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Thur» Aug 17, 177» (fee D SANDY (O re ) FOSΗ 3 County space planners say offices should centralize Staff photo More power plants for Bull Run? HYDROELECTRIC GENERATORS such as this one on the Bull Run River may be installed at Bull Run Dams 1 and 2. The Water Policy Review Board will conduct a public hearing Aug. 18 to determine whether or not to install the generators which would supply street and public lighting for Portland. The hearing will be at 9 a.m. in the Water Service Building Auditorium in Portland. by JOHN DEAN OREGON C ITY - Clackamas County’s Space P lanning C om m ittee is recom m ending that the county plan to centralize mo6t of its offices in the Red Soils area of Oregon City. The committee voted on the recommendation last Wednesday, and its chair person, Phil Balsiger, a Wilsonville architect, w ill present the committee’s reasoning to the board of county commissioners on T h u r s d a y .T h e com missioners are expected to vote on the recommendation at the same time. County offices are currently scattered among four sites in Oregon City, the Marylhurst campus in West Linn, and Milwaukie. The courthouse in downtown Oregon City is regarded as badly overcrowded. Facility Sciences Corp, of Beverly Hills, which is the county’s consultant on space planning, estim ates the county c u rre n tly needs 212,000 feet of office space, compared to the 156,000 square feet the county now owns or rents. The consultants estimate the county w ill need 276,000 square feet by 1980 and almost 500,000 square feet by 2000. Sandy River petitions OK’d Clackamas County has approved the application of three property owners to have erosion prevention devices built on the banks of the Sandy River to protect their waterfront homes Jim Kitchen, Dwight Baum and R ichard Surface applied to have ripraps or jetties built on portions of the Sandy River west of Dodge Park following last winter’s destruction high water. Although the Aug 10 decision clears the way for the protective devices, the beginning of construction may still be some time in the future. Before bids are sent out the Division of State Lands must approve the per mit. Another obstacle is the application of several property owners in Rhododendron and Zigzag to have sim ilar devices built in their area. According to Ed Olmsted of the Soil Conservation Service, the bids won t be sent out for just the Sandy project; if approved, the Zigzag and Rhododen dron sites would have to be included. The hearing for those sites is Aug. 24 at 7 p.m in the Clackamas County Courthouse. A final delay may come from people who originally opposed approval of the permit. They have until Aug 25 to appeal the decision made by the county hearings officer. “ Not many people really opposed the perm it,” Olmsted said. ‘‘They just wanted to be included, although I ’m not sure that they can at this late date.” ‘ - . . a. In the meantime, the Sandy River area property owners are holding their breath, hoping that construction may begin soon and that their banks w ill hold up in the meantime. Jim Kitchen is the man whose home is in greatest jeopardy. December's high water washed away his only bank protection, and continued to chew away another 15-25 feet of his property. His home now stands almost directly above the river. “ I ’m under the gun right now,” Kitchen said. “ By the time they issue the permit, it w ill probably be too late to do anything this year.” “ I t ’s getting really frustrating,’’ he added. •*» • Statewide group opposes ‘measure 6’ A new statewide com mittee has been formed to work for the defeat of measure 6, the Whittenburg Property Tax Initiative, which w ill appear on the Nov. 7 ballot. The Committee to Defeat Ballot measure 6 was formed from the Oregon Tax Relief Committee. A committee spokesman this week said the organization believes tax relief is vital but that measure 6 is “ badly flawed’ in its approach to the problem. Formation of the com mittee was announced by co- chairmen Stafford Hansel and Roger M artin. The committee is com prised of “ Oregonians from the grass roots who represent a broad range of interests from labor, far mers and homebuilders to senior citizens. “ These people realize that measure 6 — almost a carbon copy of C a lifo rn ia ’s The plan adopted by the committee was one of four alternatives presented by F acility Sciences. Two of the others would have split county offices between downtown Oregon City and Red Soils, on the south edge of the city, while the last would have located a ll county offices on an entirely new site. S taff assistant Don W illiams said the committee felt county offices should be centralized rather than split. While members seemed to feel a new site would be ideal, he said, the committee feared voters would object to giving up the land the county now owns at Red Soils. Under the proposed plan, the Environmental Services Department w ill remain in its building on Abernathy Road in Oregon City, while service centers fo r the Dr. Robert D. Schouten Proposition 13, is the wrong answer for Oregon,” he said. Optometrist Hansel and Martin stated that “ because of the flaws in the measure, its passage would underm ine local co ntrol, send more tax d o lla rs to the federal government, jeopardize the state’s home loan program fo r veterans and the Homeowners and Renters Relief program.” Announcas the relocatlon of his office to: CEDAR PLAZA BUILDING 39400 Pioneer, Sondy, OR • Vision Exominotion» • Pre«crlp»loo«'fllled • • Fothlon Fromea 8 Tlnted Lenaea • Contoc» Lensea: Hord 8 Soft PHONE 668*4313 or 668-7143 Welches students to register R e g istra tio n fo r k in dergarten, first grade and all new students at Welches School w ill be held next week, Aug. 21 - 25 from 9 a m. to 3p.m. Parents of all new students are required to bring a birth c e rtific a te , im m unization card signed by a physician or public health officer, and a completed physical form. -8BH8P TBRm Over 300 guns! Only 10% over wholesale cost! 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Sot. 8:30-6:30 Human Resources Depart ment w ill be located in Oregon City, Marylhurst and the North Clackamas area F a c ility S c ie n c e s estimated the co6t of the plan to be between $26 m illion and $31 million. The committee attached several “ conditions’* to the recom m endation before approving it: 1) The county should not sell any of 100 acres of land it now owns at Red Soils Consultants have told the county the 100 acres is more than enough to accomodate county offices through the year 2000 2) The county should im m e d ia te ly provide a second route to Red Soils from Molalla Avenue. All traffic bound for Red Soils m ust now tra v e l along W a r n e r - M iln e R oad. “ Molalla and Warner-Milne is one of the worst in tersections in Oregon City,” Williams said. 3) The county should sell the present courthouse on 8th and M ain in downtown Oregon C ity. W illia m s suggested a h is to ric a l museum or Oregon City city governm ent offices as possible uses of the court house. 4) The county should not leave the courthouse until it finds a buyer. A fter the county com missioners approve a plan. F a c ility Sciences w ill develop a more precise office plan, Williams said. The consultants w ill also develop a financing plan for the construction, he said. The county should receive both plans by late September. W illiams said Williams suggested the county might try contracting a private developer to build the offices, then lease them with an option of purchasing, as an alternative to a bond issue Federal funding might also be available for the project, he said. “ We’re looking at least five years down the road before anything begins,” Williams said. Williams admitted that “ Measure 6 certainly w ill have an im pact” on any county building plans Highway to be repaired Construction of a three- lane section over a rough section of Highway 212 (C la c k a m a s H ig h w a y ), between 1-206 and Boring road, was approved this week by the Oregon Tran sportation Commission. Approximately $165,000 of State Construction funds to construct a three lane sec- OLCC store hours change The OLCC store at Welches has changed its hours, ac cording to store operator Jacque Kary The new hours are 11 a m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Saturday; F rid ay’s hours are 11 a m to 8 p.m. Also, the hours for days preceding national and state holidays (except New Year’s and Christmas Eve) w ill be from 11 a m. to 8 p.m. tion, with the middle lane being a continuous left-turn lane. The entire job had been scheduled for funding under various categories in the past, but the road classification has changed and became ineligible for funding under the categories listed. It was also scheduled for funding under the Six- Year Highway Improvement Program if the two proposed tax measures passed The Commission was told that the proposed work would not be a deterrent to com pleting the job if funds did become availab le in the future. Ron Norquist 38720 P r o c to r Blvd. Pleeeer Square tan4y Oregon 448-4327 “I can help you get the most from your life insurance dollar." Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there S lM f«rm L'*e lr>$ur*nce Comper, Home OWlv* B'O-xr "glor lllmoii
