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~ 165 e 2/27/61 I AT THIS POINT, BY COMMON CONSENT, THE HEARING WAS HELD ON THE EAST CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT PLAN Of THE UNIVERSITY Of OREGON. MR. J. ORVILLE LINDSTROM APPEARED ON BEHALf Of THE UNIVERSITY, OUTLINED THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT PLAN fOR THE UNIVERSITY WITH THE AID Of MAPS, AND ~XPLAINED THAT IN AUGUST 1959 THE.CONGRESS Of THE UNITED STATES HAD AUTHORIZED AN URBAN RENEWAL PLAN fOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WHICH HAS BEEN USED IN A NUMBER Of CITIES AND IS NOW PROPOSED TO BE USED IN THE C,TY Of EUGENE. MR. LINDSTROM OUTLINED IN DETAIL THE NEED fOR ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES AND THE NECESSITY fOR AN ADDITIONAL BUILDING PROGRAM. HE STATED THAT THE EAST CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT PLAN IS PROPOSED TO EXTEND TO 17TH AVENUE ON THE SOUTH AND THAT THE UNIVERSITY WOULD LATER RETURN fOR APPROVAL Of AN URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAM TO EXTEND TO 15TH AVENUE ON THE SOUTH. THE PROCESS Of nAI'U;)CllU1QU~S I iUIONRWAS flKFlEW"'IIIEBRiIliSR>>I;tISTlIlHEXnHlill THAT THE PROJECT WOULD BE TOTALLY SUPPORTED BY THE UNIVERSITY AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND NO CITY fUNDS WOULD BE INVOLVED. IT WAS ALSO STATED ~IT WAS BELIEVED THAT SOME $60,000 MIGHT BE OBTAINED CREDITS WHICH MIGHT BE APPLIED TOWARD SEWER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN THE GENERAL UNIVERSI'TY AREA. e MR. LINDSTROM REPLIED TO A NUMBER Of QUESTIONS REGARDING THE NECESSITY fOR IMMEDIATE ACTION IN WHICH HE EXPLAINED IT IS NECESSARY THAT ACTION BE TAKEN NOW TO ALLOW PREPARATION IN TWO PROPOSED DORMI- TORY AREAS IN THE AREA. HE ALSO STATED THAT If URBAN RENEWAL WERE NOT AVAILABLE, UNDOUBTEDLY THE UNIVERSITY WOULD ACQUIRE PROPERTY NOW PROPOSED TO BE ACQUIRED UNDER THE URBAN RENEWAL:PROGRAM, BUT SUCH ACQUISITION WOULD BE MUCH SLOWER AND MIGHT VERY WELL HAMPER THE TOTAL UNIVERSITY PROGRAM IN TERMS Of DEVELOPMENT, EQUIPMENT, SALARIES AND OTHER ITEMS. I THE QUESTION WAS RAISED REGARDING WHETHER URBAN RENEWAL APPRAISALS ARE fAIR. THIS WAS ANSWERED BY THE STATEMENT THAT THE UNIVERSITY WISHES fAIR APPRAISALS Of PROPERTY VALUES UNDER ANY,CONDITION. THE QUESTION WAS ALSO RAISED AS TO WHETHER THE UNIVERSITY WOULD APPROVE Of A VOTE ON THIS MATTER AND IT WAS~AIN EXPLAINED THAT TIME IS Of THE ESSENCE. COMMENTS WERE THEN MADE THAT IT APPEARED THE UNIVERSITY IS DESIROUS Of RECEIVING fUNDS ABOVE THAT ALLOWED BY THE LEGISLATURE AND THAT THEY WERE PICK.ING THE POCKETS Of THE PEOPLE THROUGH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. QUESTIONS WERE ALSO RA1sED ON THE NECESSITY Of PAYING BACK A PLANNING GRANT fOR THE MULLIGAN-SKINNER PROJECT. ~ OJ C\1 ~ CQ CO ACTING PRESIDENT JONES Of THE UNIVERSITY STATED HE IS DISTURBED BY SOME Of THE ALLEGATIONS THAT THE UNIVERSITY WOULD BE PURCHASING PROPERTY AT LESS THAN MARKET VALUE. HE STATED HE BELIEVES"THE UNIVERSITY IS DESIROUS Of PAYING THE TRUE MARKET WALUE Of THE PROPERTY AND THAT fURTHERMORE, WAS ALSO DESIROUS Of TREATING PEOPLE fAIRLY AND EQUITABLY. ACTING PRESIDENT JONES ALSO STATED THAT HE BELIEVES URBAN RENEWAL WOULD COME MORE AND MORE, INTO THE CITIES IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS AND BASED THIS ON THE THESIS THAT THE CITIES ARE GROWING OLDER, IT IS A NATIONAL PROGRAM fOR REVITABLIZATION, AND THAT CITIES MUST TAKE ADVAN- TAGE Of THIS PROGRAM fOR THE BENEfiT Of THE PEOPLE; ALSO THAT THIS IS TRUE IN EUGENE AND THROUGHOUT THE STATE Of OREGON. MR. MERT FOLTZ APPEARED AS A TAXPAYER Of THE CI!Y, INDICATED URBAN RENEWAL. HAD BEEN DEfEATED BY A VOTE IN THE MAY 1960 ELECTION, AND READ A NUMBER Of QUOTATIONS REGARDING THE RIGHTS Of GOVERNMENT TO TAX fOR THOSE ITEMS NOT SPEClffCALLY REQUIRED. THE QUESTION WAS RAISED REGARDING THE NUMBER Of STREETS WHICH WILL HAVE TO BE VACATED IN THE UNI- 'VERSITY AREA, AND IT WAS ANSWERED THAT THE UNfVERSITY AND CITY ARE ATTEMPTING TO WORK TOGETHER ON THIS PROGRAM; THE ONLY PROPOSED CLOSING AT THIS TIME IS COLUMBIA STREET BETWEEN 14TH AND 15TH AVENUES. I MR. FRANK DAVIS APPEARED ON BEHALf Of THE VOLUNTEERS fOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT, READ A PREPARED STATEMENT IN WHICH HE ADVOCATED REPEAL Of THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX, REPEAL Of ALL UNNECESSARY TAXES AND EXPENDITURES, QUESTIONED THE NECESSITY fOR URBAN RENEWAL AND ASKED THE COUNCIL TO TAKE THIS TO THE LEGISLATURE, TO SPONSOR AN.INITIATIVE PETIT,ION TO AMEND OR REPEAL LEGISLATJON ALLOWING fOR. URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAM IN THE-STATE., MR. DEAN HA~EY APPEARED, STATED HE BELIEVES THE EAST CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT PLAN IS REASONABLE AND THAT THE COUNCIL WOULD BE ACTING REASONABLY IN AUTHORIZING IT. e FOLLOWING THIS AND VARrOUS OTHER COMMENTS, IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MOLHOLM SECONDED BY MR. SWANSON THAT THE EAST CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT PLAN BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. (SEE RESOLUTION #759). REPORTS OF COMMITTEES A REPORT Of THE COMMITTEE MEETING HELD FEBRUARY 16, 1961 WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS fOLLOWS: IIPRESENT: MAYOR CONE; COUNCILMEN LAURIS, CHATT, MOYER, WILSON, CHRISTENSEN AND DEVERELL; CIT~ MANAGER; DEPARTMENT HEADS; INTEREST CITIZENS. 2 I. ApPEA~-fROM SIDEWALK ASSESSMENT ENTERED BY HAZEN L. AND DOROTHY H. OLSEN - THE CITY MANAGER READ A SERIES Of LETTERS WHICH. HAD BEEN PRESENTED TO THE CITY BY MR. OLSEN, IN WHICH IT WAS INDICATED THAT AT ONE TIME THE CITY HAD OffERED. THE OLSENS A TEN FOOT STRIP Of PROPERTY fRONTING 1774 LINCOLN STREET, BUT THAT THE OffER WAS LATER RESCINDED BY THE COUNCIL. OTHER LETTERS WERE ALSO READ RELATING TO THE POSSIBLE VACATION Of THE. 10 fOOT AREA, WITH STATE- MENTS BY THE OLSENS THAT THEY HAD BEEN TREATED UNfAIRLY AT THE TIME 18TH AVENUE WAS PAVED. FOLLOWING THE READING Of THE LETTER THE CITY MANAGER INDllZATED THAT THERE WAS A BASIC POLICY QUESTION INHERENT IN THIS, AND THAT IT WOULD BE HIS RECOMMENDATION If THE STREET IS VACATED THAT IT SHOULD BE DONE ON A BASIS TO ALLOW THE CITY TO RECLAIM THE PROPERTY If IT IS EVER NEEDED fOR fUTURE STREET PURPOSES AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO THE CITY. I e MR. OLSEN, WHO WAS PRESENT, INDICATED HIS CONCURRENCE IN THISOAND fURTHER STATED THAT WITH THE ADDITION Of THE 10 fOOT STRIP IN fRONT Of THE PROPERTY AND BORDERING ON 18TH AVENUE, IT WOULD ALLOW HIM TO MORE CLOSELY MEET THE REQUIREMENTS fOR AN ADDITION~LOT. ....