18 Friday, January 23, 1981 Caricatures for your party By SAM FIELD call 399-1320 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Orthodox Jews to Continue 1-696 Freeway Opposition (Continued from Page 1) "In our community, we are particularly con- cerned about the effect of six years of heavy con- struction, noise levels on the thousands of elderly and the many school children in the immediate area. The Federation Apartments and Beth Yehudah Schools will be within feet of the pro- posed freeway." The parties affected by VIDEOTAPING Parties Weddings Real Estate Wills Children Speeches Screenings PROFESSIONAL QUALITY kid) Contact Barry Minowitz 552-9013 vicleocraft, inc. the freeway have 30 days to appeal the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Rabbi Freedman said the Jewish institutions in the Ten Mile-Greenfield area will now make an assess- ment. "Should we continue the process of objecting? Should we consider a law- suit? We have to consider all the possibilities," he said. "We have to react to how the new Reagan Adminis- tration reacts to this deci- sion." Rabbi Freedman said the freeway extension is the most expensive single highway construction proj- ect ever proposed in the U.S. He. said the $330 million cost could double or triple with inflation. "I think the Stockman people are going to look at it. It may be a juicy place to wield their scalpel." (Former Michigan Rep. David Stockman is the new director of President Reagan's Office of Man- agement and Budget and has promised deep cuts in federal spending to balance the U.S. budget.) "If they did everything as proposed overnight," the rabbi said, "the free- way might be an im- provement for the area. But you have six years of heavy construction that could ruin the Jewish community." Concentrated in a four square mile area centered LAST 7 DAYS OF za . Moving west from Woodward Avenue, the pro- posed 1-696 freeway link-up will follow Ten Mile Road to Gardner in Oak Park, and then move west and northwest within a few feet of Cong. Bnai Moshe in Oak Park to Yeshivath Beth Yehudah in Southfield, on Lincoln Rd. (10 1/2 Mile). Shown above, looking northeast from Ten Mile, are, from left, Young Israel of Greenfield, the Morris Branch of the Jewish Com- munity Center and the Federation Apartments. The freeway right-of-way will be just north of these build- ings. at Ten Mile and Greenfield tions contained in this and bounded by Nine Mile, memorandum and the at- 11 Mile, Southfield and tachments" pertaining to Coolidge are 19 synagogues the Orthodox Jewish (15 Orthodox), 10 kosher community's concerns butcher shops, 10 Jewish and to other community bakeries, two Jewish day concerns. schools, five afternoon Those concerns and schools, a Jewish Center changes would add an esti- and two post-graduate level mated $30-$40 million to rabbinical colleges. the freeway costs for the The, area also has 15 section between 10 Mile and major apartment complexes Gardner in Oak Park, and with more than 3,000 units, Lincoln and Fairfax in mainly serving elderly Southfield. These "mitiga- Jews. There are an esti- tions" include 160 units of mated 7,000 Orthodox Jews replacement housing, in- in the area. clusion of a Greenfield The Jewish organizations Road. interchange, noise used these statistics to con- abatement, three large vince the Michigan De- decks covering the freeway partment of Transportation /for pedestrian access of and the Federal Highway Jews walking to the extensive Administration to sponsor a synagogues, an om- study of their concerns. landscaping, Those concerns and the budsman to work with the study by Dr. Harry Jewish community and Perlstadt of the Sociology Department at Michigan State University helped to convince Goldschmidt to sign the Environmental Impact Statement with specific conditions. Goldschmidt, who is Jewish and the former mayor of Portland, Ore., stated in signing the EIS that his decision is "spec- ifically based on the per- formance of the condi- elimination of service -drives for this stretch of the freeway. 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