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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, JUNE 24, 2016 SNAG, continued from Page A1 presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM UFC 200 Cormier vs. Jones 2 Our Summer Movie Programs KID’S SUMMER MOVIE SERIES THROWBACK SUMMER MOVIE SERIES Each Series of 8 movies — Just $5. Details available on website. LIVE STAND UP COMEDY SATURDAY, JULY 9 —–———— 21 & OVER —————— Live Fights at 5 pm – Tickets $13 9 fi ghts in all on the HUGE screen! Reserved Seats Available Now Online Lights, Comedy, Laughs! Saturday, July 16th BRAD UPTON & CHRIS PORTER will perform at 7pm and 9pm. Admission is only $10. Ages 21 & over only. Reserved seating for this show. Purchase tickets at box offi ce or at our website. Today in History One of the most dramatic standoffs in the history of the Cold War begins as the Soviet Union blocks all road and rail traffi c to and from West Berlin. The blockade turned out to be a terrible diplomatic move by the Soviets, while the United States emerged from the confrontation with renewed purpose and confi dence. The United States response came just two days later: a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin was undertaken in what was to become one of the greatest logistical efforts in history. — June 24, 1948 Food 4 Thought “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Isaac Newton The Month Ahead Through Saturday, July 30 Legos, from the private collection of Darren and JoDene Summers, on display at the Keizer Heritage Museum and at the Keizer Community Library. Museum hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thrursday, 2-4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. keizerheritage.org. Coming up... Tickets now on sale for Wizard of Oz at Historic Grand Theatre (191 High St., Salem) Perfromances are Wednesday-Sunday from July 22 to August 28. Tickets are $20 and $30. enlightenedtheatrics.org. Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26 Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association 36th annual swap meet, Antique Powerland. Buy, sell or swap antique engines, farm equipment, tools accessories and more. Admission is $6. Visit branch15edgeta.org for meet hours. Saturday, June 25 Deepwood Estate Wine and Jazz Fest, 4-9 p.m. Local wine and food. Entertainment by Gail Gage Jazz and Island Jaz Quartet. Admission is $15, $12 for members. deepwoodmuseum.org. Saturday, June 25 – Sunday, June 26 World Beat Festival, experience world customs, traditions, ethnic foods, crafts, discussions, demonstrations, children’s activities, three parades, and dragon boat racing. Join us as we celebrate the food, music and culture of Cuba with special exhibits and performances throughout the weekend. Riverfront Park in Salem. www.worldbeatfestival.org. Lincoln City Summer Kite Festival, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., D River State Recreation Area. Free. oregoncoast.org. Sunday, June 26 McMinnville Garden Club presents its 16th Garden Tour and Faire. Includes fi ve private gardens, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Garden Faire will be held on 3rd and Cowls Streets in downtown. Garden tour is $10 per person. Garden Faire is free. mcminnvillegardenclub.org. Tuesday, June 28 Keizer Network of Women (KNOW) meeting. Keizer Quality Suites, 5188 Wittenberg Lane N.E. Noon. $13 if partaking in lunch. Keizer Public Arts Commission meeting, 6 p.m. 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 29 Artistic Line and Wash workshop, at Keizer Art Association, teaches classic techniques. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost is $85. keizerarts.com. Saturday, July 2 Artists’ reception at Keizer Art Association for July exhibit, Water Water Everywhere at Enid Joy Mount Gallery, 2-4 p.m. Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Road N.E. Saturday, July 2 – Monday, July 4 NW Civil War Council stages its annual civil war reenactment. The location has changed to Antique Powerland on Brooklake Road between River Road and Interstate 5. Weekend includes camps, battles and demonstrations. Battles scheduled for 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. each day. Admission is $12; free for children under 12. nwcwc.org. Friday, July 8 Pentacle Theater presents The Aliens, a comedy-drama, by Annie Baker (it’s not about Martians). Runs through July 30. For show dates and times visit pentacletheatre.org. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. until the August 1 city council meeting to supply more detailed plans. Residents would then have until August 29 to submit written rebuttals. The city council will debate and vote on the matter in September. The redevelopment of the property was the hottest topic of the meeting with presentations, public testimony, staff input and council questions taking up nearly three hours. In addition to developer Mark Grenz and Joe Herber, a son of the property owners, speaking in support of the rezoning request, 19 residents from throughout the city offered up testimony opposing the application. “What my mother wanted was for her children and grandchildren to get the best education they can. Development of property would to be used to educate (the family),” said Herber. Opponents suggested traffi c, school impacts and livability issues were still reasons to deny the rezoning after bringing up many of the same issues two years ago. “(The plans) are a little prettier and a little nicer, but all they did was push the buildings around,” said Karen Okada, a nearby resident. In offering the city staff's take on the application for rezoning, Brown said the application meets the requirements set forth by the city. Traffi c impacts of the proposed apartments were the most frequently cited concern from those offering public testimony, but Brown said that both Chemawa Road Northeast and Dearborn Avenue Northeast are at the lower end of their maximum capacity. “Both streets are minor arterials capable of handling between 7,000 and 20,000 trips per day. In the traffi c study we con- ducted two months ago, Chemawa regis- tered about 8,800 trips in a day and Dear- born didn't even meet the minimum at 6489 trips,” Brown said. Brown also highlighted the changes made since the original application includ- ing landscaped berms, reoriented and rede- signed buildings and larger setbacks. Most of the points were met with murmurs of disagreement among the citizens in atten- dance. Brown also suggested city staff support- ed the inclusion of higher-density housing near the city core rather than the outskirts of town. “The question is: where would the most appropriate place to locate the additional density? Staff thinks it is better in the cen- tral part of the city. There's access to bus routes, the business quadrants and com- muter and pedestrian routes,” Brown said. Plans change, fears remain 41 total students to Kennedy Elementary School, Claggett Creek Middle School and McNary High School, but Okada took issue with the rest of the impacts. “In their letter, (the school meet the need didn’t fl y with district) suggests that the de- nearby resident Judith Odle. “We already have 405 veloper should provide paved apartments, 105 mobile walk routes to allow access. homes, three churches, four Right now, the two streets schools and Keizer Little leading from the proposed League Park in a six-block apartments to Kennedy do radius. We’ve got a lot al- not have sidewalks, but that is not part of their proposal. ready,” Odle said. Her husband, Larry Odle It is another cost the city will questioned whether the have to bear,” Okada said. Several opponents said the time being spent on rezon- ing couldn’t be spent more owners’ proposal to donate a tax lot west of the develop- wisely. ment to the “Couldn’t city for use as a we have come park was disin- up with a so- “I don’t genuous. lution that “The prop- benefi tted the want the erty to be do- community nated is pretty and still get impact this much under the Herbers water during their inheri- is going to the rainy sea- tance?” he have on our son. I’m won- asked. dering how The is- community.” you could do sue of the with city purchas- — Paul Elder much that property,” ing the prop- Keizer resident said Marylin erty came up Prothero. tangentially Testimony also focused throughout the proceed- ings. After the hearing ended, repeatedly around proposed much of the packed house apartment designs. While fi led out of chambers and no Grenz offered up potential one spoke when the council previews of the structures opened up another hearing in his presentation, the land on suggestions for using and would likely be sold to an- estimated $325,000 in funds other developer if the rezone the city will receive shared is approved, at which point it would be up to the new de- state revenues. Traffi c impacts topped the veloper to determine how the list of concerns with several buildings would actually look. “The plan seems like a red residents chiming in on top- ics ranging from an increased herring. I’ve been a carpenter number of vehicles in an al- and I can tell you from expe- ready busy corridor to where rience that developers are not overfl ow parking for the concerned about the com- munity. They want to put the apartments would end up. Resident Karen Okada most families in for the least picked apart a statement de- cost,” said Casey Sanders. Nate Brown, Keizer com- tailing the impact to schools in the area. Salem-Keizer munity development director, School District offi cials es- said city staff was willing to timated an increase of about work with the current own- Rezone opposition had many voices By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Citing traffi c concerns, im- pacts to schools, construction concerns and livability issues, Keizer residents sounded off against the proposed rezon- ing of the area affectionately known as the “cow park.” Owners of the property, heirs to the Joseph and Rosalie Herber, are asking the city to rezone the 7.5 acres located along the west side of Verda Lane Northeast between Chemawa Road Northeast and Dearborn Avenue Northeast from low density residential to medium high density residential, which would permit the construction of 112 apartments on the site. The rezoning was de- nied by the city council two years ago citing the need for single family residences, im- pacts on nearby residences and transportation impacts, but developer Mark Grenz appeared before the Keizer City Council Monday, June 20, with rejiggered plans and another request for a rezone. If the property were to re- main low density residential, up to 50 single family homes could be built there. The public hearing on the matter was extended af- ter it came to light that there is possible historic value to the home already on the site, but city residents wasted little time in attempting to dis- mantle the proposal as it cur- rently exists. While the city has a pro- jected need for apartments during the next 20 years, us- ing the Herber property to looking back in the KT ers to come up with more concrete design standards that would become conditions once a new developer buys the property, but that did little to alleviate anxiety. “Realistically, how much time is the city willing to spend to enforcing those guidelines?” asked Jerry Wal- ton. Resident Paul Elder said he moved with his wife to Keizer to raise their family and the proposed rezoning would affect the overall qual- ity of life. “I understand the Her- ber family wants the prop- erty value (that comes with a different zoning), but that door swings both ways. I don’t want the impact this is going to have on our com- munity,” Elder said. “Homes make families, not a transient (apartment) population. We want people who are in it for the long haul.” local weather sudoku 5 YEARS AGO Hens win with city councilors Chickens will soon be allowed in Keizer backyards. City councilors voted to draft an ordinance allowing a limited number of hens in Keizer backyards. 10 YEARS AGO Fleeing man rams Keizer patrol car A Keizer police offi cer suffered only soreness and some minor scrapes after a driver attempting to fl ee a traffi c stop turned his pickup into a battering ram and collided head on with a patrol car. 15 YEARS AGO Bodies taken from wreckage in Keizer Police believe Fern Olson, 67, was shot and killed by her son Eric Olson, 26, the day before he set fi re to her Keizer house during a tense standoff with offi cers and a SWAT team on June 19. 20 YEARS AGO On the road The historic Old Keizer School was like a fl oat in the parade June 22, 1996 as crews inched the massive building to its new home on Chemawa Road. The school was accompanied by a growing crowd of people, many who were getting their fi rst look at the school in years. Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. 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