City Attorney Jackson Throws Out Setback
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Setback On Third Avenue
Illegal Rules City Attorney
By Colin Mick
The required five foot setback on Third Avenue between Cush
man and Lacey came up for fire at Monday night’s City Council
meeting when Robert Claus requested information on the rule.
Claus, owner of Pinska Stores, is planning to construct a new
building on the site of the present Pinska’s Men’s Wear.
rie e*|jiainea mai n:s applica
tion for a building permit had been
denied by the City building inspec
tor because his plans did not com
ply with the setback rule.
Claus stated that he did not feel
it was fair to have such a rule. He
pointed out that the rule only af
fected the south side of the street,
as all the buildings on the north
side are constructed flush to the
sidewalk. He also pointed out that
the setback only affected one block,
since both the Northward building
and the Woolworth building are
built flush with the sidewalks.
Setback Illegal
City Attorney Barry Jackson
stated that he had ruled that the
setback requirement was not legal
and that he had instructed the
building inspector not to hold up a
building permit because of the set
back.
Jackson went on to explain that
his decision was not binding on
the courts, if those property owners
on the street who had set back filed
suit to require Claus to set back.
Jackson explained that the City
would have to either let Claus build
or purchase the five-foot strip from
him at fair market value.
Councilman Brewington pointed
out that Claus only has a 50 ft. x 50
ft. lot, and that if five feet were
taken, it would mean a loss of 10
per cent of his store area.
No Alley Needed
Vince Guzzardi told the Council
that he hod been told by the City
Building Inspector to set his store
back five feet. He explained that he
had agreed to set the store back,
and the inspector had agreed not to
require him to put in an alley be
hind his building.
Claus then pointed out that if
Guzzardi had fought the ruling as
he was doing, he would not have
had to set back.
“Normally I would iust have built
it and then taken it to court,” Claus
said. He explained that finances
did not permit him to do this so he
was appealing the ruling to the
Council.
By the end of the discussion. all
the Council members agreed that
the City could not require Claus to
observe the set back ruling on
Third Ave.
Florcraft, Inc. Is
Now Open; Offer
Custom Flooring
Florcraft Inc., Fairbanks’ first
custom floor siiop is now open at
516 Church St., across from St.
Joseph Hospital.
The firm is owned by a corpora
tion of four well known flooring
specialists in the Fairbanks area
and is managed by A1 Vacura.
The firm handles Magee. Mohawk,
and Alexander Smith carpeting, and
keeps more than 50 samples of vari
ous patterns and colors on hand.
The firm also handles Kentile
hard surface flooding and Textilite
laminated plastics, as well as Arm
strong linoleum.
In addition to the many types of
floor covering kept on hand, the
firm will custom order any type
of covering the customer asks for.
“We expect to grow as Fairbanks
grows,” said Vacura, in talking
about the new store. He went un
to pledge that his firm will lay the
finest floors ever seen in Fairbanks
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Eskimo And Wife
Make Big Hit On
Promotion Tour
If Alaska doesn’t have one of the
greatest tourist seasons in its his
tory next summer it won't be be
cause of Chester and Helen Seveck.
The Sevecks, an Eskimo couple
From Pt. Hope who have 20 children
and 100 grandchildren, are on a
three week’s promotional tour for
Alaska throughout the United
States.
Sponsoring the tour of cities
which includes appearances in Chi
cago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh.
Washington. D.C., Miami. Atlanta.
Philadelphia. Boston and New York
City, are Wien Alaska Airlines.
Arctic Alaska Tours, and United
Airlines.
In each city the Sevecks appear
for a prearranged audience of air
line personnel, sales people, tour
agents, and radio and television
show’s.
While they were in California the
couple appeared on Art Linkletter's
House Party show and Groucho
Marx' new show “Tell It to Grou
ch o."
The Sevecks live in Pt. Hope in
the winter and in Kotzebue in the
summer.
ROMIG SERIOUSLY INJURED
Dr. Howard Romig of Anchorage
was seriously injured in an automo
bile accident near Anchorage Satur
day.
In the same accident, a 25-year
old Fort Richardson soldier, Howard
Kearns of Co. P. First Battle Group,
was fatally injured.
Dr. Romig is an old time Fair
banksan, having attended both high
school and the University of Alas
ka here.
While attending high school in
Fairbanks in 1928-29, Romig was
selected as a basketball forward on
the All-Alaska team.
Only last month Romig's brother
Robert and his wife died within the
same week.
Romig's father was an old time
Alaskan, arriving here with his wife
at the turn of the century as a
Moravian missionary. He was
known as the “Dogteam Doctor,”
and a book was written of his
Alaskan adventures.
Army Signs With
Yelloiv Cub Co.
A contract was signed Monday
between Fort Wainwright military
officials and Yellow Cab Co. presi
dent. Roger A. Moore. The one year
contract allows Yellow Cab to oper
ate a taxi service on post.
The contract established fare rates
from Wainwright to Fairbanks as
well as rates to seperate zone areas
on post.
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