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e I 00 N ~ (.): c:c CO e I I e 2 3 4 5 433 ~ 5/23/60 ~,--~---------- ~ - - - - :i I' " II II Ij I' Ii ., !i :1 'I !r :1 " 'i I II II 'I 11 " d :1 ;1 II il ~ : 'I CUSSION-IT WAS RECOMMENDED THIS PROPERTY BE REZONED TO R-3 CONTINGENT UPON REZONING OF THE ENTIRE SKILLERN PROPERTY AND FURTHER CONTINGENT UPON PUBLIC ACQUISITION OF SUFFI- CIENT RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR COBURG ROAD WITH ACCESS TO BE LIMITED TO ONE POINT, THAT POINT BEING DIRECTLY EAST OF THE SOUTHERLY EXTENSION OF PIONEER PIKE. MOTION CARRIED.UNANI- MOUSLY. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT ITEM 2 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MR. SKILLERN APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL .AND AGAIN PRESENTED HIS PLANS AND ARGUMENTS FOR ZONING AND AT LAST TWO ACCESS POINTS TO COBURG ROAD~' HE FURTHER STATED HE',BELIEVES THE PRICE HE IS ASKING, 41~ PER SQUARE FOOT, IS NOT EXORBITANT, AND REITERATED AS HE HAD IN THE PAST THAT THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL PURCHASE PRICE ON THE LAND. MR. SKILLERN'FURTHER DEPLORED WHAT HE CONSIDERED TO BE UNFAIR ACTION TO ESTABLISH A MINIMUM PRICE FOR THE LAND SO THAT REZONING COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED. THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION..ON THE PROPRIETY OF REZONING THE HOLADAY RROPERTY WITH MR. SKILLERN'S PRO- PERTY. , :1 :1 I :1 !i !I :1 Ii il !I II :( 'I :1 'I :1 II \1 I, FOLLOWING THIS CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION, A VOTE WAS TAKEN ON THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE COMMITTEE RE- PORT, AND MOTION CARRIED, MESSRS. MOLHOLM, MCGAFFEY AND'CHATT VOTING NAY. 3. RECONSIDERATION OF SIDEWALK ON WEST SIDE OF DONALD STREET BETWEEN 33RD AVENUE AND THE ALLEY BETWEEN 34TH AVENUE AND 34TH PLACE - COMMITTEE MEMBERS DROVE TO THIS AREA AND AGAIN OBSERVED THE WESTERLY SIDE OF DONALD STREET ON WHICH PROPERTY OWNERS HAD RE- QUESTED THAT NO SIDEWALK BE CONSTRUCTED. FOLLOWING SOME CONVERSATION ON THIS, IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT CURB SIDEWALKS BE INSTALLED ON THE WEST SIDE OF DONALD STREET BETWEEN 33RD AVENUE AND THE"ALLEY BETWEEN 34TH AVENUE AND 34TH PLACE. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. 4. REPLACING STORM SEWER IN ALLEY BETWEEN 34TH AVENUE AND 34TH PLACE ON WESTERLY SIDE OF DoNALD STREET - IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT A STORM SEWER CURRENTLY DRAINS THE EASTERLY SIDE OF THE DUNN SCHOOL PROPERTY AND PROJECTS THROUGH AN ALLEY AND TERMINATES IN THE GUTTER ON THE WESTERLY SIDE OF DONALD STREET BETWEEN 34TH AVENUE AND 34TH PLACE AND THAT WHEN THE SIDEWALK IS CONSTRUCTED IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO RELOCATE THIS STORM SEWER WHICH COULD BE DONE BY EXTENDING THE STORM SEWER TO AN EXISTING STORM SEWER APPROXIMATELY 70' EAST OF DONALD STREET WITH THE ADDEO STIPULATION THAT A CATCH BASIN BE PLACED AT THIS ALLEY POINT ON THE WESTERLY SIDE OF DONALD'STREET, AND THE COST OF THIS WOULD BE APPROXI- MATELY $1050. FOLLOWING,SOME DISCUSSION ON THIS IT'WAS"RECOMMENDED THAT. SUCH A STORM SEWER BE INSTALLED AS STATED ABOVE. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. ' 1\ :! ;i Ii " :! Ii Ii 'I !I li Ii ,I :1 'I ii ii :1 II II II I: 'I 'I ;1 II :1 II 1! 'I I, ii " I' II it :1 ii II II ,I :; Ij- 1; 'I !I :I Ii Ii " II i: IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT ITEMS 3 AND 4 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. 5. RECONSIDERATION OF SIDEWALK ON NORTH SIDE OF 22ND AVENUE FROM ADAMS TO FRIENDLY AND ON THE NORTH SIDE OF 22ND AVENUE FROM JEFFERSON TO MADISON - DISCUSSION WAS AGAIN HAD ON THIS SUBJECT WHICH HAD BEEN BEFORE THE COUNCIL AT PREVIOUS TIMES, AND IT WAS RECOM- MENDED THAT STANDARD SIDEWALKS BE INSTALLED ON BOTH THE ABOVE AREAS. MOTION CARRIED, COUNCILMEN MOLHOLM, CHATT AND LAURIS VOTING NAY. IT WAS MOVED BY MRS. LAURIS SECONDED BY MR.CHATT THAT CURB SIDEWALK BE INSTALLED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF 22ND AVENUE BETWEEN ADAMS AND FRIENDLY STREETS. MOTION CARRIED, MR. SWANSON VOTING NAY. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. MOYER THAT STANDARD SETBACK S~DEWALKS BE APPROVED FOR THE BALANCE OF THE AREA COVERED BY ITEM 5 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT. MOTION CARRIED. 6. REQUEST TO PAVE UNPAVED PORTIONS OF 22ND AVENUE FROM JEFFERSON STREET TO TYLER STREET - A LETTER FROM MR. AND MRS. GOEN SNOOK WAS READ IN WHICH THEY SUGGESTED THAT THOSE PARTS OF 22ND AVENUE BETWEEN JEFFERSON STREET AND THE THOMAS JEFFERSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BE PAVED. SOME DISCUSSION WAS HAD ON THIS AND IT WAS NOTED THAT ONE BLOCK OF THIS HAD NOT BEEN DEDICATED, THIS BEING BETWEEN JACKSON AND VANBuREN STREETS. SOME CONSIDERATION WAS GIVEN TO THIS AND IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT PAVING OF 22ND AVENUE IN THOSE PORTIONS NOT PAVED FROM JEFFERSON TO TYLER BE DONE IN THE 1961 CONSTRUCTION SEASON. MOTION CAR- RIED, MR. WILSON VOTING NAY. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS~ LAURIS THAT ITEM 6 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. 7. CONSIDERATION OF PAVING AND SANITARY SEWER PETITIONS: A. QUEENS WAY FROM CAL YOUNG ROAD TO THE NORTH - SOME DISCUSSION WAS GIVEN TO THIS RE- QUEST FOR PAVING AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS DROVE TO THE SITE AND NOTED THE CONDITION OF THE STREET WHICH SHOWS OBVIOUS SIGNS OF DETERIORATION BY REASON OF RECENT HEAVY USE- AGE DUE TO THE ~ONSTRUCTION OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT THE NORTH END OF THE STREET. IT WAS FURTHER POINTED OUT THAT TELEPHONE CALLS AND CONVERSATIONS HAD BEEN HAD WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY ARE IN OPPOSITION TO PAVING. MR. GLEN PORTER, THE ORIGI- NAL PETITIONER, STATED THAT HE WAS NOT AWARE OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AT THE TIME HE SUBMITTED HIS LETTER REQUESTING PAVING AND SIDEWALKS. HE 010 SUGGEST, HOWEVER, THAT SIDEWALKS AND PAVING.ARE NE~ESSARY SINCE THIS WOULD BE THE MAIN IN- GRESS AND EGRESS TO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND WOULD BE USED BY BOTH PEDESTRIAN AS . " WELL AS VEHICULAR TRAFFIC GOING TO AND FROM THE SCHOOL. fOLLOWING SOME DISCUSSION IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE PAVING OF QUEENS WAY FROM CAL YOUNG ROAD TO THE NORTH BE ACCOMPL~SH&Q AND SIDEWALKS INSTALLED AS SOON .AS PRACTICABLE. MOTION CARRIED, MR. MOL- HOLM VOTING NAY ON THE SIDEWALK INSTALLATION. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT ITEM7A OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. il 11 1\ !I II ,I ;, ;: :\ ~:~