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SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1974
No.
Voters set to go to polls
Next Tuesday, March 26, w ill be the day
that Sandy voters go to the polls to vote on
projected operating levies for Sandy Union
High School and the Sandy Rural Fire
Protection District.
No tax rate increase will be necessary
for Sandy Union High School district
voters if the proposed 1974-75 operating
budget is approved.
Voters will be asked to vote on a
$1,024,597 budget (outside the six per cent
lim itation).
School support from the state level and
increased property valuation within the
district has helped keep the tax rate down
according to Sandy High School
Superintendent Joe DeMarsh.
This happened even though monetary
requirements are up slightly over the
current year, he added.
Projected needs for the 1974-75 school
year include staff wage adjustments,
additional vocational c u rric u lu m , ad­
ditional buses and higher utility and fuel
costs.
Sandy High School budget committee
m em bers are Jim T u rin , W elches;
Howard Berger, Sandy, M att Shields,
Boring; W ilm er Buhler, Bull Run; and
Dave Tim m , Cottrell.
Sandy Rural Fire District is asking
voters to approve a $10,986 increase in
their proposed operating budget. The total
proposed levy outside the tax base is
$66,981.63.
The purchase of the “Dahrens property”
on Bruns and Proctor next to Mt. Hood
Cleaners is a major influence on the
proposed fire district’s budget increase.
The lot, which cost $5,200, will provide
for future expansion, including parking
facilities for the volunteer fire force. The
department's present location offers no
room or space for such expansion.
F ire Chief Bob Rathke also said that
budget reserve accounts have been
allocated for the possible need of more
substations required by the district within
ten years. He added that the need for such
expansion depends on several factors,
including population growth and land use
planning.
Budgeted money w ill also go towards the
purchase of a new command car and
needed fuel storage tanks.
Three positions on the F ire District’s
board of directors are up for grabs on
March 26.
Ronald Krebs and Jerry L. Lawson are
both running uncontested for the two
regular four year terms. Bill Richardson
and Ted Yeager are vying for position
number four, the two year unexpired term.
Land owners dislike plan
Most of the 100 people who attended last
week’s hearing on the Clackamas County
Comprehensive Plan at Sandy High School
criticized the plan’s agricultural land use
classification and proposed density per
acre.
Addressing their remarks to the County
P lanning Com m ission, F re d S tefani,
chairman of the Board of County Com-
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Tom Telford, cited restrictions placed on
land indicated for agricultural use as
unrealistic and unfair.
Due to a prior conflicting engagement,
Commissioner Robert Schumacher did not
attend the meeting.
As defined in the Clackamas County
Plan, agriculture is land “ where public
water and sewers are not available, land is
generally suited for production of food
crops, and the maximum density allowed
is one dwelling unit per 20 acres.”
Maximum density proposed by the plan
for forest land is also one dwelling per 20
acres.
Most of the land in the greater Sandy-
Boring area is designated for agricultural
County libraries
have plan
Copies of the 1974 Clackamas County
Comprehensive Plan are now available at
each library in the county’s public library
system.
Mrs Jane Putnam, director of technical
services a t the C lackam as County
Library, has also announced that the new
county plan public hearing schedule is
«vailable at libraries within the county.
N ippert honored
Sandy basketball star A1 Nippert was
recently named to the Oregonian All-State
lineup second team.
The 6-5 senior has averaged 20.7 points a
game for Sandy High School this past
season
or forest use under the plan.
This classification is based on the plan’s
stated “ urban containment" philosophy as
suggested by the Colum bia Region
Association of Governments (CRAG).
Area residents took verbal issue with the
agricultural aspects of the county plan on
several counts.
Many persons stated land indicated as
agricultural land by the plan is. in fact, not
condusive to farming.
One man explained his pro perty,
marked for agricultural use by the plan, is
not really agricultural land at all. He
pointed out his land can not even provide
hay to feed his cows.
“ ufy lana is my Investment for the
future, and now you’re telling me what to
do with it," he exclaimed.
“ Our furthest intention is to subdivide,”
a lady told the planning board and the
commissioners. “But we do want to be
able to leave parcels of land for our
children.”
She explained that under the plan’s
proposed land use provisions she couldn’t
do this.
Rural land owners who have held their
property as investments to someday either
be sold or be divided among members of
their fam ily, oppose the county’s proposed
20 acre minimum division.
One area resident suggested the county
come up with a comprehensive plan
especially for farmers and their needs. His
rem ark was punctuated with heavy ap­
plause from the audience.
Some persons at the hearing said they
agreed with the overall objectives of the
plan, but, they too, indicated a need to
redefine the areas
indicated
as
agricultural, and the 20 acre minimum
division ruling.
Criticism of the county plan’s treatment
of rural land also focused on an apparent
economic injustice.
Only the wealthy, who can affort to buy
the large 20 acre pieces of land, can benefit
from such a stipulation, stated a man at
the hearing. “Under your plans, the
conglomerate farm er can make out okay,
but the small farm er can’t,” he added.
In closing the hearing. Commissioner
Telford explained the Board of County
Commissioners reserves the right for the
final say on the plan.
“We must now determine if the plan is
sound,” said Telford.
He pointed out the county plan must also
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Department of Environmental Quality.
Concerning CRAG, the commissioner
noted that CRAG’S plan is without teeth in
Clackamas County until the Board of
County Commissioners adopts th e ir
resolution.
The Planning Commission and the Board
of County Commissioners are holding
public hearings throughout the county to
gain input on the county comprehensive
plan before the commissioners officially
adopt its policies.
paper for recycling. The proceeds from the
recycled paper go for the development of
the Klwants Youth programs.
(Past Photo)
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In politics, movements often end with
either a bang or a whimper.
However, last Monday evening’s Sandy
City Council meeting ended with applause
as the council passed a resolution adopting
the Sandy Area Comprehensive Plan.
The plan, which was prepared under the
auspices of the Sandy City Planning
Commission, describes the commission’s
recommendations for future growth and
development in approximately 30 square
miles of land both inside and outside the
city limits.
The adoption of the plan, which stands
out as a landmark in some 18 months of
work, was made with a few changes at the
Monday meeting.
The changes that were made will be
printed in a final copy of the plan which
will be forwarded to the city prior to the
final printing for review.
The planning commission approved the
comprehensive plan for the area with the
understanding that it shall review the plan
and recommend to the city council
whatever they consider necessary in
December of 1974 and every year
thereafter.
In a resolution adopted by the city
council, the group said that “a com­
prehensive plan is necessary as a legal
basis for zoning, advance planning and
subdivision regulations.”
The council has requested that other
public agencies adopt the plan so
maximum coordination of planning and
development may be secured.
The council also requested that the
Planning Commission and Board of
The Sandy Police Department is con­
tinuing its investigation of the March 10
robbery of $871 worth of goods from
Sharon’s Pantry at 101 Main in Sandy
According to police reports, the thieves
took sugar, cigarettes, turkeys, sausage
and other items sometime between the
time the store closed in the evening and
opened in the morning.
Saturday. Instructors set fire to the house
at the end of the da;’ so students could
practice putting out a fire.
(Post Photo)
House burning climaxes drill
The old adage that too many cooks spoil
the broth apparently doesn't hold true for
firemen and fires. At least that's the way it
would seem to an observer watching last
Saturday’s firemen training drill in Sandy.
Some 40 volunteer firemen and 15 in­
structed fr>m the Estacada, Clark,
Hoodland and Boring fire districts par­
ticipated in an a ll day drill that ended with
the burning of the old Bruns homestead in
Sandy.
“This drill was one of the best we’ve had
City council approves
com prehensive plan
Police continue
investigation
W A ITIN G FOR PAPER . . . Tills Klwanis
Paper Truck located near the Sandy
Oddfellows Hall off Proctor la open 24
kaur i a day far local residents to deposit
THESE V O LU N TEE R firemen receive
last minute instructions before starting to
practice fire fighting skills in Sandy last
County Commissions fo r C lackam as
County and the Colum bia Region
Association of Governments also approve
and adopt the Sandy Area Plan as the
comprehensive plan for the area included
within the plan.
Approximately 22 people attended the
meeting of the city council Monday night.
In other council business, a liquor
license for Sharon's Pantry was approved.
C R A G slates
public m eeting
A public hearing on the formation of the
new CRAG (Columbia Region Association
of Governments) will be held next Thur­
sday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Port­
land Water Service Bureau Auditorium.
The auditorium is located at 510 SW
Montgomery St. in downtown Portland.
C R A G ’S in itia l board has com ­
pleted drafting the charter rules for their
new organization by formally adopting
them last Thursday night.
Bill Young, chairman of CRAG'S initial
board, said any changes which would
come at the public hearing could be in­
corporated into these rules by amend­
ment.
While the new CRAG is difficult to
distinguish from the old CRAG, it enacts
one major difference; it gives CRAG the
power to enforce land planning practices
that the old CRAG could only suggest or
recommend
Senate Bill 769 allows CRAG this
authority.
The board was to publish the new
charter document and file it with the
secretary of state at once, complying with
SB 769 which states organization must be
completed 120 days after formation of the
district.
Known as the tri-county planning
d is tric t
when
firs t
form ed,
the
organization was composed of three
counties. Clackamas, Washington and
Multnomah, with representation from the
counties and the cities within these
counties
in the area,” said Sandy Fire Chief Bob
Rathke. The Sandy firemen last par­
ticipated in a training drill in Estacada in
1970.
Firem en had been preparing for the drill
for five weeks before the Saturday drill in
a training program.
“We wanted to simulate a house fire and
demonstrate the safe way to do things,”
said Rathke.
The firemen obtained the house on the
corner of Sandy Heights and Bluff Road
from Baker Realty.
“They wanted to get rid of the house and
we wanted to use it,” continued Rathke
“ It is very seldom that you get a house like
this one to practice with.”
The drill included ladder, ventilation,
search and rescue operations and the ac­
tual putting out of fires within the house
Don Blair, Sandy Fire Department
training officer, conducted the day’s drills
“We try to teach our guys to do as little
damage as possible to the house.” said
Rathke. “Sometimes water damage can
be more extensive than fire damage and
it’s amazing what a little bit of water will
do.”
Rathke added that he felt that the
realism of the drill would give the men
more confidence in their own fire fighting
skills
According to Rathke, the men practiced
the various operations of fire fighting and
attempted to coordinate these operations
like they would in an actual fire.
“In a real fire there are a lot of different
things going on at once,” he said.
For instance, sometimes before the
search and rescue crew can go into a
building to look for people, another crew
has to get ladders to the roof so firemen
can cut a hole in the root to ventilate the
building.
During Saturday’s drill, firemen went
through search and rescue operations with
dummies and practiced cutting holes in
the roof for ventilation.
Rathke said that the entire training
s ,-ssion for the men will not be over until
the men view the video taped segments of
the drill which were made and analyze
their actions.
“It was a heck of a long day and a lot of
work for the men,” said Rathke. “The
guys were here at 6 a m. and the last guy
left at 6 p.m .”
During the day approximately 100 slides
and eight rolls of movie film were taken to
help firemen put together a training film to
be used in the future
“This was really a cooperative effort
between all the departments," stressed
Rathke. “One department couldn’t have
put on a training program like this alone.
Rathke also praised the Sandy residents
for their cooperation during the drill.
“I ’d just like to thank them for putting
up with us,” he said. “It really went
great.”
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