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""lllllIl 347 *. .., -~. ._*- -, ..- M ___ - . ~ .__.---~ -- - -. -- ~ - . .* . - ---~ .-.-_. - -- ._~ <.. -- - --- - .... -- A request was received from N. T. Crawford asking to be allowed to leave a structure which he recently erected, having first obtained a permit, but which does I not comply with the "Set-back" ordinance. As N'Jr. Crawford is willing -to enter into .~)) a contract with the city to remove the building, if and when the street is widened, ~:.. 25- the Board recommends that his request be granted. Motion was made and seconded ~~ unanimously approving the recommendation of the Board. ~ , _,r Request was received from J. A. Morgan aSking for a permit to erect a servic station at the northeast corner of the intersection of Eleventh Avenue and Chambers Street, the exterior of the building to be covered with water-proof plywood. The Board of Appeals recommends that the request be granted if the plans are approved I by the Building Department and upon motion made and seconded the recommendation was 2t} unanimously approved. T. N. Shumway obtained a permit to erect a house at 370 Fifth Avenue West. ~fter the house was under construction, it was discovered that it di~ot comply rith the Code and th~ work was stopped. Mr. Shumway is asking to be allowed to complete the house. The.Board of Appeals recommends that he be permitted to finish Ithe house on condition that he strip the walls with. one inch by two inch strips placed sixteen inches on center vertically, and the recomrnendation was unanimously 27'iB.pproved. I A request was received from Kitty Scobert asking to have her property on ~ourth Avenue west of Blair Boulevard rezoned into a multiple family zone as she is laesirous of building two duplex residences. The Board recommends that she be granted r special permit to erect the duplexes provided she builds them on the east end of 28--iher property and the counc il unanimously approved the recommendation.. I Request was received from Harry Collins for a permit to erect a garage at ~5 N. Jefferson Street, waiVing the "set-back" on Cheshire Avenue. His request is !for a four foot "set-back". The Board of Appeals recommends that the request be 29-~enied and upon motion made and seconded the recommendation was unanimously approved. I The Union Oil Company made a request for a permit for a new service station ~t the northeast corner of the intersection, of Eleventh Avenue and Willamette Street rvaiving the "set-back" requirements. The Board recommends that the permit be granted I fPon their filing the usual contract covering the "set-back" and motion was made 30 end duly seconded approving the recommendation of the Board of Appeals. II Request was received from Marie Tinker for a permit to convert her house at ~34 Fifteenth Avenue East into an apartment. The Board of Appeals is holding this ( 3l~~equest for further information. II . Request was received from Ivan Ware asking for a permit to erect a new ~ouse on Lot 11, Alpha Addition, with a "set-back" of ten feet. The Board recommends fhat the request be granted and upon motion the recommendation of the Board was 32' nanimously approved. I A statement of sewerage charges billed and oollected for the month of June, i940 was presented from the Eugene Water Board and ordered placed on file. Report 33'from the Eugene Library was presented for the month of June and ordered placed on fil . 1 Speoial request for permission to store 4000 gallons of gasoline in the under . round storage tanks at their proposed new service station at 11th and Willamette Streets was presented from ~ 'Union Oil Company. This is 500 gallons over the Waximum allowed by the city~an~otion was made, seconded, and unanimously approved 34'that the request be granted. II The following curb cut applications were presented: No. _766' for Edward J. pillespie~ No. 768 for J. O. Eanes; No. 769 for Owen A. Thompson; No. 770 for H. A. I . v v ,......, I ~oore;~No. 772 for Roald Hanson; No. 773 for Ed Plant and No. 774 for T. H. Garrett. ~he City Engineer recommended that the foregoing applications be granted and motion ras made and seconded approving the recommendation. An application was presented from the Towne MarketVat 166 East 11th for a 12 foot curb cut (No. 765) and it was th ~ecommendation of the City Engineer that this cut be denied because it is a traffic hazard. Councilman Reid stated he felt the cut should be approved and referred to ~he Firestone station having a curb cut almost half a block in length. Engineer Clubb said that if the cut were granted it would very definitely cause a traffic hazard in entering and leaving across the sidewalk and the sharp turns necessary I ~o get between moving vehicles. It was the consensus opinion of the council that ~he curb cuts should be decreased instead of increased. Upon motion made and ~econded the recommendation of the City Engineer to deny the cut was unanimously ~ppr6ved. Curb cut applications were presented from the Union Oil Company No. 771, ~nd the Texas Company/No. 767, with the recommendation that the cuts be referred fO the Street Committee and the City Engineer with power to act. The recommendations ~ere unanimously approved. #The City Engineer was then instructed to prepare and ~ring to the next c'ouncil meeting a diagram showing proper markings to reduce the 351~ount of curb cut space now in use by the Firestone Station and it was so ~rdered." I An ordinance amending Ordinance No. 4846 was presented to the counc~l for ats first reading, and passed to its second and third readings by title under suspen- ~ion of the rules by unanimous consent of the council and placed f f' II ' " ./ or ~nal pas sage. .....