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Cell tower continued from page 1 “I don’t have the time or the staff to respond to rumors like that,” he said. Ordinarily, Eyster said, the city planning department that handles zoning proposals such as Sprint’s would hold a public meetingin which site neighbors could voice their input. If the cellular-phone site proposal ad vances to that step, he said, that is when Housing would get involved. At this point, he said he does not know enough about cellular-phone towers to make a definitive state ment as to whether he would sup port the Villard Street site proposal. “My initial reaction is that I would I have serious reservations to the plan,” he said. ASUO Vice President Joy Nair said the student government has no plans to begin an active campaign, and the issue should be decided by the students. “If this is something the students want, we’re going to support them,” she said. Bob Mitchell, the general manag er at the Williams Bakery on 13th Street, said the company has been negotiating with Sprint but has not heard from the cellular-phone com pany for two or three months. He said if the city planning de partment approves Sprint’s request, Williams Bakery will go ahead with the deal. “It’s pretty much in their hands,” he said. Dave Mellin, a spokesman for Sprint, confirmed that the company has been going through the zoning process at the site since March 2. A fi nal decision on the site is not likely to be reached until August, he said. f Jessie Swimeley Emerald Zach Visnanorf, the ‘Moss Street Defender,’ talks with Mark Bruer, the project manager of Essex General Construction. Bruer and his crew are currently using the house and property where a cellular-phone tower might be placed. If the site is approved, Mellin said Sprint will make every effort possi ble to ensure that the tower is not an eyesore to the neighborhood. He said the proposed tower would be paint ed green and resemble a flagpole. “We really try to bend over back wards in a lot of ways to make sure our sites blend into the natural surround ings as much as possible,” he said. QWEST and Voicestream Wireless already own cellular-phone towers atop Prince Lucien Campbell Hall. University Telecom manager Dave Barta said Telecom Services has no plans to place more on campus. But some neighborhood residents remain skeptical about the tower. Karl Wagenknecht, a dentist who has an office nearby, said he thinks many important questions remain regarding the safety and aesthetics of the proposed tower. He said he would like to see the company choose a site not located in the middle of a residential or commercial area, such as one locat ed on a freeway overpass or. on top of a high building. The planners of the tower should consider how they would feel if a cellular-phone tower were built next to where they worked or lived, he said. “They probably wouldn’t want it next to them,” he said. “And we don’t want it next to us.” The final decision on the Sprint site may arrive after another site re quest tor a cellular-phone tower, made by Verizon Wireless Inc., is taken care of, said Jerry Jacobson, a Eugene land-use permits manager. Verizon Wireless is appealing the denial of its application to build a cellular-phone tower in the parking lot of the Travelodge motel off Franklin Boulevard. If that appeal is granted, Jacobson said, a city regulation will bar Sprint from putting up a tower on the Villard site. The city prohibits placing cellu lar-phone towers within 2,000 feet of each other, he said. A hearing on the Verizon appeal is set for July 27. SUMMER WORKSHOPS TO* CRAFT CENTER SPACE AVAILABLE IN THESE CLASSES REGISTER TODAY Beg. Woodworking Monday July 2-Aug 13 6:30-9:30pm $55 Beg. Jewelry Tuesday July 3-Aug 14 6:30-9:30pm $55 Cont. Photography Friday July 6-Aug 10 10:15-1:15pm $52 Drawing Monday July 9-Aug 13 6:00-8:30pm $45 Watercolor Tuesday July 10-Aug 14 6:00-8:30pm $55 Handbuiiding Tuesday July 10-Aug 14 6:30-9:30pm $55 Cont. Ceramics Tuesday July 10-Aug 14 3:00-6:00pm $55 Flint Knapping Thursday July 12-Aug 2 6:30-9:00pm $38 Die Forming Sunday July 15 12:30-4:30pm $30 Fireside Footstools Sunday July 15 12:30-4:30pm $35 Rainsticks Monday July 16 & 23 6:00-9:00pm $25 for information call 346-4361 www.craftcenter.uoregon.edu Be cool... Make 3 better world. RECYCLE! It’s your summer. It’s your Career Center. Use it. Enjoy it. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CAREER Open all week all summer 8:30 - 5:00 regularly 9:00 - 5:00 Wednesdays Drop in in the morning in the afternoon in your swimming shorts. just drop in. 220 Hendricks Hall (2nd Floor) Advertise in Oregon foaily £merald Classifieds! Call 346-4343! off list price Bring your textbook information to Smith Family Bookstore • Author • Title • Edition We'llhelp you find used copies that ' will sat e you money! OJAg'S Always buying: • lexis • paperbacks • Cliffs \oles • current magazines One block from campus (aboir Rainbow Of dies) 768 E. 13th • (541) 345-1651
