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Afte Imm Vinyl W m Institute A Division of The Society of The Plastics Industry, Inc. May 18, 1990 TO: Vinyl Institute Pipe Resource Organization RE: Good News From Chicago!! As the enclosed article notes, the Chicago City Council approved May 16 a change to the city's building code that will allow for the use of PVC pipe in drain, waste and vent (DWV) applications in residential construction three stories or less. The proposal, which was approved 29-12, had been approved by the Council's Building Committee earlier this month. cc: R.T. Gottesman ^dju^ucJUUM.j Meredith N. Scheck Assistant Director CTL029308 Wayne Interchange Plaza II 155 Route 46 West Wayne, NJ 07470 (201) 890-9299 Fax # (201) 890-7029 trib S9 pleyctf victory bee -.05 1. .' White Sox 4, Orioles 2 Braves 4, Cubs 0 Senate 'A'--, i OKs ne family leave bill OKd The Illinois Senate OKs a family leave bill that would require companies to allow workers 8 weeks of unpaid leave for child birth or family illness. Sec. 2, pg. 1. First Chicago debit card First Chicago offers a combination debit and automatic teller card tied to Its cus tomers' checking accounts. In Business. Gty bends on use of plastic pipe Unlikely combos .Beyond nouvelle > fs a. where our most ad venturous chefs are headed when mix ing unique tastes. In Food Guide. By Robert Davis and John Kass The modified use of plastic phmhtog pipe in residential hous. mg. of three stories or *-- -m proved Wednesday by the Ghiragn City Council after a more than' decade-long fight by union officials and labor-mendly aldermen, who claimed the material is dangerous and substandard. Manic Chicago was the last mgjor U.S. city to prohibit plastic pipe for morels Aid. Thomas Cullenoo (38th), who has been the most vocal .,Prwoior crop of morels * dn't dampen frits of these inpld hunters. In Food Guide. opponent of plastic pipe in home, construction since it was proposed by former Mayor Jane Byrne, continued his fight to the end, describing the lest-expensive plastic pipe as "garbage," Baker in Moscow for arms talk Attacking the asteroids An asteroid heads for Earth. Nations team. up against It The planet Is saved. No, not a movie plot--an idea for a plan. Page 5. $70 billion for El Germany Leaders of West German states approve a $70 billion investment In East Germany as a prelude to unification. Page 13. capable of giving ofT toxic fumes in a fire. But allies of Mayor Richard Daley and some normally hostile minority aldermen who believe the use of plasticwould reduce home costs m their housing-abort wards joined forces for a 29-12 vote to change the city's building code. The end of the long battle in cluded some compromise with U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 5 (left) and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard i Madigan out to Speaker seeks to keep accoi Shawnee's tangled woods Environmentalists. are pitted against the government over timber cutting In the Shawnee National Forest In Tempo. Overnight : Picture-perfect dinner A Monet-like dinner serves 2s a fundrais er for the Art Institute's junior museum, and local singer Denise Tomasello shows she's a cabaret old hand. Pace 26. the unions, who had a close po litical relationship with Daley's father, Mayor Richard J. Daley.. Under the ordinance, which opponents say will cost plumbers jobs and money plastic pipe would be allowed in non-com mercial housing of three floors or less for waste and drain water, but not incoming water pipes. In addition, Daley forces dropped a companion plan to allow the use of less-costly, Roma-coated electrical conduit instead of metal-covered wiring. Romes is a plasticlike product that has been opposed by unions See Pipe, p*. 22 By Thomas Hardy Chicago Tribune SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) has enlisted the aid of the Illinois Bar .Association as part of a move to orchestrate a court challenge aimed a: keeping the so-called Tax Accountability Amendment eff the November ballot. Opponents of the politically sensitive referendum measure, which if passed bv voters *ould require a three-fifths majority vote by the General Assembly to raise taxes, are e; suit sometime thi lenging the const the proposed amc state constitution. Although that valves only' state t as set Weds showdown in the local p.-operry tax The Senate, in tory for Republica al candidate Jim E ted hts proposal increases m prop: at 5 percent or Ut tion. chevir is CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Thursday. Part ly cloudy, chance for afternoon snowers; CTL029309 high near 66 degrees. Thursday night: Bush pushes Nicaragua, PanamClearing: low near -3 Friday: Partly doudy, m:<d; high near 55. T'-e national II -I * .-l * P A M * AA ^ ir. a Marietta motal since its two- eight-month L'.S. tour. Pipe Continued from page 1 on safety and quality grounds. The council action put in place the third pan of a Daley package to revamp the building code. The creation of a building code en forcement bureau and another measure requiring that landlords of buildings with tour units or less register with the city were passed last month. In the long-running pipe contro versy, ByrneTs attempt to relax die city code failed after plumbing and clcctrical-contractors union offi cials launched a publicity cam paign condemning the use of plas tic, even though most other major cities and Chicago suburbs had al lowed it for years. Another attempt to relax the building code came under the Harold Washington administration and, at one point, was approved by the councils Buildings Com mittee. However, when the measure reached the. full council, it was sent back to committee by some of Washington's allies and re mained dormant until Daley took office. Although DaJey and others con tend the use of plastic will encour age low-cost housing construction, Cullenon remained unconvinced. "This is another effort by the etroltum industry to break the uilding code in Chicago," he said Wednesday. Cullcrton claimed the substitu tion of plastic pipe for cast iron or copper would only save about 5600 in a $60,000 home. Other aldermen, however, cheered the vole. "I'm not for catering to the unions. The unions be damned," said Aid. Anna Langford (16th), who declared the need for iow-cost housing development in her South Side ward was more important chan the demands of unions. In an attempt to mock those who said plastic piping is unsafe. Aid. Ed Smith (2$tn) brought in a cardboard box of plastic objects, including condiment bottles, toothpaste tubes and syrup and or ange juice containers,'that he said were household fixtures that are not subject to safety bans. Cullenon countered that Smith's display was "garbage'' and that plastic plumbing pipe falls into the same category. The council also approved an agreement under which the histor ic Harris and Selwyn Theaters in the Nonh Loop would be turned over to the Goodman Theatre in an effort to revitalize the down town entertainment district. The two theaters, which were re named the Michael Todd and the Cinestage in the late 1950s, showed movies until they were closed in the 1980s. In announcing the agreement with the theater property owners. Aid. Edward Bunce (14th) noted that actress Elizabeth Taylor, owner of the site, has retained the air rights over the property and could conceivably construct a high-rise over the theaters. In other council action; Daley introduced an ordi nance that would set aside at least 2 percent of the street parking spaces in the downtown area for disabled motorists as part of a plan to increase access for the dis abled. The council also passed a resolu tion urging the Chicago Board of Education to guarantee that all public school facilities be made more accessible to persons with handicaps. The mayor introduced an or dinance that would set up a special staging area on Waveland Avenue near Wrigley Field to allow buses to load and unload di rectly at the ballpark. There would a $40 fee to use the area, Daley said. Buses not needing direct access to the ballpark would be allowed to load and unload without a special fee at a more distant site on Irving Park Hoad. The proposal it another move to placate residents of the Wrigleyvills neighborhood, who have re peatedly complained about traffic congestion in their community during Cubs games. Daley introduced his first seven selections for the new Board of Education. The mayor has promised to name the remaining eight nominees later this year. They all must be approved by the council before they can replace the interim board. Daley used his appointment Eower to fill a vacancy on the oard of the Chicago Community Trust, naming his brother William to the charitable foundation. I ob Evans is the place to go to on San B Sunday mornings. Folks from all ovt for'out famous breakfasts. You can eec eggs, sausage and hot biscuits. Or, if CTL029310 Wel Visit us a- Rinrnrpr