New BUIIDING DeveloPments...

The Marin County Planning Commission has approved a new residential development ofi Shoreline highway in the southern end of the county. Building Contractor J. E. Andreu will subdivide 20 acres there into about 80 building sites for homes under the $20'000 range. J-and was formerlv the Smith Ranch,

Directors of the Tulare Countv Fair let a $15'113 L. B. Pipes Co., Fresno, for a 7200-s<1.ft. addition to the contract to junior livestock building to be completed in time for this year's show.

The East Kern Development Co. donated a S-acre site for a $350'O00 hospital on Holt Drive in Mojave.

A new subdivision of 94 homes in the lrcart of San Francisco is announced by Saxe Realty Co. for Poppy Construction Co. View homes will be locatecl in I\{iraloma Park on Marietta Drive off Te'rsita boulevard, about 10 minutes from the City's business district. Poppy President Sherrnan Cornblum has been 'building in the Ba1' area for 15 years.

'Work starts sootl on the elementary school at Bahama avenue and I-\arw;n street in the Mt. E,den school district near f{ayward, Calif.

A $:i5,944 contract was awarded to Leon Wheatley, Inc., Palo Alto, for it and addition of two rooms to the Schafer Park school'

The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed County Government Center plans have been unveiled for its proposed site in Marin county north of San Rafael. The building's functional design blends into the seven rolling hills of the site.

"Slip" Madigan, former football great now a building contractor, is developing i housing tract in Concord, Calif. Street rt2mg5 will include Rockne avenue, Notte Dame street, Four Horsemen Lane, etc.

A bid by the Lamon Construction Co., Yuba City, of $149'950 for c'onstruction of a cafeteria building on the Placer Union High School campus was accepted by trustees.

Construction will star't in June or July on a 24x48-loot building for classrooms at the Modesto Congregational church at $12,000 cost.

The Davis, Calif., City Council has adopted the cities-countv master plan for the Davis area. Menlo Park Planning Consultant James M. Campbell is now drafting new zoning and subdivision ordinances to imPlement the Plan.

A $750,000 building will be constructed at 671 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, for the local Elks club. Plans include a 12,00Gsq' ft' banquet hall and 6,000-sq. ft. lodge room.

A new 40,000-sq. ft. building in Santa Ana was announced to house 35 local medical men at 17,th and Lincoln streets'

A $200,000 hotel on Spring street at Lake Elsinore were announced by Louis Laxer, Beverly Hills developer. Two-story project will have 36 apartmrnt units and the spa's hot mineril waters will be piped in,to each unit and swimming pool.

A $5 million shopping center project is announced for Santa Anita boulevard and Las Tunas drive in Arcadia, Calif. To be built by the M. I. T. Corp., project will also contain apartment structures'

A 55x125-foot store will be con6tructed at Market and San Fernando road in Newhall, Calif.

Construction was started on the first unit of Jordan Elementary school on Jordan near Whittier boulevard in East Whittier at $260,00O co,st. Later construction will include 12 more classrooms' Orange Coas.t College trustees approved nearly $300,@0 worth of new construction on the Co'sta Mesa campus.

The Nevada S'tate Planning Board selected Los Angeles Architects Neutra and Alexander to design a $1 million classroom for fine arts at the University of Nevada at Reno.

Gardcn Grove, California's, first year of issuing building permi'ts totaled $13,549,571. The 1957 total was 695 single-familv dwellings.

The Sonorna County Planning Commission is studying a master plan for five small cra'ft harbors costing $3,841'970, including sites it Bodega Bay, Petaluma river, Hudeman Slough near Sonoma, Jenner and Fort Ross.

The Garden Grove Elementary school district called for bids on an administration building and extensive addi'tion to the Fayelane school at $108,000 arid $137,000 cost, respectivelv.

Schematic plans and specifications for a $36,140 hobbv shop at Wayside Honor Rancho near Castiac, Calif., we're approv€d by Los Angeles Supervisors. One-story building of 48x60 feet will include tool crib, covered porch for storage of lumber and space for woodworking equipment.

Planning commissioners granted varianqe for a 48-unit motel adjacent to Fullerton Municipal Airport.

Contracts totaling $2,850,m0 were awarded to Cahill Construction Co.. San Francisco, and Williams & Burrows, Belmonl, by Goldeqr Gate Baptist Theological Seminary for the new Marin County campus at Strawberry Point, including buildings and student housing;