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" :' i " , '; : e :1 :1 q I :1 ~J ,I ,I !' ..I e ~; I .1 ,1 AIRPORT COMMISSION REPORT - MAY 16, 1960: IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT ArTER LONG AND DILIGENT STUDY THE AIRPORT COMMISSION AND THE ARCHITECTS rOR THE CITY OF EUGENE HAD ARRIVED AT A PLAN rOR AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING THE LOCATION or THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS, HANGARS, AND OTHER ITEMS PERTINENT TO THE AIRPORT. THE PROPOSAL WAS EXPLAINED WITH THE AID or SCHEMATIC DRAWINGS AND PROPOSES TO MOVE THE PASSENGER TERMINAL BUILDING APPROXIMATELY 170' SOUTH or THE EXIST- ING AIRPORT ADMINISTRATION BUILDING TO ALLOW rOR THE BUILDING or.A RECTILINEAL STRUCTURE USING WOOD TO THE GREATEST ADVANTAGE. IT WAS FURTHER POINTED OUT THAT ADEQUATE SPACE FOR AIRCRArT LOADING AND UNLOADING AS WELL AS AUTOMOBILE PARKING, EMPLOYEE PARKING AND DRIVE- YOURSELF CAR PARKING HAD BEEN CONTAINED IN THE AREA AND IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE OUTSIDE AREAS COULD BE BUILT IN TWO PHASES, ONE, THAT NECESSARY NOW, AND TWO, THAT NECESSARY SOME TIME IN THE FUTURE. SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS or THESE AREAS or THE BUI~DING SITE or THE BUILDING ITSELr WERE PRE- SENTED rOR REVIEW BY THE COMMITTEE. IT WAS rURTHER POINTED OUT THAT THIS HAD MET WITH THE APPROVAL or THE AIRPORT COMMISSION, UNITED AIRLINES, WEST COAST AIRLINES, AND LEIGH fiSHER & ASSOCIATES, THE CONSULTANTS rOR THE CITY or EUGENE. IT WAS FURTHER EXPLAINED THAT THE U. S. PLYWOOD COMPANY DESIRE TO LEASE A HANGAR AREA AT MAHLON SWEET AIRPORT AND THAT THE AIRPORT COMMISSION HAD RECOMMENDED SUBH LEASE BE ENTERED INTO BETWEEN THE CITY OF EUGENE AND THE U. S. PLYWOOD CORPORATION BASED ON A BASIC CONTRACT PREPARED BY LEIGH fiSHER & ASSOCIATES AT A RATE or 2_ PER SQUARE rOOT WITH rORGIVENESS or ,_ PER SQUARE rOOT rOR riVE YEARS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL PURPOSES WITH THE LEASE TO RUN ON A TWeNTY YEAR BASIS. THIS LEASE WOULD rURTHER PROVIDE DErlNITE REGULATION AS TO SETBACK, AS TO AREA MAINTENANCE, AS TO TYPE or BUILDING, AND OTHER CONTROLS TO BE EXERCISED BY THE CITY or EUGENE. fOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE SCHEMATIC PLAN OF THE AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT AND PASSENGER TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT BE APPROVED, THAT THE U. S. PLYWOOD GROUND LEASE BE APPROVED, AND AT THE REQUEST OF THE ARCHITECT THAT HE BE AUTHORIZED TO PROCEED WITH WORKING DRAWINGS FOR THE PASSENGER TERMINAL BUILDING USING WOOD PRODUCTS' WHEREVER POSSIBLE. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY." . IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. MOLHOLM THAT ITEM 10 or THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. AT THIS POINT A 5-MINUTE RECESS WAS DECLARED. KOLLOWING THE RECESS THE MAYOR ANNOUNCED HE HAD RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL rROM LANE COUNTY COM- MISSIONER HILL WHO HAD ADVISED HIM THAT THE PROPOSED COUNTY LEVY rOR GARBAGE DISPOSAL HAD rAILED BY APPROXIMATELY 500 VOTES. HE FURTHER STATED COMMISSIONER HILL HAD ADVISED HIM THAT LEGALLY 'THE COUNTY COULD CONTINUE TO PROVIDE FUNDS FROM ITS GENERAL rUND rOR THE OPERATION or A GARBAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM, BUT WITH THE DErEAT or THE LEVY MEASURE COMMISSIONER HILL BELIEVED THE COUNTY WOULD BE IN A POOR POSITION TO CONTINUE TO 00 SO. MAYOR CONE ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT COMMISSIONER HILL HAD ADVISED HIM THE COUNTY BUDGET COMMITTEE WOULD BE HOLDING THEIR FINAL MEETING ON THE COUNTY BUDGET FOR 1960-61 ON TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1960, AND THEY DE- SIRE TO KNOW WHAT ACTION THE CITY MIGHT TAKE WITH RESPECT TO URBAN RENEWAL IN LIGHT or THE ADVISORY VOTE TAKEN AT THE ELECTION ON MAY 20. THE COUNTY BUDGET AS IT STANDS AT THE PRESENT TIME CONTAINS A SUM OF $250,000 FOR COUNTY PARTICIPATION IN URBAN RENEWAL, AND IT WOULD BE DEPENDENT UPON THE COUNCIL AND URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY'S ACTION AS TO WHETHER THESE FUNDS M~GHT BE ,KEPT IN THE BUDGET. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. WILSON SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT THE COMMON COUNCIL INSTRUCT THE URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY TO ~FOLD UP SHOP", HAVE A FINAl AUDIT, ,CLOSE THE.,BOOKS, AND,DISCONT1NUE THE URBAN RENEWAL OPERATION. VARIOUS MEMBERS or THE COUNCIL THEN EXPRESSED OPINIONS WITH REGARD TO THE VOTE TAKEN ON MAY 20. THESE INCLUDED OPINIONS THAT THE ELECTORATE HAD NOT BEEN rULLY INFORMED AS TO THE URBAN RENEWAL PRO- GRAM, THAT THERE HAD BEEN MISINFORMATION SPREAD AMONG THE ELECTORATE AS TO THE URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAM, AND THAT FINAL ACTION ON THE U~BAN RENEWAL PROGRAM SHOULD BE HELD.UNTIL THE PEOPLE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO AGAIN VOTE ON THE MEASURE~ IT WAS A~SO P01NTED OUT THAT THE COUNCIL NEED NOT HAVE HELD A VOTE ON THE ISSUE AS THIS WAS NOT REQUIRED BY LAW. ON QUESTION MR. NILE. PAULL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY, STATED HE BELIEVES THERE ARE FUNDS ENOUGH TO PROVIDE FOR A STAFF rOR THE URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY UNTIL THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. IN HIS OPINION THE HOUSING AND HOME fiNANCE AGENCY WOULD COOPERATE WITH THE EUGENE URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY PROVIDING THERE IS DECISIVE COUNCIL ACTION. OTHER COMMENTS AMONG THE COUNCIL INCLUDED THE IDEA AS EXPRESSED BY COUNCILMAN CHATT THAT HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE COUNCIL COULD DO ANYTHING BUT DISCONTINUE. URBAN RENEWAL BASED ON THE VOTE WHICH IS NOW KNOWN. STATEMENTS HAD BEEN MADE ON BOTH SIDES AND APPARENTLY SINCE TWO or THE rOUR MEASURES ON THE CITY BALLOT HAD CARRI~D AND TWO HAD rAILED, THERE HAD BEEN SOME DISCERNMENT AMONG THE ELECTORATE WITH REGARD TO THE MEASURES. MR.WILSON INDICATED AT THIS POINT THAT THE COUNCIL COULD HAVE PROCEEDED WITH URBAN RENEWAL BY HOLDING A HEARING AND THAT A VOTE WAS NOT NECESSARY.