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5-9 ~ & ( e -...- -- ~..- -- - -- --.- - ._-~-- --- --_._- __________.u __ _ -- ---- -- -- - _-_--:==-:-'_~-___:_ -=--::.... _-c..:;____~-.-.;___- ,;~.;:..;,~.;.~_ -- .. . - -- .- -- - . --<- - - ![ I :1 STUDEN-TORGANI ZATI ONS' BE STUDI ED BY THE PLANNI.NG COMMISSION. MOTION CARRIED. - . , "C. ApPLICATION BY LOUIS F. BONSON F'OR REZONING BOTH SID~S OF' WILLAMETTE STREET i BETWEEN 23RD AVENUE AND 24TH PLACE F'ROM R-I TO C-3 CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT - PROPONENTS OF' REZONING INDICATED THEY DESIRED TO SE~ THE AREA ON WILLAMETTE STREET ON BOTH SIDES OF' THE STREET F'ROM 23RD AVENUE TO 24TH PLACE REZONED TO C-3CENTRAL' BUSINESS "SINCE THEIR PROPERTY IN THEIR OPINION WAS VALUELESS AT I THE PRESEN.T"n ME F'OR RE'SIDENTIAL USE. I T WAS POI NTE'D OUT 'THAT T'HI'S PARTI CULAR AREA COMPRISED A BUF'F'ER ZONE BETWEEN TWO C-3 DISTRICTS, THAT TRAF'F'IC CONGESTION ON" WI LLAMETTE STR'r-e:'T. MADE THE AREA UNDESiRABLE F'Olf RESIOE)NTI At PURPOSES- AND THAT I N THE 'OPI NI ON OF' THE' RESIDENTS THEY WERE' THE "N'N'OCENT VICTIMS' OF' THE CITY'S EXPANSIoN AND GROWTH. .. , ... ~ I T WAS I NDI CATED THAT 'PROPERlY AVAI LABLE F'OR B'USI 'NESS USE' ON WI LLAMETTE STREET WAS LIMITED ~T.lHIS TIME AND THERE WAS NEED F'OR ~DDITIONAL PROPERTY AND AN e INTEREST IN PROPERTY REQUESTED TO BE REZONED F'OR BUSINESS' USE. .. IT W~S LIKE- WISE INDICATED IF' PROPERTY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO DEVELOP INTO BUSINESS PROPERTY, . THE AREAW1LL DETERlORATE I N THE IMMEDI ATE F'UTURE AND THA.T TO' f"ORESTALL THi S DETERI ORAT! ON AND PROVI DE THE HI GHEST AND BEST USE AND PROTECT-PROPERTY VALUES, THE AREA SHOULD BE REZONED. ,. AF'TER SOME DISCU~sloN AMONG THE COUNClLMEN PRESENT ANti CON~IDERATI~N OF' THE I PLA~NING COMMISSION REPORT, WHICH RtCOMMENDED DENIAL O~ THE R~~UEST, THE COMMI TTEE RECOMMENDED THAT THE REQ'UEST BE DENI ED." - - I . . I T WAS MOVED BY MR.' WATSON' SEC'oNDED BY MR'.' EDMUNDS THAT THE' COMMI TTEE REPORT BE ADOPTED TO DENY THE REQU~ST TO REZONE BO~H SIDES OF' WILLAMETTE STREET BET~EEN 23Rb" AVENUE AND 24TH PLACE TO C~3 CENTR~L BUSINESS DISTRICT. MOTl ON CARR I ED. - "D. PETlTION BY tANE BROADCASTIN~ COMPANY F'OR REZONING AREA BETWEEN 25TH AND 26TH AVENUES FROM PORTLAND STREET EAST - THE COMMITTEE VISITED THE AREA'AND NOTED ITS SETTING IN' RELATION TOTHE'NEIGHBORHOOD) AND lN DISCUSSING THE MATTER QUESTIONED WHETHER THE REQUESTED REZONING F'ROM R~I ~ND RATO CR COMMERCI AL WAS WISE. IT WAS THEREF'ORE RECOMMENDED THAT THE REPORT OF' THE PLANNING COMMISSION DENYING' THE REZONING'BEUPHELD~" - - I T. WAS MOVED B'Y MR.- WATSON S'ECONDED BY MR. HARTMAN THAT THE COMMI TTEE REPORT BE ADOPTED DENYING THE REZONING TO CR COMMERCIAL THE AREA BETWEEN 25TH AND 26TH AVENUES F'ROM PORT- LAND STREET EAST. MOTION CARRIED~' . .. , "E. REQUEST F'OR "REZONING F'ROM C....I TO C~3P AREA BETWEEN BLAIR' BOULEVARD AND V~NBuREN STREET 160rEET NORTH AND SOUTH OF' 7TH AVENUE - A PET! Tl ON ENTERED BY FRANK C. JONES AND OTHERSF'OR ~HE REZONING OF': THE AREA BETWEEN BLAIR BOULEVARD' AND VAN BUREN STREET ~O A DE~TH OF' 160 F'EET F'ROM 7TH'AvENUE WAS CONSIDERED. BY THE COM- MI TTEE.' IT"WAS I NDlCATEl> 'THAT- THI S 'AREA I S LOCATED "ON AN A'RTERI AL STREET AND , BECAUSE OF'" THE HI GH VOLUME OF" TRAF'F'I C. I S A POTENTI AL BUSlNESS AREA, AND TH;<<T I II IF' IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO BECOME A BUSINESS AREA IT rs POSSI BlE' I T WILL BECOME A BLIGHTED AREA. OTHERS REPRESENTED INDICATED THERE WAS A SOUND BASIS F'OR NOT ALLOWING A CENTRAL BUSINESS D'ISTRICT TO DEVELOP 'A'LONG' ARTERIALS SINCE SUCH DEVELOP~ENT rENDS TO RESTRICT TRAF'F'I~ F'LOWr IT WAS LIKEWISE I NO.1 CATED THAT AT THIS TIME THE COUNCIL HAS NO CLEAR IDEA AS TO WHA' ~HE F'UTORE HOLDS F'OR WEST 6TH AND 7TH AVENUES AF'TER HIGHWAY 99 IS RE-ROUTED AND THROUGH TRAF'F'IC . NOL9NGER PASSES THROUGH THE. CITY.. ". , - e AF'TER CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION 'AND EXCHANGE OF'IDE~S, IT'WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE'REQUEST F'OR RtZONING BE DISAPPROVED, WHICH IS THE SAME ACTION AS THA' TAKEN BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION." 8 ' COMMUNICATION DATED JULY 14, 1957' F'ROM R. BRYANT, 1036 19TH AVENUE EAST, WAS PRESENTED I AND READ AS FOLLOws:' , . . "I UNDERSTAND\THERE I S A MOVE '0 CHANGE 'THE ZONI NG ON' '7TH STREET BETWEEN VAN " . BUREN' AND MONROE F'ROM C-I TO C:"3P. I I HAVE CONSIDERABLE INVESTMENT IN THIS BLOCK AND DO WANT YOU TO KNOW I AM , , VERY MUCH IN F'AVOR OF' THIS CHANGE. . . THERE .ARE, NOW SO' MANY FI LLI NG STATIONS, MOTELS, OFFICE BUILDIMGS, AND AT LEAST ONE DRIVE-IN; F'URTHERMORE, IT IS ZONED F'OR HEAVY INDUSTRIAL FARTHER 'WEST WITH MANY PLACES OF BUSINESS, AND ZONED CLOSER 'TO DOWNTOWN, THAT'THIS- I SECT I ON' I S WORTH MORE IN MY OPINION F'OR C-3P THAN F'OR RE'SIDENTIAL PURPbstS. . . I I THIN~ THE CONDITION THAT NOW EXlsTS IS ANyONE HAVING A'RESIDENCE IN THI S LOCATION' FI'NDS' IT' NOT' TOO DESIRABLE F'OR SAME, AND: WOULD GLADLY' SELL ~O THAT THEY COULD PURCHASE A RESIDENCE IN ASTR1CTLYRESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.' 'I HAVE RECENTLY MOVED'MY'PLACE OF' RESIDENCE F'ROM THIS BLOCK. IN QUESTION ON ACCOUNT OF' TH I S CONDI TI ON. . . .. ., . I, , . ... ,., . , . . .. IT IS APPARENT TO ME IF' ~HE COUNCIL HAD NO.F'UTURE ~LANS F'O~ .THIS C-3P ZONING e IT SHOULD NEVER HAD BEEN ZONED F'OR F'ILLING STATIONS, DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT~, , . ~