Planning commission
thwarts Wards’s move
The Eugene Planning Commission turned down a request Monday
night to rezone the area between the Willamette River and Valley
River Center. The request, made by the Montgomery Ward Co., would
have changed the zoning of the area from agricultural use to com
mercial use.
The proposed change would have made development of the area
north of the Willamette River and west of Valley River Center
possible. Montgomery Ward proposed building a two-story depart
ment store and adding 1,070 parking spaces for customers.
Objections to the zoning change, from both Commission members
and the audience, centered around various environmental concerns.
Development of the area, it was feared, would hinder development of a
greenway system (linear parks or corridors) along the Willamette
River.
Several people present expressed the fear that development of a
large parking area would intrinsically favor the automobile over
expanded mass transit or other alternative methods of transportation,
such as bicycles.. Some fear was also voiced that private development
would lessen public access to the river.
The principal reason for denying the request, however, was that
the applicants had shown no overriding reason for the development
near Valley River. The Montgomery Ward Company presently has a
building in downtown Eugene. It was also pointed out that there is
available land already zoned for commercial purposes, and thus no
need to rezone agricultural land.
In other business Monday, the Planning Commission discussed a
proposed amendment to the City Zoning Ordinance. The amendment,
would permit the zoning of “special districts.” These special districts
would make it possible for unique or special areas in the city to be
recognized and preserved. The uses permitted in the special district
would be in accordance with whatever makes the area unique. The.
immediate concern of the amendment is the 5th Avenue area of
Eugene, which is an old railroad area and the site of the old Eugene
Granary.
However, the special district concept could also be applied to
riverfront land and unique residential areas, as well as areas of
historical interest. It was suggested by a member of the audience that
older University area houses might be zoned this way in order to
prevent high-rise apartments from dominating the older areas.
Commission members stressed, however, that the special district
amendment should not make it possible for all residential areas to be
zoned this way. Only neighborhoods with identifying unique charac
teristics would be considered. Applications would be subject to in
tensive study and review. The amendment was left to further study,
because the language concerning qualification for residential areas
was not entirely clear.
Inside jobs help
CSPA students learn
By DAVID NOVICK
Of the Emerald
Not all student interaction with
state and local agencies comes
from the client perspective. Some
students work inside the
organizations, in a quest for
understanding of the problems of
society and their solutions.
Juniors and seniors in Com
DA Horton
likes new pot
legislation
Lane County District Attorney
Pat Horton is “extremely
pleased” with the marijuana
legislation just passed by the
Oregon Legislature. The new law
reduces the penalty for use or
possession of less than one ounce
of marijuana to a maximum of
$100 fine.
The law, to go into effect in 90
days, now makes possession of
less than an ounce of marijuana a
violation rather than a crime,
Horton said. Thus, “an offender
will no longer have to report
arrests on school or job ap
plications.”
“It is particularly encouraging
that our state is the leader in . . .
the field of marijuana
legislation,” Horton added, an
early advocate of the legislation.
munity Service and Public Af
fairs (CSPA) gain this sort of
involvement through the efforts
of the CSPA Field Instruction
Unit (FIU).
Students work as full-time
employees of community
programs, 32 to 36 hours a week,
with credit as compensation —
aside from educational and
spiritual benefits. Additionally,
they spend some time each week,
usually around four hours, in
interactive seminars with other
students in different placements.
Each placement lasts one
term, and most students or
dinarily have two — one during
their junior year and one during
their senior year, with the
possibility of a third.
If the student does elect to work
in the field for a third term, that
term will likely be over the
summer.
Coordinating field placements
for the FIU this summer and
through the year are Anita
Runyan and Bruce Longstroth,
both visiting assistant professors
in CSPA.
Working out of a pleasant office
near downtown at 13th and
Lawrence, Runyan and
Longstroth arrange for and
supervise the Unit’s placements
— with agencies as diverse as the
State Welfare Division and
Whitebird Clinic, Childrens
Services Division and Head Start.
Each is responsible for a par
ticular group of students, and
handles agency liaison functions
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