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e e - Councilor Obie said that this subdivision was located in his ward and that he felt the council should consider City-initiated improvements. City Engineer Bert Teitzel said that the City had previously received petitions for improvements from about 50 percent of the affected property owners. Mr. Gleason said that staff would report back to the council on this matter at a future meeting and that the council would then consider whether to schedule a public hearing to initiate the improvements. Mr. Janisse said that volunteers from the area'were willing to help with whatever work is needed to get the project moving. III. PUBLIC HEARINGS A. Public Works Contract Awards (memo, tabulation attached) 1. Paving, sanitary sewer, storm sewer and sidewalk in Spring Boulevard from 30th Avenue to Dogwood Street (Job #2019) Mr. Gleason introduced City Engineer Bert Teitzel. Mr. Teitzel said staff recommended awarding the the contract. He noted that there was a remonstrance from the property owner who represented 100 percent of the property involved. Mr. Teitzel said that an improvement petition was previously filed by the property owner as a requirement of a planned unit development in the area. He said that the proposed improvement project was needed to connect the residential area south of the 30th Avenue with the overpass being constructed by Lane County at 30th Avenue and Spring Boulevard. Mr. Teitzel said that notification of the Hearings Panel hearing had been made, as required by City Code, and that the Hearings Panel had recommended that the assessment be made. Councilor Obie referred to materials submitted by the property owner, John Matott, regarding the project, in which Mr. Matott said that he had not received the required notice of the Hearings Panel hearing. Mr. Teitzel responded that according to his records the notice had been mailed on February 8 for a hearing on February 21 and that this satisfied the legal requirement for 10 days' notice. Mr. Obie stated that Mr. Matott had said the letter was mailed on February 14, not February 8. Councilor Smith asked if Mr. Teitzel had talked with Mr. Matott about this discrepancy in interpretation of the dates. Mr. Teitzel said that he had not talked with Mr. Matott regarding the dates or the deferral of assessment, but that they had discussed all the other items mentioned in Mr. Matott's letter to the council. Public hearing was opened. Mr. Gleason said that the council would need a two-thirds vote to reopen the hearing on the assessment and that, otherwise, this hearing would be solely on the award of the contract. John Matott, 2226 Columbia Street, said that he owns all the property on both sides of the proposed project. He said that he had signed a petition regarding street improvements at the time that the developed a planned unit development in 1981. He said he had not requested that the improvements be constructed. He felt that construction would not have been initiated if the 30th Avenue overpass had not been constructed and that he was thus being asked to bear the MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 28, 1983 Page 2