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One of the most dramatic standoffs in the history of the
Cold War begins as the Soviet Union blocks all road and
rail traffi c to and from West Berlin. The blockade turned
out to be a terrible diplomatic move by the Soviets, while
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The Month Ahead
Through Saturday, July 30
Legos, from the private collection of Darren and JoDene
Summers, on display at the Keizer Heritage Museum and
at the Keizer Community Library. Museum hours: Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thrursday, 2-4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
keizerheritage.org.
Coming up...
Tickets now on sale for Wizard of Oz at Historic Grand
Theatre (191 High St., Salem)
Perfromances are
Wednesday-Sunday from July 22 to August 28. Tickets are
$20 and $30. enlightenedtheatrics.org.
Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26
Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association 36th annual
swap meet, Antique Powerland. Buy, sell or swap antique
engines, farm equipment, tools accessories and more.
Admission is $6. Visit branch15edgeta.org for meet hours.
Saturday, June 25
Deepwood Estate Wine and Jazz Fest, 4-9 p.m. Local
wine and food. Entertainment by Gail Gage Jazz and
Island Jaz Quartet. Admission is $15, $12 for members.
deepwoodmuseum.org.
Saturday, June 25 – Sunday, June 26
World Beat Festival, experience world customs, traditions,
ethnic foods, crafts, discussions, demonstrations, children’s
activities, three parades, and dragon boat racing. Join us
as we celebrate the food, music and culture of Cuba with
special exhibits and performances throughout the weekend.
Riverfront Park in Salem. www.worldbeatfestival.org.
Lincoln City Summer Kite Festival, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., D River
State Recreation Area. Free. oregoncoast.org.
Sunday, June 26
McMinnville Garden Club presents its 16th Garden Tour
and Faire. Includes fi ve private gardens, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Garden Faire will be held on 3rd and Cowls Streets in
downtown. Garden tour is $10 per person. Garden Faire is
free. mcminnvillegardenclub.org.
Tuesday, June 28
Keizer Network of Women (KNOW) meeting. Keizer
Quality Suites, 5188 Wittenberg Lane N.E. Noon. $13 if
partaking in lunch.
Keizer Public Arts Commission meeting, 6 p.m. 930
Chemawa Road N.E.
Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700
State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday, June 29
Artistic Line and Wash workshop, at Keizer Art Association,
teaches classic techniques. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost is $85.
keizerarts.com.
Saturday, July 2
Artists’ reception at Keizer Art Association for July exhibit,
Water Water Everywhere at Enid Joy Mount Gallery, 2-4
p.m. Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Road N.E.
Saturday, July 2 – Monday, July 4
NW Civil War Council stages its annual civil war
reenactment. The location has changed to Antique
Powerland on Brooklake Road between River Road
and Interstate 5. Weekend includes camps, battles and
demonstrations. Battles scheduled for 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
each day. Admission is $12; free for children under 12.
nwcwc.org.
Friday, July 8
Pentacle Theater presents The Aliens, a comedy-drama, by
Annie Baker (it’s not about Martians). Runs through July
30. For show dates and times visit pentacletheatre.org.
Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com.
until the August 1 city council meeting to
supply more detailed plans.
Residents would then have until August
29 to submit written rebuttals. The city
council will debate and vote on the matter
in September.
The redevelopment of the property
was the hottest topic of the meeting with
presentations, public testimony, staff input
and council questions taking up nearly
three hours.
In addition to developer Mark Grenz
and Joe Herber, a son of the property
owners, speaking in support of the rezoning
request, 19 residents from throughout the
city offered up testimony opposing the
application.
“What my mother wanted was for her
children and grandchildren to get the
best education they can. Development of
property would to be used to educate (the
family),” said Herber.
Opponents suggested traffi c, school
impacts and livability issues were still
reasons to deny the rezoning after bringing
up many of the same issues two years ago.
“(The plans) are a little prettier and a
little nicer, but all they did was push the
buildings around,” said Karen Okada, a
nearby resident.
In offering the city staff's take on the
application for rezoning, Brown said the
application meets the requirements set
forth by the city.
Traffi c impacts of the proposed
apartments were the most frequently
cited concern from those offering public
testimony, but Brown said that both
Chemawa Road Northeast and Dearborn
Avenue Northeast are at the lower end of
their maximum capacity.
“Both streets are minor arterials capable
of handling between 7,000 and 20,000
trips per day. In the traffi c study we con-
ducted two months ago, Chemawa regis-
tered about 8,800 trips in a day and Dear-
born didn't even meet the minimum at
6489 trips,” Brown said.
Brown also highlighted the changes
made since the original application includ-
ing landscaped berms, reoriented and rede-
signed buildings and larger setbacks. Most
of the points were met with murmurs of
disagreement among the citizens in atten-
dance.
Brown also suggested city staff support-
ed the inclusion of higher-density housing
near the city core rather than the outskirts
of town.
“The question is: where would the most
appropriate place to locate the additional
density? Staff thinks it is better in the cen-
tral part of the city. There's access to bus
routes, the business quadrants and com-
muter and pedestrian routes,” Brown said.
Plans change, fears remain
41 total students to Kennedy
Elementary School, Claggett
Creek Middle School and
McNary High School, but
Okada took issue with the
rest of the impacts.
“In their letter, (the school
meet the need didn’t fl y with
district) suggests that the de-
nearby resident Judith Odle.
“We already have 405 veloper should provide paved
apartments, 105 mobile walk routes to allow access.
homes, three churches, four Right now, the two streets
schools and Keizer Little leading from the proposed
League Park in a six-block apartments to Kennedy do
radius. We’ve got a lot al- not have sidewalks, but that
is not part of their proposal.
ready,” Odle said.
Her husband, Larry Odle It is another cost the city will
questioned whether the have to bear,” Okada said.
Several opponents said the
time being spent on rezon-
ing couldn’t be spent more owners’ proposal to donate a
tax lot west of the develop-
wisely.
ment to the
“Couldn’t
city for use as a
we have come
park was disin-
up with a so- “I don’t
genuous.
lution
that
“The prop-
benefi tted the want the
erty to be do-
community
nated is pretty
and still get impact this
much under
the Herbers
water during
their inheri- is going to
the rainy sea-
tance?”
he
have on our
son. I’m won-
asked.
dering
how
The
is-
community.”
you could do
sue of the
with
city purchas-
— Paul Elder much
that
property,”
ing the prop-
Keizer resident
said Marylin
erty came up
Prothero.
tangentially
Testimony also focused
throughout the proceed-
ings. After the hearing ended, repeatedly around proposed
much of the packed house apartment designs. While
fi led out of chambers and no Grenz offered up potential
one spoke when the council previews of the structures
opened up another hearing in his presentation, the land
on suggestions for using and would likely be sold to an-
estimated $325,000 in funds other developer if the rezone
the city will receive shared is approved, at which point it
would be up to the new de-
state revenues.
Traffi c impacts topped the veloper to determine how the
list of concerns with several buildings would actually look.
“The plan seems like a red
residents chiming in on top-
ics ranging from an increased herring. I’ve been a carpenter
number of vehicles in an al- and I can tell you from expe-
ready busy corridor to where rience that developers are not
overfl ow parking for the concerned about the com-
munity. They want to put the
apartments would end up.
Resident Karen Okada most families in for the least
picked apart a statement de- cost,” said Casey Sanders.
Nate Brown, Keizer com-
tailing the impact to schools
in the area. Salem-Keizer munity development director,
School District offi cials es- said city staff was willing to
timated an increase of about work with the current own-
Rezone opposition
had many voices
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Citing traffi c concerns, im-
pacts to schools, construction
concerns and livability issues,
Keizer residents sounded off
against the proposed rezon-
ing of the area affectionately
known as the “cow park.”
Owners of the property,
heirs to the Joseph and
Rosalie Herber, are asking
the city to rezone the 7.5
acres located along the west
side of Verda Lane Northeast
between Chemawa Road
Northeast and Dearborn
Avenue Northeast from
low
density
residential
to medium high density
residential, which would
permit the construction of
112 apartments on the site.
The rezoning was de-
nied by the city council two
years ago citing the need for
single family residences, im-
pacts on nearby residences
and transportation impacts,
but developer Mark Grenz
appeared before the Keizer
City Council Monday, June
20, with rejiggered plans and
another request for a rezone.
If the property were to re-
main low density residential,
up to 50 single family homes
could be built there.
The public hearing on
the matter was extended af-
ter it came to light that there
is possible historic value to
the home already on the site,
but city residents wasted little
time in attempting to dis-
mantle the proposal as it cur-
rently exists.
While the city has a pro-
jected need for apartments
during the next 20 years, us-
ing the Herber property to
looking back
in the KT
ers to come up with more
concrete design standards that
would become conditions
once a new developer buys
the property, but that did little
to alleviate anxiety.
“Realistically, how much
time is the city willing to
spend to enforcing those
guidelines?” asked Jerry Wal-
ton.
Resident Paul Elder said
he moved with his wife to
Keizer to raise their family
and the proposed rezoning
would affect the overall qual-
ity of life.
“I understand the Her-
ber family wants the prop-
erty value (that comes with
a different zoning), but that
door swings both ways. I
don’t want the impact this is
going to have on our com-
munity,” Elder said. “Homes
make families, not a transient
(apartment) population. We
want people who are in it for
the long haul.”
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5 YEARS AGO
Hens win with city
councilors
Chickens will soon be allowed
in Keizer backyards. City
councilors voted to draft an
ordinance allowing a limited
number of hens in Keizer
backyards.
10 YEARS AGO
Fleeing man rams
Keizer patrol car
A Keizer police offi cer
suffered only soreness and
some minor scrapes after a
driver attempting to fl ee a
traffi c stop turned his pickup
into a battering ram and
collided head on with a patrol
car.
15 YEARS AGO
Bodies taken from
wreckage in Keizer
Police believe Fern Olson, 67,
was shot and killed by her son
Eric Olson, 26, the day before
he set fi re to her Keizer house
during a tense standoff with
offi cers and a SWAT team on
June 19.
20 YEARS AGO
On the road
The historic Old Keizer
School was like a fl oat in the
parade June 22, 1996 as crews
inched the massive building to
its new home on Chemawa
Road. The school was
accompanied by a growing
crowd of people, many who
were getting their fi rst look at
the school in years.
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