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64 e -'"7,--:,_""",-!,~L~~L~?- .,....,._--......~-' ,- ~- '-' 7"'--',-c-~- n,__-:__ '___,'.cc--,~_n"",,'__'___',..__n , , ." - -, " , - -- -. , ._ ~ r~~ -~. ~ - DIESEL MOTOR ~O '~L AT .$.1437; McKE,NZI E 0 I L CO. ON STOVE 01 L, P .5.1 00, AT' $'. IS2; - ... I" n'" I THE CENTRAL HEA.TlNG CO. ON FURNACE' OIL., P.S.2DD, AT $.144; THE CENTRAL HEATING I . I CO. FOR INDUSTRIAL OIL, P.S.300, rrRUCK AND TRAILER AT $4.49 'BBL~; AND'MANERUD- I j HUNTINGTON FUEL CO. FOR INDUSTRIAL ,OIL, P-.S.300, LESS THAN TRUCK AND T,RAILER " I AT $4.95' BBL. 11 2. REQUEST BY UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FO,R VACATION OF 14TH AVENUE ,BETWEEN EMERALD ~. , AND AGATE STREETS - BY A PREVIQUSREQUEST OF THE ~OMM1TTEE" PRESIDENT WILSON ! I OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON APPEARED BEfORE THE COMMITTEE WITH A MAP AND EX- I ! PLAINED THE UNIVERSITY'S THOUGHTS REGARDING FUTURE EXPANSION IN THE UNIVERSTTY AREA. P.RESIDENT ,WILSON POINTED. OUT THAT THE AREA IN WHICH, THE UNIVERSITY IS ! I PROPOSING EXPANS I ONI S ONE WH-I CH'HE UNDERSTOOD WAS AGREED UPON .B.ETWEEN THE ( UNIVERSITY'AND THE ,COUNCIL APPROXIMATELY 10 YEARS ,AGO. i IN THE PRESENTATION,RRESIDEN~ WILSON INDICATED THE UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN ACQUIR- I ING PROPERTY IN THE AREA WHICH IT PROPOSES FOR EXPANSION AS NEEDED OR AS AVAIL- ABLE AND THEY ARE BU'ILDING TOWARD A POTENTI.AL ENROLLMENT: ,OF BETWEE'N :"10 AND 12 _ I TH6us~~D STubENTS~ _ THE ~REAWHI~HT~EY ARE ~ON~EMPLAT1NG fOR ~NiVERSITYEXPAN- ~ I SJ,ON BOTH FOR. CLASSROOMS AS WELL AS LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS IS BOUNDED GENERALLY \ BY FRANKLIN BOULEVARD', KINCAID STREET,.ISTH AVENUEA~D MOS'S STREE'T, "AND THE I VACATION OF'14TH AVENUE BETWEEN EMERALD AND AGATE STREETS IS IN ACCORDANCE I WITH THE PROPOSED PLAN' FOR STREETS AND .BUILDING LOCATIONS WITHIN THE' AREA. ~ ., ' IT ,WAS ,INDICATED .THAT SINCE THE UNIVERSITY IS ATTEMPTING TO ACQUIRE ,A -FEDERAL 1 I GRANT FOR ,THE. CONSTRUCTION OF A DORM I T.ORY .BUILDING fOR HOUS-ING WOMEN, THE II VACATION OF ,THE STREET IS NECESSARY. IN' THE NEAR fUTURE OR AT .L,EAST THERE SHOULD BE FORMAL ASSURANCE THAT'SUCH VACATION WOULD BE FORTHCOMING TO fACILITA~EETHE I RECE I V I NG, OF THE GRANT. . -. . I THE TRAFFIC SITUATION AS IT AFFECTS THE INTE~SECTION OF ISTH, AVENUE ~AND AGATE I STREET WAS EXPLAINED AS WAS THE NECESSITY FOR THE CITY TO WORK TOWARD A BETTER I TRAFFIC .FLOW IN :THIS AREA, AND IT WAS INDICATED THAT THE CITY.WILL UNDOUBTEDLY 1 REQUIRE THE .USE ,OF' CERTA,IN UNIVERSITY HELD PROPERTIES SO THAT ISTH AVENUE MAY BE EXTENDED EAST OF AGATE STREET. IN ANSWER TO THI;S PRESIDENT, WILSON- INDICATED THAT HE CONSIDERED THE UNIVERSITY A PART OF THE COMMUNITY, THAT THEY COULD NOT BE UNf.RIENDLY TOWARD CIT.y-PROBLEMS AND WOULD ,WORK WITH THE CITY TO ATTEMPT TO ALLEVIATE THETRAf.FIC PROBLEMS AT THE .lSTH AVENUE AND AGATE STREET AREA. fOL- LOWING THIS GENERAL DISCUSSION IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE REQUESTED STREET .. ,VACATIO~ BE APPROVED. 3. DISCUSSION.REGARDING VARIANCE ,REQUEST FOR OVERSIZED SIGN IN C-I ZONE, MANOR MOTEL, 599 EAST .BROADWAY - A REQUESTED,VARIANCE BY' MANOR MOTEL WAS. BROUGHT I.' BE FORE THE COMM I TTEE WITH A DI,AGRAM OF A SIGN WH I CH WAS ,PROPOSED. ,TO BE ,ERECTED AT 599 EAST BROADWAY. THE COMMITTEE ASKED THE STATUS OF THE PLANNING COMMIS- SION REPORT ON SIGNS ,THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND WERE 'INfORMED THAT THIS REPORT I WOULD BE FORTHCOMING AT THEIR FIRST MEETING IN JANUARY. ONE REPRESENTATI,VE I OF THE COMMITTEE INDICATED SHE BELIEVED SIGNS SHOULD BE REDUCED IN SIZE SO ~ I . I THAT EVENTUA1.LY .THEY ,WOULD ALL BECOME Of.A S.MALLER S,IZE WHEN T,HE .VA.RIOUS SIGNS 1 : WERE REPLACED THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SOME DISCUSSION WAS GIVEN TO ,THE ITEM ,BUT. i SINCE THE PLANN I NG COMM I SS ION REPORT I S TO. BE fORTHCOM I NG I'N THE NEAR FUTURE, _ I I T WAS RECOMMENDED THE I TEM BE ,HELD, IN. COMM I1;TEE. FOR FURTHER STUDY. , , 'I AIRPORT COMMITTEE .'1. I. REQUEST FOR LEASE ,OF GROUND AREA' AT MAHLON-SWEET :AI RPORT FOR A I RWA Y MA I NTE,NANCE. TECHNICIAN HEADQUARTERS, CAA - A REQUEST FROM THE,C'VIL AERONAUTICS ADMINISTRA- TION FOR LEASE OF GROUND AREA AT MAHLON-SWEET AIRPORT AND FOR PERMISSION TO MOVE ... I. A BUILDING EXIST!NG ,AT 23RD .AVENUE 'AND'CI'fAMBERS STREET ,WAS PRESENTED -TO' THECOM~ ~.: , MITTEE. IT ,WAS INDICATED THAT A SIMILAR REQUEST HAD BEEN BEFORE THE 'COMMI.TTEE I IN THE SUMMER OF 1957 BUT THAT NO ACTION HAD BEEN TAKEN'ON',THE REQUEST AT .THAT" I T I ME. . T':f~_.C~A REQUESTED THAT THEY BE, ALLOWED TO LEASE AN AREA 40XSO FEET LOCAlED I EASTERLY OF THE NORTHERLY,SIDE.OF ~HE HANGAR BUILDING NOW USED BY GREEN fLYING. SERVICE AND IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO ,A:PROPOSED ACCESS ROAD IN THE AREA. lj' SOME DISCUSSION WAS HAD AMONG REPRESENTATIVES OF .THE COUNCIL AS A WHOLE AND THE I AIRPORT COMMITTEE, BUT THE ,AIRPORT COMMITTEE THOUGHT IT BEST TO PHYSICALLY I OBSERVE ,THE PROPOSED.LOCATIO~ OF THE LEASE AND IT WAS RECOMMENDED THE ITEM BE , HELD IN COMMITTEE. I I 2i COMMITTEE or THE WHOLE I. DISCUSSION OF WARD SYSTEM OF REPRESENTATION - COUNCILMAN BRIGGS INDICATED.~E HAD BEEN DOING SOME WORK ON'THE METHODS ,OF REPRESENTATION USED IN VARIOUS .CITI.ES THROUGHOUT _ THE UN /TED STATES TO DETERMINE IF THE' WARD SYSTEM OF REpRESENTATION 1-'. AS NOW USED IN EUGENE IS THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS SYSTEM OR IF COUNCILMEN MIGHT BE ELECTED ,f7ROM THE CI TY AT LARGE. IN HIS RESEARCH HE I NO I CATED THAT 76% OF THE , CITY MAN~GER CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES:HAO COUNCILME~ ELECTED Al LARGE, :THE REMA I N I NG 24% BE'I.NG APPROX IMATH Y EVENLY SPL I T BETWEEN ELECT I ON ON A ;WARD BAS I S OR NOMINATION ON A WARD BASIS AND ELECTION AT LARGE.FROM THE CITY. THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ON THIS SUBJECT, FOLLOWING WHICH IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE I - JUDICIARY.AND ,PRINTI.NG COMMITTEE~AKE A STUDY OF THE WARD SYSTEM OF REPRESENTA- 1. TION VERSUS ELECTION F"ROM THE CITY AT LARGE, AND,REPORT THEIR FINDINGS BACK',AT .- \ THEIR CONVENIENCE." ~ \ I ~J