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~ ~l :30 e 5/23/60 27TH AVENUE FROM OLIVE TO LINCOLN. IT WAS INDICATED THAT REQUESTS HAD BEEN MADE NOT TO I PAVE 27TH BETWEEN CHARNEL TON ANO LINCOLN, ANO FOLLOWING SONE OlseUSSION AND THE PRESENTA- ~ TION OF THE MAP, THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDEO TO PROCEED WITH THE PAVING OF 26TH AVENUE FROM CHARNEL TON TO LINCOLN; OLIVE STREET FROM 26TH AVENUE TO SOUTH BOUNDARY OF FRASIER~HYLAND ADDITION; AND 26TH AVENUE fROM ALLEY BETWEEN OLIVE AND McMILLAN STREETS TO OLIVE STREET. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY~ IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT ITEM 4 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE ,APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. , , i II I I I I I il II II 2 :1 !I i! II II l' II i,\ ii il i I I I I I , 5. SPECIFIC DAY OF WEEK fOR COMMfTTEE MEETING -FOLLOWING SOME SMALL DISCUSSION IT WAS RECOM- MENDED THAT COMMITTEE MEETINGS BE SET FOR THURSDAY NOON ON.A PERMANENT BASIS. MOTION CAR- RIED, MR. MOLHOLM VOTING NAY. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT ITEM 5 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED, MR. MOLHOLM VOTING NAY. 6. PUBLIC WORKS RECOMMENDATION ON WIDTH OF PAVING. 11TH AVENUE FROM CHAMBERS TO GARFIELD A MEMORANDUM FROM THE DIRECTOR Of PUBLIC WORKS CONCERNING THIS SUBJECT WAS PRESENTED TO THE COMMITTEE IN WHICH IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THIS STREET ,BE PAVED TO A WIDTH OF 42'. THE LETTER FURTHER STATED THAT WHILE THIS SECTION OF ROADWAY WAS CLASSIFIED AS A ,STATE SECONDARY HIGHWAY IT WAS PROP-OSED THAT PAVING BE TO A WIDTH OF 48', BUT SINCE THIS CLASSI- F.ICATION DOES NOT NOW EXIST AND BECAUSE IT IS SERVING.AS A ONE-WAY STREET, PAVtNG BEYOND A WIDTH OF 42' WOULD BE UNWARRANTED. THE LETTER FURTHER STATED THAT IF THE STREET .WERE TO BE PAVED A STORM SEWER WOULD BE REQUIRED fROM GRANT TO GARFIELD AT AN APPROXIMATE EX- PENDITURE OF $4000 WHICH IS IN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1960-61. e I SOME CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION WAS HELD ON THIS PROJECT WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE PROPER WIDTH OF THE STREET. FOLLOWING THIS DISCUSSION IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT 11TH A~NUE FROM CHAMBERS TO GARFIELD BE PAVED TO A WIDTH OF 48' WITH THE EXTRA WIDTH COST BEYOND.42' TO BE PAID BY THE CITY Of EUGENE. MOTION CARRIED, MESSRS. SHEARER, MOLHOLM, WILSON AND MCGAFFEY VOTING AYE, AND MR. SWANSON VOTING NAY. A REPORT FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION DATED MAY 23, 1960 WAS ALSO PRESENTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: I. THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT HAS RECOMMENDED 42 FEET IN LIEU OF THE 48 FOOT RECOMMENDEO BY THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. Ii I' j' '! ii II I I: ;! t: l! II "AT THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE EUGENE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION MAY 23, 1960, THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDS TO THE COUNCIL THAT THE PAVING ON 11TH AVENUE fROM CHAMBERS STREET TO GARfiELD STREET.BE ESTABLISHED AS 42 fOOT WIDTH, THIS RECOMMENDATION IS GIVEN fOR THE FOLLOWI NG REASCH S: 2. ALTHOUGH 11TH 'AVENUE IS CURRENTLY A ONE-WAY STREET, PLANS WOULD INDICATE THAT THIS STREET WILL EVENTUALLY BE RETURNED TO A TWO-WAY TRAFFIC WAY WHEN A MA~OR EAST-WEST TRAFfiC CARRIER IS ESTABLISHED IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF THE AMAZON SLOUGH. I, i; I ~ I 3. WHEREAS A 48 fOOT PAVEMENT WOULD SERVE THREE MOVING LANES WITH ONE-WAY TRAFFIC, IN VIEW OF THE LONG RANGE PLAN OF RETURNING 11TH AVENUE TO A TWO-WAY STREET 11TH AVENUE MUST BECOME. EITHER A 2-LANE OR A-LANE TRAFFIC WAY. Two LANES CAN BE ADEQUATELY ACCOMMODATED ON 42 FEET. FOUR LANES CAN BE ACCOMMODATED ON 48 FEET IF PARKING IS REMOV~D,-BUT If PARKING IS RE- TAINED THE PAVEMENT WIDTH SHOULD BE NOT LESS THAN 60 FEET AND PREfERABLY 64 FEET." IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT ITEM 6 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED, MR. SWANSON VOTING NAY. e 3 7. PAVING AND SANITARY SEWER PETITIONS: A. PAVING 24TH AVENUE FROM GARFIELD TO ARTHUR STREET; ARTHUR STREET FROM BETWEEN 23RD AND 24TH AVENtiES TO 24TH AVENUE; AND 24TH. AVENUE FROM ARTHUR TO CLEVELAND - IT WAS STATED THE FIRST STREET IN THIS GROUP CARRIED A IOO~ PETITION AND THE LATTER TWO, AN 82.6~ PETITION. THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED SUCH PAVING BE DONE AND THE NECESSARY ORDINANCES INITIATING THE PROJECT PASSED. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSL.Y. . 4 B. PAVING MONROE STREET FROM 25TH TO, 26TH AVENUE - A PETITION CONTA~IIN.lNG SIG~ATURES ()F OWNERS OF 6.7~ OF THE PROPERTY WHICH WOULD BE ASSESSED WAS PRESENTED, AND, THE COM- MITTEE RECOMMENDED DENIAL OF. THE PETITION FOR TH.IS PAVING. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. i I il 5 II II II il II \1 .1 ~\\ IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT ITEMS 7A AND7B OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE AP- PROVED. MOTION CARRIED. I ji t.: ,I I C. PAVING ONYX STREET FROM 29TH PLACE TO 30TH AVENUE - A 50~ PETITION WAS PRESENTED TO THE COMMITTEE AND IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE PETITION BE APPROVED AND NECESSARY ORDINANCES INITIATING THE PRO~ECT PASSED. MOTION CARRIED, MR. MOLHOLM ABSTAINING. " L II I; Ii 'I I, I, :,1 e IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT ITEM 7C OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT B~ APPROVED! MOT I.ON CARR I ED.