Page 2-B-Friday, September 5, 1980- The Michigan Daily CONT ROVERSY SURR OUNDS ADULT BOOKSTORE Zoning law challenged By TOM MIRGA Attorneys for the Danish News, a controversial and currently-closed adult bookstore located at 209 N. Fourth Ave., will seek the dismissal of city zoning, building, and sign code violation charges against the business in the state's 15th District Court on Sep- tember 26, according to City Attorney Bruce Laidlaw. The legal maneuvering, he added, has temporarily shelved a case before the Washtenaw County Circuit Court aimed at determining the legitimacy of the city's two-year-old anti-por- nography zoning ordinance. "ONCE THE DISTRICT court matter to dismiss the code violation charges is over," Laidlaw predicted, "the case (to determine the legitimacy of the zoning ordinance) will crank back up." The ordinance, which was approved by city council in February 1978 by a slim 6-5 margin, prohibits the establishment of adult entertainment businesses within 700 feet of residential districts. But the Danish News opened its doors April 17 in a residential area, under a permit allowing for a "movie arcade." The opening enraged a sizable number of area residents and merchants. SUBSEQUENTLY, CITY ad- ministrators instructed Laidlaw to file suit against the owners of Danish News and the landlord of the building housing the business. On May 30, Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Henry Conlin ordered the bookstore not to sell pornographic materials, an order the store's owners defied. Danish News spokespersons claimed Conlin's injunction was unclear and did not stop the business from operating because it only required the bookstore' to remove'certain items from its shelves. Furthermore, the spokesper- sons claimed, the zoning ordinance was unconstitutional because it violated the owners' First Amendment right of free speech. On June 18, Conlin amended his original injunction to prohibit the operation of any business at the Danish News location. The bookstore closed the following day. According to Laidlaw, Danish News attorneys appealed to the state Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court to review the Conlin injunction barring the bookstore's operation. Both judicial bodies refused the at- torney's requests, he said. Laidlaw also said the bookstore's at- torneys have indicated to him their in- tention of taking the matter to the federal district court level on a civil rights violation charge, but added he has had no further word on the matter. Bookstore attorneys were unavailable for comment. Privately eyeing a private eye privately eyeing a safecracker i then the world's going cta* It happened to secretaries first. 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Thus ended one of the more in- teresting adventures of Joe Booth, a 60- year-old private investigator from New Hudson, Michigan, who has been in the detective business for 24 years. Booth is one of 300 private eyes in the state who offer their services to suspicious See EYEING, Page 8 A MAN ENTERS Danish News recently. The adult bookstore fire for allegedly breaking zoning laws. Study shows fewer people per apartment. Dily Photo has been under By JOYCE FRIEDEN Although there are more apartments in Ann Arbor than ever before, fewer people are living in each of them, ac- cording to statistics in a survey conduc- ted jointly by the city's plapning and community development departments which was released this summer. Planning Department Information Manager Fred Bohl said the survey consisted of questionnaires mailed to 3,093 city residents chosen through a scientific method known as "stratified random sample." . "PRIMARILY, WE wanted to find out what.kind of people live in this town," Bohl said. He added that other sources of data of this type are poor-for example, the results of the 1980 census won't be available until 1982, so the Planning Department must rely on the 1970 census for demographic data. "There is much underutilization of housing," Bohl said. "Many people are living by themselves in dwellings that were built to house two people." Bohl cited population statistics to ex- plain the situation. "We estimate that the population has increased by only 7,000 since 1970 . . . We've built 7,000 apartments (for more than one person) since them, yet people are still saying: there's not enough housing." I THE REPORT SHOWED Ann Arbor as experiencing an increase in the number of one- and two-bedroom dwellings and an increase in the Con- sumer Price Index (an important fac- tor in measuring inflation) of 107.9 per, cent over the past tep years, which was slightly higher than the national in- crease of 105.8 per cent over the same period. The size of the average household is decreasing, according to the report. The 1980 survey showed that 63.2 per cent of the city's households ha populations of two or fewer, while 1970 census figures gave a figure of 53.7 per, cent. Bohl cited the nation's increasing See CITY, Page 5 kk x RECORDIN-NG TAPESBTF AT SPECIAL MEMOREX PRICES x o MEMOREX MEMOREX 3-PA K C BO BAGS... .2 FOR THE 8.51 " PRICE OF 112...... $4.27 7-l t<