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e I e I ~~ . I e I e 25 26 6~ 23 1.- I THE FOLLOWING IMPROVEMENT PETITIONS WERE SUBMITTED: PAVING ALLEY BETWEEN 22ND AND 23RD AVtNUE FROM'ALDER TO KINCAID STREET - 74.87%. PAVING ALLEY BETWEEN PEARL AND HIGH STREET FROM 6TH TO ALLEY BET. 6TH & 7TH AVE _ 62.5% PAVING ALLEY BETWEEN 5TH AND 6TH AVENUE fROM CHARNELTON TO LINCOLN STREET _ 47.49%. PAVING PORTLAND STREET FROM 24TH AVENUE TO N. LINE OF FRASIER-HY~AND ADDITION _ 25.65%. PAVING 16TH AVENUE WEST FROM FRIENDLY TO VAN BUREN STREET - 36.99%. IT WAS MOVED BY BOOTH, SECONDED BY GODLOVE THAT THE PETITIONS BE REFERRED TO THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE. MOTION CARRIED. 24 PETITION BY CONSENT TO ANNEXATION WAS SUBMITTED BY MARY V. MERRILL, AND ROBERT M. D. AND MAXINE B. SCOTT. IT WAS MOVED BY BOOTH, SECONDED BY GODLOVE THAT THE PETITION BE REfERRED TO THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE. MOTION CARRIED. THE CITY ATTORNEY, IN COMMENTING ON THE PETITION TO ANNEX, POINTED OUT THAT THE ANNEXING Of PROPERTY BY ONE OR TWO LOTS WAS GENERALLY UNSATISfACTORY FOR SEVERAL REASONS !, AND RECOMMENDED THAT A DEfiNITE POLICY ON ANNEXATIONS BE ESTABLISHED. COMMUNICATION fROM E. W. GRAHAM - RE: ZONING Of PROPERTY BETWEEN TAYLOR AND POLK AND 6TH AND 7TH AVENUES WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: "I OWN THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT.SEVENTH AND TAYLOR STREETS, OF WHICH ATTACHED A DRAWING fOR YOUR CONVENIENCE. HAVE THIS PROPERTY WAS ZONED ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO IN THE CLASSifiCATION AS CENTRAL BUSINESS. IN THE PAST fOUR MONTHS, I HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATING WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CONSTRUCT A BUILDING ON PART Of THIS PROPERTY TO BE USED AS A WEST SIDE POST OfFICE. Now I UNDERSTAND THIS:PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN'THE ZONING Of THE PROPERTY BETWEEN TAYLOR AND POLK AND SIXTH AND SEVENTH STREETS. If MY PROPERTY IS INCLUDED, IT WILL COMPLETELY DISQUALifY MY BID WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. HAVE SPENT CONSIDERABLE MONEY AND TIME IN THIS MATTER AND ASK YOU TO EXCLUDE MY PROPERTY fROM THE C-3P ZONING AND LEAVE IT AS CENTRAL BUSINESS." IT WAS MOVED BY BOOTH, SECONDED BY CRUMBAKER THAT THE COMMUNICATION BE REFERRED TO THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE. MOTION CARRIED. COMMUNICATION fROM ARTHUR C. JOHNSON - RE: VARIANCE AT NORTH END OF JACKSON STREET WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS fOLLOWS: "AT THE PRESENT TIME THERE IS NO METAL PLATING PLANT OR BUSINESS IN EUGENE OR IN THE VICINITY. ALL SUCH WORK IS NECESSARILY SENT BY THE LOCAL BUSINESSMEN TO PORTLAND, AND ,NOT WITHOUT CONSIDERABLE COST AND DELAY. THE EQUIPMENT FOR SUCH AN OPERATION IS HERE, HOWEVER, AND COULD BE PLACED IN fULL OPERATION WITHIN A fEW DAYS. THIS EQUIPMENT: GENERATORS, MOTORS, RUBBER-LINED TANKS, TOOLS, ACCESSORIES, AND MATERIALS, ARE PRESENTLY STORED IN A BUILDING CONSTRUCTED AS A DAIRY BARN WITH A CONCRETE fLOOR, SEWER, AND WIRED FOR ELECTRIC POWER. ,IT 'IS LOCATED BE~OND THE NORTH END OF JACKSON STREET IN VIRTUALLY THE CENTER OF A NINE-ACRE TRACT OWNED BY MR. WILBUR HYLAND, WHICH TRACT fRONTS ON THE W1LLAMETTE RIVER. IT IS PROPOSED AND HERE REQUESTED TH~T THIS COUNCIL GRANT A TEMPORARY PERMIT OR VARIANCE FOR OPERATION Of THIS EQUIPMENT IN THIS BUILDING fOR A PERIOD NOT EXCEEDING TWO YEARS. THE ENTIRE AREA INVOLVED IS NOW ZONED AS TWO-UNIT RESIDENTIAL AND THE BARN HAS APPARENTLY BEEN A NON-CONFORMING USE. ~HE CHANGE IN USE TO A METAL PLATING PLANT WOULD NOT APPEAR TO BE A CHANGE WHICH WOULD BE PREJUDICIAL NOR OBJECTIONABLE TO SURROUNDING LAND OWNERS FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: I. THE OPERATION IS NOT NOISY, SMELLY, NOR PHYSICALLY OffENSIVE. 2. THE CLOSEST RESID~NCE WOULD APPEAR TO BE AT LEAST SEVENTY YARDS DISTANT. 3. THE' fUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS AREA IS SOMEWHAT INDEfINITE BECAUSE Of ITS PROXIMITY TO THE RAILROAD, RIVER, AND THE PROPOSED RIVER LEVEL HIGHWAY. BECAUSE Of THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT Of THIS AREA, THE PERMIT OR VARIANCE MIGHT WELL BE LIMITED, AND WE SUGGEST ffiRAT IT BE LIMITED fOR A PERIOD Of TWO YEARS. UPON THE TERMINATION Of THAT TIME, THE OPERATION WOULD BE PREPARED AND OBLIGED TO MOVE TO ANOTHER LOCATION UNLESS THE COUNCIL WOULD THEN CHOOSE TO RENEW THE PERMIT. ~