Oregon daily emerald., November 01, 1976, Page 9, Image 9

Engineer attacks LCDC
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By MIKE McLAIN
Of the Emerald
Even without an audience, two
debaters on Ballot Measure No
10 managed to generate a con
siderable amount of heat in the
EMU Forum Friday.
The debate was part of an all
day ballot measure forum spon
sored by the ASUO
Measure 10 calls for the repeal of
state-wide land use planning
coordination statutes and the
elimination of the Land Conserva
tion and Development Commis
sion (LCDC).
Cliff Everett, a Pleasant Hill min
ing engineer who spoke in favor of
Measure 10, said the key issue is
where the ultimate authority for
land use planning should reside.
"Should it be with the county and
the people there, or should it be
with the governor who can fire and
appoint people to LCDC at will?"
Dorothy Anderson, a member
of LCDC and one of the original
planners on the Eugene
Springfield 1990 Plan, said Meas
ure 10 is an an attempt by "real
tors, developers and land
speculators to trash Oregon.”
In calling for less central control
of land planning, Everett likened
the present system to someone
Writer speaks on energy
supply, greenhouse uses
Greenhouses and their contribution to energy supplies dominated a
lecture and informative slide show Friday by Eugene writer Dan Knapp,
a sociologist with avid interest in solar energy.
Krtapp spoke to about 25 persons at the Westmoreland Community
Center as a benefit for county commissioner hopeful Jerry Rust.
The presentation focused on two basic types of greenhouses: a
free-standing type powered exclusively by solar energy, and a lean-to
variety that can add on to an existing house for space heating.
For the free-standing greenhouse, Knapp said it is most efficient if
positioned at an angle toward the sun when it is lowest in the sky in the
middle of winter. The solar heat can be complemented with a compost
made up of organic matter high in nitrogen. Knapp said the nitrogen
breaks down the compost and creates heat.
Under optimum conditions, the compost's temperature can reach 170
degrees in the middle of the pile, but according to Knapp, plants can
thrive in temperatures of about 50 degrees or less He added that none
of the plants in any of his solar greenhouses succumbed to the cold in
Illinois where sub-zero temperatures are common.
The second variety of greenhouse is the kind that can be constructed
with relative ease onto an existing home. Knapp said the lean-to
greenhouse reduces heating costs substantially and maintains a con
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coming onto your property and tel
ling you which color to paint your
bam. “If people want a greater
voice in their community then they
will return land use planning to the
county. If people want to be ruled
by a seven-member board that
they don’t have any control over,
they will vote no. But if they want to
be led by people they can vote out
of office then they will vote yes.”
“What I really object to,” he
said, “is the state’s ’club’, refering
to the statute that requires local
governmental units to develop a
land use plan under threat of the
state doing it for them if they don’t.
“Every community will develop it’s
own plan anyway,” he said, and
added that Lane County’s home
rule charter provides for sufficient
cooperation among the cities to
develop a county wide plan, with
out state interference.
Anderson said repeal of the sta
tutes would return the state to to
tally voluntary planning. This
would leave no requirement for
the cities to plan at all, no assur
ance that citizens would be in
volved and no set criteria for plan
ning. "We would return to back
room planning by builders and
local land developers," she said.
Anderson warned that if the
measure passes it would be two or
three sessions of the Legislature
before a new plan would be
adapted, and that the new one
would probably result in stronger
central control. She said the in
terim period would probably result
in a "piecemeal approach” to
planning with stronger controls on
the coast, where the majority of
the support for the measure re
sides.
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FREEMAN
VANCE FREEMAN—If you want maturity, straight talk and a chance
to get things done—you’ll join us with your vote tomorrow for VANCE
FREEMAN.
It’s been said in the newspapers, "VANCE has the ability to cut
through bureaucratic doubletalk.”
That s why we hope VANCE FREEMAN will get your support tomor
row. His straighttalk and his ability will do for us what we haven’t had
done—put control of the government back in our local hands.
Vote VANCE FREEMAN—part of the solution—not part of the prob
lem.
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
DISTRICT 42
Let's put/
a working man^jj^
in the Legislature^P
Paid for by Freeman For Legislature Committee, Sharon Riney, Treasurer.
P.O. Box 925, Springfield, Oregon 97477
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The
University
Democrats
urge you to
support the
Progressive
Democratic
ticket.
President — Jimmy Carter
V.-President — Walter Mondale
U.S. Congress — Jim Weaver
Sec. of State — Blaine Whipple
Treasurer — Jewel Lansing
Attorney General — Jim Redden
STATE REPS
39 Grattan Kerans
40 Rosemary Batori
41 John Stewart
42 Nancie Fadeley
COUNTY COMMISSION
#3 Jerry Rust
Sheriff — Dave Burks
Mayor — Neil Murray
CITY COUNCIL
#3 Jack Delay
#2 Jack Craig
EWEB
#2,3 Camilla Pratt
I #6,7 Joan McDonald (write in)
#1,8 Jon Silvermoon
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MEASURES
YES on #9 — For Safe Energy
I YES on #7 —• Public Financing
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of Elections
NO on 10—For the Future of Oregon
NO on 12 — Keep the Councils of
Government
NO on #17 & 18—Keep the Special
Interests out of
County Government
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