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Section SANDY. OREGON THURSDAY. MARCH 11. 1982 The Sdndy Post People Home & (¡arden Features Area News Mt. Hood plan to be reviewed tonight by MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent A citizens meeting to discuss pro posed revisions to the 1976 Mt Hood corridor comprehensive plan w ill be tonight at 7:30 p m at the Women's Club building in Zigzag The planning areas targeted by the revision extended from Alder Creek to the Clackamas County line at the summit of Mt Hood The plan must be updated every five years In addition to the required up dating of the plan. last December, when the Clackamas County Com prehensive Plan, of which the Com munity Plan is part, went before the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC> for approval, the county was instructed to further examine, with public input, four aspects of the plan. One of the areas to be reviewed concerns the undeveloped portion of the Hoodland Service District, which lies near Highway 26 and the old Brightwood I^oop Hoad The area south of Highway 26 is commonly referred to as Cedar Ridge, after a development that was proposed in the late sixties, which was defeated in court by a group of local citizens. North of Highway 26 and laying south of the Loop Road is the Alder- wood area This area has just recent ly be* n approved as a site for development of a mobile home sub division Levy for seniors is forum topic The three-year senior services serial levy w ill be discussed March 16 at a c o n tin e n ta l b re a k fa s t at Bowman's in Rippling River. Paul Gross, pastor of the Hoodland Lutheran Church and a member of the stearing com m ittee of the Hoodland Senior Center, w ill be the speaker. The breakfast w ill begin at 7:30 am . It was in both of these areas that the LCDC. after receiving testimony by residents and members of the En vironmental Committee On Suitabili ty. who were represented by 1000 Friends of Oregon, that the county was directed to identify any wetlands that may exist and determine how they are to be protected The LCDC also directed that any w e tla n ds o u tsid e the s e rv ic e district s boundaries that are not identified, should be designated as such and mapped In addition, the county is seeking input on issues concerning the excep tions to LCDC's goals numbers three, which deals with agriculture, and four.which concerns the forest It must be shown that areas outside the service district that are no longer available for farm and forest use. but are designated as such, must be already under development or else they are ‘ irrevocably committed or needed for other uses ” Also, the county must insure that there are no conflicts existing bet ween uses "allowed by a Plan designation on a site and uses allow- ed by zoning of the site ” The Mt Hood Plan is to be made clearer so that property owners know how land is classified In relation to density transfers, the planning staff has recommended that the follow ing standards for fragile or hazardous areas be accepted They have recommended that no density credit be allowed for the development of land within the 100 year floodplain A ll id entified land movement areas, wetlands, and slopes that ex ceed 20 percent should not be developed In these areas. 50 percent of the density "m ay be transferred to an unrestricted area.” Development also shall not occur within "streamside corridor areas ” They recommend that 100 percent of the density allowed by zoning be transferred to a non restrictive area in the development's site All citizen meetings for the plan's review w ill be held at the Hoodland Women’s Club in Zigzag at 7 :30 p m They are scheduled for Thursday, March 18, and Thursday. April 20 The citizen's meetings w ill allow residents to review and discuss the plan, as well as allow members of the planning staff to field questions and hear any suggestions and im provements to the plan On Monday, May 10 at 7:30 p m , the Planning Commission w ill hold a public hearing on the proposed plan and citizens may testify before the commissioners either orally or in writing. The Board of County Commis sioners w ill hold two open public hearings, which are scheduled for Wednesday, May 26 at 2 and 7 p m $160,000 motor coach catches fire by MICHAEL P JONES Post Correspondent An engine fire in a $160,000 181 • Wonderlodge” motor coach sent firefighters up the mountain early Saturday morning Chief Don A rm introut of the Hoodland Rural Fire Department said that his department was notified at 3:45 a in. of a bus fire just below Map Curve, a few miles west of Government Camp Armintrout said that the fire began in the vehicle’s engineer compart ment, and although the cause is still under investigation, it was possibly the result of mechanical problems. The vehicle's driver and owner. Lief Johnson of Bend, was alone at the time of the fire, and was stranded between the towns of Rhododendron and Government Camp when the blaze broke out. Arm introut said that he it took about ten minutes after discovering the fire to flag another vehicle down to get help e said that it took the passing motorist about ten minutes to drive down the mountain to notify the department. Once the department was notified it took 20 firefighters, three engines, one tanker and one rescue rig 13 minutes to reach the scene Please turn to Page 3. Taking advantage of the > arm weather last week to get in some time on their Hot Cycles are. from left to right. Corina Fischer, Becky Forbis and Sevena Forbis. They are the daughters of Al and Betty Fischer of Sandy. Fatal accident on Orient Drive re-enacted by MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent A private engineering firm has re enacted the Nov. 7 fatal car accident that killed a Clackamas County sh e riff’s deputy. Friday the vehicle that Deputy Jim m y L. Shoop was driving the night he was killed was returned to the scene of the accident for tests, which were to determine the speeds of the vehicles involved Lyle Mccuistion, a Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department com munity service officer, said that the fatal accident that killed the 35-year- old Shoop was re-enacted. He said that the information gathered from last F rid a y’s site work w ill be analyz ed in a laboratory ‘‘to determine the speeds of the vehicles involved in the collision and basically what happen ed.” Mccuistion said the results of the tests are expected to be completed in about two weeks. Shoop, a resident of Rockwood, was en route on Orient Drive to assist at a fatal accident a short distance from where he was killed He was struck by a vehicle being driven by 19-year-old Gaylyn May of Boring, who was driving northbound on a cutoff from Kelso. She was hospitalized at Portland Adventist Medical Center for facial injuries received during the mishap. Mccuistion said that May was later charged with second degree murder as a result of an investigation into the accident. He said that the case has yet to gone to tria l and he did not know whether the engineering tests would be used as evidence That same weekend there were a total of three motor vehicle accidents on that stretch of road, all within four miles of one another. Three persons died as a result of those collisions Shoop was the first Clackamas County deputy to be k ill ed while on duty in 75 years 8 mg. "tar". 0.7 mg. nicotine av. per cigarette by FTC method KUMI U V 'V K W ilfs Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health 11 > •fa?» <L ^ B H B //Z ^^^B i
