Sandy post., January 13, 1972, Image 1

County "yields" to public pressure
will change
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road sign
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By THOMAS C. TAYLOR
News Editor
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SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1972
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The ‘‘stop” sign on N. Cherryville Rd. is
scheduled to go down and the county will
place a “ yield” sign on Hillcrest Rd. where
it intersects with N. Cherryville Rd.
The Clackamas County Commissioners
took this action Jan. 6 following citizen
protest over the “ stop” sign placed on the
steep grade of N. Cherryville Rd.
The Post along with the Sandy Grade
School District and approximately 80
residents and users of the roads supported
the removal of the "stop” sign due to the
hazard which it created by stopping
vehicles on the steep grade of N.
Cherryville Rd.
The original request for removal was
made to the county early in November.
No. 2
Wild car chase
down mountain
nets suspects
Following a wild car chase from
Rhododendron to Gresham, two persons
were arrested and charged with burglary
of a Rhododendron service station.
W illiam J. Pence, 18 of Portland was
arrested by Clackamas County sheriff’s
deputies and charged with burglary. Bail
was set at $1,500. A 17-year-old juvenile
was also arrested and accused of a t­
tempted assault and attempting to elude
police officers, as well as burglary
Sheriff’s deputies were informed that a
burglary was in progress at the service
station at 12:50 a.m. Sunday. A witness
supplied the officers with a description of
the auto allegedly used by the burglars.
Ten minutes later, deputies James
McQuay and John Haub spotted a vehicle
matching the description of the wanted car
on U.S. 26 near Cherryville. The driver fled
when the officers attempted to stop the
car.
The chase continued through Sandy
where the Sandy police also became in­
volved in the chase. The chase finally
ended at a police road block at 3rd St. and
E. Burnside in Gresham. During the chase
speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. ensued, ac­
cording to the sheriff deputies.
Dick Petrie, owner of the service station
in Rhododendron where the burg.ary
occurred, stated to the Post on Monday
that most of the things stolen had been
returned to the station by the police. A r­
ticles not returned have been kept fo»
evidence in the case by the police, he said.
Meeting scheduled
on Proctor Ave.
completion plans
A meeting to discuss future work on
Proctor Ave. has been set for Monday
night (Jan. 17) at the city hall in Sandy.
The meeting will be to discuss future plans
with representatives from the State High­
way Commission
The city council and the Sandy Area
Chamber of Commerce are working
together to put pressure on the state to set
aside finds in the 1973 state budget for the
completion of Proctor Ave. in Sandy.
The meeting will start at 8 p.m. and is
open to the public. It will be an in­
formational meeting to find out what plans
the state has and what the city is hoping to
have done to the street when it is com­
pleted. according to city officials.
Col. Baker elected
The Hoodland Planning Group (H P G ) is
scheduled to hold a meeting tonight at
Bowman s starting at 7:30. The meeting is
to review work of the comprehensive plan
being developed by CH2M
At their meeting last week. Col. Jack
B a ke r a re p re s e n ta tiv e fro m the
Rhododendron D is tric t was elected
chairman of the HPG
The meeting tonight is scheduled as a
work session by the planning group.
TRAFFIC VOLUME
The county conducted a standard traffic
In agreeing to make the sign change, the investigation in November of the traffic
county Public Works Department director volume on the two roads and found that
John M cIntyre stated to the com­ Hillcrest Rd. at this intersection “ has a
missioners that “this recommendation traffic volume of approximately 230 cars
was formulated on the basis that this is the per day, while the N. Cherryville Rd. has a
most practical way to handle the matter traffic count of 120.”
In its recommendation to the com­
and not on sound engineering principles.
At such tim e as the traffic increases ap­ missioners, the Public Works Department
preciably on Hillcrest Road, this matter com m ented th at the g rad e of N .
Cherryville Rd. should be considered as
should be reviewed.”
County Commissioner Tom Telford in a one factor. Additional factors considered
conversation with the Post on Monday according to their report were:
stated that he was disappointed that it had "1. We have no record of any accidents
taken the county’s Public Works Depart­
which occurred at this intersection,
ment to give a recommendation.
either prior to the installation of the
PETITIONS SPARK ACTION
sign or after.
The commissioners had requested the “ 2. Many of the people who would be in­
Public Works Department to look into the
convenienced by the placing of the stop
situation in November upon receiving
sign on a collector street have signed
petitions from residents requesting such a
the Petition requesting that this sign be
study be made.
installed.
In an interview in the Dec. 23 issue of the “ 3. The volume of traffic (230 cars per
Post, county road supervisor Morgan
day) existing on Hillcrest Road is
Straight had stated that county records
extremely low for a road classified as a
had shown the sign to have always been on
collector.
N. Cherryville Rd. Yet in his investigation “ T h e refo re ,
our
recom m endations
for the commissioners, he reported that
regarding this m atter are as follows:
the county installed a “ stop" sign on N
“ 1. Remove the stop sign which we have
Cherryville Rd. only “ several months
placed on North Cherryville Road.
ago" when the county maintenance crews “ 2. Clear the brush on the school property
“observed that a stop sign was installed on
at the intersection of Hillcrest Road
Hillcrest Road at its intersection with the
and North Cherryville Road.
N. Cherryville Rd.”
“ 3. Place a “ yield” sign on Hillcrest Road
In the report to the commissioners, a
at its intersection w ith N orth
history of how the county came to put the
Cherryville. This will eliminate the
sign on N. Cherryville was given:
stopping of traffic on North Cherryville
“Several months ago our sign main
Road and will allow traffic on Hillcrest
tenance crews observed that a stop sign
Road to be uninterrupted except at
was installed on Hillcrest Road at its in­
times when traffic flow is encountered
tersection with the North Cherryville
on the North Cherryville Road.”
Road. The road records were researched
This intersection is located several miles
and it was determined that no official
action was ever taken by the County for east of Sandy off of Cherryville D r
MOST PRACTICAL WAY
Petitions
oppose
project
A petition against a planned 45-unit low
income housing project for the city of
Sandy is now being circulated.
The proposed complex is currently
before the city planning commission. The
commission last night continued a public
hearing from Jan. 5 on the issue. 'Last
night’s meeting concluded too late to meet
press deadline for the Post and action on
the issue will be reported in the Post next
week.)
The project is proposed for the area
between Hood St. and Scenic Ave. and a
zone change from R -l to R-3 is necessary
in order for the project to be built.
Wilbur Sulzbach of Sandy presented the
proposal along with representatives from
Builders Design, Inc., of Portland.
The federal government w ill allow
$12,500 for the proposed development if the
zone change is granted, according to the
developers.
Those circulating the petition against
the proposal state that they are in favor of
keeping the proposed area of the project
for single fam ily residents and not for
m ulti-fam ily housing.
the installation of this sign. In fact, it was
later determined that this sign was never
installed by our crews, as it was a type
which we are not using in areas sim ilar to
this Since the sign was illegally placed, it
was immediately removed by our crews.
“ It was apparent to M r Straight that the
residents of the area desired some type of
traffic control at this interjection since
they had taken m atters into their own
hands by placing the sign. For that reason
he had it reinstalled on the Cherryville
Road (a dead end road) at its intersection
with Hillcrest. This installation was then
consistent with our policy of allowing a
non-interrupted traffic flow of collectors at
their intersections with local streets. This
action was made official by Court Order
dated September 13, 1971."
THIRD AVE. in Sandy has been blocked or
down to one lane of travel during the past
week as city crews complete Installation of
the sewer line to new apartme.-'ts on the
corner of Pleasant St. and Third Ave. Here
the pipe is being lowered into place.
Further down the street a cement mixer
can be seen as well as more of the ditch
where the sewer line is to be placed. The
new city sewer plant and line is to be in
operation by next fall, according to city
officials. Recently the city council voted
the first increase in sewer rates in 22
years.
( Post photo)
Hoodland restaurant
gets county approval
The Clackamas County Commissioners
gave the go-ahead to a planned restaurant
in the Hoodland area last Friday.
The commissioners okayed plans by
developer W illia m
F
B ren ner of
Beaverton for a restaurant at the site of
the old Welches School on the corner of of
Highway 26 and Welches Rd. across from
the Hoodland P ark Plaza Shopping Center
However, the commissioners did delay
any further action on the rest of the plans
Brenner has for the 5.5 acre site.
LARGE COMPLEX
Brenner is seeking to locate a 100 unit
motel-condominium and restaurant on the
site. The com m issioners have held
hearings on the total plan but stated
Extension denied
fo r
R h o d o d e n d ro n
Green developm ent
Extension tim e on the Rhododendron
development in Rhododendron was
Green develooment
w as
denied by a vote of 8 to 0 by the Clackamas
County Planning Commission on Monday
night.
The development, which had meant
much local opposition when proposed, can
not be developed unless the promoters go
back before the planning commission with
new plans for public hearings, according
to county officials
In other action by the commission, they
approved with conditions a request for
expansion of a non-conforming use by
Clarence Freeman
The request is for property at the end of
.Alder Drive in the Aldercreek area
Freeman is planning to add one 40 ft. by 60
ft. building to be used for baling of cedar
toe and one 40 foot high storage bin for
wood waste products to existing operation
This addition is necessary due to phase out
of burners in compliance with air pollution
regulations
Friday that they would wait for the
completion of the comprehensive plan now
being developed in the Hoodland area
before taking action on the rest of Bren­
ner’s development.
The plan is being developed by the firm
Cornell, Howland, Hayes, M erryfield and
Hill Company (CH2M ). They are working
on the plan with the help of local groups in
the Hoodland area including the Hoodland
Planning Group (H P G ). The study has
been funded by federal and county grants
totaling $24,000.
Previous to this motion Friday, the
commissioners had approved the total
development providing that the developers
could meet 15 conditions set out by the
commissioners. These conditions mainly
pertained to the sewage and drainage
problems in the area.
The commissioners on Friday stated
Cigarette tax
vote Tuesday
Voters throughout in Sandy and the rest
The recent special session of the
of the state will be voting on the cigarette legislature passed a bill which would cut
tax issue on Jan. 18.
all state budgets 2 per cent if the cigarette
There have been many different views tax fails, plus another 2 per cent if the
on the proposed 5 cent tax. The Post went referendum on state income taxes goes to
to a Chamber of Commerce meeting in the voters.
that these problems were still present ana
the density of the proposed development
was a m ajor factor in delaying any action
on the total development at the present
time.
MUCH INTEREST
This development created much interest
in the Hoodland area when it was proposed
and first went before the county com­
missioners on Nov 8, 1971.
The restaurant is scheduled to be built
on 1.5 acres of the site leaving the
remaining four acres for the condominium
and motel units.
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Originally when this plan had been
brought before the HPG several months
ago the group only was in favor of the
restaurant and the motel units But in a
second meeting the HPG recommended to
the county commissioners in favor of the
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total project.
Gresham this week and heard several
different views expressed on the tax issue
State Senator Harl Haas, D-Portland,
and Representative Frank Roberts, D-
Portland, discussed their positions on the
measure.
Roberts who said he voted against the
measure as it was originally passed by the
legislature said he now was going to vote
for the cigarette tax Haas said he still was
opposed to the measure.
There was one question of fact in the
discussion. Roberts said the cigarette tax
had a direct relation to low income
homeowners’ real property tax relief.
Haas countered that it had no bearing
because if the tax passed it would go into
the general fund without earm arks
He favored a complete overhaul of the
tax h program
for the
agreed
oui
k i ii couian
i œ state.
aqne Roberts
immediately
but said it couldn't be dqne immediately.
(There is now a petition being circulated
which calls for a vote of the people on
whether the state income tax should
continue to be tied to the federal income
tax. The federal tax has added some
exemption which will reflect on the state
tax.)
Haas said that 40 per cent of the 4 cents
per pack tax now paid on cigarettes in
Oregon was paid for by Washington state
buyers This is because the cigarette tax in
Washington is much higher
Both men agreed that the state was in
trouble financially. Haas asked for a
complete tax reform. Roberts agreed, but
said it couldn't be done immediately.
Haas said he thought the governor would
call a special session of the legislature if
the cigarette tax goes down Robert said
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he did not think the governor would.
Howard Berger recognized as First Citizen
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HOW ARD BERGER, standing on the left,
accepts the First Citizen Award from Ivan
Barker standing on the right. Berger was
presented the award at the Sandy
Chamber of Commerce installation dinner
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Monday night Also seated at the front
table were Mrs. Barker and Tony Bryant
seated to the right of Barker and Mel
I-a mm to the far right.
( Post photo)
Howard Berger was honored by the
Sandy A rea Cham ber of Com m erce
Monday night as the First Citizen of
Sandy.
Berger, who grew up in the Sandy area
and has been with Clackamas County
Bank since 1958, was honored at the annual
installation dinner for new officers of the
Chamber
Installed as president of the Chamber
for 1972 was Brother Barnabas He takes
over from Tony Bryant who remains as a
member of the board of directors
O ther o fficers in s talle d w ere vice
president Mel Lam m ; secretary Dorothy
Depro, and treasurer Betty Hartm an
The board of directors other than the
officers for 1972 are Pete Carlson, Berger,
Ken Hallgren. Elaine Decker and Bryant
Berger in achieving the award was
recognized for his life long work for the
betterment of the Sandy community
Most recently he has served as president
of the Oral Hull Foundation for the Blind
which held its dedication for the Garden of
Enchantment at the Oral Hull Park this
summer.
Berger was a member of the local
development corporation which brought
Timberline Trailers to the area and is
currently seeking more industry for
Sandy
He is currently the chairman of the
Sandy Planning Commission.
Ivan Barker, a form er winner of the
award, presented the First Citizen Award
to Berger and said t h e list is endless in
the number of ways and committees which
Howard has served on and has been
chairman of in the Sandy area "
Chamber seeking
What is happening in the Sandy area
during the next y e a r1 The Sandy Area
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