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5~(~ e -- - ---------------. -.- : I COUNCIL CHAMBER EUGENE, OREGON AUGUST 30, 1957 THE REGULAR MEETING or THE COMMON COUNCIL or THE CITY or EUGENE WAS HELD ON AU~UST 12, 1957 ADJOURNED TO AUGUST 26, 1957, AND ADJOURNED TO AUGUST 30, 1957 AT I :30 PM IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY HIS HONOR, MAYOR J. J. MCGINTY, WITH THE rOLLOWING COUNCILMEN PRESENT: MR.. WATSON, MR. SHEARER, MR. SHISLER, MR. EDMUNDS, MRS. LAURIS, MR. BRIGGS AND MR. LINDEEN. MR. HARTMAN WAS ABSENT. . -. 0 THE MINUTES or THE ADJOURNED MEETING'Or AUGUST 26, 1957, AS MAILED TO MEMBERS or THE COUN- CIL, WERE APPROVED. REPORTS Of COMMITTEES A REPORT or THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE HELD ON AUGUST 30, 1957 - RE: BOARD or ApPEALS RE- e PORT; REQUEST rOR SIDEWALKS ON 20TH AVENUE BETWEEN PATTERSON AND HILYARD STREETS; SIDEWALK CON- STRUCTION AT 1ST AVENUE AND VANBUREN STREET; WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS rOLLOWS: , ' . I "PRESENT: COUNCILMEN WATSON, SHEARER, SHISLER, EDMUNDS, LAURIS, "BRIGGS AND LINDEEN; CITYMANAGERj CITY ATTORNEY; ASSISTANT CITY RECORDER; ADMINISTRATIVE . AssiSTANT; BUILDING INSPECTOR; PLUMBING-INSPECTOR; OUTSIDE BUILDING IN- I . SPECTOR; TRA~rIC ENGINEER; DIRECTOR or PUBLIC WORKS; MR. AND MRS. THRAPP; . MR. GLASCOCK; JERRY URHAMMER,.EUGENE RE~ISTER-GUARD; JACK CRAIG, KERG. POOL I C WORKS COMMI TTEE I. BOARD or ApPEALS REPORT - THE CITY COUNCIL BY ITS ACTION ON AUGUST 26, 1957 HAD RErERRED THE WHOLE BOARD or ApPEALS REPORT TO'THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE: (A) REQUEST BY MR. DREXEL THRAPP rOR VARIANCE . IN LAND USE TO CONSTRUCT DUPLEX AT . 1405 JErrERSON STREET - IT WAS EXPLAI~tD THAT MR. THRAPP HAD SECURED A BUILD- " 1405 JErrERSON STREET. THE BUILDING DE~ ING PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT A DUPLEX AT _" .J PARTMENT LATER rOUND THAT A HOUSE ALREADY EXISTED ON THE PROPERTY AND CON- STRUCTION or A DUPLEX WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION or ZONING REGULATIONS. THE BOARD or ApPEALS RECOMMENDED THAT THE MATTER BE RErERRED TO THE CITY COUNCIL rOR THEIR ACTION. THE COMMITTEE VIEWED T~E PROJECT AND ArTER CONSIDERABLE . DISCUSSION RECOMMENDED THAT THE REQUEST BE GRANTED BECAUSE or THE SEQUENCE or EVENTS IN WHICH MR. AND MRS. THRAPP HAD PURCHASED THE PROPERTY WITH THE UNDER- STANDING rROM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT THAT THEY COULD CONSTRUCT A DUPLEX EVEN . 0 . THOUGH A ~OUSE ALREADY EXISTED ON THE PRO~ERTY, AND THAT A BUILDING PERMIT HAD BEEN ISSUED rOR CONSTRUCTION or A DUPLEX AND PARTIAL CONSTRUCTION or SAID DUPLEX WAS ACCOMPLISHED, MR. WATSON VOTIN4 NAY. (B) REQUEST rOR SET BACK VARIANCE TO CONSTRUCT GARAGE BY ROBERT HELLING AT 225 , " EAST 29TH PLACE - .THE COMMITTEE VIEWED THE AREA AND RECOMMENDED THAT THIS RE- QUEST BE GRANTED. I (C) REQUEST rOR VARIANCE rROM 25' SET BACK rOR SIGN POST AT 1633 fRANKLIN BOULE- VARD - THE COMMITTEE VIEWED THE AREA AND RECOMMENDED THAT THIS REQUEST BE - . GRANTED. .tlt~;j . . (D) REQUEST rOR'VARIANCE rROM 20' SET BACK rOR GARAGE CONSTRUCTION BY Roy STANDLEY, 2515 ONYX STREET- THE COMMITTEE VIEWED THIS PROJECT AND VOTED TO HOLD IT IN COMMITTEE rOR rURTHER STUDY. . e (E) REQUEST rOR VARIANCE rROM 20' SET BACK rOR GARAGE BY MR. HEINZELMANN, 2510 WASHINGTON STREET - THE COMMITTEE VIEWED THIS AREA AND RECOMMENDED THAT THIS . REQUEST BE GRANTED. . 2. REQUEST rOR SIDEWALKS ON 20TH AVENUE BETWEEN PATTERSON AND HILYARD S[REETS - THE COMMITTEE VIEWED THIS AREA AND RECOMMENDED THAT .SIDEWALKS BE CONSTRUCTED ON BOTH SIDES or 20TH AVENUE BETWEEN PATTERSON AND HILYARD STREETS. . 3. SIDEWALK'CONSTRUCTION AT 1ST AVENUE ANO VANBUREN STREET - THE COUNCIL BY PREVIOUS ACTION HAD VOTED TO CONSTRUCT A SIDEWALK ON THE NORTH SIDE or 1ST AVENUE NEAR . VANBUREN STREET. THE COMMITTEE VIEWED THE AREA AND RECOMMENDED THAT THE PROJECT BE CANCELLED BECAUSE or THE HEAVY iRAirlc AT THI.S POINT AND THE rACT THAT SCHOOL CHILDREN WOULD NECESSARILY HAVE TO CROSS THE STREET AT A BUSY "INTERSECTION Ir THE PROPOSED SIDEWALK WE~E USED OR ELSE GO THROUG~ PRIVATE PROPERTY:" . IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. LINDiEN THAT THE REPORf or THE PUBLIC WORKS COM- I MOTION .CARRIED: . MITTEE BE ADOPTED. . UPON MOTION DULY MADE, THE 'MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. SECONDED AND CARRIED, . . , . RESPECTrULLY SUBMITTED, . . . ~ ~ e ROBERT A. flNLAYSON CITY MANAGER D ~- .....1