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Thur».. Oct 21, 1976 SANDY (Or«.) POST - 19
Commission deadlocked on EFU zoning
by Tony Kneidak
staff reporter
The Clackam as County
P la n n in g
C o m m is s io n ,
hopelessly deadlocked on the
question of exclusive farm use
(E F U ) zoning in the Boring-
Kelso area, sent that portion of
the proposal to the county
c o m m is s io n e r s
w ith o u t
recommendation Monday.
The planning commission
gave blanket approval to the
DAVE POESE. planning commission staff member who
worked with BANG members on their zoning proposal,
goes over area affected by the proposal with members of
the planning commission In Oregon City Monday night.
remainder of the Boring area
zoning proposal as presented
by the Boring Action Neigh
borhood Group (BANG) and
commission staff
The EFU-20 blanketed about
3,100 acres In the Boring-Kelso
area and was recommended by
the planning commission staff
in its work with BANG.
BANG,
however, recom
mended the area be zoned farm
forest-10 acres (FF-10) and is
adamant in its opposition to the
EFU zoning.
H arley
Cissna,
BANG
member, testified before the
planning commission that
BANG unanimously opposed
the EFU zoning at its Sept 21
meeting He said BANG will not
endorse the comprehensive
plan with the area zoned EFU,
adding that 20 acres is
unrealistic as a farming unit.
Although there were other
areas that BANG members and
the planning commission staff
disagreed on in the written
proposal,
BANG
members
were willing to endorse the
proposal except for the EFU
zoning
“ We’re trying to get you
people
(planning
com
missioners) to agree on some
kind of plan,” BANG President
Ken Stone said. "We would
approve the whole plan except
the EFU . We just want a
proposal approved so we can
begin subm itting am end
ments.”
The commission did approve
the zoning proposal except for
the area zoned EFU in order to
recommend a zoning change to
the county commissioners, it is
necessary for five of the six
planning commission mem tiers
to endorse or vote against the
change.
When it became obvious that
the commissioners could not
muster the necessary five
votes, Commissioner Una Sch
midt introduced the motion to
send the proposal to the county
commission with no recom
mendation on the EFU zoning.
She also had moved' tor ap
proval of the entire zoning
proposal — including the EFU
zoned area. When this failed,
Schmidt moved to rezone the
EFU area FF-10, but this also
failed on a 4-2 vote.
C o m m is s io n e r
P e te r
McDonald said it would be a
"dereliction of our duty” to
support an FF-10 zone change
and go against the county's
comprehensive plan.
The area currently is zoned
rural agricultural one acre and
single family residential, with
some areas unzoned, but the
Clackamas
County
Com
prehensive Plan changes the
area to E F U . The com
prehensive plan would take
precedent over the zoning in the
area.
Some commissioners were
troubled by the proposed
change of an industrially zoned
area to rural agricultural. Neil
Arntson, who owns a family
business in the area currently
zoned light industrial, said the
rezoning to RA I would create
an economic hardship on his
business
Both BANG members and the
planning commission staff,
however, recommend that the
zoning change be effected
because of the proximity of the
Boring Grade School and the
danger to children if there were
an increase in industrial
traffic
Arntson said he has planned
future development in the area
based on the light industrial
zoning The commissioners,
however, recommended the
change to RA-1.
Hospital offers class
G re s h a m
C o m m u n ity
Hospital will offer a multi-
media first aid course
The course will include two
four-hour classes Wednesday,
Oct. 20 and 27.
Dave
Poese,
planning
commission staff member who
has been working with BANG
on the zoning proposal, said in a
telephone interview after the
meeting that it is unusual to
downgrade industrially zoned
area s •
“The problem is the school
and the highway past the
school,”
Poese
said
"Obviously, Amstonbought the
property in good faith The
question
is whether we
recognize a mistake and try to
correct it, or do we continue to
let it exist?"
Poese
said
Arnston’s
property was originally zoned
RA-1 in 1967, but that it was
changed to light industrial in
1968 by the Clackamas County
Commission. He said the
planning staff had recom
mended against the zone
change because of the area’s
proximity to the school and the
lack of sanitary sewers in the
area
The Clackamas
County
Commission will consider the
BANG zoning proposal at 10
a m. Nov. 22 in the county
courthouse in Oregon City.
C rackd ow n on signs costs $6 0 0 in m ain te n a n c e
It cost ('tackamas County
about 1600 to clean up more
than 115 ille g a lly posted
campaign signs, according to
Don Broadsword, chief of
maintena nee for the count >
The signs were removed last
week from the county’s right-
of-way where they were
illegally placed. Broadsword
said.
There
were
119 signs
collected by the county last
week, and county commission
incumbent Republican Tom
Telford led the list of offenders
with 83 ftW kllV fco«ted signs.
The $6oo estimate involved
the hours It took county
workers to pick up the signs.
Broadsword said He said the
candidates will not be asked to
reimburse the county because
at the difficulty in determining
who posted the signs
" It may not always be the
candidate who puts up me
sign," Broadsword said
The county crackdown did
not get all the illegally posted
signs in the county, although
Broadsword said it helps
discourage candidates from
posting their signs on the
county righl-pf-way.
"We try to dlsrounrge-can
didates," he said. “ We do a
pretty good job until one
Ten other candidates’ signs
were confiscated by the county.
They included; Ted Achilles,
state legislative District 27,
nine signs, Ralph Groener,
Clackamas
County
Com
mission Position 3, four; John
Renfro, Clackamas County
Sheriff candidate, four; Les
Balsiger, state legislative
“ This is a real problem tor District 27, four; Roger Rook,
Clackamas County District
us," Broadsword said
"I
picked up another sign this Attorney, three; Ed Lindquist,
morning on the way to work.”
candidate finally goes out and
plasters the right-of-way and
others call in and report the
rascal”
Broadsword said the problem
snowballs when one candidate
posts signs on the right-of way
because others usually follow
suit
state legislative District 26;
Glenn
Whallon,
state
legislative District 25, two
each; Norma Paulus, secretary
of state, two; and Kirk Braun,
state legislative District 26,
one.
Broadsword said the signs
can be picked up at the Public
Works Department shop. Signs
not retrieved will be destroyed
after the Nov. 2 election.
Both classes will run from 6
to 10 p m . in the hospital, NE
Fifth and Beach Streets.
Because the course will in
clude the student's p a r
ticipation in learning such first
aid procedures as splinting and
a r t ific ia l
r e s p ir a t io n
techniques, enrollment is
limited to 12 Students are
advised
to wear casual
clothing.
Upon completion of the two
classes, participants w ill
receive a multi media first aid
card from the American Red
Cross.
To register for the course,
phone the hospital at 667-1122,
extension 273.
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Hitchhiker
beaten
A young man who was ap
parently hitchhiking on U.S.
Highway 26 was beaten by
three
motorists
Monday
morning.
According to reports from the
Hoodland Fire Department,
which administered first aid,
the victim had been beaten
causing internal injuries.
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The county had warned
candidates that any.political
signs left in the right-of-way
would be re moved.
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Boring m an tap p ed to chair
O re g o n d a iry com m ission
Earl Meier, partner in Meier
(airy of Boring, has been
levied chairman of the Oregon
•airy Products Commission
ODPC)
He succeeds Donald Scott of
laston. who was elected vice-
hairman. Both men will serve
me-year terms.
Sid Huwaldt, secretary-
nanager of the Farmers Co-op
dreamery of McMinnville, was
lected secretory treasurer of
he ODPC. He is the com
n is s io n 's
p ro c e s s o r
epresentotive.
Meier and Scott also were
Heeled to serve on the COW
Hoard, representing the ODPC
n
tri-s ta te
advertising
programs in California, Oregon
and Washington
In the dairy business for
nore than three decades,
Meier is in partnership with his
brother, U r r y . His two sons.
Curt and Ken and his wife,
Trudy, also take an active role
in management at the 350-acre
operation The Meiers have 250
head of dairy stock with about
half of those currently in
production
The Meier Dairy is the major
producer-distributor at Grade
A raw milk in the Portland
metropolitan area The Meiers
tave placed 96 acres of their
farm in field corn for silage, 60
acres in alfalfa and 40 acres in
red clover as a seed crop.
Meier is past president and is
currently a director of the
O re g o n
D a ir y m a n 's
Association. He has been a
member of the Sandy High
School Board for the past
decade and its chairman for
three terms. He also has been
chairman of the Boring Rural
Fire District No. 59 for a
number of years
Scott is owner of a 100-cow
dairy and horse operation near
Forest Grove and also is
partner in S 4 S Farms of
Washington County
The Oregon Dairy Products
Commission is one of the state's
most
active
commodity
organizations and represents
the Oregon dairy industry in
milk product production.
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. Department of Good Samaritan
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