown State College YEA, MVO TH&V AND LOOK / INE.I \ ti/WE LAN M[ND WEATPANTS I ON/ So DONS PriDE PNENTED THE FAMOUS LION WATS were discussed at the meeting and will be further examined by council before it votes on the new plan. Addison found one idea unrealistic providing fewer spaces. "The American public is wedded to the automobile. It's freedom to them. And you try to tell 50 percent of the stu dent population with a car that they should leave them at home forget it," Addison said. In other business, council approved updating the in-lieu parking fee. The fee was raised from $4,903 to $5,127 a space. The increase reflects 1989 construction costs. ner. This means that all the counties will get some but not all the monies they need to provide programs for thieir res idents who are retarded." "If the court orders us to provide Phil adelphia with additional funds, beyond the amount allocated, then we will be forced to reduce the allocations to all the other counties," she said. Gold said Philadelphia's allocation is $7.9 million short, and wants that amount immediately restored so serv ices can be provided to those retarded persons previously helped. Philadelphia and lawyers represent ing retarded people on a waiting list seeking the services says the state can't pay for some and ignore the rest. "There is a dear right for every per son with retardation to be helped," Fer leger said. "iiIRPOPORNM AN Co a 6 . 6 ;Vg• ? a S - I , ADER NENE
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