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M I NUT E S - Eugene City Council Council Chamber--C;ty Hall May 11, 1987 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Debra Ehrman, Freeman Holmer, Jeff Miller, Roger Rutan, Emily Schue, Cynthia Wooten. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Ruth Bascom, Robert Bennett. The regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Eugene, Oregon was called to order by His Honor Mayor Brian B. Obie. I. PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Obie offered an opportunity to those who wished to address the council about subjects not scheduled for council consideration. The Mayor noted that the item had been scheduled to last ten minutes and that requests to speak had been received for two issues. He said ten speakers had indicated an interest in problems concerning traffic on south Willamette Street (the "Gut") and he would prefer to schedule a future hearing date. He asked whether one person ~ might act as spokesperson for the group. A. "Gut" Traffic Orlin Dean, 39 West 22nd Avenue, said he thought that if the issue could be addressed briefly by three or four speakers, a future hearing would not be necessary. He presented a petition and letters to staff and showed a grocery bag full of empty cans, which he said he had collected in a four-block area near Willamette Street on a Saturday morning. Mr. Dean added that his wife could not sleep on Friday and Saturday nights because of noise and that trash was being thrown in residents' yards. Murray G. McDowell, 28 West 22nd Avenue, said he lived about a half-block west of Willamette Street, where circular traffic repeatedly was driving the area on Friday and Saturday nights, usually after about 10:30. Mr. McDowell said his house and bedroom were in a position that received a great deal of noise from cars on a nearby hill. He said he had been kept awake on the night of April 24 and he had counted 171 cars between 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. He said traffic on 22nd Avenue generally turned left on McMillan, and he assumed the drivers continued to 23rd or 24th Avenue before re-entering Willamette Street. He also said the bag of cans was typical of the mess left on Saturday and Sunday mornings, and he added that loud music and hollering often accompanied the traffic. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 11, 1987 Page 1