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The Sandy Post
SANDY OREGON THURSDAY APRU 30 1981
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I lood tavern
nabbed in raids
on video games
City begins process
for plan compliance
A Mount Hood area tavern was
among 17 Oregon businesses which
housed allegedly illegal video games
seized recently, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation announced last Thursday.
I he FBI seized video games at the
Barlow Trail Inn. Zigzag, as well as at
16 other Portland area businesses and
fraternal organizations' lodges.
The games, which were modified to
make money payoffs according to
search warrants obtained by the FBI,
included coin-operated video games
capable of playing card games, slot
machine games and number games
similar to Keno, said Robert S. Gast II,
I* BI agent in charge of the Oregon of
fice, in a written statement.
The city of Sandy will accept a 90 day
the city should project year 2000 hous
continuance offered by Land Conserva
ing stock by type, and determine that it
tion and Development Commission has sufficient land area in each density
(LCDC) staff to correct deficiencies
classification to meet the identified
noted by the staff in its review of the ci needs
ty ’s Comprehensive Plan
I be Oregon Manufactured Housing
The formal LCD(’ action is scheduled Dealers Association (OMDHA) ob
for tomorrow. May 1, but the extra 90 jected to the city's plan because it does
I days w ill give the city time to make the
not allow mobile homes everywhere in
necessary changes in order to bring the the city However. LCDC staff accepts
plan into compliance.
Hie city s approach but requires that it
Specifically, LCDC staff wanted the be more specific in the plan and or
city to insure that its ordinances back dinance provisions.
up what is conceptualized in the plan.
L( DC staff found that the city's plan
< ity staff spent last week reviewing the
was deficient in the protection of
objections and complicance issue rais
historic resources and implementing
ed by L( DC staff and determinedthat
measures for the provision of open
while they are "relatively minor from
space areas in the city, particularly in
the standpoint of how they affect the af
the lickle Creek (Greenway
fairs of the c ity." according to its
In order to comply with that LCDC
report, the city should take steps to rec goal, Goal 5, city staff recommends a
tify the situation The report adds that
requirements that the city adopt
90 days should be "an adequate time policies requiring protection or resolu
fram e."
tion of conflict with identified historic
A review suggests that compliance sites. It also recommends adopting im
may be gained by modifying two plan plementing measures to protect or
policies, adding two more, adding to the
resolve conflicts with identified historic
inventory material and factual base of sites and all areas designated open
the plan and through minor changes to
space and including Tickle Creek
ordinances and the Dual Interest Greenway
Agreement with ( lackamas County.
Staff also recommends that the city
The greatest amount of work re adopt a process where the planning
quired for compliance is in (Goal 10.
commission and city council would hold
dealing with housing Basically, city
public hearings to consider a demoli
staff must provide greater detail in its
tion or alteration to an historic struc
inventory and be more specific and ture 1 he city would also have to
clear in several of its implementing or
specify the standards it would use in the
dinances, according to City Planner review
Don Wilson, who prepared the city
Sandy has a Dual Interest Agreement
staff's recommendations for the city
with Clackamas County to jointly
council and planning commission
manage lands outside the city limits but
The L( D( staff is not convinced
within the urban growth boundary This
that our ordinances w ill actually ac
policy allows the city a degree of con
complish what they are intended to do." trol in this area prior Io annexation
Wilson said "We conclude that their
In one provision of the agreement, the
concerns can be met within the wording must be strengthened to re
framework of our adopted city council
quire that land become "immediate ur
policy with the prim ary changes being
ban upon annexation as opposed to the
in wording in the ordinances ’’
option currently expressed in the agree
I o fu lfill the inventory requirements, ment today
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I lie E BI also seized records and
money and has served federal grand
jury subpoenas in its continuing in
v e s tig a tio n . w hich began last
November.
No arrests have been made, but the
investigation is continuing, according
to FBI spokesmen
Volcanic blast
set fo r Hood
on anniversary
Oregon will mark the anniversary of
Mount St Helens’ May 1« eruption by
staging one of its own — a simulated
one on Mount Hood
Mount Hood may not be up to produc
ing the violent explosion that ripped her
neighbor in Washington, but state
government agencies still want to be
prepared for remotely possible minor
bouts with mud. pyroclastic flows and
ash clouds.
I he mock eruption, planned by the
state Emergency Services Division,
l.eta Alim a in saw the idea for the the
w ill test a new Oregon volcano
vary outside, her home keeps a const
emergency plan, officials said. State
and local agencies are working on the
Mount Hood Interagency Volcanic
• oordination Plan, which was called
for by Gov. Vic Atiyeh.
The title of that emergency plan may
be bigger than anything that may come
out of the mountain, however. The
In early 1979 Howard and Leta All-
governor called for the plan after US
I main were thinking of building a
Geological Survey warning last rum
new home The tax service they
mer that Mount Hood presents a poten
j operate in Sandy had proven suc-
tial volcanic hazard
i cessful but the daily commute from
(Geologically Mount Hood is much,
Portland had proven to be a grind
much different than Mount St Helens ”
Leta was window shopping
according to Pat Kelly, one of the coor I through magazines when she came
dinators of the disaster d rill scheduled
i across a new idea in housing in Bet
May 18 to test the plan "The mst Mount
ter Homes and Cardens magazine —
Hood could tie expected to have would
the thermal envelope'' home
b« minor ash eruptions or minor mud
I just had a feeling it would work
Hows or minor pyroclastic flows, rather
and I just never doubted it," she
than the violence of St. Helens ’’
said. Now, after living in their new
It is believed that Mount Hood last
I house for eight months, her opinion
erupted in the mid l«nos. although little
| hasn’t wavered. " I ’m sold on this
historical information is available
house."
I he May 18 d rill w ill involve 34 agen
The thermal envelope home is a
cies and at least 100 people And while
passive solar structure which main-
the plan includes roadblocks, evacua
ta in s
c o m fo rta b le
in d o o r
tion and w arnings blared from
The greenhouse gathers warm air
temperatures year round Air flows
helicopter loudspeakers, none of those
which
is circulated throughout the
in a l(x>p through an air space that
emergency measures will actually be
house without mechanics.
acts as a buffer between the All-
carried out during the drill. Kelly said
mains and the weather
Instead, the d rill will test interagency
greenhouse during the cooler mon
The home, on Music Camp Road in
ths That warmed air rises, drawing
communications and the operations at
Sandy,
has
the
p h y s ic a l
cooler air behind it from a crawl
coordination centers, said Kelly Local
characteristics of a traditional
space below the house
coordination w ill be through thé Mount
passive
solar
home
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south
facing
Hood National Forest Service Head
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Then, when the heated air reaches
greenhouse, very few northern win
the upper lim its of the greenhouse,
quarters in Portland State coordina
dows and plenty of insulation.
it s d ra w n th ro u g h the a ir
Hon will be through an emergency com
It also has something extra — a se
munications center in the basement of
passageway
between the roofs,
cond skin
down the the north wall of the house
the state capitol in Salem
In the Allmains home, the skin
and back into the crawl space
W a s h in g to n s ta le o ffic ia ls have ex-
that faces the outside temperatures
where it heats backfill spread atop
pressed an interest in observing the ex-
ercise
I is not the skin that surrounds the liv
the structure's foundation
ing space The two are separated by
Thus, the Allmains have an
The plan grew out of last summer's
a foot wide air space that acts as a
envelope of warm air — which is
seismic activity on Mount Hood The
heat transfer system Because there
mountain experienced from 50 to 75
is no forced air system, there aren’t
very small quakes” that registered
any annoying drafts
less than 3 o on the Richter scale, accor
’ ’ E v e ry th in g
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p re tty
ding to Kelly
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temperate." I^ ta said "You can lav
Scientists have determined that while
down on the floor and feel like you
some further activity is possible, it pro
have a blanket over you "
bably w ill not be thé violent eruptions
Eight double-strength angled win
and lateral blasts that marked the
dows, sliding windows across the
Mount St Helens explosion. Kelly said
He added that the agencies now plan
I front of the greenhouse and eight
transom windows collect the sun's
only one disaster d rill unless they run
heat as it beats down on the
into serious internal problems
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Fire district budget
Home enveloped by sun’s heat follows plan outline
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the windows because of its angle
Whatever heat does collect, rises
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transom windows.
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work your system."
Being a "pioneer up in this neck of
the woods, according to Ix*ta, led to
some initial difficulties, such as fin
ding a designer and builder fam iliar
with the thermal envelope design
C hristm as Eve last year,
Howard got on the telephone, calling
different places to see if they had a
design for a passive solar home "
she recalled "He called Allan Jef
fries and asked him, and he said. ‘I
have one on the board right now,’
and son of a gun, it was an envelope
home ”
Finding a designer led to another
problem - getting permits "Allan
practically camped on Clackamas
County's doorstep," she said "You
have to educate these people."
Bill Brugnoli, who coordinated the
Sandy tour of solar homes for the
OMSI Energy Center and Columbia
Solar Energy Association, agreed
What s stopping more homes like
this is ignorance "
Construction of the 1.500 square
foot home was about J60.000 And
heating bills since then have been I
virtually non-existant
I m so sold on this house, I really
don t know what to tell you," I.eta
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chance to look for itself
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The home w ill be one of nine stops
next Sunday. May to. on a self
guided tour of Sandy area solar
wind and hydro sites as part of an
Earth Week celebration Tickets for
the tour, from 1-5 p m., are 15 per
vehicle and may be purchased at
The Sandy Post
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mis year, but it w ill not have to seek
mat division provides the prog
voter approval to get it.
fire suppression and rescue
The district is in its second year
training and emphasizes safety
under the district Comprehensive Plan ficiency
for I* ire and First Aid Protection As a
The maintenance division, mi
result, the district won't have to go to
hy Battalion (’hief Wayne 1
the voters for approval of additional
would receive *63.307 under the I
funds other than those provided in its
officer’s proposal
tax base, which was approved last
Emergency medical services
year.
sion. under the direction of Ron <
There w ill be a budget hearing,
would receive *37.825
however, to discuss district finances It
The fire prevention division, m
will be held this Tuesday, May 5, at 7:30
ed by Fire Prevention Officer
p m in the mam fire station
Gallagher, would reveive *37 «66
The 6 percent increase in the general
I he administrative budget wot
fund raises the amount to *506,000, *223.551.
which is expected to produce a tax rate
The building fund budget. *5
of approximately *2 28 per *1,000 of
represents an estimate of the c<
assessed valuation The proposed debt
projects involving construction o
service fund levy totals *112.070, which ■Nandy station, which are not exp<
would produce a tax rate of approx
to be completed by June 30 As sue!
imately 50 cents per *1,000 assessed ‘
district is required to show the m<
valuation
as carrover and include them ir
The debt service is higher than pro
fiscal year in which they w ill be si
jected last year, because the district
There is no tax levy this year foi
has to make up an interest payment
building fund
that came due during the fiscal year
but wasn't budgeted for
Also, the district’s board of directors
has directed that one half of an unap
propriated ending balance be levied
this year, with the remaining to be
levied next year This allows the
district to meet future bond payments
SECTION I
without having to resort to short term
borrowing each year, according to Fire ' Keeping Posted .,
Inside Business
( hief Bob Rathke
School Menus
This combined levy of *620.870 will be
Senior ( enter News
eligible for state aid of 30 percent -
Editorials. Letters ..
about *152.000
Public Notices
Budget for the operations division is
recommended as *78.913 That division
SECTION II
managed by Assistant (’hief Gary Con
Area News .......
nelly manages the emergency services
Around the County
of the fire district, within the guidelines
About People ...
established by the board of directorsk
Home and Garden
to insure that the public w ill receive the
highest level of emergency services
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possible Operations also manages the
Sports, Recreation,.
support services provided by the
Television Directory inside
fire district divisions, to insure
efficient daily operations.
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