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.t ,r, Council Chamber . Eugene, Oregon July 9,1973 . Regular meeting of the Common Council of the city of Eugene, Oregon was called to order by His Honor Mayor Lester E. Anderson at 7 :30 p.m. on July 9, 1973 in the COl:mcil Chamber with the following councilmen present: Messrs. Williams, MeDonald, Hershrier,Mrs. Campbell, Messrs. Keller~ 'Murray, and Wood.' Councilwoman Beal was absent. I. Finance Officers Award John Buol on behalf of the Municipal Finance Officers Association presented to Mayor Anderson a special award for the city of Eugene for excellence in Annual Financial Accounting. In making the presentation, Mr. Buol noted that Eugene is the first city in Oregon to receive the qward; the third public agency in the State to receive it. The award is made on an annual basis for conformance to principles and standards set by the Finance Officers Association in reporting finances in governmental accounting. Mayor Anderson responded and extended congratulations to Sherman Flogstad; Eugene's finance director. II. Public Hearings A. Annexation - South of Crest Drive, west of Blanton Road Previously approved and forwarded to the Boundary Commission but not completed .' because of proqedural error. Planning Commission recommended resubmittal to the Boundary Commission. However, the Council at its April 23, 1973 meeting after public hearing tabled the recommendation pending completion of the South Hills density studies. At the request of Bob Suess the Council on June'll, 1973 voted to recons.ider its action for the benefit of interes ted parties who felt the previous hearing was inadequate. Public Hearing was reopened. Bob Suess, president of the Eugene/Spripgfield Homebuilders Association, presented copies of a published article with regard to "No Growth vs Know Growth" and quoted from it items concerning reduction in low-cost housing. He reviewed history of attempts to provide sewer service to the Crest Drive area and noted availibility of .sewer to the area under discussion, as well as water, power, streets, and schools. He felt annexation of the Crest/Blanton area would give maximun utilization to services now available and urged favorable recommendation from the Council. Neil Jongeward, 2863 Lydick Way also favored annexation. He felt it should be approved because it is contiguous to present City limits, it was already approved by both the Planning Commission and Council, services are available, and the property lies about three-fourths mile inside the urban service boundary. He said . the original annexation application was filed in February 1971 with many delays encountered since that time, primarily centering around the possibility of developing a Ridgeline Park, the latest version of which would lie south of the proposed annexation and therefore not affected by it. Dave L:J:ywelyn, 1010 Crest Drive supported Mr. Jongeward's stand. James Spickerman, 3484 Storey Boulevard, representing Crest Drive Citizens Association, submitted a petition with letter attached stating the groups's reasons for objecting to annexation at this time. In petitioning rejection of the annexation the Crest Drive group realizes that a number of factors are unknown at this time. Hopefully the South Hills studies will provide answers, to questions not brought up at the time of the first,Planning Commission recommendation for annexation. Mr. Spickerman noted objections of the Crest Drive gruup: lack of knowledge with regard to an exact llri:<ige line" to define the urban service boundary, annexation should not be on availability of services but on timeliness ~ lack of information with regard to': availability and cost of police and fire protection and power, traffic problems, inadequacy of roads, expansion of'fringe areas in view of many undeveloped properties within the City, population increase in outlying areas where schools are overcrowded rather than shifting populations to areas where school enrollment is dropping, anticipated knowledge with regard to soil and ~eg~tation to come from the planning -.- - ~ studies. He said the Crest Drive Citizens Association is interested in ,developing . .-- I '. plans for the area and feel they may, be jeopardized by annexation prior to completion of the studies in progress. They urged the Council to wait in order to be able to I make a knowledgeable recommendation on the annexation of this property. Mr. Spickerman I - had the Crest Drive people stand to indicate the opposition to the annexation, saying there were about 300 signatures on the petition submitted. - 2.\' 7/9/73 - 1