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~3~~~ e MITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: "PRESENT: MAYOR MCGINTY; COUNCILMEN WATSON, HARTMAN, EDMUNDS AND LINDEEN; CITY RECORDER; CITY ATTORNEY; ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT; FIRE MARSHALL; SENIOR BUILDING IN- 'SPECTOR; PLUMBING INSPECTOR; J. Ross HUGHE'S OF THE WILMAR MOTEL; RALPH KETNER OF THE BROADWAY MOTEL; MESSRS. MARLATT, GEODE, SHREVE AND CHASE. I. DISCUSSION_AND RECOMMENDATIONS IN REGARD TO SIGN CONTROL - A FIELD TRIP MAS .TAKEN IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE FACTS REGARDING THE USE OF NON-CONFORMING SIGNS BY MOTELS LOCATED ON WEST 6TH AND 7TH AVENUES. AFTER DISCUSSION ON THE SIGN AND ZONING ORDINANCES AND ~HE LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PRACTICES, THE COMMITTEE CONSIDERED APPLICATIONS FOR VARIANCES FOR THE WIL MAR MOTEL LOCATED AT 571 WEST 6TH AND BROADWAY MOTEL LOCATED AT 659 EAST BROADWAY. IT WAS RECOMMENDED ,BY THE COMMITTEE THAT THE "tWO ABOVE LISTED APPLICANTS BE GRANTED VARlANCES FOR OVERSIZE SIGNS IN A C-I ZONE AND THAT THE PLANNING COM- MISSION MAKE A STUDY OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE WITH RESPECT TO REQUIREMENTS FOR SIGNS IN A C-I ZONE, ESPECIALLY'THOSE ZONES LOCATED ON WEST 6TH 'AND 7TH AVENUES ANDON'EAST-BROADWAY. 2. DISCUSSION REGARDING THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF GAS APPLIANCES, PIPING AND APPARATUS - THE,COMMITTEE DISCUSSED THE HISTORY OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE AND THE BASIC PROBLEMS AND QUESTIONS FACING THE CITY. DURING ~HE DISCUSSION IT WAS SUGGESTED ~HAT PRO- FESSIONAL PEOPLE FAMILIAR WfTH THE GAS INDUSTRY SHOULD BE CONSULTED TO AID THE COMMITTEE .AND ~HE COUNCIL TO DETtRMtNE THE VALIDITY AND PRACTICALITY .OF ANY ORDINANCE WHICH MiGHT BE PROROSED TOR PASSAGE. To ACCOMPLISH THIS END IT ~AS SUGGESTED THAT PROFES~IONAL PEOPLE IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY, THE NATIONAL WARM AIR INSTITUTE, THE NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE UNDER- WRITERS AND OTHER SIMILAR GROUPS MIGH.T BE ASKED TO LEND PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE. THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT THE MAYOR .APPOINT A :COMMI TTEE OF PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE TO STUDY THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE AND TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION FOR 'A WARM AIR HEATING CODE TO THE'E~D THAT THE 'BEST POSSIBLE ORDINANCE ~R CODE ON GAS AND WARM AIR HEATING.MIGHT BE ADOPTED. IT WAS FURTHER RECOMMENDED THAT AN EXPENDITURE OF UP TO $250.00 BE AUTHORIZED WITH SUCH FUNDS TO COME FROM THE EMERGENCY FUND IN'ORDER THAT THE COMMITTEE MIGHT HAVE AVAILABLE SOME MONEY TO PAY THE COST OF.SUCH A STUDY. MEMBERS OF THE GAS INDUSTRY, PETROLEUM INDUSTRY, ARCHI TECTURAL SOCI.ETY, MECHANI CAL ENGI NEERSAND OTHER LI KE GROUPS WERE SUGGESTED AS POSSIBLE SOURCES OF PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE TO SECURE FOR THIS COMMI TTEE.' II IT WAS MOVED BY MR. HARTMAN SECONDED B~ MR. EDMUNDS THAT-THE REPORT OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE BE ADOPTED. ROLLCALL VOTE. ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE, THE MOTION CARRIED. 3 A REPORT OF THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MEETING 'HELD JANUARY 21, 1957 - RE: PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS ALONG CREST DRIVE AND WILLAMETTE STREET TO DUNN SCHOOL; REZONING REQUEST, E.G.WHITMORE, 3101 WILLAMETTE; REZONING REQUEST, WEST SlOE OF LI'NCOLN STREET BETWEEN 13TH AND 14TH AVENUES; PETITION FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ADAMS STREET FROM 26TH AVENUE TO WHITNEY STREET; DISCUSSION REGARD- ING PAVING OF 'THE ALLEY BETWEEN 7TH AND 8TH AVENUES FROM BLAIR BOULEVARD TO VANBuREN STREET; REQUEST FOR SIDE LINE SET BACK VARIANCE, MR. HARVEY C. KLAPSTEIN, 571. WEST 10TH; REQUEST TO CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL RESIDENCE MADE BY MR. LOUIS BONSON ON PROPERTY LOCATED AT 150 WEST 24TH PLACE; AND REQUEST BY SCHOOL DISTRICT 1504-C FOR VACATING THE SOUTH ONE-HALF OF THE NORTH-SOUTH ALLEY BETWEEN PEARL'AND HIGH STREETS AND 6TH AND 7TH AVENUES WAS SUBMITTEDAND'READ AS FOLLOWS: "PRESENT: MAYOR MCGINTY; COUNCILMEN WATSON, SHEARER, EDMUNDS, LAURIS AND LINDEEN; CITY RECORDER; CITY ENGINtER; CITY ATTORNEY; SENIO~ BUILDING INSPECTOR; ADMINI- STRATIVE ASSISTANt; CLARENCE HINESF SUPERINTENDENT-CCERK, SCHOOL DISTRICT #504-C; MR. BQNSON; DAN WYANT OF THE EUGENE REGI STER-GUARD. - I. PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS ALONG CREST DRIVE AND WILLAMETTE STREET TO DUNN SCHOOL - THE COMMITTEE VIEWED CREST DRIVE FROM WILLAMETTE TO OLIVE 'STREETAND WILLAMETTE STREET rROM CREST DRIVE To'DuNN SCHOOL. THE CITY ENGINEER EXPLAINED THAT PARENTS Or. SCHOOL CHILDREN HAD REQUESTED THAT A WALKWAY BE PROVIDED TO ALLOW CHilDREN WHO HAD TO TRAVEL THESE STREETS TO BE ABLE TO DO SO SAFELY. THE CITY ENGINEER RECOMMENDED THAT A GRAVEL WALK BE INSTALLED rROM OLIVE STREET ALONG THE SOUTH SIDE OF CREST DRIVE, AND rROMCREST DRiVE ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF WILLAMETTE TO THE ENTRANCE TO DUNN SCHOOL. IT ~AS ESTIM~TED THAT THE COST WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY $200~00. THE COMMI TTEE REC;OMMENDED THE I NSTALLATI ON AS OUTL I NED ABOVE AT THE APPROXI MATE COST OF $200.00. 2. REZONING REQUEST, E. G. WHITMORE, 3101 WILLAMETTE - THE COM~ITTEE VISITED THE LO- CATION AT WHICH MR. E. G. WHITMORE HAD REQUESTED A CHANGE IN ZONING rROM RA RESIDENTIAL ToC-2 NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL, WHICH HAD BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR DENIAL BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION. ON THE BASIS'OF THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF COMMERCIAL SITES, THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED CONCURRENCE IN THE PLANNING:COMMISSION RECOM- MENDATION TO DENY THE REQUEST. ~ r I e I I e I I r e