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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1993)
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Ik JO p m m EMU Cantury Room 0 rot more information, rail J4ft 0530 P»y flit will meet toda* *1 ipro in Room 279 Straub Mortir Board will meet lomght at ft »n I Mi (ed«( Room ( ( nllnrr at Bunnew AdrmniatratMM will hold a new peer advieera informational trx*rtiru% ’min at 5 p m in Room 331 Gilbert for mom information, tall 145 3 JO3 OMMRG will hold a NAETA meeting tonight at ft in EMI f aantuf* Room C For more information tall 144 4377 OSFIBC. will hold an nnvinso mental edu (at ion meeting tonight at 7 30 in EMU Suite 1 f or more information tall 141.4177 OSIMMG will hold a campaign finance reform meeting tonight at 7 in EMU (aaitwry Room 1 For more iftfemtutioti. rail 14ft 4377 OSPIRC# will hold e t.ufb Your Car nwwi mg Itwiav at S p m in fMl ■ (amtury Room E for more information rail 34ft 4377 MISCfUXAN&Ot w Outdoor Program will bold an Outdoor Program Frjuiiwswwif Swap tonight at ? 30 in tha FJ4U Ballroom For morw information, call J4ft 4364 Iftfu* n( Wonwfl Volm, ( irntmon (juw. OSflKi and A«*rkw will hold * (ampaign Kmarw* Itaforro Nam-* (,/BilemK *• today at 10 a m to Cntifafinri Room fa *« Karri* Kail Student t mploymml will boat a *umm#r >o4» information **»*»• on fit tod Stall Your 1904 SutRflMT Job Hunt N<m today from ft W to 10 30 a tn in Room 12 Jfcmdiick* For motr' information or to itgn up. call 14ft 12j4 Ikvtdhnr for •ttbmtfOnjt h t Al* to llw Fmaraid front itr*i MO f-SII' it noon thr d*t} tx-tr-r* fuibU’ ($Ih»i ft .4/* run the dot of the rs-rnt uni*** the nwi/ fair? place tx'jnrr noon .Voftfo of rvmf* »»ith a dona turn or adnununi chmjpr mH not he at t ept ed fJampi* m*rnt* and ihotr t< hedtiSed ntvirrtl the pubhcxtUotl da/f **i/f hr* gi^’^n priority Fh* Enwnld nttwvw the rrjg/i# tn edit for gra motor and tty/* hi Al* run on a cpac*o\<mhldp Uni* BRIEF The public is invited to an informational meeting about Ballot Measure 1 tonight at Eugene City Hall. 777 Pearl St. The meeting, sponsored by Community Partnerships, will discuss the proposed sales tax and its potential effects. The meeting is an impar tial, non-partisan program organized for informational purposes The meeting is scheduled from 7 tot) p.m. in Room 104 of City Hall. For more information, call 343-5256. TOZER Continued from Page 1A S< hmidt said in his i losing argument It's nist not possible .'* Tozer said she believes the « 11\ was skirting the issue hy putting all of the blame on Mejia "If the government is letting people legally drive around with blood -alcohol levels less than 0.08. then the street signs should at least lie kept visible," she said. However, S< hmidt explained to the jury that the law grants the ( d\ immunity front liability for any derisions it makes based on allocation of resourt es There is also a $200,000 liability cap. said Tozer, whose medical bill to date is nearly $ too,not) The city was "overburdened" and ”i ouldn’t keep up" with citizen requests to maintain street signs and prune trees, so its priority was to "put out the fire bases, or emergent \ situations, Schmidt said, blaming "sum e resources" for the shortfall Sc hmidt also said the i itv’s transportation di\ i sioii employees are not required nor ex put ted to maintain all intersections to the standards set In the city i odes that deal w ith \ egetation near street signs. Ai cording to these codes, a clearam e tieight of at least 15 feet above a traffu sign is necessary for safety, f urthermore. Oregon’s tfanspqfhition divi sion i ites ,i visibility from a dislanceyf 50 (qyl as <i guideline In this case, the tree’s foliage was with in three feet of the stop sign, Tozer’s lawyer Don Corson said "This is not an urban forest,” Corson said in his closing argument at the trial " There is no excuse for the 111\ not follow mg its own standards A total of six automobile collisions oi i.urred at this intersection between 11)82 and 1988. accord ing to evidence submitted by (orson Schmidt said the city was unaware of this traffic history prior to To/er’s act ident bee ause a "lac k of resources” Ixdween 1985 and 1988 made it difficult for the i itv to analyze problematic intersections It w asn't until 1990 that Robert Noble, a trails portation di\ ision supervisor, requested the inci dent records for this intersection. Police records did not cite the tree as n cause lor the nu idents. Schmidt >..inl The < ity has since cut the tree dow n, hut this vs,is inadmissible evidence for Inzer's case. In 1‘IHH, the city was up to six months behind sc hedule for nonomergency requests and did not consider the intersection of Harris Street and Hast 2trd Avenue an emergency situation because it had ret eived only one request for work there seven years prior to Tozer's accident. City records also indicate the intersection was routinely inspei ted twice each year. The tree had last Iwen trimmed about a year prior to Tozer's aci i dent bec.ause the public works employee whose route had included this intersection "couldn’t see the sign." he testified at the trial However, he said the tree would have grown back by the next spring "just as good.” Toz.er said she hopes her case has made private property owners aware that they are responsible for pruning vegetation to meet the ( itv codes. "I doubt if many property owners know they can tx> sued if they don't meet those sjh>< ideations.” she said In expressing frustration with the trial during ( losing arguments, Tozer's lawyer said. "This is a classic ease ol how you can’t fight City Hall. They have the resources and will grind you down." However. I nzer has not allowed the events of the pest ftvo-.iuda-hall years to grind her down, even though she is for the most part dependent on a wheelchair and will haven total of about $475,000 in medical expenses by the time her surgeries are completed I nzer helped win a silver medal for the women's basketball team at the 1902 Paralympic Games in Bari elona. and earned a graduate degree at the I Ini* versitv of Illinois after completing her undergrad uate studies at the University of Oregon. 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