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<br /> COUNCIL CHAMBER
<br /> EUGENE, OREGON
<br /> DECEMBER 27, 1960
<br /> THE COMMON COUNCIL Of THE CITY Of EUGENE HELD THEIR REGULAR MEETING ON DECEMBER 12, 1960 AND
<br /> ADJOURNED TO DECEMBER 27, 1960 AT 7:30 PM IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY
<br /> HIS.HoNOR MAYOR E. E. CONE WITH THE fOLLOWING COUNCILMEN PRESENT: MR. SHEARER, MRS..LAURIS, MESSRS.
<br /> MOLHOLM, MCGAffEY, CHATT, MOYER AND SWANSON. MR. WILSON WAS ABSENT.
<br /> THE INVOCATION WAS GIVEN BY REV. ROBERT HENKEL.
<br /> THE MINUTES Of THE MEETING Of DECEMBER 12, 1960, AS MAILED TO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, WERE APPROVED.
<br /> INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS
<br />e I PUBLIC HEARING - EUGENE MISSION APPEAL fROM PLANNING COMMISSION DECISION OF DECEMBER 12,1960.
<br /> THE MAYOR OPENED THE MEETING TO DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATIONS BY THOSE INDIVIDUALS IN fAVOR OF AND
<br /> OPPOSED TO THE LOCATION Of THE MISSION AT THE SOUTMEAST CORNER OF 5TH AND WILLAMETTE.
<br /> MR. EUGENE VENN APPEARED ,ON BEHALf Of THOSE DESIRING TO LOCATE THE MISSION AT THIS SITE. MR. VENN
<br /> REfERRED.TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION REPORT AND THE STATEMENT BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION THAT THE LOCA-
<br />I TION Of THE MISSION AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO LAND VALUES AND COMMERCIAL INTERESTS
<br /> IN THE AREA, AND HE QUESTIONED If THIS WAS IN KEEPINGfWITH THE ORDINANCE WHICH REQUIRES THAT SUCH LOCA-
<br /> TION/~eTUNDULY DETRIMENTAL TO THE AREA.
<br /> MR. GODDARD ALSO APPEARED ON BEHALf Of THE MISSION AND GAVE A HISTORY AND BACKGROUND ON THE
<br /> MISSION AND I TS WORK,' HE STATED THE MISSION WAS SUPPORTED BY CHURCHES AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS, INDIVIDUALS,
<br />~ THE MISSION STORE, AND BY THE SALE Of MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS, AND OPERATED ON.A BUDGET Of APPROXI-
<br />OJ MATELY $700 A MONTH, FROM WHICH THEY SERVE BETWEEN 24,000 AND 27,000 MEALS PER YEAR. MR. GODDARD
<br />C<l LIKEWISE STATED THAT REFERRALS WERE MADE BY CHURCHES, POLICE ORGANIZATIONS, THE WELfARE OffICE AND
<br />~ I NO I V I DUAL S. THE MISSION HAD BEEN LOCATED AT 6TH AND WILLAMETTE IN AN OLD BUILDING WHICH HAD LIMITED
<br />CO POSSIBILITIES fOR THE USE TO WHICH IT WAS BEING PUT. IN THE PROPOSED BUILDING IT WAS THOUGHT THE fiRST
<br />00 fLOOR COULD BE USED fOR THE MISSION STORE, FOR OffiCES AND fOR THE STAff, WHILE THE SECOND fLOOR WOULD
<br /> BE USED fOR A CHAPEL AND fOR DINING AND SLEEPING QUARTERS fOR TRANSIENTS WHO WOULD ENTER fROM THE 5TH
<br /> AVENUE SIDE TO THE REAR Of THE BUILDING. MR. GODDARD STATED HE BELIEVED THE PROBLEMS AND CRITICISMS
<br /> WHICH THE MISSION HAD fACED TO THIS TIME COULD BE MET IN THE PROPOSED NEW LOCATION.
<br /> MR. ED ALLEN APPEARED IN OPPOSITION TO THE LOCATION PROPOSED BY THE MISSION AND AGAIN RECITED THE
<br /> PROTEST WHICH HAD BEEN MADE TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, THE fACT THE AREA ON NORTH WILLAMETTE WAS
<br /> ATTEMPTING TO UP-GRADE ITSELf, AND IN THE BELIEf OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD BUSINESSES OR WHO WORKED IN
<br /> THIS AREA, THE LOCATION OF THE MISSION IN THIS AREA WOULD BE UNDULY DETRIMENTAL.
<br /> TESTIMONY WAS TAKEN FROM A NUMBER Of MERCHANTS WHO HAD,OR WOULD BE IN THE AREA IN WHICH THE MIS-
<br /> SION HAD OR WAS PROPOSING TO LOCATE. AMONG THESE WAS MR. ED JOHNSON, WHO RECITED PROBLEMS HE HAD
<br /> fACED WHICH BASICALLY RESOL~ED TO A SMALL GROUP WHO FREQUENTED STORE FRONTS AND INTERfERED WITH RETAIL
<br />I TRADE BY LOITERING, PANHANDLING AND ANNOYING, AND THAT HE BELIEVED THIS UNDULY DETRIMENTAL.
<br /> ~RJ ETHAN NEWMAN, POSTMASTER, ECHOED THE REMARKS Of MR. ED JOHNSON.
<br /> MRS. MYERS Of SNAPPY SERVICE #3 STATED IT WAS THE DESIRE Of MERCHANTS IN THIS AREA TO RUN A GOOD
<br /> BUSINESS AND THAT THIS COULD NOT BE DONE IF THE ELEMENT DRAWN BY THE MISSION WERE, TO 8E ALLOWED. THESE
<br /> SENTIMENTS WERE ECHOED, TOO, BY THE OWNER OF THE ESQUIRE CAfE, OF PROUDFIT'S SHOE STORE AND BY OTHERS
<br /> WHO HAD HAD PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH PEOPLE PRESUMABLY fROM THE MISSION WHEN IT OPERATED AT 6TH AND
<br />e WILLAMETTE.
<br /> MR. LANDAKER SUGGESTED THAT A JOINT GROUP BE APPOINTED COMPOSED Of THREE MEMBERS Of THE MISSION
<br /> BOARD, THREE MEMBERS fROM THOSE OPPOSED, PLUS PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES, TO fiND A LOCATION fOR MISSIONS
<br /> AND OTHER SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS.
<br /> PAULINE WALTON APPEARED AND QUESTIONED THE NUMBER Of. TAVERNS AVAILALBE IN THIS AREA AND STATED
<br /> SHE DID NOT BELIEVE THESE SHOULD 8E ALLOWED TO EXIST AND THE MISSION NOT SO ALLOWED.
<br /> MR. EUGENE VENN AGAIN SPOKE AND INDICATED THIS IS NOW A METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY, THAT THOSE INDI-
<br /> VIDUALS WHO WERE HELPED BY THE MISSION CONTINUE TO BE AMONG US, THAT THE MISSION ATTEMPTED TO TAKE
<br /> PEOPLE Off THE STREETS, THAT THE PROBLEMS REfERRED BY INDIVIDUALS REGARDING THE fORMER LOCATION OF THE
<br /> MISSION WOULD NOT NECESSARILY ACCRUE fROM THOSE PEOPLE WHO CAME TO THE MISSION. HE fURTHER INDICATED
<br /> THE PROPOSED SITE WOULD BE MORE PERMANENT, WOULb ALLOW THE STAff TO ~AVE BETTER CONTROL Of THE PEOPLE
<br /> COMING TO THE MISSION.
<br />I MR. ED ALLEN AGAIN SPOKE AND REITERATED IT WAS THE OPPOSITION1S CONTENTION THAT THIS WAS UNDULY
<br /> DETRIMENTAL TO PROPERTY IN THIS AREA. HE POINTED OUT THERE WERE MORE DESIRABLE AREAS IN THE CITY Of
<br /> EUGENE BUT THOSE PEOPLE DOING BUSINESS ON NORTH WILLAMETTE WANTED TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO OR RAISE
<br /> THE DESIRABILITY Of THE AREA AND, IN SUMMATION, MR. ALLEN INDICATED THAT UNDER THE EVIDENCE WHICH HAD
<br /> BEEN PRESENTED, THE RULING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION SHOULD BE AffIRMED.
<br /> COUNCILMAN SHEARER REMARKED THE THING TO ,BE DETERMINED WAS THE AMOUNT Of DEPRECIATION Of THE'AREA
<br /> AND THAT THIS WAS THE QUESTION BEfORE THE COUNCIL. HE fURTHER STATED THE COUNCIL DOES NOT WANT TO
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