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""-88 3/24/69 aging such traffic, and what might result from such closure. , Mrs. Hayward moved seconded by Mr. Mohr to grant permission to erect temporary barriers at locations recorrunended by staff. Motion carried. Mrs. Hayward moved seconded by Mrs. Beal ~o grant permission to erect temporpry barriers on 29th Place a,t Oak Street and the alley off 29th Place. Motion carried. Mr. Mohr presented a letter from Mr. David Bensler commending the Pplice Department for their excellent cooperation during this period. 1 5. Planning Corrunission Report, February 24, 1969 - The Planning Corrunission recorrunended approval of exception requests of Pyle and Sandford, 1893 Garden Avenue, to build an apartment in a C-2 zone, and Wayne L. Johnson, 932 West 7th, to construct apartments. These projects were ~. under way at the time of adoption of the new zoning ordinance, and could not be completed if the new zoning ordinance were ad~ered to. Dr. Purdy moved seconded by Mrs. Hayward to uphold the recorrunendation of the Planning Corrun~ssion. Motion carried. Mrs. Hayward moved seconded by Mr. McDonald to approve Item 5 of the Committee report. Motion carried. 2 6. Review of Request for Experimental Buring, Airport Property - Mr. Ken Drew, member of the Seed League, explained the need for a large tract of land for experimentation to obtain information which might curtail' field burning. The acreage, could, still bring, revenue .to the city, and research would benefit the community. Dr. Chilcote explained that Oregon State University would participate in coordinating research on the tract. Small tracts would be given different treatments for a three year period. , The Council discussed details. of this program with Dr. Chilcote and Mr. Drew, with possible pollution effect on the city. Dr. Purdy moved seconded by Mrs. Beal to refer the matter of fieJd experimentation on city property to the Lane County Air Pollution Authority for irrunediate action. Motion carried. Mrs. Hayward moved seconded by Mr. McDonald to approve Item 6 of the Corrunittee repprt. Motion carried. The Manager said Lane Air Pollution Authority had discussed this matter and have sent a recommendatipn which will be presented to the Council at the Wednesday Corrunittee meeting. 3 v 7. Review of Runway Maintenance Problems at Airport - The Airport Manager explained problems of deterioration of runways, esp~cially since jet traffic has increased. He explained that reg~ ular maintenance cannot keep the runways in repair, and for this reason, the engineering firm of CH 2M was retained to make a study of surface problems before a planned overlay project was started. There is a possibility the airport will have to be temporarily closed to jet traffic. Staff wmll make a recommendation regarding contract for resurfacing when CH 2M reports on results of the study. . . . , . ' .., I No action taken on this ite~ - will be reviewed under Committee report of March 19, 1969 Corrunittee, me~ting held March 19, 1969 Present: Mayor Anderson; Councilmen Hayward, Beal, Gribskov, Teague and Purdy; City Manager and staff; and'others. 4 1. Items from Mayor and Council a. ,Airport Closure ~ Because of the importance of action on the problem of possible. closure of the airport, Mayor Anderson suggested that the Council proceed directly to Item 5 on the agenda. The Manager read minutes of.a special meeting held by the Airport Corrunission Tuesday, March l8tq.hrecommending that no action be taken on closure of the airport until engineering reports have been seen, and that the City continue to ,patch the runw~ys. The airport manager recorrunended that the Council place a 40,000 pound load limit on the airport effective March 25, 1969 in line with a March 14th reco~endation from the Federal Aviation Administration. The Council discussed problems of drainage, and whether oontinued patch- ing wou~d be effective. A representative of CH 2M pointed out that additional tests were required and results from these tests were expected by March 28th. The Mayor suggested that the airport be kept open, and that means of obtatning additional funds be explored. The Manager said the airport budget has already been exceede9, and that money will have to be used from other city functions if the"patching" program continues for an extended period of time. ~ representative from United Airlines was asked if his airline would be willing to accept full responsibility for continued flights if the airport remained open. He, said he was not in a position to corrunent on that. Mr. Teague moved seconded by Mrs. Hayward that the Council delay action on airport closure pending results of tests by CH 2M. Councilman Mohr suggested that CH 2M contact. Mr. Munk, who has offered his soil testing services to the city. f ~ . . - . The Mayor expressed appreciation to the Governor and Mr. Bob Dunn~ Director of the State Bureau of Aeronautics for their assistance with this problem. Councilman Mohr questiOned the relationship. of the Governor's study corrunittee to the CH 2M study. The City Manager e~plained that these studies would be made independently and that one wouilid confer:(with thdep~hdE~filip validation of results. s 3/24/69 - 2