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r'410 5/9/60 ;[ I , I I I q ,I " ;1 ,I :1 d " il 4. A REPORT WAS MADE TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE CIVIL DEF'ENSE DRILL TO BE HELD MAY 3, 1960 AND CONELRAD DRILL TO BE HELD FROM 10:00 AM TO 19:30 AM ON THAT DATE. No ACTION WAS NECESSARY AND NO FORMAL ACTION WAS TAKEN. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT ITEM 4 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. 2 5. EASEMENTS rOR WEST SIDE TRUNK SEWER - THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS OUTLINED THE PRO- GRESS WHICH. HAD BEEN MADE ON THE SECURING or EASEMENTS FOR THE WEST SIDE TRUNK SEWER AND fOR THE PUMPING STATION fOR SUCH TRUNK SEWER. HE INDICATED THAT AT THE PRESENT TIME THE CITY HAS ACQUIRED THE SITE fOR THE PUMPING STATION' AND HAD MADE PAYMENT. THERErOR, THAT BY A MODIfiCATION Of THE PLANS, ACCESS TO THE PUMPING STATION OVER CITY OWNED PROPERTY HAD BEEN MADE BUT THAT THERE STILL EXISTS A PROBLEM or SECURING. THE NECESSARY EASEMENTS FOR THE WEST SI DE TR'UNK SEWER OVER THE LOMBARD PROPERTY AND fOUR OTHER PROPERTIES IN THE SAME AREA. IT WAS STATED THAT rOR' AN EASEMENT OVER THE LOMBARD PROPERTY A PRICE or $3.00 PER rOOT fOR A PERMANENT EASEMENT AND $1.00 PER fOOT fOR CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT HAS'BEEN SET,AND ON THE LOMBARD PROPERTY THIS WOULD COST APPROXIMATELY $2505 OROYE~ THE. TOTAL Of THE . . AREAS NEEDED THE PROPERTIES rOR EASEMENT PURPOSES INDICATES THE COST S~OULD BE APPROXI-. MATELY $900.00. IT WAS rURTHER STATED THAT SOME THOUGHT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO A SETTLEMENT ON A ,TWO-TH I RD fACTOR BAS I 5 IN WH I CH I NSTANCE THE COST WOULD BE $2280. THE 01 RECTOR Of PUBLIC WORKS F'URTHER STATED THAT THE DISCUSSION ON THE ACQUISITION OF THESE EASEMENTS HAS GONE ON fOR MONTHS AND HAS NOT BEEN RESOLVED, AND THAT. THE CITY WILL HAVE TO F'URNISH THE LAND TO THE CONTRACTOR IN THE NEAR fUTURE. BASED ON THIS THE DIRECTOR Of PUBLIC WORKS RECOMMENDED. THAT CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS BE I NST ITUfED ON THE NECESSARY. EASEMENT FOR THESEWER LINE. THE COMM ITTEE RECOMME~OED THAT CONDEMNATION BE INSTITUTED. MOTION CARR~ED UNANIMOUSLY. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT. ITEMS 5 Of THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. 3 6. PETITION fOR HEARING IN THE MATTER OF P~VING IN THE 600 BLOC~ ON 25TH PL~CE WEST - A REMONSTRANCE PETITION PROTESTING THE PAVING' or THE 600 BLOCK ON 25TH PLACE WEST WAS PRE- SENTED'TO THE COMMITTEE, THIS PETITION CONTAINING SIGNATURES OF OWNERS OF OVER 50% OF. THE PROPERTY PROTESTING THE PAVING Of THE STREET AND REQUESTING A HEARING BEfORE' ANY fURTHER WORK IS DONE IN THIS MATTER. . IT WAS EXPLAINED TO THE COMMITTEE THAT ORDINANCE NO.11740 HAD AUTHORIZED THE PAVING PROJECT AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE HAD BEEN PASSED ON APRIL II, 1960. AT ~HE COMMITTEE MEETING, MR. WILLIAM HUEY, ATTORNEY fOR THE PETITIONERS, INDICATED THE REMONSTRANCE PETITKNERS DESIRE A DELAY OF APPR'OXIMATELY TWO YEARS. AT THE PRESENT TIME THEY ARE NOT fINANCIAL(Y IN A PO~ITION TO HAVE THE STREET PAVED ~ND HAVE RE- F'USED TO SIGN PETITION~ FOR SUCH PAVING, THAT WHEN ~HE PAVING IS DONE IT WOULD ALSO REQUI~E SOME SIDEWALKS. fOLLOWING SOME DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT A HEARING ON THE REMONSTRNACE BE SET fOR MAY 9, 1960.. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. CHATT TO PROCEED WITH THE PAVING. fOLLOWING THE MOTION, MR. WILLIAM HUEY, ATTORNEY REPRESENTING PETITIONERS~'REMONSTRATING THE PAVING OF 25TH I?I5ACE IN THE 600 BLOCK, APPEARED BEfORE THE COUNCIL AND REITERATED THE STATEMENTS MADE BEfORE THE COMM I TTEE SESS I ON HELD APR I L 29, 1960. MR. AL V I N MOYER, PROPERTY OWNER I NTHI S AREA WHO W AS IN fAVOR Of' THE STREET PAVI NG, ALSO APPEARED REQUESTING THE COUNCIL TO TAKE FAVORABLE ACTION ON THE PETITION. CONSIDERATION DI~CUSSI~N WAS HEL~ ON THIS ~UBJECT, AND ON VOTE ON THE MOTION TO PROCEED WITH THE PAVING, COUNCILMEN MOLHOLM AND LAURIS VOTED NAY, COUNCILMEN SHEARER, MCGAfFEY, CH~TT, MOYER AND SWANSON VOTED AYE, COUNCILMAN WILSON ABSENT, AND SINCE UNDER THE CHARTER Of THE CITY OF EUGENE THE REQUIRED VOTE ON A REMONSTRANCE IS TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY Of THE TOTAL COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE .MOTION WAS LOST. 4 7. PUBLIC WORKS RECOMMENDATION FOR SIDEWALKS AND SIDEWALK LOCATIONS IN THE 'DUNN SCHOOL AREA '- COMMITTEE MEMBERS DROVE TO AND OBSERVED THE SITES OF PROPOSED SIDEWALKS IN ,THE DUNN SCHOOL AREA AND HEARD A RECOMMENDATION fROM THE DIRECTOR OF' PUBLIC WORKS IN WHICH CURB SIDEWALKS WERE PROPOSED' ON 35TH AVENUE FROM WI LLAM'ETTE TO DoNALD STREET, ON DONALD STREET FROM '32,0 TO 34TH PLACE FOR BOTH SIDES, ON THE WEST SIDE Of' DONALD STREET fROM 34TH PLACE TO 159' NORTH Of' 35TH AVENUE, AND ON THE EAST SIDE OF PEARL STREET feOM 34TH PLACE TO DoNALD STREET. OTHER SIDEWALKS PRoposiD fOR StANDARD LOCATION INCLUDE BOTH SIDES Of 31ST AVENUE AND BOTH SIDES or 33RD AVENUE fROM WILLAMETTE TO fERRY STREET; BOTH SIDES Of 34TH AVENUE FROM DONALD TO fERRY STREET, BOTH SIDES OF 34TH PLACE fROM DONALD STREET TO FERRY STREET. IT WAS ALSO, NOTED THAT THE COUNCIL HAD PREVIOUSLY APPROVED CURB SIDE- WALKS O~ THE WE~.T S I DE Of PEARL STREET FROM 34TH PLACE TO DONALD STREET, BOTH S I DES Of DONALD STREET fROM 35TH-TO 38TH AVENUE, AND THE EAST SIDE OF DoNALD STREET fROM 34TH PLACE TO PEARL STREET. THE DIRECTOR Of PUBLIC WORKS fURTHER SUGGESTED THE WALK WIDTH BE REDUC~D fROM 5' TO 4' IN THE AREA BETWEEN 35TH AND 36TK AVENUES O~ DONALD STREET SINCE' )T W~ULD SIMPLifY CON- STRUCTION AND REDUCE CONFLICT WITH EXISTING POWER PQLES. IN THIS SUGGESTION HE RECOG- NIZED IT IS PROBABLY NOT GOOD POLICY TO DEVIATE fROMTHE STANDARD WIDTH, BUT IT WOULD HAVE CONSIDERABLE ADVANTAGE IN THIS STEEP HILLSID~.LOCATION AND WARRANTS CONSIDERATION. ~ e " " 1 e I 1 - I :! -