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are needed in Eugene. He urged the City Council to annex and rezone the area. . --- George Boehnke, 2040 Wil1amette Street, spoke as a citizen with a concern for the community. He urged annexation to bring light industry to Eugene. Allen Mann, 317 S.W. A1 der, Portland, spoke as a represen- tative of the Department of Economic Development, State of Oregon. He indicated that there was some misunderstanding as to the number of people imported to an area when an industry like Data General would set up its building site and industry. He cited a letter from Hewlett-Packard indicating that out of 600 employees, only 200 had been imported out of the Corvallis area. He sai d that Hew1 ett- Packard expected by 1986 to have a total employment of 3,000 with only 15 to 20 percent of that number being transferred in from out of the area. He urged passage of the annexation and rezoning. B. M. Estes, 6730 liE" Street, Springfield, concurred with the testimony that had been given, and urged passage of the annexation and rezoning. Kenneth Pelikan, 2134 Fairmount Boulevard, spoke in favor of the annexation and rezoning issue. As student body president at Lane Community College, he said that bringing in light industry to the area woul d impact LCC and that there woul d be a variety of instructional programs and expansion of the electronic program. He said that the students at LCC sup- ported clean industry coming to the area. -- Lee Robinson spoke as a citizen of the area. He said that he wondered if there was a need to annex the areas around Eugene and a need for a new tax base. He said there was a need for some industrial growth, and wondered if this could not occur within the city limits without expanding the agricultural land in the outlying areas. He asked Mayor Keller if Data General had actually said it would come to Eugene and make their site here. Sandra Bishop, 1190 West Broadway, asked Council to recognize the necessity of planning for a long-term need. She indicated she did not see the necessity for taking agricultural land for housing and industry. She felt the need for that land should be used as agricultural and farm producing land. She suggested the Ci~y Council should postpone action at this time, and look at the larger implications of what they were doing. Ms. Sydney Herbert, 2750 Onyx Street, spoke against the annex- ation, indicating she felt there was an opportunity for housing within the city limits, and it would not not be necessary to annex this agricultural land into the city, that it is good e ...... 2/28/7 7--10 {fib