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Commission approves Mt. Hood plan amendments Monday Amendment» to Clackamas County's Mt Hood Community Plan were approved by the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners on Monday According to the county planning department, the finalized document an swers questions u( policy in areas that were left open in the prelim inary plan adopted in 1973 The amendments include designations for sewer and water services in the Clackamas County portion of the M t Hood corridor, which goes from Cherryville to Government Camp Under the plan, the community w ill now have a design population of approximately 15-20 thousand people The existing population, including both seasonal and year round residents, is approximately 6,500 people according to the planning department The amendments included approval of more overnight accomodations in the Welches area and public sewer service for the Welches Road area near Bowman’s M t. Hood Resort Growth lim its in the Government Camp area were eased by an amendment that nearly doubled the amount of land the county planning com m ission had designated for resort housing Approximately 100 acres of land in Government Camp will be developed for resort housing, with the county allowing 8 to 22 houses per acre, said the planning department. The commissioners also designated the Terra Fern, Alder Creek and Sleepy Hollow areas for rural residential use and re ta in e d the B rightw ood, W em m e, Welches, ZigZag, Trum an Road, Lolo Pass and Rhododendron areas as recreational home districts The planning department said there was some concern about dropping the com mercial area in ZigZag The board essentially re designated the commercial area south of the highway on county property for community-recreational use. However, this decision w ill not affect the existing commercial uses in ZigZag. The prelim inary M t Hood Community Plan was adopted by the county in August, 1973 and reaffirm ed in September, 1976. Hood River County is expected to make a decision on its portion of the M t Hood Corridor later this month The U S Forest Service and the B u reau of L an d Management are expected to make a decision on their plan this winter These combine plans w ill provide the planning policy for the overall mountain area T h e co m p rehen sive plan fo r the mountain is being developed by an in teragency planning unit consisting of representatives of the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, Hood River and Clackamas Counties The county w ill be reprinting the Mt. Hood Community Plan incorporating all the amendments and w ill make this plan ' available to the public Copies of the decision and amendments are available from the county planning commission and the commissioner’s offices. Police chief soys Sandy crime rate has risen Crim e — or the lack of it — in the City of Portland has an effect on Eastern Clackamas County, according to Sandy Police Chief Fred Punzel Punzel told the Sandy Chamber of Commerce Tuesday that the area's crim e rate is increasing and one reason is that police have decreased the incidence of crim e within Portland's boundaries Portland received a 820 million federal grant to fight crim e several years ago. Punzel said the grant enabled Portland police to effectively curb crim e in the streets. But outlying areas such as Sandy have picked up the slack. In 1975, the Sandy Police Departm ent reported there were 902 incidents in the city. The department defines an incident as anything that takes action on the part of the department, even w riting a report As of Sept. 30 this year, the departm ent recorded 1103 incidents. According to Punzel, November and December will be two of the busiest months for the department He expects the total for the year to reach 1,500 incidents, a 65 per cent increase for the departm ent over last year. So far this year, Sandy has been hit with three arm ed robberies. One robbery was for $400, one for less than 820 and an arm ed robbery in January resulted in 835,000 missing. The department has also handled 12 cases of rape az-d sodomy this year. Tnere have been two attempted murders in Sandy and 12 auto thefts. Punzel reported that there have been 52 accidents involving motor vehicles, including one fatality. There have been 36 burglaries Punzel said the increase in crim e has been evident for the past several years, but Sandy did not have the manpower to determine statistics prior to 1974 when the city started keeping records by computer The total value of property stolen so far this year has been 882,912. Punzel said the city has recovered 818.269 worth of property T h a t’s 22 per cent of the stolen property recovered — up from the national average of 12 per cent for recovered stolen property. By the end of this year, the chief estimates that about 8100,000 of property w ill be stolen in Sandy. Another reason Punzel thinks the in cidence of crim e has increased is that more people are going to the police And the police, with more personnel, are covering more of the area. Punzel said he is pleased with what voters have had to say about law en forcement this year, especially with the passage of the sheriff's levy, the election of Jim O ’L eary as district attorney and John Renfro as county sheriff. "People are interested in law en forcem ent,” he said. This week. Sandy has become involved with the county's Night Prosecutor Program . Under this program , policemen w ill re fe r disputes involving civil instead of crim inal action (such as fam ily feuds, neighborhood fights, etc .), to the district attorney's office. Punzel said those kind of disputes are often the mast difficult and tim e con suming kind for the officers to handle The people involved many tim es a re reluctant to go to the district attorney** office and sign a complaint. { He said the district attorney's office would attem pt to settle problems out of court with some counseling, but if that produced no results there would be crim inal prosecution. The Sandy Police Departm ent sponsors an Explorers Post for students between the ages of 14-18 and non-students between the ages of 18-20 years old. Members of the post attend twice a month sessions on law enforcement conducted by Punzel and also provide manpower for the force in searches and crim e scene investigations The program has provided a link bet ween the Sandy Police Departm ent and community youth "W e re proud of their progress,” said Punzel of the Explorers. He added the program gives the department a chance to relate to kids and their problems and to hear their side of the story. Punzel told the Chamber that small police departments throughout Clackamas County have trouble keeping personnel due to the attraction of better paying Jobs with agencies such as larger cities, the county or the state. Sandy recently lost two officers to higher paying positions Punzel said the third officer, for personal reasons, wanted to live in Eastern Oregon and has gone to work for the Prineville Police Depart m ent The department has hired two new of ficers and has left one position open while the two new officers are in training. Punzel said police officer Dennis Wolf has been assigned as acting sergeant for the departm ent to replace Sgt Don Predm ore, who is now driving a truck for an Estacada firm At the Cham ber meeting, Sandy M ayor M elvin Haneberg pointed out that the city had tried to keep city taxes down while getting enough men on the force to do an adequate Job. He acknowledged that the city's pay scale for officers had suffered. I f the c ity is to keep police officers longer, the city is going to have to pay more for them, said Haneberg "F re d has done a tremendous job ,” he added. Schumacher says Jackson's campaign may have benefited him Autumn romp MORE THAN children can romp In the autumn leaves. This kitten explored the grounded foliage near Wildcat Creek, < Post photo) SUHS Board requests association to study league alignments The Sandy Union High School Board Monday oassed a resolution requesting that the Oregon School Boards Association appoint a blue ribbon committee to study statewide school district athletic and activity league alignments. The resolution w ill be presented to the Oregon School Boards Association at its annual conference in Portland during the week of Nov. 17. SUHS Supt Joe DeMarsh said the district has been for several years urging the Oregon Activities Association to realign the league . DeMarsh listed transportation and time spertt away from school to honor com mitments of the Coast Valley League as the main problems of the current system. " I'v e been working to form a league that would include Sandy. Estacada. Barlow, Gresham, the two Reynolds High Schools. Hood River and The Dalles." DeMarsh said. "W e could not only cut down our tran sportation costs without going to Astoria. Dallas and Sweet Home, but would end up with more activity riva lry and interest,” he said. With the federal Title IX legislation, school districts around the nation are introducing more sports activities for girls With increased activities for girls, this w ill mean even more expense and time away from school, said DeMarsh The board also continued discussion on curriculum development for the district. DeMarsh said the board heard reports from the science and mathematics departments in which emphasis was placed on offerings on the freshmen and sophomore levels. H ie board also heard about special programs and courses that are designed to give basic skills accomplishment as early as possible in the high school years, DeMarsh noted The school board w ill hold a work session on Thursday, Dec. 9, in order to continue discussion of the district's educational goals At their regular board meeting on Dec. 13. they will be hosting feeder elementary school board members This is an annual get-together in which the boards tiiscuss mutual programs and ideas Clean water workshop set at city hall A series of clean w ater workshops featuring citizen Involvement have been _ scheduled by the Columbia Region Association of Governments (C R A G ). (Mie of the workshops, designed to search out community attitudes and opinions on the subject of water pollution problems, w ill be held Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the Sandy City Hall Sandy M ayor Melvin Haneberg w ill host the meeting. The main feature of the workshop Is the form at which allows small discussion groups where sll ideas can be heard. "A record of participant comments w ill be used by the Project Clean W ater team to develop alternative solutions for the identified w ater pollution problems," a CRAG spokesman said "These w ill be used in development of a plan to handle the problem of wastewater " Team members w ill be on hand to ex plain the project, to go through the technical areas involved in simpler terms and to answer any questions. Some of the issues at hand are: how to pay for water treatm ent facilities, how much should be paid; and what type of problems are the moat visible M any of the results of the study w ill go to a broader area to help in water pollution problems CRAG has been designated by the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a p lan fo r tre a tm e n t of w a s te w a te r fro m ind u stries and households C la c k a m a s County C o m m is sio n e r Robert Schumacher said the candidacy of Independent Eugene Jackson in the election may have helped usher him into his third term on the commission " In a n a ly zin g the p recin cts he (Jackson) took, I think they w ere precincts where the vote would norm ally go to Cook. I think it was to my benefit." Nonetheless. Schumacher said he had a "genuine concern" before the election about Jackson's candidacy, explaining that Democrats are more likely to vote for an independent candidate than are Republicans Shumacher, a Democrat, said he an ticipated victory but was surprised by the margin of his victory. The Position 1 commissioner defeated challenger Robert C. Cook and Jackson Schumacher had 41.22S votes to Cook’s 27,253 and Jackson's 16,516 Schumacher, a proponent of the Land Conservation and Development Com mission (L C D C ), said the election showed that people "realize the value of land use planning M y opponent said, "G iv e government back to the people.' M y an sw er is, ‘W ho took it a w a y ’ ’ ” Schumacher said that land use planning is here to stay and that it is “ foolhardy" to elim inate it. He said that a statement by Position 3 Democratic candidate Ralph Groener in the last week of the campaign that his (Schumacher's) campaign was in serious troublecam e “ out of the blue." " I suppose it helped to get people working on my behalf," Schumacher said. Groener. who defeated incumbent Commissioner Thomas Telford by more than 20,000 votes said he foresees his term as commissioner as an “ opportunity to see some different things happen.” A veteran of the Oregon House. Groener, said he is thankful for the support he received in the campaign. " I don't think people w ill be sorry they supported me. ” He pledged to listen to and to work on behalf of persons in East Clackamas County and stressed the importance of communications and keeping in touch w ith his constituents. “ That was my style as a legislator and it w ill be m y style now.” he said. Groener said he was confident he would win the election, but added that he was surprised by the m argin of his victory. The thrill of victory Fawbush ousts incumbent After the votes were tallied last week. Wayne Fawbush understood what the th rill of victory was about. Fawbush. a Democrat, squeaked by incumbent state Rep Paul Walden in the Nov. 2 election to earn the District 56 seat. United Press International ( U P I) reported last week that Fawbush had 8,268 votes to Walden's 8,249 Fawbush said he has been working to w ard beatin g the R e p u b lica n representative for three and a half years Walden defeated Fawbush in 1974 with 6.069 votes to his 5.968. "One reason I won was because I ran before and established a lot of contacts,” said Fawbush Fawbush also said he believes taking strong stands on the issues helped him during the campaign " It's im portant to take positions," M id the 32-year-old photographer from Hood River. “ I tried to give reasons for a voter to vote for or aga inst me. ” Walden is president and general manager of radio station K IH R in Hood River. The race was a close one and Fawbush acknowledges that he obviously didn't get the votes of some Democrats, who are in the m ajo rity in District 56 He said the personal contact he made with voters was a plus in the campaign and that he proved it is possible to beat money with volunteers Fawbush said Walden outspent him in the campaign The representative-elect told The Post he plans to come to the Sandy area sometime in December to hear what's on the minds ofhis constituents. In the meantime, he's working on get ting his committee assignments for the upcom ing le g is la tiv e session. H e 's specifically interested in environment. energy, agriculture and natural resources. Long range planning for the state is Fawbush's m ain concern and that's what he plans to stress in office. Fawbush m ay be reached a t Rt. 2, 1246 Hood River. 97031 His phone num ber in the evenings is 354 1706 Correction Last week T h e Gresham Outlook and The Sandy Post printed a story saying the Columbia Region Association of Governments (C R A G ) and intergovernm ental cooperation statutes were repealed in the election. This was not correct The final vote on the measure was 327.693 in favor of the repeal and 516,231 opposed to it. t
