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2 SANDY (Ora I POST Thu«» July 30 1987 tSot I) The Sandy Post Editorial & Opini I 5EE ibe faa ^ FINAliy PEUPfP 10 coNFR°nr the CROWPEP 6-KV P R o ß E E H -__ New zoning might benefit downtown The Sandy City Council should approve an ordinance that would amend the Sandy Municipal Code to allow some in dustrial uses in downtown Sandy. Scott N e w to n , e d ito r K a rin d a H e d lu n d , a d v e rtis in g re p re s e n ta tiv e ..-600 rApH The ordinance is the culmination of about two years of brainstorming by the City Council and city staff. Its intent is to allow quiet, clean and non-polluting businesses to locate in va cant buildings downtown. Supporters say the measure would increase the number of people who work - and thus shop and spend money - in San dy’s core area. The ordinance allows for the assembly or manufacture of merchandise or food products. It also would allow develop ment, research and testing laboratories and offices. One portion of the ordinance, however, should be changed. The ordinance, in its present form, would allow warehousing and storage facilities in the downtown area. While mini-storage facilities are popular and revenue- producing, they are not needed downtown. They are primarily a combination of driveways, warehouse-type buildings anil chain-link fence. They would not employ many people and would not be of any benefit to merchants downtown. Eliminating storage facilities from the ordinance also would address the concern raised by businessman Dale Nicholls at the recent public hearing on the issue. He was concerned that downtown Sandy could be turned into a warehousing district, he envisioned increased truck traffic in the core area. i But the ordinance’s first two provisions, which allow light manufacturing and offices for research or other purposes, might just help provide jobs. In addition, there is a safety valve built into the measure. Any non-commercial uses downtown would have to be appi ov- ed by the Planning Commission and the City Council. It would be up to the people on those boards to find out if a business would be compatible with other businesses in the area. Downtown Sandy is never going to revert to the ideal downtown some of us would like. The modern world is depen dent on the automobile, and Sandy is divided by a major east- west highway. But this measure may help boost the size of the work force downtown, and that would be good for the community. Oregon business elimate improves employers and low benefits for the in jured worker. Second, for the firs t tim e in recent history, Oregon reduced personal and corporate income tax rates Some 647,(MX) Oregonians w ill pay less personal income taxes Cor porate taxes, now in the mid-range among states, w ill drop to the lower third by GOV. N E II, GOLDSCHMIDT Special 1« The Post Much has been said over the last decade about the need to improve Oregon's business clim ate Rightly or wrongly, this state has acquired a reputation for being unresponsive to the needs of business. One measurement of a state's business climate is the cost of doing business For many years, Oregon's costs have been co m p arative ly higher than the national average in several important areas That is one reason so many ( iregon businesses closed down or moved out of state in the earlier part of this decade, when Oregon had the fourth highest bankruptcy rate in the coun try The 1987 leg isla tu re took concrete steps to cut the cost of doing business in Oregon, and showed a real w ill ingness to reform laws that hinder business development These changes could make the d if ference in the survival of one of Oregon's most im portant economic assets an existing business F irst, the Legislature reformed the workers' compensation system to reverse the trend of high rates for the Third, a single agency w ill now regulate insurance and financial in stitutions and w ill report directly to me This w ill help lower the cost of doing business and provide tough in surance regulation Fourth, Oregon's corporate code was revised anil sim plified to make it easier for businesses to incorporate. This legislation demonstrates that state government w ill listen to the problems of business and respond with answers that work These actions, combined with our quality of life, natural attractions and the productivity of Oregonians, are a m ajor boost to the state’ business image There is s till much to be done, but we are headed in the right direction Our resources are better focused, and the state's a bility to help rebuild Oregon’s economy has been unprov ed Nutrition a matter of cook’s definition Hubs and I had a discussion about nutrition the other day He lost Starch was the subject of the con versation and it cropped up because I took pity on him and decided to cook him a dinner Meals and menu planning at our house work this way Whoever is home that day Hubs or me does the cooking. “ On the days she works, I cook din n er," Hubby explained to somebody the other day And on the days she doesn't work, she goes out for dinner." Occasionally I foul up and go out to dinner on his night to cook. Nothing brightens Hubby's day more than getting a night off in the kitchen Of course he s till has to cook dinner for himself, but that is a simple matter He fixes steak and cantaloupe “ Steak is my protein and can taloupe is my vegetable, " he says smugly, pointing out that he took a course in nutrition in college and I didn't But back to the starch On the night l promised to cook dinner I had fried Sharon Nesbrt chicken and potato salad Why can't we have g ra v y ’’ ” came the plaintive cry Hubs loves fried chicken gravy. I carefully explained to him that it was summer and in summer we have potato salad with our chicken, and potato salad is a starch and if we were to have potatoes and gravy as well that would be two starches three a c tu a lly ; gravy is no slouch in the starch department) and three starches are too many for people whose buttons pop off w ith startling regularity. He digested a ll that for a few moments and said, “ Who made those rules anyway’’ “ If I were running things," he m ut tered, "w e could have two starches if we wanted to ." Things have really gone to pot, in more ways than one, since our children left the house and we don't have to set a good example anymore When the kids were young and im pressionable, we ate from all the basic food groups I fretted if there were two yellow foods on the plate. We d utifu lly ate brussels sprouts, spinach and squash The only tim e we strayed from the stric t path of good nutrition was when we ate out and gorget! on french fries and ham burgers The theory was that if we taught our children good habits they would ca rry them down the same dietary path to adulthood That worked reasonably well with No. 1 Kid. But what No. 2 Kid learned from a ll our effort was that he preferred a cuisine of french fries anil hamburgers. Once he left the shelter of our roof, his lips never touched vegetables again, with the occasional exception of a leaf or two of iceberg lettuce We had led him to believe that he would grow big and ta ll on a diet of leafy, green vegetables. After he left our house and took up a steady diet of fast food, he grew about a foot A mother's mind plays funny tricks To this day, every tim e I see him I ’m surprised he is so tall No. 2 Kid is too nice a person to ac cuse us of trying to stun4 his growth with brussels sprouts, but we know he believes it. We've pretty much shucked all the dietary rules in our house except one: lie or she who cooks makes the rules. That's why we didn't have gravy w ith the potato salad the last tim e I cooked And Hubs knows it. It took the starch right out of him Vetoes good news, bad news package by JACK ZIM MERM AN Associated Oregon Industries About three weeks after each re g u la r session of the Oregon leg isla tu re , a bit of good news-bad news emanates from the State Capitol in Salem The event stems from one of those constitutional checks and balances in government and invovles guber natorial vetoes of certain measures enacted by the legislature And it often occurs at that par ticu la r tune because the Governor has 20 days, excluding Sundays, after each sesson in which to sign bills or they become law w ith o u t his signature Of course vetoes can be overrid den. But only by a tw o-third votes in both House and Senate Bills are seldom vetoed d u rin g sessions, thereby tem porarily precluding an override. Tem porarily, because con sideration of vetoes is always the firs t order of substantive business whenever the Assembly reconvenes in special session or meets again for the next regular session Gov Neil Goldschmidt issued his firs t version of the gixwl news-bad „ , l l K 'l l t s news package last week In the pro cess he nixed 15 of he more than 1 ,(MM) measures enacted by the 64th Assembly earlie r this year Vetoes are referred to as having good and bad potential because they nearly always involve controversial subjects and vetoes generally please those who oppose the measure and displease those who sought its passage. In itia l r e a c tio n to G ov. Goldschmidt's 15 vetos appeared to be one of surprise, considering the perception that he had worked in ex c e p tio n a l h a rm o n y w ith th is Assembly On the other hand, his veto messages explained his action in detail and for the most part were aimed at substantiating efforts to protect voters' rights and m aintain distinct separation of powers among branches of government In several instances the Governor actually favored the main thrust f several of the vetoed bills but killed them because of flaws that he and his staff figured were more damaging than the good parts. In other instances he indicated he would work to obtain s im ila r or the same re s u lts a d m in is tr a tiv e ly without strict statutory provisions Yet another reason he gave for several vetoes was the perception the proposals would create unnecessary and e x c e s s iv e ly e x p e n s iv e bureaucracy. No one is offering odds on whether any of Goldschmidt's vetoes w ill be overridden when the Assembly next gathers in Salem But it's interesting to note that the 64th Assembly did override four Atiyeh vetoes during this year's session While 15 m ight appear to be a large number of vetoes, readers only have to recall that two years ago then-Gov. Vic Atiyeh interdicted 32 measures and excised portions of three more F o llo w in g th e le n g th y and calamitous 1983 session he killed 40 and utilized line-item power on yet another. It's interesting also to observe that Goldschmidt did not utilize line-item or partial veto power, and that restraint may have been prompted by the fact the courts are s till ponder ing a final decision on a partial veto levied by Atiyeh in 1983 Altogether, Atiyeh - only the fourth Governor to serve through fo u r b ie n n ia l sessions of the leg isla tu re — exercised his veto power 112 tim es That puts him se cond on the a ll-tim e veto list, exceed ed only by Gov Oswald West, who axed 72 in 1911 and another 41 in 1913 for a total of 113 in only two sessions More modern comparisons reveal that fo rm e r Gov. Bob S traub's highest number of vetoes was 20 in 1977 The late Tom McCall vetoed a high of 16 in 1973 and form er Gov M ark Hatfield vetoed '23 in 1963 The constitutional provision for such action empowers Governors “ . . to veto single items in ap propriation bills, and any provision in new bills declaring an emergency, without thereby affecting any other provision of such a b ill." Atiyeh construed the language to perm it excising a portion of any bill w ith the e m e rg e n c y c la u s e , le g is la tiv e counsel opined instead that it meant veto of the emergency clause only A lawsuit followed and the Court of Appeals last spring sided with le g isla tive counsel The issue is now before the Supreme Court by Aduni Knift The Sandy Post (L SI’S 4H1 1«<>> WIU«I, O-»» »«»«.»POP»' '„IP *>> ■ O' » .o .» « * m u «*•' .» -,. ’«•«■»POP»' *»«<» »'"• u ' ' “kvbaP o.. p ...' o « . pom | • » .« 668 5548 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ir, C lo rfco m a« C O v " '* p » ' »•<»« t* 00 M j l ’ n n m n k f m<nly $10 00 I («•««Ko> • <« O 'o ç o ', tn In M o r l k w t V O»,<4 P«X • •< r • •«* S»O»O» O u ' i i « O o q . '" PO' *0 O ' $14.00 Ow»« 4 o N n r ' k o M ' O' I Po« • •« C o o * ’ S 'o 'o « po> * o o ' »17 00 Sandy Po»I Sandy dragon 97055 No 31 so ________ July 30 1987 I L
