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Developer Proposes Low-Income Housing in Dover TOMS RIVER A Trenton develoDer is David Harris and Associates. the figure is eight years old, a report to the committee on the project said. For David Harris and Associates to qualify for low-interest financing from the state Housing Finance Agency, the committee must pass a resolution saying that it feels there is a need for the low-income housing, Carluccio said. The committee also has to pass a resolution saying It supports the the proposal, but this doesn't mean the committee will give any financial help to the project, the lawyer said. The committee must give the project a property tax abatement, Carluccio said.

Under the tax abatement, David Harris and Associates gives the township 6.28 percent of the total rent collected in place of the property taxes. The township keeps all this money and doesn't have to give some to any other governmental agency, like Ocean County, which collects property taxes, Carluccio said. asking the Dover Township Committeclor help in building low-income housing here. David Harris and Associates wants to build a 150-unit apartment complex on the west side of Highland Parkway for low-income senior citizens. The company wants to put a 120-unitj apartment project for other persons with loW incomes across Highland Parkway by Colfax Street.

Persons who couldn't afford to pay the rents would get federal rent subsidies. The committee decided to meet with a church group considering building a senior citizen housing project, before agreeing to back the proposal by David Harris and Associates. The law allows a profit-making company, like David Harris and Associates, to build and manage low- and moderate-income housing and get an 8 percent return on Investment, said Daniel J. Carluccio, attorney for The senior citizen project would pay a year and the other project would pay $42,500 a year to the township under this arrangement, Carluccio said. The township actually would be getting more money from this arrangement than it would if it got the property taxes, Carluccio said.

With a municipal tax rate of 45 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, a property would have to be assessed at more than $20 million to return $98,336 to the township in municipal purposes taxes, the lawyer said. The senior citizen housing project is to be a six-story building with 150 apartments for senior citizens and one apartment for the resident manager on an 8.5-acre tract. The developer would need a variance from the 50-foot height limit in the zoning code because the apartment would be 54 or 56 feet high, Carluccio said. A variance also would be needed because the building would have six stories when the zoning code only permits four-story buildings, the lawyer said. The location for the apartment is well-suited for senior citizens who don't have cars because it is withing walking distance of stores, offices and public transportation in the downtown area, Carluccio said.

The other project is to be located on a nine-acre tract on the east side of Highland Parkway by Colfax Street and would have 120 units in three-story garden apartments and two-story town houses. The Department of Housing and Urban Development says a two-member household with a combined income of $9,300 is considered low-income. Persons living in the projects who couldn't afford to pay the full rent would qualify for rent subsidies from HUD. HUD sets the rents at levels it considers fair market prices, and tenants who can't pay that would have to put aside 25 percent of their annual income toward rent. HUD would pay the rest of the rent.

The Interfaith Housing Coalition of Dover Township, which is made up of members of Temple B'nai Israel, St. Andrew's United Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church of Toms River, wants to build low-income, senior citizen housing. The coalition hasn't selected a site yet or asked for assistance from the committee yet, said Frederick Rothwarf, the coalition chairman. Because the committee has had no experience with tax abatements, Township Attorney Raymond Hayser suggested the committee meet with both groups before making any decision about whether to help David Harris and Associates with its project. By having a private company build the housing, the township wouldn't have to create a municipal housing authority to build low-income housing.

A private company usually can build projects quicker than a housing authority because the private company usually gets the funds needed to plan the project and the down payment for the financing easier than a housing authority, Carluccio said. A private company also can screen tenants so it doesn't get tenants who will cause trouble or damage apartments, Carluccio said. Since 1967, David Harris and Associates has been involved in 17 housing projects in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. There is a need for low-income housing in the township, Carluccio said. The 1970 U.S.

Census said there are 8,570 senior citizens living here and that should be considered a conservative estimate because No date night. was set for the meeting last 5 Section B- AaA ifS Ocean County General News AA Asbury Park Press Thurs. Deo. 14, 1B78 1 -v i I A Fighting Fear Kept Eagleswood Skipper Busy as Boat Sank I i Is 1 il "I'm surprised she held together," he said. "At least I know she's well-built." The salvage job got complicated when the towing bit at the bow of the boat broke.

The Coast Guard tried to put a line around the cabin, but it snagged on a stem cleat and they were forced to tow the boat backward for about three and a half hours, DiDaniele said. Matters got worse when the Linda Marie rolled onto her side, and eventually turned upside down. "I thought for sure the cabin was going to go at that point," he said. The Linda Marie, formerly named Snoopy, was built nine years ago in the West Creek boatyard of Gus Brinkly. DiDaniele spent much of yesterday trying to determine what actually caused the near-fatal accident.

"I'm still trying to figure out what it was," he said. "I know I hit something, because there's a small chunk out of the bow." He said he originally thought the bow had sprung a plank, but it turned out that wasn't the case. The obstruction may have knocked the rudder post loose, and allowed water to come into the stern lazarette that way. he said. Although his boat is safe in a yard now, DiDaniele's problems are far from over.

"They say they can have her back in the water and running in a week," he said, "but I don't know if I'll be able to do it until I talk to the insurance company. "I've got $7,000 worth of fishing gear sitting there all in a ball, I'm not even sure how much of it I have left yet," he said. The boat's diesel engine will have to be rebuilt, along with its generator. The engine job alone is about $5,000, he said. The accident cost the Linda Marie all her electronic gear, including radar, two Loran navigation sets, several radios and an automatic pilot.

What gear wasn't destroyed by water may have simply dropped off the vessel when she turned over. By Press Staff Writer MONTAUK, N.Y. With his newly purchased fishing boat sinking under him, Capt. Desiderio DiDaniele's biggest problem was fighting his own panic and keeping his crew calm. "It was a scary experience," he recalled yesterday.

"I was pretty busy trying to keep my cool and not show any panic. "That was the biggest hassle I had, but nobody panicked or got scared," he said. "I figured that if I showed fear it could have panicked them, too." DiDaniele. 150 Main West Creek, Eagleswood Township, N.J., his brother David, of Brant Beach, Long Beach Township, N.J., and Patrick Gosline, Surf City, N.J., spent about three hours Monday morning trying to keep ahead of the water that started filling the 52-foot Linda Marie after it struck an underwater obstruction about 80 miles southeast of here. "When it got to the point that the scuppers were under water I knew we wouldn't be able to keep up with it," he said.

"We tried plugging them with rags, but the sea popped them out." At that point DiDaniele radioed the Coast Guard for assistance and took to a life raft. He said the three hours he and his crew spent in the raft weren't too bad, since the seas were moderate and It wasn't too cold. They were plucked from the sea by a Coast Guard helicopter that brought them bark to its base at Cape Cod Air Station, Mass. "It wasn't too bad until we had to go into the water to get into the basket from the helicopter," DiDaniele said. "Then it really got cold." The Linda Marie, awash to the gunwales, was towed here yesterday by the 205-foot Coast Guard cutter Cherokee.

The boat was hauled out of the water at a local shipyard and DiDaniele hopes to have her bark at work before long. Tim McCarthy Abury Park Pmi John Shintay of Toms River holds up the finished product. At right, Mike Man-gum, a staff naturalist, demonstrates how to make grave blankets. The department has scheduled another free wreath-making class p.m. today at the academy building.

Those attending should bring their own wire cutters, scissors, glue and other items to trim wreaths. The department will supply the evergreens, pine cones, frames and wires. WREATH WORK Evergreen branches, pine cones and holly leaves abounded yesterday afternoon at a wreath-making class sponsored by the Ocean County Parks and Recreation Department. The class was held in the Ocean County police academy building, Rockefeller Park, Route 88, Lakewood. Upper left, Muriel Davis (Iff) of Brick Township gets some help from Carla Liguorl, a staff artist with the parks and recreation department.

Lower left, Carbon Filter Short-Lived Witness Says Chemicals Cause Odors TOMS RIVER A representative from industrial filter manufacturer testified ao every summer but had to give it up this past year. Michael Gritzuk, executive director of the authority, was expected to be the first witness when the trial resumed this morning. yesterday that odors around the Woodland Drive pumping station in Brick Township were of a chemical nature not normally associated with sewage. Frank Pittsburgh, manager of the air treatment section of the Calgon Corp. there, also said a carbon filter that normally has a life of from one to three years lasted only six weeks after being Installed at the plant.

Boss) was the first witness called by the Ocean County Utilities Authority in the trial to determine who is responsible for odors coming from the authority's pumping station on Woodland Drive. Two lawsuits are being tried at the same time. In one, Brick Township is suing the authority, saying it is responsible for the odors. In the other case, the authority and the township are suing Fluid Packaging Lakewood, which the authority claims Is putting chemicals Into the sewerage system that cause odors the authority can't eliminate. Superior Court Judge Henry H.

Wiley, who Is hearing the case without a Jury, He said his company has Installed about 100 of the carbon scrubbers at various locations throughout the country in pumping stations but he never saw one that became so saturated so quickly it couldn't absorb any more odors. That pumping station takes the flow from Fluid Packaging and Peter Wegener, lawyer for the company, questioned him extensively about the type of odor at the pumping station. Bossi will undergo further questioning Jan. 2 after Wegener has a chance to take depositions from him. His name was entered as a witness after the trial began and Wiley said that although he would allow the testimony, Wegener must have a chance to take depositions.

Albert Neuhaus, who owns a store across the street from the Hooper Avenue facility, testified there were times the odor became so bad Ihey had to vacate the premises. His brother, Herman, who said he has no connection with the business, said "I almost passed out last summer in front of my brother's store." Herman said he smelled the odor seven days a week and added the odor is always there "like a dead He said he used to have a tomato garden Hooper Avenue and Mantoloking Road, also in Brick Township. Woods argued that Albert Neuhaus, chief witness for the township about odors at the Hooper Avenue pumping station, admitted the odors have abated since Oct. 1. Neuhaus complained strongly about odors before a carbon filter (known as a scrubber) was insulted.

The only witness who said the odors still were present was Herman Neuhaus, Pine Drive, who said he lives about five blocks from the pumping station and still smells odors. In dismissing the complaint having to do with the Hooper Avenue facility, Wiley said it was evident odors had been abated there and If they return, the township could sign new complaints. Boss! said the two times he visited the Woodland Avenue facility, he noticed a heavy chemical odor of a kind not normally associated with sewage. When the carbon scrubber was Installed, it took care of the odors for about three weeks. He said 5,000 pounds of carbon was Installed in the scrubber.

He said normally that amount would last from one to three years but six weeks later it was so saturated, it had to be changed. Al-A -i A'A AA A A 'i" anted a motion by authority lawyer Rich-d Woods dismissing Brick Township com plaints against another pumping station at Middle School Student Suspended On Charges of Selling Marijuana he When the student returns to school, BRICK TOWNSHIP A 13-year-old student at the Lake Riviera Middle School has been suspended on charges of selling marijuana In the school. The Board of Education last night approved the three-month suspension, which took effect Nov. 15, a day after the boy allegedly sold marijuana to one student and tried to make a sale to another student. "We don't want it In the school," Board President Norman Schue said.

The disciplinary action is the second the board has taken this school year as a result of student Involvement with drugs. In October, the board expelled a high school student In what was considered the most drastic action yet In enforcing the district's drug and alcoholic beverage policy. The student also was charged with selling marijuana. Board members said last night they would have preferred to place the middle school student on a longer suspension, and board member Thomas D'Ambola said he would have supported expelling the boy. D'Ambola explained later, however, that the board attorney advised that the state has overturned expulsions when it affects so young a student.

School superintendent Louis Aragona explained that the boy's age did make a difference In the board's decision, but he warned high school students that the results possibly will be "greater and more severe" for them. The board made Its decision to suspend the boy following a hearing Dec. 6. According to the board's resolution, the Student will receive "adequate" homehound instruction. The board recommended that he attend the Brick Township Outreach Center.

will receive additional counseling. The board also approved a resolution urging Assemblymen Daniel F. Newman and John P. Doyle, both D-Ocean, to support or sponsor legislation raising the drinking age to 21 years of age. The board commended a state Senate bill which would raise the age to 19, but said 18-and 19-year-old students provide alcohol to younger students.

In other business, the board appointed Simon Lleherman, Ocean Township, as clerk of the works to oversee construction of the new high school at an annual salary of The board also agreed to create the position of exterminator and maintenance repairman. The salary range for the Job will be from $9,466 to $13,651. Aibury Park Prrts sions of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," plans to open Robert Morse's Beacon Manor Star Dinner Theater next month at the Beacon Manor, Ocean Avenue, Point Pleasant Beach. The venture, designed for benefit performances, will combine the talents of local actors and major stars. CHRISTMAS CHEER Danielle Autenrieth (left), 7.

and Nicole Colon (center), 6, both Point Pleasant, are all smiles as they pose with stage and film actor Robert Morse last night at a children's Christmas party sponsored by the Point Pleasant Rotary Club. Morse, best known for his performances in the stage and screen ver.