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<br />COUNCIL BILL No. 4636 - RE: VACATING 15TH AVENUE FROM WEST BOUNDARY or HAYES STREET WEST TO ii
<br />UNIVERSITY or OREGON PROPERTY LIJ':'E, EXCEPT FOR ALLEYWAY, WAS SUBMITTED AND READ THE rlRST TIME IN FULL. Ii
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<br />COMMUNICATION DATED MAY 25, 1959 rROM RETAIL MERCHANTS DIVISION or THE EUGENE CHAMBER OF COM-
<br />MERCE REQUESTING STREET CLOSURE rOR CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCE WAS PRESENTED AND READ AS rOLLOWS:
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<br />"REQUEST IS BEING MADE BY THE EUGENE RETAIL MERCHANTS DIVISION or THE
<br />CHAMBER or COMMERCE rOR COUNCIL APPROVAL or CLOSING or CERTAIN DOWNTOWN
<br />STREETS DURING THE MONTH or AUGUST, THIS YEAR, FOR STAGING OF SOME KINO or
<br />CENTENN I AL PROGRA M FOR EUGENE. DETA I LS or SUCH A PROGRAM HAVE NOT BEEN
<br />rlNALLY DETERMINED, PENDING KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR COUNCIL'S WILLINGNESS TO
<br />APPROVE STREET CLOSURES FOR THIS LIMITED PERIOD OF TIME.
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<br />CLOSING or BROADWAY STREET rROM PEARL TO CHARNELTON, AND W,LLAMETTE
<br />STREET rROM SEVENTH TO ELEVENTH STREETS IS THE FIRST CHOICE REQUEST or THE
<br />RETAIL MERCHANTS DIVISION. '
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<br />ALTERNATE CHOICES ARE:
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<br />(A) CLOSING OF BROADWAY FROM OLIVE TO OAK STREETS AND CLOSING
<br />or WILLAMETTE FROM 8TH TO 10TH STREETS, OR
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<br />(B) CLOSING BROADWAY rROM PEARL TO CHARNEL TON AND WILLAMETTE
<br />FROM 8TH TO 10TH, OR
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<br />(C) CLOSING BROADWAY ALONE rROM PEARL TO CHARNEL TON STREETS.
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<br />STUDY IS BEING GIVEN TO PRESENTING A VARIED CENTENNIAL PROGRAM DURING
<br />THE MONTH OF AUGUST, INCLUDING NOTE:or THE LANE COUNTY FAIR, DEDICATION OF
<br />THE NEW COURTHOUSE BUILDING AND AREA, THE EMERALD EMPIRE RODEO, AND PERHAPS
<br />OTHER TIMELY EVENTS.
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<br />IT IS PROPOSED THAT THE CLOSED STREET AREAS WOULD BE DIVERTED TO A
<br />PEDESTRIAN MALL USE, WITH APPROPRIATE STREET AND STORE DECORATIONS STRESSING
<br />THE 1959 CENTENNIAL THEME.
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<br />BErORE PROCEEDING rURTHER, AND BErORE DETERMINING FULL SCOPE OF SUCH
<br />CELEBRATION, THE RETAIL MERCHANTS DIVISION WILL APPRECIATE AN EXPRESSION
<br />rROM YOUR BODY."
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<br />MR. ART KLINE, CHAIRMAN or THE RETAIL MERCHANTS DIVISION or THE EUGENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
<br />APPEARED BErORE THE COUNCIL TO ENLARGE UPON THE IDEAS STATED IN THE COMMUNICATION. HE INDICATED THAT
<br />BASICALLY THIS IDEA ORIGINATED WITH THE MERCHANTS ON BROADWAY AND A SURVEY HAD BEEN TAKEN AMONG SOME
<br />33 MERCHANTS WHOSE BUSINESSES rACE BROADWAY AND ONLY TWO OBJECTED. WITH RESPECT TO THE CLOSURE or
<br />WILLAMETTE STREET, NO SURVEY WAS MADE SINCE THOSE MERCHANTS ON WILLAMETTE STREET HAD JUST RECENTLY
<br />INDICATED AN INTEREST IN THE PROGRAM.
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<br />THE COUNCIL ALSO HEARD EXPRESSIONS rROM MR. CHARLES HOWARO, CHAIRMAN or THE LANE COUNTY CEN-
<br />TENNIAL COMMITTEE, AND rROM MR. HOWARD BurORD, PLANNING CONSULTANT, ON THIS SUBJECT. THESE' EXPRES-
<br />SIONS INDICATED A LARGE AMOUNT OF PLANNING AND WORK MUST GO INTO THIS PROGRAM Ir IT IS TO BE SUC-
<br />CEssrUL. MR. KLINE ALSO INDICATED THERE HAD BEEN NO COMPLETE DETERMINATION or THE LENGTH or TIME
<br />SUCH DISPLAYS WOULD BE HAD BUT THEIR REQUEST ASKED rOR THE MONTH or AUGUST WHICH WOULD BE THE MAXIMUM
<br />TIME, AND HE rELT THE MINIMUM TIME WOULD BE A PERIOD OF AT LEAST TWO WEEKS.
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<br />IT WAS MOVED BY MR. WILSON SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT THE COUNCIL GRANT A CLOSURE OF BROADWAY
<br />rROM PEARL TO CHARNELTON STREET AND WILLAMETTE STREET FROM 7TH TO 11TH AVENUE rOR THE MONTH OF
<br />AUGUST 1959. MOTION CARRIED.
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<br />ORDINANCES
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<br />COUNCILMAN_McGArrEY WAS ABSENT FROM THE MEETING.
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<br />COUNCILM~N WILSON LErT~THE MEETING AT THIS POINT.
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<br />IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE BILL BE READ THE SECOND TIME BY
<br />COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT or THE COUNCIL. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND THE
<br />BILL WAS READ THE SECOND TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY.
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<br />IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE RULES BE SUSPENDED AND THE BILL BE
<br />READ THE THIRD TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF THE COUNCIL. MOTION CAR-
<br />RIED UNANIMOUSLY AND THE BILL WAS READ THE THIRD TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY.
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<br />IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE BILL BE APPROVED AND GIVEN rlNAL
<br />PASSAGE. ROLLCALL VOTE. ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE, MR. SWANSON ABSTAINING, THE BILL WAS
<br />DECLARED PASSED AND NUMBERED 11507.
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