CHAMBERS ASK CSUN TO DELAY MARKET PLANS : RETAIL CENTER DEBATE HEATS UP.Byline: Yvette Yvette is a female name, the French feminine form of Yves. Yvette is the name of a short story by Guy de Maupassant published in 1884. Yvette is the codename of the fictional organiser of the Belgian escape organisation for allied bomber pilots, Lifeline Cabrera Cabrera may refer to: Persons:
The San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Valley's United Chambers of Commerce locked horns with Cal State Northridge Northridge is the name of some places in the United States of America:
tr.v. post·poned, post·pon·ing, post·pones 1. To delay until a future time; put off. See Synonyms at defer1. 2. To place after in importance; subordinate. development of an upscale retail center. After the meeting, Wilson said the university will not delay its plans for the MarketCenter, but that she plans to meet with chamber members who expressed concerns during the meeting. ``We have to get to the several people that we now know to be the major voices of opposition and see if there is any way they will better define what kind of study and what kind of plans they would like,'' said Wilson. The chambers of commerce board voted 19-14 to approve a report calling for the delay so the university will have more time to consult with area merchants and residents over the best way to carry on the development. ``I think the underlying theme of our report is that we want to be part of a process of developing a long-range plan for the whole 65 acres,'' said Ross Ross , Sir Ronald 1857-1932. British physician. He won a 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that malaria is transmitted to humans by the bite of the mosquito. Hopkins Hopkins, city (1990 pop. 16,534), Hennepin co., SE Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis; inc. as West Minneapolis 1893, name changed 1928. The city manufactures machinery, computer and electronic parts, steel products, air pollution equipment, ophthalmic lenses, tools, , a member of the Chatsworth Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the task force. ``Had we been brought in from the very beginning two years ago or more . . . I think we would have been more receptive receptive /re·cep·tive/ (re-cep´tiv) capable of receiving or of responding to a stimulus. to it, but we were left out of the process.'' Wilson disagreed with Hopkins' contention that the community has been left out of the retail center discussion. ``It's unfair to say the university has not listened to comments about the MarketCenter project,'' said Wilson. ``The design, the lighting, the landscaping have all been influenced by community input.'' Wilson noted that in more than six months of discussion with various chambers of commerce, none offered suggestions for other possible uses of land. Any delay in the project would harm the university's credibility, she said. The often-heated discussion took place in the conference room of Galpin Ford in North Hills during the UCC's monthly meeting. The United Chambers of Commerce - which represents 22 individual chambers - created a three-member task force in December to study the project. It wrote the report after conducting a monthlong study of the proposed University MarketCenter. The resulting report asks Cal State Northridge to conduct further marketing studies for the site and also asks that a master plan be created for the north campus development project. One of the issues that concerned UCC An abbreviation for the Uniform Commercial Code. members was the competition the new retail center would create. Large discount and chain stores can underprice un·der·price tr.v. un·der·priced, un·der·pric·ing, un·der·pric·es 1. To price lower than the real, normal, or appropriate value. 2. the smaller retail stores and force them to go out of business, said Walter Prince, a member of the Northridge Chamber of Commerce. ``If these stores are so desperate to get into the community they should come and take over stores that are now vacant,'' Prince said. ``We don't need to build a brand new center to compete with those small businesses that are still struggling to hang on by their toes on the branch.'' Wilson said the businesses proposed for the MarketCenter are not competitive with the mainly small, private and family-owned businesses that dominate the Reseda Boulevard business district, but will complement them. ``In fact, we think an upscale market center will bring new and additional customers into the business improvement district,'' Wilson said. Wilson had the support of one of the three task force members, Jerry Curry, past president of the Woodland Hills Chamber of Commerce, who strongly disagreed with the task force's report. ``I think it's shocking that a business organization . . . is against a good development by a good developer by our own university that wants it, that needs money,'' Curry said before the vote. The retail center still must cross some hurdles before it is built. First there will be a public hearing on the environmental impact report March 27. Then the California State University Enrollment  board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. must approve the final proposal.
The trustees are expected to consider the project in the spring or fall. If the plan is approved, construction could start later this year and be completed by late 1998. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Cal State Northridge President Blenda Wilson defends the MarketCenter project at Wednesday's meeting. Bob Halvorsen/Daily News |
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