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3-89~ e 9/9/63 I MR. COOK AND SEVERAL MEMBERS Of THE AREA ADJACENT TO THE PROPOSED PAVING WERE PRE- SENT AND ASKED SEVERAL QUESTIONS Of THE COUNCIL AND PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR REGARDING THE RIGHT-Of-WAY LINES fOR THE PROPOSED PAVING Of LARKWOOD. THE OWNERS Of ABUTTING 00 PROPERTY WERE ASKED BY THE COUNCIL If THEY WOULD OBJECT TO THE NEGOTIATION Of A- PRI- ~ VATE CONTRACT BY MR. COOK fOR THE COMPLETION Of THE PAVING JOB AND, BEING ASSURED ~ THAT THEY WOULD CONSIDER THIS PROPOSAL, MR. CHATT MOVED SECONDED BY MRS. LAURI S TO ~ PROCEED WITH THE PAVING Of LARKWOOD CALLING fOR BIDS AfTER ONE WEEK, PROVIDING THE :c CO PARTIES WERE NOT AGREEABLE TO THE NEGOTIATED CONTRACT AS PROPOSED BY MR. COOK. MOTION CARRIED. COMMITTEE MEETING HELD SEPTEMBER 5, '963: e "PRESENT: MAYOR CONE; COUlI1ClLMEN CHATT, LAURIS, SWANSON, CHRISTENSEN, DEVERELL, CRAKES, AND PURDY; CITY MANAGER; ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER; CITY RECORDER; DIRECTOR Of PUBLIC WORKS; AND OTHERS. I I. MA YOR CONE INTRODUCED DR. BERT WENGERT Of THE UNIVERSITY Of OREGON, A VISITOR TO THE COMMITTEE MEETING, AND ASKED HIM TO INTRODUCE THE AMBASSADOR fROM NEPAL. I DR. WENGERT THEN INTRODUCED AMBASSADOR M. P. KOIRALA, THE AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES fROM NEPAL, WHO SPOKE BRIEfLY ON THE VISIT Of SOME TEN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO THE UNIVERSITY Of OREGON, THANKING THE UNIVERSITY Of OREGON AND THE PEOPLE Of EUGENE fOR THE fiNE RECEPTION Of THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. MAYOR CONE THEN THANKED AMBASSADOR KOIRALA fOR HIS COMPLIMENTARY TALK AND HOPED HE WOULD ENJOY A PLEASANT STAY IN THE CITY Of EUGENE. 2 2. CIVIC AUDITORIUM - MR. LEE BISHOP, APPOINTED TO REPORT ON THE fiNDINGS Of THE TEMPORARY COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THE POSSIBILITY Of A MODERN AUDITORIUM fACILITY fOR THE CITY Of EUGENE, READ A LETTER WHICH STATED THEY HAD fOUND CON- SIDERABLE INTEREST IN THIS MOVEMENT AND INVITING SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS TO BECOME MEMBERS Of A CENTRAL COMMITTEE. THE LETTER STATED A GENERAL MEETING WILL BE HELD OCTOBER 30, 1963 IN HARRIS HALL, AT WHICH TIME A 25-MEMBER CENTRAL COM- MITTEE WILL BE ELECTED. THE PRESENT TEMPORARY COMMITTEE WILL ACT AS NOMINATING COMMITTEE, AND REQUESTED THREE THINGS Of THE EUGENE CITY COUNCIL: ( I ) PLEDGE fiRM INTEREST IN THE OVERALL AUDITORIUM STUDY THROUGH THE PROPOSED 25-MEMBER CENTRA~ COMMITTEE; (2 ) DESIGNATE A PERSON TO ACT AS ITS REPRESENTATIVE TO SERVE WITH THE 25-MEMBER CENTRAL COMMITTEE; AND (3) DESIGNATE AN ALTERNATE TO SERVE IN THE ABSENCE Of THE DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE. MR. ARTHUR BAILEY THEN SPOKE, CONCURRING WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND STATEMENTS Of THE TEMPORARY COM- MITTEE, ADDING THAT CONSIDERABLE INTEREST IS fOUND EVEN OUTSIDE LANE COUNTY AS EVIDENCED BY THE ATTENDANCE AT THE CONCERTS NOW BEING HELD IN EUGENE BY THE CIVIC MUSIC GROUP. I MR. SWANSON MOVED SECONDED BY MR. CRAKES TO APPROVE THE fiRST REQUEST AND THAT THE COUNCIL GO ON RECORD AS BEING IN fAVOR Of THE fORMATION Of THE 25-MEMBER CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND APPROVING THE PROJECT GENERALLY. MOTION CARRIED. MR. CHATT MOVED SECONDED BY MRS. LA UR I S THA T ITEMS I AND 2 Of THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. a 3. REZONING TO C-3P AREA AT COBURG AND OAKWAY ROADS, McKAY - MR. EDWIN ALLEN, e ATTORNEY REPRESENTING SOME PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE VIQNITY Of THE PROPOSED ZON- ING REQUEST, STATED THAT HE REPRESENTED APPROX'MATE~Y TEN OR TWELVE PROPERTY OWNERS AT THIS TIME AND STATED THAT HE fELT THERE WOULD BE CONSIDERABLY MORE PROPERTY OWNERS WHO OBJECTED TO THE REZONING BUT WHO HAD NOT BECOME ASSOCIATED WITH THE GROUP YET. THE CITY MANAGER PRESENTED AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE ORIGINAL REQUEST fOR A DECISION AT THIS TIME, STATING THAT THE COUNCIL COULD POSTPONE A DECISION PENDING fiLING AN ACCEPTABLE SITE PLAN, PROOf Of ABILITY TO DEVELOP THE PROPERTY, AND PROVIDING A BUffER SmRIP EITHER Of MULTIPLE fAMILY OR PARK LAND. MR. CHRISTENSEN THEN MOVED SECONDED BY MR. CRAKES TO GRANT THE REZONING. MOTION CARRIED, MR. SWANSON VOTING NO. MR. CHATT MOVED SECONDED BY MR. CRAKES THAT ITEM 3 Of THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MR. EDWIN ALLEN, REPRESENTING APPROXIMATELY 15 PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE AREA, PRESENTED PETITIONS TOTALING APPROXIMATELY 126 PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE ADJACENT AREA WHO fELT THAT THE REQUEST fOR THE REZONING SHOULD BE DENIED. MR. ALLEN THEN POINTED OUT BY I MEANS Of TWO MAPS THE LOCATION Of THE PROPERTY OWNERS WHO WERE HIS CLIENTS AND WHO OBJECTED TO THE PROPOSED REZONING, AND ALSO SHOWED THE AREAS WHICH ',ARE NOW ZONED C-3P IN THE GENERAL AREA AS THE REQUESTED REZONING. MR. ALLEN POINTED OUT THAT ONCE THE C-3P ZONE IS ESTABLISHED, THE AREA COULD BE USED fOR ANY TYPE Of COMMERCIAL BUILDING AND ALSO HE STATED IT WAS HIS OPINION THAT THE NEED AND NECESSITY fOR THE SHOPPING CENTER HAD NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED. MR. GUM Of ANTELOPE WAY AND DR. WOODWARD Of FAIR OAKS DRIVE ALSO SPOKE AGAINST THE PROPOSED REZONING. 9/9/63 - 7 e ~