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. ~ 49 ~.~_._,_. ---~- ~-------.~----..---- - - ....... - --- -- -... . .. - I~ F. Wentworth, Treas. A. Carlisle & Co. Oregon Machinery Go. The Pacific Telephone & Tel. Co. Eugene Printing Co._ Carlson & Hatton Inc. Eugene Water Board Eugene Planing Mill Eugene Goncrete Pipe Co. Lane Auto Go. Natron Printing Go. Hendershott's ~ Store Haskell's Feed & Grocery Store ~ $ 37.40 6.50 37.25 15.80 56.20 22.87 44.30 15.35 16.29 3.00 19.25 1.75 19.36 Ludford's Paint Shop S. B. Finegan Eugene Vulcanizing Works The Folmer Graflex Corp. Paul Moo re Applewhite Tranfer Co. $ 21.65 441.54 69.69 3.40 26.25 2.00 ~ ~ .' Mr. Large also recommended that the City purchase from Smith, Camp & Co. $15,000 City of Eugene 5% Sewer Bonds, dated September 1,1912, due September 1, 1942, at 105.37 and interest at which price they will yield 4.40% to maturity. Motolon was made, seconded, and carried instructing the City Treasurer to purchase sai d bonds. Councilman Large also recommended for the Finance Comittee that they have personally inspected the various properties affected and recommended that the Recorder be instructed to bid in all of the properties recently advertised in fore- closure proceedings in the Circuit Court in order to protect the City's liens. A motion was made, seconded, and carried to adopt the recommendation. I Councilman Large also reported a trip to the Legislature, accompanied by the Recorder, in the interest of a ~l9,000 appropriation to cover assessments for improvements at the University of Oregon, and that the bill had been passed and ,approved by the Governor. ' Chairman Hendershott of the Fire and Water Committee reported that there wa a duplication of street lights at Ninth and Tenth Streets on Charnel ton Street, and recommended that these be done away with and that lights be installed at Park and Oak Streets and 8th and Oak Streets. The recommendation was on motion adopted. The Committee also called attention to a dark section in the rear of the Bible University gymnasium, and while not recommending a light on private prOperty, suggested that steps be taken to corre-ct this condition. The matter was referl"ed to the Ci ty Recorder. Chairman Lamb of the Street Committee recommended that it would be to the advantage of the City to own a portable concrete mixer, arid on motion it was order- ed that Street Supt. LeVan investigate mixers and prices and report back to the COWlcil. I I I . I " The monthl~ reports of the Police Department and the Building Inspector, R. W. Rundlett, for February, were read and filed. The following resolution of the Planning Committee regarding the setback prinCiple and particularly advocating an ordinance to setback the buildings on Eleventh Avenue to a distance of seven feet from property line was referred to the Street Committee: n Whereas, in the judgment of the Eugene Planning Commission, the application of the setback principle on arterial highways and in residential districts is to I the financial interest of abutting property owners, and Whereas, the application of the setback principle is also conducive to civic art, serves the public convenience, and safeguards the public money, public health and publi c safe ty , ae It Therefore Resolved, by the Planning Commission of Eugene, Oregon, that the prinCiple of the setback be earnestly ~commended, to the property owners of 'Eugene to be secured by them through petitions to the CornIDon'Counoil and ordinanoes providing for the said setbacks and the establishing of buildi~g lines; and BE IT FURTH:E;R RESOLVED, by the Eugene Planning Commission, that the Ci ty Council of Eugene be urged forthwith to adopt a setback ordinanoe for Eleventh Avenue and its extension through Franklin Boulevard, said ordinance to provide that henceforth any and all buildings to be erected on said avenue and its extension in . '....