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~12 9 A COMMUNICATION FROM MR. H. l. PARMENTER, OWNER OF THE CASCADE MOTOR COMPANY - RE: GRID TRAFFIC SYSTEM WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: "'tr ' ii EFFECT OF ..... '~i' "I AM WRITING AS YOU REQUESTED, REGARDING THE EFFECT THE GRID TRAFFIC SYSTEM HAS HAD UPON THE OPERATION OF OUR BUSINESS. I ~/Ii:. - ,,; ',~i~;. c;..? ....... THE GRID IDEA, AND THE WAY IT OPERATES, REMINDS ME OF THE POLITICIAN WHO WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO DO HIS COUNTRY' FOR SOMETHING. {'v LAST APRIL I PURCHASED PROPERTY AT 10TH AND HIGH STREETS WITH EVERY ASSURANCE THAT IT WOULD BE ONE OF THE BETTER BUSINESS PROPERTIES AND THAT ALON~ WITH WIDENING HIGH STREET IT WOULD DEFINITELY REMAIN TWO WAY TRAFFIC. I TO-DAY WITH THE GRID TRAFFIC SYSTEM WHICH HAS BEEN IMPOSED UPON THE PEOPLE OF EUGENE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT, THE VALUE OF MY PROPERTY IS NIL AND ABSOLUTELY MUST BE ELIMINATED AS A PART OF OUR OPERATION AT CASCADE MOTOR COMPANY. WE ARE NOT FINANCIALLY ABLE TO ABSORB A LOSS OF THIS MAGNITUDE AND J DDN"T THINK ANY OTHER BUSINESS COULD OR WOULD. WE HAVE DISCUSSED THIS SYSTEM WITH MANY PEOPLE AND IN ALMOST EVERY INSTANCE THEY DESCRIBE IT AS UNWORKABLE AND UNSATISFACTORY. IT IS NOT THE ANSWER TO OUR PROBLEM. MORE TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND PROPER TIMING WOULD DO A MUCH BETTER JOB. IF YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME ONE WAY STREETS WHY NOT HAVE THEM ALL RUNNING THE SAME DIRECTION AND ELIMINATE THE STREETS RUNNING EAST AND WEST, SOUTH OF SEVENTH. THIS SITUATION IS SERIOUS AND I THINK WE SHOULD BE ADVISED IMMEDIATELY TO WHAT EXTENT THIS IMPOSITION WILL BE CONTINUED." IT WAS MOVED BY DAVIS, SECONDED BY ALLEN THAT THE COMMUNICATION BE RECEIVED AND PLACED-ON FILE. MOTION CARRIED. 10 A COMMUNICATION FROM MR. J. P. RUBLE - RE: ALLEY OPENING BETWEEN 7TH AND 8TH FROM WEST END OF HALLOCK"S ADDITION TO GARFIELD WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: "ON FEBRUARY 12, 1945, THE CITY OF EUGENE BY ORDINANCE NO. 8833 INSTITUTED AN"ALLEY OPENING PROCEDURE BETWEEN SEVENTH AVENUE AND-EIGHTH AVENUE FROM-THE WEST LINE OF HALLOCK~S ADDITION TO GARFIELO-STREET. THE WEST 192.92 FEET ~F THIS ALLEY CROSS THE LAND WHICH AT THAT TIME WAS OWNED BY fRANK AND SARAH SEAL. BETWEEN THAT DATE AND THE DATE THE ENGINEER FILED ,HIS REPORT, fRANK AND SARAH SEAL CONVEYED THiS PROPERTY TO ROBERT H. WILLS, WHO IN TURN CONVEYED THE PROPERTY TO THE VALLEY LAND AND WAREHOUSE COMPANY, A CORPORATION ,IN WHICH MR. WILLS OWNS ALL BUT QUALIFYING SHARES OF STOCK. I NEITHER MR. WILLS OR THE VALLEY LAND AND WAREHOUSE COMPANY RECEIVED ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE OR CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE OF THE PROCEEDING BY THE COUNCIL FOR THE REASON THAT THE ENGINEER'S REPORT SHOWED fRANK AND SARAH SEAL AS THE OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY, AS DID THE VARIOUS PUBLI- CATIONS UP UNTIL THE PUBLICATION REQUIRED BY SECTION VI OF THE CHARTER, WHICH PUBLICATION APPEARS NOT TO HAVE BEEN MADE AT ALL~ THE RESULT OF THE CITY M~ILING AND PUBLISHING NOTICES' IN THE NAME OF fRANK AND SARAH SEAL AFTER THE PROPERTY HAD BEEN CONVEYED TO MR. WILLS, AND ITS APPARENT FAILURE TO PUBLISH THE NOTICE REQUIRED BY SECTION VI, DEPR~VED MR. WILLS OF THE OPPORTUNITY OF ATTENDING THE HEARINGS AND FILING OBJECTIONS TO THE DAMAGE AWARDS AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAL TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE TIME LIMITED BY THE CITY CHARTER. THE CITY COMPLETED ITS PROCEDURE AND RECORDED ITS RESOLUTION AND PLAT WITH'THE COUNTY CLERK ON DECEMBER 21, 1945. HOWEVER, MR. WILLS, ALTHOUGH CHARGED WITH CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE FROM THIS DATE, DID NOT HAVE ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXISTENCE OF THIS ALLEY UNTIL ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO, WHEN WORKMEN APPEARED ON THE PREMISES STATING THAT THE CITY HAD THIS ALLEY AND THAT THEY WERE GOING TO LAY A SEWER LINE. IN THE MEANTIME, 'MR. WILLS AND HIS COMPANY, BELIEVING THEIR PROPERTY'EXTENDED TO THE STREET, HAD BUILT A BUILDING, HARD-SURFACED THE LAND AND HAVE SPENT IN EXCESS OF #50,000.00 ON IMPROVEMENTS AND EQUIPMENT FOR A MACHINERY AND HEAVY EQUIPMENT REPAIR AND DEALERSHIP BUSINESS. THE PROPOSED ALLEY CROSSES THEIR LAND APPROXIMATELY 30 FEET SOUTH, PARALLEL TO THE HIGH- WAY, AND THE SOUTH LINE OF THE ALLEY, AS WE UNDERSTAND, IS ABOUT THREE FEET FROM THE FRONT DOOR OF THEIR BUILDING. I REFERENCE TO THE PLAT OF THIS PARTICULAR SECTION OF EUGENE PREPARED BY THE CITY ENGINEER, IDENTIFIED AS fiLE NO. 18-597, REVEALS THAT SEVENTH AVENUE WIOENS FROM APPROXiMATELY 100 FEET IN WIDTH TO APPROXiMATELY 300 FEET IN wIOTH DIRECTLY IN FRONT O~ THE WILL'S PROPERTY SO THAT THE PROPERTY EAST OF HIS HAS USE FOR THIS PROPOSED ALLEY, AND ACCESS TO SEVENTH AVENUE FROM THE ALLEY BY WAY OF A CROSS-CONNECTING STREET APPROXiMATELY 400 FEET EAST OF THE WILLS' PROPERTY. THE ONLY PURPOSE TO BE SERVED BY AN ALLEY ACROSS THE WILLS" PROPERTY WOULD BE FOR SEWER AND TRANSMiSSION LINES, FOR WHICH AN EASEMENT WILL BE GLADLY GIVEN TO THE CITY WITHOuT COST, FEELING CONFIDENT THAT THERE WOULD BE NO OCCASION AND THAT THE CITY WOULD NOT SET POLES AT INCONVENIENT POINTS, SUCH AS IN FRONT.OF THEIR DOOR. I ~