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<;- <... PRELIMINARY STAFF NOTES - PUBLIC HEARING ON REQUEST FOR STREET VACATION Williams Bakery (SV 85-3) Assessor's Map 17-03-32-4 4 located from the south margin of East. 13th Avenue south 400 feet (approximately) Applicant is proposing to vacate Moss Street, a 80-foot-wide public right of way extending from the south margin of East 13th Avenue south 400.2 feet Request/Background Information The applicant, Williams Bakery, is proposing to vacate Moss Street, a public right of way adjacent to their property. Tax lots in their ownership adjacent to the proposal are 1000, 1300, 1400, 8200, and 8300. Site feasibility studies for expansion of the bakery facility conclude that the vacation of Moss Street logically addresses future needs. . land use in the area is basically divided between the commercial, along Franklin Boulevard, and the residential to the south. Williams Bakery owns all the land fronting both sides of the proposed street vacation. Along the e west side are their administrative offices and production facilities which include mixing, baking, wrapping, and shipping. East of Moss Street ;s the ~~rift store, truck maintenance, and employee parking facilities. South of the main bakery facility is Bean Hall, located on the northwest corner of Moss Street and East 15th Avenue. Also in University ownership are the single-family dwellings east of Moss Street north of East 15th Avenue, and south of the bakery parking. Zoning districts in this area include C-2 General Commercial District. This area includes the Williams Bakery facility and other commercial development located along both sides of Franklin Boulevard (see attached map). Pl Public land District zoning includes the Bean Hall dormitory and University-owned single-family housing at the northeast corner of Moss Street and East 15th Avenue. See attached map for University of Oregon ownership. On August 23, 1985, referrals/notifications were sent to the Engineering Division of the Public Works Department, Fire, Police Department, Fairmount Neighborhood Association, Northwest Natural Gas, Pacific Northwest Bell, and the Group W eable. Comments, concerns, or conditions of the proposed vacation were returned to this office and will be incorporated into the findings section of this review. Notification to adjacent owners was made by the applicant prior to submittal of the proposed request and incorporated as part of the application. It included concurrence from the property owners within 400 feet of the p~oposed application (see attached map). e STAFF NOTES--Planning eommission/eity Council October 28, 1985 Page 1