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55~ e :.._---- - - -- ~ - - - - - . - - ~-- -- - --- - ._-*- --- --_. ------- . . I . USING Of LAND FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT. IT WAS ~LSO RECOMMENDED JHAT THE PEDES- TRIAN WALKWAY BE VACATED AND THAT THE ACCESS ROADWAY BETWEEN EAST AMAZON DRIVE AND KINCAID STREET ALONG THE N9RTH SIDE Of LOT 22, BLO~K 5, SUNNY HOLLOW ADDITION, BE OPENED. . 3. DISCUSSION REGARDING ORDINANCE REGULATING CONSTRUCTION Of S.lDEWALKS IN BUSINESS AREAS - !T WAS EXPLAINED THAT PRIOR TO THE TIME Of THE CODifiCATION Of THE CITY ORDINANCES THE CITY HAD AN ORDINANCE SPECIFYING THAT ALL SIDE- WALKS IN THE C-I, C-2,C-3 AND R-4 ZONES SHOULD BE CONSTRUCT~D OF CONCRETE WH.lCH CONfORMS TO THE ORIDNANCES AND SPECIFICATIONS OF THE CITY REGULATING THE CON- ! STRUCTION Of SIDEWALKS,. . . IT NOW APPEARS THAT THE ORDINANCE, BY SOME MEANS UNKNOWN, WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE CODE AT THE TIME OF ITS ENACTMENT AND THE CITY IS GETTING REQUESTS :1 FOR SIDEWALK INSTALLATION WHICH DOES NOT MEET THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE e CITY SPECIFICATIONS. AN ORDINANCE TO REMEDY THIS DEfECT WAS READ TO THE I COMMITTEE, AND THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THE ORDINANCE BE SUBMITTED TO THE I COUNCIL'fOR REINSTATEMENT. 6 PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE I. DISCUSSION REGARDING REQUESTS FOR WARNING SIGNALS FOR THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CROSSING ON SENECA STREET AND FENCING OF MILLRACE - A LETTER fROM I KEITH SKELTON CONCERNING THE RAILROAD CROSSING ON SENECA STREET IN WHICH IT IS ALLEGED THAT THE CROSSING IS UNSAFE AND IN NEED Of WARNING SIGNALS WAS REVIEWED BY THE COMMITTEE. LIKEWISE A COPY Of A LETTER fROM THE PUB- LIC UTILITIES COMMISSIONER TO MR. SKELTON IN WHICH, THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSIONER INDICATED THIS PARTICULAR CROSSING HAD NEVER BEEN DESIGNATED AS AN EXTRA ORDINARILY UNSAfE CROSSING UNDER THE PROVISIONS pF STATE STA- TUTES WAS PRESENTED. THE TRAFfiC AND SAfETY ENGINEER ALSO PRESENTED HIS INVESTIGATION Of THE CROSSING AND INDICATED THAT THE VISUAL CLEARANCE fOR THE MAIN LINE TRACKS WAS NOT OBSTRUCTED BUT THAT THE SPUR TRACKS WERE OBSTRUCTED AND WHEN USED f fLAGMEN WERE EMPLOYED. THE TRAFfiC AND SAFETY ENGINEER INDICATED THAT THE I CITY HAD A NUMBER OF CROSSINGS WHICH WERE, MORE HAZARDOUS T"AN THIS 'ROSS- ING AND SUGGESTED THAT IF SIGNALIZATION OF THIS CROSSING IS TO BE, DONE, IT SHOULD BE DONE IN RELATION TO ITS HAZARD PRIORITY. THE COMMITTEE RECOM- MENDED THE CITY MANAGER BE INSTRUCTED TO REPLY TO MR. SKELTON'S' LET~ER I INDICATING THE CITY PROPOSES TO ENTER INTO A PROGRAM OF SIGNALIZATION Of RAILROAD CROSSINGS AND THAT SUCH SIGNALIZATION WILL BE DONE IN RELATION TO THE DANGER Of THE INDIVIDUAL CROSSING. THE COMMITTEE FURTHER I N,STRUCTED THE CITy,MANAGER TO REPLY TO A SECOND LETTER fROM MR. SKELTON CONCERNING FENCING Of THE MILLRACE, INDICATING, THAT THE CITY HAS AN EA$EMENT TO RUN WATER OVER THE GROUND ONLY AND HAS NO AUTHORITY TO FENCE OR TO TRESPASS ON THE PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE MILLRACE. I 2. REQUEST fOR INSTALLATION Of STOP SIGNS ON STREETS LEADING INTO EAST 24TH AVENUE fROM HI LY,ARD TO AGATE STREET - I TWAS EXPLAI NED THAT WI TH TH,E PAVI NG Of EAST 24TH AVENUE BETWEEN HARRIS AND UNIVERSITY STREETS, EAST 24TH AVENUE WILL BE DESIGNATED AS AN ARTERIAL STREET AND STOP SIGNS SHOULD BE ERECTED SO THAT THE ARTERIAL CHARACTER OF THE STREET WILL BE MAINTAINED. To ACCOM- i PLISH THIS, STOP SIGNS SHOULD BE INSTALLED AT THE fOLLOWING INTERS~CTIONS I STOPPING NORTHBOUND AND SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC: NIXON STREET, EMERALD STREET, _ ONYX STREET, UNIVERSITY STREET, POTTER STREET AND HARRIS STREET~ THE e COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT THE STOP SIGNS AT THE ABOVE DESI'GNATED STREETS BE INSTALLED. 7 COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE I. DISCUSSION REGARDING SUPPORT OF UNIVERSITY OF OREGON HOMECOMING - MR. DON I BROOKE APPEARED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE TO INDICATE THAT THE CITIZENS' RESPONSE I TO UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES, ,ESPECIALLY HOMECOMING ACTIVITIES, LEFT CONSIDERABLE TO BE DESIRED. MR. BROOKE URGED THAT THE COUNCIL TAKE SOME STEPS TO EN- COURAGE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN. UNIVERSITY EVENTS AND ESPECIALLY IN ITS HOMECOMING EVENTS. MR. BROOKE IN HIS DISCUSSION DREW REFERENCE TO THEIDEA THAT THE BUSINESS ESTABLISHME~TS IN EUGENE MIGHT CLOSE THEIR DOORS DURING THE HOMECOMING GAME. THE COMMITTEE DISCUSSED THIS MATTER AND RECOMMENDED THAT A RESOLUTION BE DRAWN GENERALLY' APPROVING THE IDEA OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR UNIVERSITY OF OREGON HOMECOMING ACTIVITIES AND fURTHER RECOMMENDED THAT A COpy OF THE I RESOLUTION BE FURNISHED TO THE EUGENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE UNI- VERSITY Of OREGON." I I . IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. HARTMAN THAT ITEM I OF THE PUBLIC WORKS COM- MITTEE REPORT RE VACATION OF CHARNELTON STREET BE HELD IN COMMITTEE. MOTION CARRIED. . IT WAS MOVED BY MR. HARTMAN SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS .THAT ITEM 2 OF THE ,PUBLIC WORKS COM- MITTEE REPORT RE VACATION OF KINCAID STREET BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED, WITH COUNCILMAN :1 LINDEEN VOTING NAY. e I -~