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Continued from Pagel B When told recently that the commission had just begun ad- vertising for a consultant, Carney said, "This comes as news to me. I thought they'd be well into the process by now" Further, Carney said Deis- Unger's case should remain on hold until the commission's guidelines are reviewed. 1 have no intention of the city prosecuting or pursuing anyone until we get the results from the guidelines back," Carney said. "I think it should be a matter of fast things first. As far as I'm con- cerned, we're still on a timeout," Dailey said. "I think there was not the pas- sion from the commission to move this thing along," Dailey said, when asked if he thought the commission had dropped the ball,. The MacArthur Park Historic District, a once -thriving residen- tial neighborhood in the 19th and early 20th centuries, slowly de - dined over time. Many residents moved away, and the area became plagued with crime. But new homeowners have ar- rived during the past two decades to renovate the old homes. And within the last six years, the once - vacant Kramer school has been renovated as an artists' cooper U#tle YAR Rack h_ 3F� Si — �•/ "AAr: ]L AVE �a.it: n" �I x -40 Park 5..."t;oa■.r.y Historic177y S7 sn ■ Y 16" 4 Arkansas D mocmat-GwaIL ative, and crime has dropped dra- matically, The MacArthur Park Historic District is a local ordinance his- toric district -- the only one in the city --- which gives the city more power to regulate zoning and other matters within this area. The city ordinance, comple- mented by the district's design guidelines, allows the commis- sion to review and approve ex- terior improvements to structures within the district. The neighborhood, which is also a national historic district, is considered especially important to preservationists because it con- tains almost all of the handful of antebellum homes remaining m Little Rock. Many cities with historic neighborhoods have unique zoo ing requirements for those areas, like Savannah, Ga., which is known nationally for its preser- vation efforts. But unlike Little Rock, burglar bars are acceptable there. And while the Little Rock's his- toric commission regulates some home matters — like burglar bats — it doesn't regulate additions such as items adorning front yards or porches or exterior paint colors. In other words, the vinyl sid- ing is not allowed, but a home- owner could paint his house pink with yellow polka dots if he chose. Deislinger, who is refurbish- ing an 1970s home at East 10th and Flock streets, was arrested for repeatedly refusing to take down her burglar bars and for violating other commission rules such as installing vinyl windows instead of wooden ones, and leaving an air-conditioning unit visible fmm the street. Auer a warrant for Deislinger's arrest was issued last year and she was taken to the police sta- dw and booked, some residents started questioning whether some of the rules made sense. Carney had asked that the commission take a closer look at the amendment process, viola- tions, enforcement procedures and criteria for economic hard- ship. According to Greer, there have been no other instances of prop- erty owners breaking the com- mission's rules in the past year, though he acknowledged some commission rules could be out- dated. 'There have been tremendous advances in technology and styles available," Greer, an architect, said of the restoration materials now available. Deislinger said she agreed to make her windows Look like those on a nearby house but never promised to use the same mate- rials Then Deislinger added bur- glar bars. under the commissic ds guidelines, burglar bars already Here's a new one, Arlo n elderly man who retrieves cans from his neighbors' trash to augment his very limited income is fined $50 apparently because the trash police don't think he ought to be .cutting into their recy- cling profits. An elderly woman is hauled off to the pokey and fingerprinted for failing to re- move the anti -burglary bars over her win- dows because the bars offend neighbor- hood aesthetes. This is the year 2000, not 19K and George Orwell has been dead for 50 years, but Big Brother is alive and well and living in Little Rock How many more outrages against folks who are just trying to put a little cushion between themselves and a harsh world will it take for the citizens of this struggling cap- ital city to demand more respect from their own government? I thought I'd encountered everything there was to encounter when, it comes to pettiness when I read the Voices letter about the old gentleman who augmented his limited income by collecting recyclable cans from his neighbors' refuse. The neigh- bors had given their blessings to this enter- prise; they knew of his circumstances, which for many years included caring for a spouse who ultimately died from Al- zheimer's disease. But then came Thursday's Democrat - Gazette with its front-page story of a 70-year- old woman who was arrested while attend- ing a meeting at City Mall and commanded to appear in court for the grievous crime of having offended the minions of Little Rock's downtown historic district. OI{, so I exaggerated. Betty Deislinger may be 70, but she is not elderly. She's hit- ting on all cylinders, the only exception be- ing that she no longer has the stamina of a 20-year old. She's a lady living alone in an area of Little Bock whose crime rate is al- most as historic as its architecture. . "I'm still able-bodied, but I'm not into hand-to-hand combat," she conceded. I might add that a 20-year-old would be hard-pressed to feel safe and secure in a similar environment. Indeed, I've known a few twentysomethings whose wonderful housing bargains in the area resulted in nightmarish encounters before they fled to s9er ground. I hate that in telling her story, it was deemed necessary to reveal her address. I'in not going to repeat that indiscretion. But know this: Many of the houses around Deislingefs have bars on the windows, have had for a long time, and probably alarms and assorted defensive weaponry, too, because this is not a reclaimed neigh- borhood. Residents are trying, and trying 4V hard, to reclaim it after years of de- cline, neglect and dissolution that creeping Poverty engenders, but it's not there yet: - Fortunately, it has been deemed "his- toric," so there are financial avenues and incentives available for those with the carries with it certain aesthetic and archi- tectural constraints for homeowners. This particular historic area has even more than usual because in addition to being a na- tionally designated historic district, it is a locally designated historic district- In other words, the city has given itself the power to determine what.property owners can and cannot do to grounds and structures there. Deislinger is accused of having breach- ing a city ordinance, 23-123, in several ways, among them replacing two old wooden window frames with vinyl ones and in- stalling a heating and air-conditioning unit that can be seen from the street. But it's the burglar bars that rub. Nor- mally, their removal would not required of Deislinger, because they were there when she bought the circa-1870 house in 1998. However, she made the mistake of jumping through city -imposed hoops before malting needed improvements. She got a "certifi- cate of appropriateness" from the Little. Rack Historic District Commission to re- move and repair window sashes and add storm doors. Naturally, removing the sashes required removing the burglar bars- That was Deis- linger's second mistake. The technical foul came once the work was completed and the bars were -reinstalled. Bars aren't al- lowed in this fine historic district. In the eyes of local aesthetes, the reinstallation was a new installation. Deislinger's nemesis is Anne Guthrie, the city's historic preservation administra- tor who also happens to be Deislinger's next -door neighbor. After Deislinger failed to comply with an order to remove the re- installed bars, Guthrie swore out the war- rant for her arrest, which came just over a week: ago when Deislinger attended a meeting of the Little Rock Historic -District Commission at City Hall. - She was escorted from the meeting by a police officer, who took her to LRPD HQ, where she was fingerprinted and released with a warning to appear in court this Wednesday. If "convicted," she faces a fine of any- where from $10 to $500 a day until she bruigs her home into compliance with to - cal regulations. - Arlo Guthrie (no relation to Anne) was in the news last weer£ because of a sched- uled appearance in North Arkansas. You'll recall that he built an entire career around an ill-advised -visit to a dump site to get rid of a load of Thawgiving Day garbage. I wonder what he'd make of Bad Betty and the Burglar Bars? WAS ANY BIG NICVT ON THE'9E LETTERS MENNEN Medical p I have come to the conclusion t entire medical profession has comt cause stress -related illnesses to fi bank accounts with our hard -earn! lars. It began in the 1980s and has roomed. First, the pre-cer fication pital confinement was implemente{ an amateur determines whether I low through with prescribed tre- HMOs became popular. Then the in companies began farming out their claim processing. Who owns the farm? Pharmaceutical compa- nies now advertise theirpre- scription drugs on TV. If one can't trust his or her doctor to prescribe needed medica- tion, he or she should change doctors. But wait. HMO par- ticipants are limited to doctors in t as well as how often a change can h we have billing errors by pr There are hassles over medicatioi tend with. our insurance premix: more and more and our benefits a dlingto nothing. Yet we go further ther toward socialized medicine. If we choose Al Gore's plan. ou ..:,1 L- :r:tI_—�- r :ti...] .,..►,r.n.�f h Annnouncement The Help_ Betty Deislinger Fund The city has dragged Betty Deislinger, 70, into court because she refuses to remove the burglar bars from the windows of her Quapaw Quarter home. The LR Municipal Court date is November 16th. Help Betty fight this grossly unfair city action by helping Betty defray court costs and/or mandated home modifications. Mail contributions to: Twin City Bank Attn: Bob Birch, President PO Box 16270 North Little Rock, AR 72231 Ad paid for by: Betty ❑eisltnger Fund, Jack Kinnaman, Chair Annnouncement The Help Betty L Deislinger Fund The city has dragged Betty Deislinger, 70, into court because she refuses to remove the burglar bars €ram the windows .of her Quapaw Quarter home. The LR Municipal Court date is November 16th. Help Betty fight this grossly unfair city action by helping Betty defray court costs and/or mandated home modifications. 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CL C V A to C cn v 0 co m M N O O O i �sjaw also reguuMs WaL rae prizes oe ,,pan display at the establishments, ;;h Those requirements were in ;,`keeping with the pizza chain's prto- ,,ices, but police in a number of cities around the state suspected 1 f� jury ✓i Continued from Page 1 B 'Ether defined as worldng with disabled people. Johnson said a woman in the -August retrial of Sen. Mike Bearden, `rho originally was tried with Todd =end Bell, had the same occupation 0hrid became "very emotional' when %earden cried onthe witness stand The fast trial, and Bearden's re - ended with hung juries and thus mistrials. "'f Johnson also cited a question- -4iind :answer session he'd had with 'the other black woman the previous A ay during jury selection. He said "'the woman didn't seem to under- stand the definition he gave of -fraud, and he got the impression when he saw her again Tuesday that 4e had offended her during the dis- �ussion, because she wouldn't look op. Continued from Page 1 B `4ocal architect. The Rev. Howard Gordon, pastor t'-at First Presbyterian Church in Lit ►de Rock and a city Board of Direc- tors candidate for Position 10, at '11hrge, would only confirm that the ebmmissioners voted to have Vuthrie swear out an arrest warrant "He refused to comment further. While There are other national historic districts in Little Rock, Deis- :lwger's neighborhood is also a local '.frrdinan,ce historic district — the `; Fonly one in the city -- which gives '.•Ethe city more power to regulate zon- ing and other issues in the area. Since state legislation was *ssed allowing cities to create ,such districts, seven have been cre- ' ated inrkansas. In additiono Lit - seizea o% macmnes ana *L, = in cash from the Main Street Arcade in Eudora and the Crossroads Arcade near Lake Village. Other crackdowns have occurred in Saline, Garland, Union, Benton and Pulaski counties. at him He said the first woman had also joined in that discussion. Howard denied a defense mo- tion to reverse the strikes, saying, "I think I would be indulging in specu- lation to say that race was a factor." Todd and Bell have proclaimed their innocence to accusations that they, along with former Sen. Nick Wilson and others, devised and participated in a scheme in 1996 and 1997 to defraud the state. Johnson contends that the men set up and got priority funding for a pilot program that Todd designed to provide attorneys for children in custody disputes. The program was to receive $3 million in state funds over two years for a select group of lawyers who had ties to state government John- son contends that the men intended to do very little work in exchange for the amount of money they sought tie Rock's MacArthur Park Historic District, historic districts have been estab- lished in North Little Rock, Hot Springs, Eureka Springs, Fort Smith, Van Bu- Betty Deislinger ren and Osceola. Preservation- ists say such special districts pro- tect the character of old neighbor- hoods. Some have stepped forward to defend the districts after the Deislinger dispute was reported in the Arkansas Democrat -Gazette last week On Monday night, the board of directors of the Landmarks Trust of Greater Little Rock — a local, private, nonprofit preservation group — passed a resolutiln sup - Ross, a state senator from Prescott, raised $894,827 from Jan. 1-Sept 30. About 56 percent of that — $503,279.78 — was donated by PACs and Democratic -allied cam- paign committees. During the most recent reporting period (July 1- Sept. 30) Ross raised $350,881.70, about 48 percent of which came from PACs and campaign commit- tees. Dickey of Pine Bluff, who is seeking a fifth term, raised $685,07121 during the fast nine months of the year, with all but 10 percent coming from individual donors. The rest was contributed -aby GOP -allied campaign commit- tees. The incumbent raised $341,508.50 in July, August and Sep- tember, with about 3 percent com- ing from Republican committees. Dickey campaign spokesman Jim Harris in a news release touted Dickey's refusal to accept PAC mon- ey. "As this report shows, Jay Dick- ey lives campaign finance reform by not taking PAC money," Harris said. "Jay hopes Ross will accept his challenge to stop taking PAC Lauce vi money IMm nepuRUcan- allied campaign committees from Ross' PAC contributions. Dickey contends that these committees are interested primarily in maintaining GOP control of Congress, not in ad- vancing the causes of special inter- ests, the definition of which he has said includes labor unions and oth- er PACs that support Ross. . Schultz pointed out that the campaign committees cited by Dickey accept money from the same types of PACs that give direct- ly to Ross. So while Dickey may not be getting PAC money directly, he's accepting donations from pools of money generated in part by those same PACs. Schultz uefended Ross' accep- tance of traditional PAC money. "Mike Ross does what he must to remain competitive, but won't unilaterally disarm," Schultz said. "Jay Dickey doesn't take PAC mon- ey because he doesn't have to, as evidenced by Jay Dickey's out - spending Mike Ross 2rto-1 [during July, August and September], Jay Dickey benefits from stealth PACs and pass -through PACs." Harris insisted that the real "Historic preservation is not just a `touchy feely' thing; we're not just old -house huggers. There's an economic rationale for what we believe." — Roger Williams, executive director of Landmarks TYust porting local ordinance historic districts. "There's a definite advantage to living in an historic district," said Roger Williams, executive director of Landmarks Trust. "Yes, it means we can't do certain things with our homes, but it also means our neighbors can't do things with their homes either." While Arkansas has had no studies done on the economic im- pact of historic districts, places like Columbia, S.C., have found that the market value of Voperty in their historic districts increased by 20 percent or more per year, Williams said. "Historic preservation is not just a `touchy-feely' thing; we're not just old -house huggers," he said. "There's an economic ratio- nale for what we believe." The city's dispute with Deis - linger arose after she received permission from the commission to make about $5,000 worth of im- provements on her home. If she hadn't done any work on the house, the burglar bars — in place cigarettes, anct there isn't time be- fore the election for Ross to enroll in a 12•step program." Schultz reiterated the Ross cam- paign's contention that Dickey is no one to lecture Ross about campaign finance reform. She pointed out that Dickey was one of only 37 represen- tatives who voted against a bill to re- quire interest groups registered un- der Section 527 of the Internal Rev- enue Service code to reveal their donors and how they spend their money. The bill passed the House 38537 and the Senate 92-6. President Clinton signed it into lawJuly 1. All groups established before the law was signed won't have to file a statement of organization with the IRS, but will have to dis- close campaign activities of more than $25,000 this election year. The Center for Public Integrity, a non- partisan campaign finance watch- dog group, has classified . Citizens for Better Medicare as one of the Section 527 organizations. The cen- ter dubbed the Section 527 organi- zations "black hole groups" in ref- erence to the secrecy under which they could operate before the law was signed. when she bought the house in 1998 — could have stayed. - She currently has bars on 10 windows, and she wants more. "I'd like to have bars on all of them," she said, adding that while she does have a security system, she occasionally likes to sleep with her windows open. "The security system only covers glass breakage. If someone were to cut a screen and come in, it wouldn't go off." In the four years she's been working for the city, Guthrie said there have been only two cases in which property owners in -the MacArthur Park Historic District were taken to environmental court. Both of them involved va- cant buildings deemed as unsafe because of fire hazards. Others from across the city have been cited and ordered to appear in court for violating the LiTe $1,118,131.50. Most of that — $632=.70 — was spent to secure the Democratic nomination, which he captured with his June 13 runoff victory over DewaYne Graham of Hot Springs. Ross spent the re- maining $485,894.$3 between July i and Sept 30. Ross' cumulative spending, in - eluding amounts in 19W, totals $1,193,634.80. Dickey was unopposed for the GOP nomination and from Jan. I - June 30 spent just $157,156.42, Iu just July, August and September, however, he spent $723,612.72 — bringing his total year-to-datt spending to $880,769.14. Including amounts spent in 1999, Dickey has spent $1,088,619. Including $71,443 in money left over from previous campaigns, Dickey reported 11.16 cash on hand. Ross was left with $70,%5.49 in the bank as of Sept, 30. - Excluding carryover money, Dickey has raised $1,356,731.50 since the start of his campaign, compared with .$115.50 for Ross. This amount doesn't include $15,000 in personal loans to Ross' campaign.. . Rock minimum housing code or the premise ordinance, said Jim- my Pritchett, director of the city's Department of "Housing and Neighborhoods. Violations in- clude failing to cut high grass or weeds, failing to remove aban- doned cars or graffiti'and failing to address unsafe structures. Deislinger says she's done a lot of work to preserve the home and its character, contending that her alleged violations are insignificant compared with the dilapidation Pritchett described. And though she'll walk into court alone to make this argument, she expects to have plenty of company. "I never realized I had so many friends," she said. "If half the peo- ple who said they were going to show up for the hearing really do, they're going to have a space prob- lem" � , Wednesday, November 8, 2000 Metropolitan 02000, The Dallas Moming News (3* PAO Affnin Xfk$ City to consider halting historicohome changes Swiss Avenue neighbors complain of no notice By Gromer Jeffers Jr. Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News The Dallas City Council, acting in re- sponse to a recent dispute over an addi- tion to a Swiss Avenue home, on Wednesday will consider a moratorium on alterations to the front and side fa- cades of houses within historic districts citywide. 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The motion for a moratorium is a re- sponse to the City Council's decision last month, over the objections of some preservationists, to allow David and Jean Dean to build a 400-square-foot addition that would modify the exterior of their home in the Swiss Avenue Historic Dis- trict. The addition included a closet, dressing room and exercise area. "I hope to further strengthen our his- toric preservation ordinance and give greater peace of mind to those people who live in historic districts who may feel that they are under attack by alter- ations," said City Council member Ve- letta Forsythe Lill. Rita Cox, president of Preservation Dallas, said she thought the moratorium would be an important step toward better preservation of historic homes in Dallas. "We believe that Mr. Dean's approval opened the door for a precedent that af- fected all of Dallas' historic districts," Ms. Cox said. 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