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r364" 3/28/60 12. PETITION FOR SANITARY SEWER IN THE AREA BETWEEN fAIRMOUNT BOULEVARD AND SKYLINE BOULEVARD AND BETWEEN VICTORIA HEIGHTS AND HENDRICKS PARK - THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS INDICATED BY LETTER THAT THIS PARTICULAR SEWER HAD BEEN UP fOR CONSIDERATION BEFORE, BUT HAD NOT BEEN CONSTRUCTED BECAUSE IT HAD .NOT BEEN POSSIBLE PRIOR TO THIS TIME TO OBTAIN THE NECESSARY RIGHTS-OF-WAY. BASED ON AN EXISTING PETITION IT NOW APPEARS IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO DESIGN A SEWER LINE TO SERVE THE AREA EXTENDING UP ROSE LANE, WHICH IS NOT NOW SERVED BY CITY SEWERS, BUT ALONG WHICH A MAJORITY Of THE HOUSES 'HAVE PR'~ATE LINES RUNNING INTO THE 'fAIRMOUNT BOULEVARD SEWER. THESE PEOPLE, HOWEVER, HAVE NOT BEEN ASSESSED FOR A 'SEWER LINE AND IF A NEW SEWER IS CONSTRUCTED AN ASSESSMENT WOULD BE MADE. THE LETTER OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS STATED HE HAD HAD SOME PROTESTS FROM INDIVIDUALS ALONG ROSE LANE, BUT IN HIS BELIEF A SEWER WOULD EVENTUALLY HAVE TO BE CONSTRUtTED TO DEVELOP THE PROPERTY IN THIS AREA. IT WAS FURTHER INDICATED THAT I~ THE OPINION OF THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT THE SYSTEM to- WHICH SUCH A SEWER LINE WOULD CONNECT IS ADEQUATE TO RECEiVE THE PROPOSED ADDITION, AND IN THE OPINION OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS SUCH PETITION SHOULD BE GRANTED SUBJECT TO SECURING THE NECESSARY EASEMENTS AS DETERMINED BY THE tI NAL DES I GN. I T WAS FURTHER I NO I CATED THERE ARE A NUMBER OF HOME S fTES I N THE AREA AND THAT SEPTIC TANKS ARE NOT BEING ALLOWED IN THE AREA AT THE PRESENT TIME. THE COMMITTEE RECOM- MENDED THAT A SEWER LINE BE CONSTRUCTED TO THE AREA SUBJECT TO THE SECURING Of 'EASEMENTS BY THE PUBLIC WORKS,DEPARTMENT. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT ITEM 12 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. 2 13. DISCUSSION CONCERNING AREAS WITHIN CITY LIMITS OF EUGENE AND WILLAMALANE PARK DISTRICT - A MAP SHOWING AN AREA Of DUAL TAXATION Of AREAS WITHIN THE CITY OF EUGENE AND ALSO WITHIN THE WILLAMALANE PARK DISTRICT AS WELL AS AN AREA IN THE CITY OF EUGENE, THE WILLAMALANE PARK Dls- TRIC AND THE GLENWOOD WATER DISTRICT WAS EXPLAINED TO THE COMMITTEE. IT WAS INDICATE 0 THE ASSESSED VALUE OF T~IS WHOLE ~REA IS APPROXIMATELY $94,000, AND WITH RELATION TO THE WILLAMA- ' LANE PARK DISTRICT, THIS IS APPROXIMATELY 1/2 OF 1% OF THE TOTAL ASSESSED VALUATION Of THE PARK DISTRICT. SINCE THE PARK DISTRICT HAS AN EXISTING OUTSTANDING BONDED DEBT, THERE ARE THREE WAYS iN WHICH THIS SITUATION CAN BE RESOLVED, (I) THE CITY TO PAY THE BONDED DEBiT ON A PROPORTIONATE BASIS, (2) LET THE PEOPLE PAY THE TAX TO RETIRE THE BONDED DEBT AND INTEREST BUT NO TAX FOR OPERATION, AND (3) TO LET THE AREA 'CONTINUE TO PAY fULL TAX TO BOTH THE CITY AND PARK DISTRIC~. IT WAS INDICATED THAT BASED ON A STUDY, THE TOTAL BONDED DEBT OF THE WILLAMA- ~ANE PARK DISTR~CT IS $338,000 AND THE PROPORTIONATE SHARE FOR THIS AREA WOULD BE $82B. THE COMMITTEE GAVE SOME CONSIDERATION TO'THIS AND RECOMMENDED THAT THE CITY ASSUME THE PROPORTION OF THE DEBT AND SEVER THE WHOLE OF THE AREA IN THE CITY OF EUGENE FROM OTHER JURISDICTIONS. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. .. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT ITEM 13 Of THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. 31 14. REQUEST BY McDONALD CANDY COMPANY FOR VACATION OF RAILROAD AND UTILITY EASEMENT ON SOUTH SIDE . -Of LOT 3, AND 75' Of LOT 2, BLOCK I, EUGENE INDUSTRIAL TRACT - A LETTER FROM THE McDONALD CANDY COMPANY WAS READ IN WHICH IT WAS REQUESTED THAT A PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT FOR RAILROAD AND UTILITY PURPOSE BE VACATED TO ALLOW fOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WAREHOUSE BUILDING ON THE ABOvE ,DESCRIBED PROPERTY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE McDONALD CANDY COMPANY WOULD DEDICATE A NEW RAILROAD AND UTILITY EASEMENT AREA. THE LETTER FURTHER STATED THAT THE EUGENE INDUS- TRIAL DEVELOPMENT 'CORPORATION AND THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY HAVE APPROVED THE PLAN'AND RE- QUESTED THAT THE VACATION AS REQUESTED BE APPROVED. THE COMMITTEE OBSERVED A PLAN OF THE EUGENE INDUSTRIAL TRACT SHOWING THE EASEMENT AREA AND RECOMMENDED THAT THE VACATION BE GRANTED., MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. I , ! I I I 41 I ! I I I I r I I IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT ITEM 14 Of THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROvED. MOTION CARRIED. 15. PETITION PROTESTING REASSESSMENT OF SEWERS IN VICINITY Of ORCHARD STREET'AND 17TH AVENUE - MR. LEROY BURCHAM APPEARED AS A SPOKESMAN fOR PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE VICINITY Of ORCHARp STREET FROM 17TH AVENUE TO fAIRMOUNT BOULEVARD AND ALONG fAIRMOUNT~BoULEVARD TO SUMMIT AVE- NUT AND PRESENTED A PETITION CONTA.INING NAMES OF FORTY SIGNERS PROTESTING THE COUNCIL'S DECISION TO CHANGE THE CITY'S LONG EXISTING OBLIGATION OF PAYING FOR SEWER REPLACEMENT AND REPAIR WITH FUNDS P~ID IN ON A MONTHLY BASIS BY Tt:JE PROPERTY OWNERS FOR SUCH REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT. THE' PETITION FURTHER INDICATES THE PETITIONERS 00 NOT aELI~VE IT IS PROPER TO REASSESS fOR FACI~I- TIES WHICH HAVE LONG BEEN PAID FOR AND FURTHER STATED THEY 00 NOT BELIEvE A CHANGE OF POLICY OF LONG STANDING TO BE PROPER WITHOUT ~ PUBLIC HEARING. MR. BURCSAMMAMPLlflED THE WRITTEN PETITION WHICH WAS PRESENTED INDICATING TO HIS KNOWLEDGE THERE HAD ONLY BEEN ONE CALL FOR MAINTENANCE ON THE SEWER LINE IN THIS AREA IN THE PAST fiVE YEARS, AND fURTHER SUGGESTED THAT THE REAL CAUSE OF THE REPLACEMENT Of THE LINE IF THE NECESSARY EXTENSIONS WHICH ARE BEING CONTEMPLATED AT THIS TIME. fOLLOWING SOME DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM, IT WAS RECOMMENDED IT BE RECEIVED AND THAT fURTHER ACTION BE DELAYED PENDING THE OBTAINING OF COST ESTIMATES fOR REPAIR WORK AND OTHER ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED ON THIS SEWER LINE. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. I.T WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. MCGAfFEY THAT ITEM 15 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. THE DIRECTOR Of PUBLIC WORKS REPORTED THAT ON THE SEWER IN THIS AREA THERE HAD BEEN FIFTEEN CALLS IN APPROXIMATELY THE PAST TWO YEARS AND THAT IN ONE AREA A 22' SECTION HAD BEEN REPLACED AT A COST Of $415.00. 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