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204 e "PRESENT: COUNe I LMEN BOOTH, O.WEN, HARTMAN, AND SH I SLER;, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS COLBURN,'VONDERH~IT~ ,OLSEN, BISHOP, TETE, AND ROYER; CITY MANAGER; PLANNING CONSULTANT; CITY ATTORNEY; PARK AND RECREATION SUPERINTENDENT; CITY RECORDER; MR. HINES, SUPERINTENDENT- SECRETARY OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER FOUR; MRS. RICKER, EUGENE PUBLIC SCHOOLS; MR. RINARD ANDMR.'BARNES OF THE EUGENE WATER AND ELECTRIC BOARD; MR. LASWELL AND MR. RODERI'CK OF CORNELL, HOWLAND, HAYES AND MERRYFIELD; MR. KUNG, A RESIDENT OF THE OAKWAY DISTRICT; AND MR. WYANT OF THE EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD. I I. DISCUSSION REGARDING LOCAtiON OF PtARL,STREET BETWEEN 19THAND.29TH'AvENUES - A MAP ~~ltH~INDICATED THE PROPOSED LOCATION OF PEARL STREET BETWEEN 19TH .AND 29TH AVEN~ES WAS PRESENTED TO THE COMMITTEE AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF SCHOOL DISTRICT,NuMBER fOUR FOR THEIR CONSIDERATION AND DISCUSSION. IT WAS POINTED OUT IT WAS DESIRABLE, AT THIS TIME TO DETER- MINE WHAT THE LOCATION OF PEARL STREET WOULDPOTENTIALLY BE SINCE THE EUGENE PUBLIC SCHOOLS . .'" WERE PLANNING TO: CONSTRUCT A WAREHOUSE BUILDING IN THIS AREA AND THAT IT WAS ADVANTAGEOUS TO'DETERMINE THE PROPOSED'STREET LOCATION SO THAT IT WOULD NOT CONFLICT WITH THE BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION. IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THERE IS CURRENTLY AN AGREEMENT WITH THE EUGENE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE CITY OF EUGENE THAT IF THE CITY SHOULD OPEN PEARL STREET'PRIOR TO 1965 THAT THE COST OF STREET PAVING WOULD BE BORNE BY THE CITY AND COULD NOT BE ASSESSED TO SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER FOUR, BUT IF THE STREET WERE PAVED AFTER 1965 THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRiCT, 'UNDE~ THE, TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT, WOULD BE LIABLE FOR THE ASSESSMENT FOR THE STREET PAVING."" It , THERE WAS GENERAL DISCUSSION ON THE PROPOSED LOCATION,. THE PROPRIETIES AND NECESSITY FOR LOCATING'THE STREET AT THIS TIME, AND IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT PEARL STREET BE LOCATED AS OUTLINED ON THE MAP, INDICATED ABOVE, BETWEEN 19TH AND 29TH AVENUES, PROVIDED THE SCHOOL BOARD DEEDS THE NECESSARY PROPERTY FOR, RIGHT OF WAY AND, IF THE STREET ISPAVED'OR IMPROVED BEFORE 1965, THAT THE CITYPAY THE COST OF SUCH IMPROVEMENT. I 2. PROPOSED DEOI,CATION OF EAST 25TH AVENUE BETWEEN RI VERVI EW AND AUGUSTA STREETS -" REPRESENTATIVES OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER fOUR INDICATED THAT THEY HAD PURCHASED PROPERTY TO PROVIDE A RIGHT OF WAY BETWEEN RIVERVIEWAND AUGUSTA STREETS~ WHICH STREET WOULD BE KNOWN AS EAST 25TH AVENUE AND WOULD SERVE AS A MEANS OF ACCESS TO LAUREL HILL SCHOOL. THE JOINT COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT INDICATED IT WAS APPARENTLY IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF BOTH PARTIES THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD DEED THE RIGHT OF WAY FOR ST~EET PURPOSES TO THE CITY OF EUGENE AND THAT THE CITY ACQUIRE SUCH RIGHT OF WAY FOR A STREET SY~TEM. IT WAS NOTED TMAT THE STREET WAS NOT IMPROVED AND'WOULD REQUIRE SOME GRADING AND/OR GRAVELLING UNTIL SUCH TIME AS IT WAS IMPROVED. HOWEVER, -IT WAS, INDICATED THAT WHILE THIS WOULD NOT CONFORM TO THE BASIC POLICIES WHICH THE COMMON COUNCIL HAD A~PTED THAT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR THE CITY TO KEEP THIS STREET IN A PASSABLE CONDITION. THE COMMITTEE THEREFORE RECOMMENDED THAT Ir THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL DEED SUCH STREET TO THE C+TY or EUGENE THAT THE CITY ACCEPT THE STR~ET AS PART OF ITS STREET SYSTEM. 3. DISCUSSION REGARDING THE DEDICATION Of EAST 24TH AVENUE FROM AUGUSTA STREET TO LAUREL HILL DRIVE, PROPOSED BY THE EUGENE WATER AND ELECTRIC BOARD- MR.. CLAY BARNES INDICATED THAT CITIZENS IN THE LAUREL HILL AREA HAD REQUESTED THAT THE EUGENE WATER AND ELECTRIC BOARD FURNISH WATER SERVICE TO THE AREA BUT THAT CURRENTLY THERE IS NO MEANS OF ACCE~S TO THE AREA AND THAT THE EUGENE WATER AND ELECTRIC BOARD WAS I~TERESTED IN THE POTENTIAL OPENING OF THE STREET SO THAT WATER'SERVl CE COULD BE FURN1>SHED TO THE' AREA. THE SCHOOL 01 STII CT INDICATED THAT THEY WERE INTERESTED IN SUCH A STREET ONLY IF IT WOULD PROVIDE A MEANS OF ACCESS TO THE LAUREL HILL AREA FOR BUSSES. I 'IT WAS GENERA~LY,AGREED 'TKAT THE LAUREL HI~L AR~A NEEDS AN ADDIT~ONAL WATER SU~PLY, THAT THE WATER LINE SHOULD BE RUN OVER PUBLIC RIGHT OF ~AYI AND THAT THE EUGENE WATER AND ELECTRIC BeARD IS NOT PARTICULARLY DESIROUS OF ~ONSTRUCTING A WATER MAIN THROUGH AN EASEMENT AREA BUT WOULD MUCH PREFER TO CONSTRUCT IT OVER PUBLfC RIGHT OF. WAY. e THE CITY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT INDICATED THAT THEY HAD RUN SOME PRELIMINARY ENGINEER- ING SURVEYS ON THE PROPOSED LOCATION WHICH WOULD RUN ALONG THE NORTH LINE or THE LAUREL HILL SCHOOL AREA AND WHILE SUCH SURVEYS HAD NOT BEEN .COMPLETED THAT IT WAS, HIS OPINION THAT A BET/TER ROUTE MI GHT BE FOUND TO T.HE SOUTH, LEAVI NG . THE LAUREL .HI LL' SCHOOL AREA AT ITS APPROXIMAT.E SOUTHERN BOUNDARY. IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THIS ITEM BE HELD IN COMMITTEE PENDING A DETERMINATION OF THE BEST ROUTE FOR SUCH STREET ~O FOLLOW~ 4. DISCUSSION REGARDING OPENING OF ALLEY BETWEEN PEARL AND HIGH STREETS FROM 7TH AVENUE TO THE ALLEY BETWEEN 6TH AND 7TH AVENUES -IT WAS INDrCATED THAT THIS ALLEY HAD BEEN, IN" fACT,. CLOSED ,SINCE APPROXIMATELY 1941 ALTHOUGH THE A~LEY HAD NOT BEEN VACATED AND WAS SUBJECT TO BEING REOPENED AT ANY TIME AND THAT THE CITY NOW HAD A REQUEST FROM ONE PROPERTY HOLDER THAT IT BE REOPENED. REPRESENTATIVES or THE,SCHOOL DISTRICT INDICATED T~AT'THEY WERE CONTEMPLATING AN EXTENSION OF THEIR CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING FA(ILITIES AND, IF SO, IT WOULD BE NECESSARY THAT THE ALLEY BE VACATED SO THAT SUCH ADDITIONAL FACILITIES COULD BE BUILT. I e ~