TWELVE The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June M, 1979
eppner City Council to hold land-use plan hearing Monday night
The Heppner City Planning
Commission recommended
city council approval of new
urban growth boundaries and
the final draft of new zoning,
subdivision and mobile home
park regulations Monday
night following a four hour
public hearing at Heppner
City Hall.
Minor changes were made
in the final draft as commis
sion members completed
months of work to update the
city's land use plans. The city
council will consider the
recommendation at a second
public hearing Monday, June
18 at city hall.
In a separate action, the
commission turned down a
request from Pioneer Memor
ial Hospital for a variance to
allow extension of new emer
orth Morrow tour sees
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opening the man-made lake to
the public but is handicapped
by the Boeing company's
control of the plant's access
road. Fish have been planted
in the lake and last winter,
hunters were shooting birds on
the property.
When the plant becomes
fully operational, the elect
ricity produced by the coal
fired generators will be trans
ferred to the power grid of the
Postmaster
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According to his wife, his
fall was broken by a wire on
the city roof. Randal and
Marlene Peterson heard his
cries of help and phoned the
ambulance service.
He was taken to Pioneer
Memorial Hospital and ex
pected to remain hospitalized
within the next six weeks for
observation by a neuro
surgeon. Mrs. Wilson said his
recovery from the fall might
take from six to 12 months.
His son, Clay, was working
with his father when the
accident occured.
He is in Room 6 and may
receive flowers and cards.
Visits are being restricted to
family members.
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gency facilities at 564 E.
Pioneer Drive. Hospital Ad
ministrator Bob Byrnes and
Ed Dick, a member of the
county hospital board, ap
pealed to the planning com
mission to grant the variance
because of the hospital's need
for funding approval by the
, federal Health, Education and
Welfare Dept., Region 10,
Seattle in two weeks.
The Planning Commission
members said changes were
needed in the hospital's archi
tectural plans to allow for
greater pedestrian safety at
the rear of the hospital on
Thompson Drive.
Ed Dick told the commis
sion that HEW grant money
was approved in January 1977
and the hospital board needed
the variance to meet further
Bonneville Power Adminislra
tion. Following the coal -plant
tour, the group had a no-host
lunch at the Nomad Restau
rant in Boardman with a
special program arranged by
the Boardman Commercial
Club.
Enthusiasm for the eco
nomic future of the North
Morrow County area char
acterized the comments of
Boardman Mayor Jerry Peck
and City Manager Jim
Thompson. Peck welcomed
the group to Boardman and
proudly described Boardman
as the center of North Morrow
County, then compared the
burgeoning town to its past
promises as reflected in an old
newspaper article. City Man
ager Thompson said Board
man's boom started in 1969,
and in the past six years, the
area has grown from 350 to
1,400 people or 30 percent
growth per year.
The growth in population
was attributed to the influx of
new food processing business
es such as Gourmet Foods.
With the city's new growth
has come housing and crime
problems, Thompson said.
The city manager said the
housing is tight and at one
point it was limited to high
income dwellings; the city has
tried to change that with
development of low income
housing sites.
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approval, but city planners
felt changes in the plans were
necessary to make the area
safe for pedestrians. A recom
mendation was made by one
member to ask the city council
to vacate Thompson Drive.
The new plans call for a new
ambulance port, X-ray lab
oratory, gas storage facility, a
new physician's room and
other features.
The hospital board may
appeal the decision to the city
council within 15 days, Com
mission Chairman Terry
Hager told the pair of officials.
Commission members con
sidered allowing the variance
on the basis of parking
restrictions and the guarantee
of a certain number of parking
spaces but after two hours,
told Dick and Byrnes to revise
Crime has increased in
Boardman and to protect area
citizens, a larger police force
was hired.
The city budget has climbed
from $1(5,000 in 1974 to $100,000
this year.
"Our debt service is larger
OBITUARY
Mary McMurtry
Mary Eunice McMurtry, 79
died in Heppner June 10.
She was born Aug. 30, 1899 in
Heppner and was a life-time
resident of the community.
She was a member of the First
Christian Church, the Degree
of Honor and a 58 year
member of the Rebekah
Lodge in Heppner.
She married Robert G.
McMurtry in Philomath April
19, 1923.
Survivors include her hus
band, Heppner, and son Glen,
Portland, numerous nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services are Wed
nesday at 2 p.m. at the First
Christian Church in Heppner
with concluding services and
interment in the Lexington
Cemetery.
Sweeney Mortuary, Hep
pner, is handling the arrangements.
the plans for increased ped
estrian safety.
A conditional use permit to
place a mobile home on
property at 235 Linden Way
owned by Mr. and Mrs. F.D.
Messinger was tabled because
of a board policy not to
consider permits without the
parties present.
During the discussion of the
board's proposed enlargement
of the urban growth boun
daries to allow future expan
sion of the city limits, Fred
Hoskins, a family member of
a corporation which owns
wheat and alfalfa land south of
the Willow Creek Area, said
"if that land was developed, it
would knock the heart out of
my ranch."
The area has been desig
nated as light industrial on the
than the Lexington and lone
budget," Thompson added.
The city is attempting to
increase its retail expansion
and during the bus tour of the
city, the Mayor pointed out the
site of a future supermarket.
The residential developments
are springing up so fast that
the Mayor forgot the name of
one as the bus passed its
marquee.
The tour also traveled to
irrigation pumping station
within tne Port of Morrow and
made a stopover at the Irrigon
City Park with County Judge
D.O. Nelson serving as a
guide.
Assisting and arranging the
tour were County Extension
Agents Harold Kerr and
Birdine Tullis.
landuse maps but as explained
by commission members,
private property-owners may
do what they like with their
property unless they sell it.
Said Hager: "There would
be no effect on your land as
assessed by the county asses
sor until you wanted to sell or
annex it."
"Each city is authorized to
set aside ground for light
industry and the planning
commission felt this land was
the most logical area for
Heppr.r to develop light
industry," Hager said when
pointing to the light industrial
areas already in existence at
the south end of the town.
Mayor Jerry Sweeney told
District Court bill
Clears one hurdle
The State Subcommittee of
the Joint Ways and Means
Committee recommended
Tuesday in a unanimous vote
creation of a District Court in
Hermiston for Morrow and
Umatilla counties.
The next step in the legisla
tive process towards creation
of a new District Court is
consideration by the Joint
Pilot escapes injury
A Pendleton pilot, Tom
White, escaped serious injury
Thursday night when the
plane he was landing at the
West Flying Service at Butter
Creek five miles south of
Hermiston on Highway 207
flipped over and burned.
White reported a few
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Hoskins the city has no plans
to buy his family's land and
remarked, "It's still your'
land, it won't affect your
taxes."
Hoskins was told by the
commission that before the
light industrial designation
was finalized, several public
hearings would be held by the
city council, county planning
commission, county court and
the State Land Conservation
and Development Depart
ment. Marie Hall of the Eastern
Central Oregon Association of
Counties was asked how good
the chances were of the city's
proposed urban growth boun
House and Senate Ways and
Means Committee.
Inserted in the original
Senate Bill 387 are the
provisions that Morrow
County retain its Justice Court
and that the new District
Court Judge be required to sit
at least one day a week in
Heppner.
scratches and was not hospi
talized. The pilot said he was
landing the aircraft, a wheel
locked, causing the plane to
flip over. A short developed in
the plane's electrical system
and ignited its full fuel tank.
daries being approved by
LCDC in light of recent
rejections of the Pilot Rock
and Echo proposals. Marie
said Heppner's plans are
"reasonable" and was confi
dent of passage.
When discussing the prop
osed new zoning ordinance,
the commission reported
changes in the commercial
zone with expansion to Gale
Street and Dr. Wolff's office
and noted where uses are
incompatable with uses as
spelled out by the plan,
applicants would have to seek
commission approval. A ques
tion arose over the lack of a 35
ft. height restriction as stated
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Barbara
Cutsforth
"I am VOTING FOR the
hospital budget because...
we need health care in this community. I like
our hospital. It needs our support."
VOTE Y
Paid for by "Friends of the
in the previous zoning ordi
nances for fire protection and
that matter was referred to
the city council for final
action.
During the consideration of
off street parking spaces, Ed
Dick suggested the commis
sion specify the size of the
spaces within the ordinance.
The commission compiled and
the final draft sent to the city
council will include that pro
vision. The proposed mobile home
park and subdivision ordi
nances were recommended
for approval and will reach a
final decision Monday at the
city council public hearing. ,
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Hospital", Mark Murray, Treasurer,