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. F. Liquor- Licenses- --- --_ '___,_,__ .. _--. _'q__ _ Renewals for Fords Restaurant, 1769 Franklin Boulevard (Restaurant) Eugene Hotel, 222 East Broadway (Class A Dispensers) , Columbus Club, 1144 Charnel ton (Class B Dispensers - 500/1000 members)' _ : Change of OWnership for Emerald Baseball, Inc., 2000 Block of Willamette Street . .. (Civic Stadium) (formerly Eugene Emeralds) - RMB ,Assistant Manager explained that the Emerald Baseball application was brought · prior to receipt of OLCC and police department investigative reports to ex- pedite processing of the license. Staff had no objection to approval and re- , . lease prior to formal Council meeting upon receipt of favorable, reports. : Comm 6/19/74 Mr. Wood moved seconded by Mrs. Bealto recommend approval of all the Approve applications. Motion carried unanimously. G. Fire Code - Support amendment to require sprinkler systems in high-rise buildings. Comm (See Committee, 6/i9/74, Public Hearing, Page 3) 6/~9!74 -A~p-rQye ,.-.- '- - --" ,...--.-.. .." -. - ,."" "-.. -.'.. ,.. ,-- '- , G. !Salvage of Demolition projects - Council members "were previously furnished with copies"; )of letter to the Edi tor of the Register-Guard wri tten by Howard Leighty of Marcola. I iMr. Leighty suggested enactment of an ordinance regulating demolition projects under ! :a permit system to allow general public salvage of building materials. i I , I , I - _ ! Renewalll,ejency Director Hunt reviewed ,efforts of the Agency toward greater salvage, .. I since the Subject was las~ before the Council. Contractors had been allowed ai, ! longer period to permit removal of inside materials before demolition, but limitations I : in terms of liability and insurance prevented free public salvage. ,He said an effort ; was made to work with recycling groups but they were also limited in what they could 'do. Higher costs resulting from allowing enough time for salvage before demolition iand legal complications prevented more progress in that direction, although special effort was being made tq save everything possible. . :Assistant Manager explained that because of the serious public safety questipns. and i lliabili ty, staff time was not fel t justified to pursue Mr. Leighty's suggestions ! ; further. However, more time would spent on exploration if Council so desired. : !Councilman Keller felt a lot of progress had been made in salvaging materials from i ; buildings removed from the downtown renewal area. He noted the number of legal 1 opinions issued that a waiver of liability would not remove responsibility for i :liability or the possibility of legal action. . i \ {Councilman Wood wondered about the difference between a recycling agency such as iBRING and the general public in salvaging ~terialsso far as liability was concerned. tIt was explained that a demolition contractor accepts the liability for whoever is _ !permitted on a site. Mr. Hunt ,said ,ERA projects are g~verned by Federal regulations, i e ; that the contractor once a project ~s turned over to h~m has full control of the I . jproperty and must have liability insurance, be lice~sed, and meet other technical jrequirements. I . iCouncilman Murray explained that neither Mr. Leighty's interest nor his own stemmed lfrom ERA projects exclusively, although he recognized any regulations governing ldemolition would probably have to make special provision for ERA. He felt discussion jin terms of hazards would tend to discourage further exploration and would fail to /recognize the possible merit of such an ordinance. He felt there was a lot of waste ~_ qene.r.al__~rec)dng of buildings, materials whiE12.c:ouJd b~ valuabl;;in vie~ of the pf-esent tight economy and materDil shoitages~' He'sugges7:ed'tbiJ.t'-the"stafrgive--"---: imore time to exploring the process and report back on the feasibility of drafting l Itan ordinance. He recognized the problems involved but thought perhaps some of them:: ,could be ironed out if a~ attempt was made. I t i I !Mayor Anderson agreed that an ordinance probably could be worked out but thought :in the long run its administration would be so difficult as to make it unworkable. i ~He. said most items of salvage were wood products manufactured many years ago which ' 'could not be used in modern day construction: On the other hand some items could be used, such as bricks, so it therefore seemed impractical to launch staff on a project unless theY were provided with some direction as to types of salvage which .-. 'were to be regulated. .. Mr. Murray moved seconded by Mrs. Beal that staff check existing ordi~ances I that may be in operation in other ci,ties, with some exploration of the practicality of those ordinances, and report back to the,Council. 6/24/74 - 16 225 ~