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~ . 409 MR. LYONS STATED THAT HE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN A COMPROMISE. HE THINKS THE PROGRAM OF' WIDENING SHOULD BE F'OLLOWED THROUGH OR THE WHOLE THING LEF'T AS IT IS. I MR. STEVENSEN THINkS THAT THE SIDEWALK F'ROM A STANDPOINT OF' PROPERTY OWNERS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE STREET AND SHOULD BE 12 F'EET WIDE. :~ "":0 CON SID E R I N G T HE AMOUNT OF' AND VALUE OF' THE PROPERTY INVOLVED, MR. XING EXPLAINED THAT ~.o THREE BUILDINGS WOULD STILL HAVE AN EIGHT AND ONE HALF" F'OOT SIDEWALK EVEN WITH'A 49 F'OOT STREET AND THE RESIDENTS OF' THE TWO BLOCKS WOULD HAVE THE ADVANTAGE. A 49 F'OOT STREET WOULD BE SUF'F'ICIENT F'OR TWO-WAY TRAF'F'IC I F' THE COUNCIL SAW F'IT TO REMOVE THE ONE-WAY GRID ON WILLAMETTE. THE RE IS LITTLE CONSIDERATION OF' WILLAMETTE STREET BEING MADE A TWO-WAY I STREET AT THIS TIME. IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT AN INVESTIGATION BE MADE AS TO WHAT IT WOULD TAKE F"OR WIDENING WILLAUETTE F"ROM II TH TO 19TH AVENUE AND MAKING IT TWO-WAY, AND A REPORT MADE TO THIS GROUP AND PERHAPS A WORKABLE PLAN CAN BE AGREED UPON. AF'TER CONSIDERABLE DELIBERATION ON THE PETITION TO WIDEN WILLAMETTE STREET FROM 11TH TO 13TH AND ALSO THE PETITION OF REMONSTRAN CE AGAINST SAID WIDENING IT IS THE RECOMMENDATION OF' THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE THAT INASMUCH AS THE PETITION F'OR THIS WIDENING CONTAINED ONLY 48.31% OF' THE PROPERTY OWNERS, EXCLUSIVE OF" CITY PROPERlY WHILE THE PETITION OF' REMONSTRANCE CONTAINED 51.02% OF' THE PROPERTY OWNERS, EXCLUSIVE OF' CITY PROPERTY, AND AS NO APPARENT WORKABLE SOLUTION WAS AGREED UPON, THAT PRESENT PETITION BE F'ILED UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE PROPER SOLUTION CAN BE ARRIVED AT. - IT WAS MOVED BY HAWN, SECONDED BY DAVIS THAT THE REPORT OF' THE PUBLIC WORKS COMM I, TTEE BE ADOPTED. MOTION CARRIED. 8 A REPORT OF' THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MEETING HELD JUNE 8, 1949 WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS F'OLLOIIS: -THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE HELD A MEETING ON JUNE 8TH, 1949 WITH COUNCILME~ CRUMBAKER, WELLS AND GODLOVE, THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY ENGINEER BEING PRESENT. THEY AGAIN REVIEWED THE IMPROVEMENT OF' LINCOLN STREET FROM 23RD TO 26TH AVENUE WITH THE RECOMMENDATION THAT THE IMPROVEMENT OF' THIS STREET PROCEED AS ORIGINALLY PETITIONED, TO INCLUDE THE BLOCK FROM 25TH TO 26TH,~PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT A SANITARY SEWER BE INSTALLED IN THE BLOCK OF" 25TH TO 26TH AT THE TIME OF' EXCAVATION F'OR THE ABOVE PAVING AND IT WAS ALSO I A RECOMMENDATION THAT SAID IMPROVEMENT CONSIST OF" 34-FOOT WIDTH CONCRETE PAVING TO CONF'ORM _ITH OTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN THIS DISTRICT. (;OMMITTEE VAN NESS F'ROM 25TH TO REED AVENUE - THE RECOMMENDED THAT THIS IMPROVEMENT CONSiST OF' 26 FOOT CONCRETE PAVEMENT, REDUCING IT FROM THE REGULAR 34-FOOT WIDTH DUE TO PRESENT SIDEWALKS, EXISTING RADIUSES AND THE EXCESSIVE CUTS AND FILLS WHICH WOULD BE ENTAILED BY A WIDER STREET THAN 26-F'EET. YOUR COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT MR. LAMBERT OF' THE EUGENE EQUIPMENT COMPAN Y BE ADViSED THAT THE IMPROVEMENT OF' GRANO STREET F'ROM RAILROAD BLVD. TO CHESHIRE: BE CONTINUED INASMUCH AS THE PETITION CONTAINED 59.88% OF' THE SIGNATURES OF" PROPERTY OWNERS F'OR THE IMPROVEMENT AND THAT BIOS WERE TO BE OPENED JUNE 9, 1949, MAKING IT IMPRACTICAL TO C HAN GE THIS IMPROVE- MENT AT THIS TIME. THE VACATION OF' 26TH BETWEEN CENTRAL BLVD. AND VAN NESS WAS RECOMMENDED TO BE DENIED, DEEMING THAT SOMETIME IN THE F'UTURE THIS STREET MIGHT BE NEEDED F'OR F'UTURE DEVELOPMENT IN THIS AREA. THE COMMITTEE, AFTER F'URTHER INVESTIGATING THE REQUEST OF MR. STENSHOEL OF' 1397 LINCOLN STREET TO ENLARGE THE F'RONT OF HIS HOUSE BY A 4-F'00T ADDITION, RECOMMENDS THE APPROVAL OF THIS REQUEST BY THE CITY COUNCIL INASMUCH AS THIS WOULD STILL LEAVE A 12-FOOT SET-BACK EVEN IF THE STREET WERE WIDENED IN THE F'UTURE AS PROPOSED. THIS RECOMMENDATION IS MADE IN VIEW OF THE F'ACT THAT ANOTHER HOU SE IN THIS BLOCK IS F'ARTHER OUT THAN MR. STENSHOEL'S RESIDENCE WOULD BE AND THAT IT WOULD STILL BE A SUF'FICIENT SET-BACK. IT IS THEREF'ORE SUGGESTED THAT THE BOARD OF' ApPEALS ALSO BE ADVISED OF' THE PUBLIC WORKS' COMMITTEE OPINION AND A RESULT OF' I REFUSAL OF" THEIR DENIAL AF'F"ECTED IF' POSSIBLE. THE OBJECTIONS TO THE PAV I NG OF' THE ALLEY. BETWEEN 8TH AND 9TH, MADISON AND MONROE WERE CONSIDERED, BUT INASMUCH AS THE PETITION REQUESTING THIS IMPROVEMENT CONTAINS 64.2% OF' THE PROPERTY OWNERS, AND AF'TER LOOKING AT THE A LLE Y IT WAS DETERMINED FAVORABLE ACTION BE TAKEN TO GO AHEAD WITH THE I UP ROVEMEN T . THE COMMITTEE IN CONJUNCTION WITH COUNCILMAN SMITH AND MAYOR JOHNSON UNANIMOUSLY AGREED TO APPROVE THE 26-FOOT STREETS AS PROPOSED BY MR. HUSER IN THE ACCEPTANCE Of' WEST HILLS I ADDITION TO THE CITY OF' EUGENE. THIS RECOMMENDATION WAS MADE AF'TER THOROUGH CONSIDERATION OF ALL THE AN GL E S INVOLVED INCLUDING THE 210 ADDITIONAL HOMES WITH AN ESTIMATED VALUATION OF' A MILLION AND A HALF' TO TWO MILLION DOLLARS AND THE NEED F'OR SUCH HOMES IN THIS COMMUNITY. IT WAS UN,ANIMOUSLY DETERMINED THAT 34-F'00T STREETS AND SIDEWALKS COULD BE COMPLETED IN THE F'UTURE BUT THAT IT WOULD BE: PREF'ERABLE IF IT COULD BE DONE NOW, HOWEVER, FURTHER INVESTIGATION SHOWED THAT SUCH IMPROVEMENTS COULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN THIS HOUSING PROJECT, SO AS A FINAL ,,-'. -', .-~.~< -', ..-'--'---'-;~ - J i,"::'..:."""_~',,--.,5'-: .~ . _ .,-._. ._-c.,~., __ _._... ."