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TEW MEDFORD (OREGOIO MAIL TRIBUKZ
Sunday, August IS, 19S7
Provisions of Proposed
An ordinance which will allow
county government to Regulate
land subdivisions outside city
limits is due for public hearing
before the couy court soon.
The ordinance has been pre
pared by Hahn, Wise and Barber,
planning consultants of Redwood
City. Calif.
It has been referred to the
county court after approval by
the bounty planning commission.
Meeting Scheduled
A meeting between the county
court and Hohart O. Pritchard
of the California consultants
firm is scheduled for Aug. 26.
The court will obtain necessary
information on the ordinance at
the fleeting. Q
Notice of a public hearing will
be given later, according to
Judge Rodney Keating.
Planning commission Dresident
John Pletsch has explained that
the ordinance is not concerned
with zoning and does not control
use of the land.
If adopted, the ordinance will
become effective In 30 days.
Objectives sought through the
measure are: (1) better living
conditions in new subdivisions;
(2) development of only those
areas which can be economical
ly serviced and maintained; (3)
simplification of land descrip
tions: (4) extension without ex
pensive labor of necessary
streets, utilities, and public areas;
(5) enhancement of property val
ues In subdivision and adjacent
lands; (6) protection of purchas
ers from unexpected assessments.
Under the ordinance, the coun
ty planning commission will act
as an advisory body to the coun
ty court in subdivision matters.
CrtitM Committee
The ordinance creates a subdi
vision committee of three com
mission members appointed by
the commission president, plus
the county surveyor as ex-officio
member.
- No legal entity (person, asso
ciation, corporation) will be al
lowed to offer or sell any land
subdivision or a part thereof in
the county until It complies with
all requirements of the ordi
nance. A"subdivision" is defined as
a parcel of land divided into four
or more parcels of less than five
acres each for transfer of owner
ship or building development. It
must exist as a unit under single
ownership on the" tax rolls for
the year preceding partitioning.
Minor Subdivision
A "minor subdivision con
tains two or three parcels.
For minor subdivisions, two
copies of a preliminary map
must be filed with the planning
commission. Approval by at least
two members of the subdivision
committee is needed.
Approval of the tentative map
will be deemed final approval.
In cases of regular subdivi
sions, containing four or more
lots, ten copies of a preliminary
map and a statement of the pro
posed subdivision must be filed
with the commission at least 20
days prior to the meeting at
which consideration isadesired.
Filing fee is $25.
County departments, cities
within six miles of the subdivi
sion, irrigation and other dis
tricts will be given copies by the
commission.
Report io Commission
Within 10 days, each county
department must report to the
commission on the map's con
formity with department regula
tions. The commission, within 30
days after the map has been filed,
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must approve, conditionally ap
prove, or disapprove.
It may suggest the advisability
of dedicating aras for parks,
playgrounds, schools and other
public building sites. The subdi
vide may be required to set
aside areas for school sites for
purchase within three years.
May Be Refuted
Subdivision approval may be
refused when the only use avail
able to the property is prohibited
by ordinance or law, or if the
property is deemed by the health
department unhealthful or unfit
for human occupancy.
Tie subdivider must have the
property surveyed and a final
map prepared within six months
after the preliminary map is ap
proved or conditionally approv
ed. Final map filing fee is $13
plus $1 per lot.
Contents of all maps are speci
fied in the ordinance.
Submitted to Surveyor
The final map will be submit
ted to the county surveyor for
examination. If the subdivision
does not conform with ordinance
requirements, he may advise the
subdivider of needed changes
and allow time for their comple
tion. If the surveyor approves, the
map is given to the planning
commission. The commission, up
on approving the map, submits it
to the county clerk.
The subdivider must then file
with the county clerk an agree
ment or bond, or make a deposit.
Following this, the map will be
given to the county court.
The agreement is between the
subdivider and the county, speci
fying the period within which
improvement work will be com
peted. If work is not finished on
time, the county may complete
it and recover full cost from the
subdivider.
Deems Sufficient
The bond is for such a gum as
the county engineer deems suffi
cient to cover cost of improve
ments, engineering, inspection
and incidental expense plus re
placement and repair of existing
streets and other improvements
aged in the development of
the subdivision.
In lieu of the bond, the subdi
vider may deposit cash in an.
amount fixed by the county
judge.
The county court must act on
the map within 10 days after it
is filed with the county clerk. If
the court approves, the map is
recorded by the clerk.
Altered Map
If the court denies approval,
the subdivider has 30 days in
which to file an altered map to
meet specifications. It is filed
with the planning commission
and follows the same procedure
as the first, map.
General regulations for the
design of subdivisions are in
cluded in the ordinance.
Streets and highways must
conform in width and alignment
to any master plan approved by
the county court. Rights-of-way
must be dedicated.
If the subdivision contains a
portion of a right-of-way to be
acquired for a public freeway or
parkway, the county court will
determine boundaries and the
subdivider will dedicate the area
within the right-of-way.
Existing Streets
All streets will be, as far as
practicable, in alignment with
existing adjacent streets. When
continuation of the center line
of an existing street is amprac
ticable, the streets must be sep
arated by at least 200 feet.
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Streets must intersect one
another at right angles where
ever possible.
Where necessary, dead - end
streets may be approved without
turn-arounds, provided that con
trol of access across the streets
is vested in the county. In all
other cases, a turn-around with
a minimum 30-foot radius will
be required.
Whenever a major street or
state highway intersects any
other street or highway, prop
erty lines at each block corner
must be rounded with a curve of
not less than 30 foot radius.
Street Intersections
Property lines at block corners
on all othehr street intersections
will be rounded with a curve of
at least 20 foot radius.
No street or highway will have
a grade of more than 12 per
cent unless topographical condi
tions make one necessary.
Reserved strips which control
access to public ways or which
minimize values for special im
provement assessment will not
be approved unless necessary for
protecting public welfare or sub
stantial property rights.
Restrictions are listed for
streets and highways not in
cluded in master plans:
Major streets or highways:
minimum right-of-way, 86 feet
in commercial areas, 80 feet in
residential; minimum pavement
width, 60 feet in commercial
areas, 56 feet in residential.
Secondary streets or high
ways: minimum right-of-way, 60
feet, except up to 80 feet where
the street may become a major
street in the future; minimum
pavment width, 40 feet.
Local Streets
Local streets: minimum right-of-way,
60 feet; minimum pave
ment width, 36 feet.
One - way streets: minimum
right-of-way, 60 feet; minimum
pavement width, 18 feet.
Hillside streets, with cross
slopes more than -16 per cent
and lot sizes more than 20,000
square feet: minimum right-of-way,
60 feet; minimum pavement
width, 26 feet.
Two -level streets: rights-of-way,
variable; minimum pave
ment width, two to 18 foot paved
sections with room for proper
slope between.
Dead-end streets and service
roads, when not over 350 feet
long: minimum right-of-way, 60
feet; minimum pavement width,
34 feet.
Parking Provisions
Parking provisions are in
cluded in the ordinance.
The subdivider will be re
quired to dedicate and improve
a service road to and from any
lot proposed for commercial use
which fronts on any major or
secondary street or highway.
In place of this, he may dedi
cate and improve an area adja
cent to such lots for off-street
parking purposes.
The subdivider must dedicate
and improve a service road to
the front of any lot which fronts
on any freeway, state highway
or parkway.
Entrance to the rear of a lot
will be prohibited when the
rear of the lot borders on any
major or secondary street, high
way or parkway. When the rear
of a lot borders on a freeway,
state highway or parkway, the
subdivider may be required to
dedicate and improve a planting
strip adjacent to the parkway
or freeway.
Alley . Required
An alley at least 30 feet wide
will be required at the rear of
any lot proposed for commercial
use.
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County
When a subdivision contains
lots of an acre or more in size,
the commission may require
that blocks be capable of future
division into parcels of normal
size.
Easements of not less than
five feet in width will be grant
ed on each lot for public utility,
sanitary sewer or drainage pur
poses. Overhead wire line easements
will be provided at the rear of
all lots except where alleys are
available.
Conform to Regulation
Size and shape of all lota in
the subdivision must conform to
any zoning regulations. Lots can
not be less than 50 feet wide, 80
feet deep, or 5,000 square feet in
area. A 60 foot width is required
for corner lots.
Side lines of all lots, so far
as possible, must be at right
angles to facing streets.
No lot can be divided by a
city boundary line, nor will lots
be permitted without frontage
on a street.
Uniual Conditions
Lots other than corner lots
may front on more than one
street only where necessitated
by topgraphich or other unusal
conditions.
The subdivider may be re
quired to dedicate and improve
walkways across long blocks or
to provide access to schools,
parks, or other public areas.
He must dedicate, subject to
previous water rights, a right-of-way
for storm drainage pur
poses, conforming with lines of
any natural water course in the
subdivision.
Adequate storm drain systems,
levees or pumping systems to
avert overflows or floods must
be provided.
All improvements must con
form to the "Standard Subdi
ILLINOIS VALLEY
Veterans Name Delegates
By HELEN BOTTEL
Cave Junction Dele gates
were named to the national con
vention of Veterans of World
War I at a meeting last week.
They include Clem Arnold, El
wood Hussey, Blake Miller, Otto
Tryon, and Charles Angevine, as
alternate. The convention is set
for Sept. 8, 9, 10, and 11 at Min
neapolis, Minn.
At the World War I auxiliary
meeting, Judy Rawson was ap
pointed by President Charlotte
Tyron as chairman of the booth
and float committee for the Illi
nois Valley Jubilee.
Weekend guests at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Gage
were Mrs. C. O. Arnold and her
daughter, Mrs. Fannie Jiroy
Mrs Arnold, an aunt of Mrs.
Gage, is the wife of C. O. Arnold,
a Pasadena jeweler. Mrs. Jiroy
is principal of the Linda Vista
school in Pasadena. Mr. and Mrs.
Gage visited them in Pasadena
two years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Cross
returned Monday from Oak Har
bor, Wash., where they attended
the wedding of their daughter,
Lylabelle, to Henry Haga.
Over the weekend they visited
relatives in Olympia, and
stopped' at the Errol Stephens
home in Portland.
Also home from the Cross
Haga wedding are Mrs. Wayne
Saffer and daughter, Loretta,
who arrived Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Milligan
spent a recent weekend in Prine
ville, Ore., visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Wilhelms
and sons, Bill and Bob, spent
the weekend at B e a v erton,
where they visited Wilhelms'
brother, Charles.
Mrs. Victor Brown of O'Brien
is recuperating from an eye op
eration at the Medford hospital.
Guests last week at the Rofcert
(Mike) Smith home in Keiby
are Mrs. Smith's mother jnd
step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Neal
Kelder, of Los Angeles.
Portlanders Mr. and Mrs. Reno
Franklin and son, Kim, left last
week after spending a week
with Mrs. Franklin's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George 'Simmons.
At the Guy Dick home last
week are Guy's brother and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Jtohn Dick,
and a friend, Erma Vincent all
of Los Angeles. Mrs. Dick's sis
ters, Mrs. Irene Robinson of
Fairbanks, Alaska, and Mrs. Mil
dred Phelps of Torrance, Calif.,
also visited the Dick family, the
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Subdivision Ordinance Reviewed
vision Improvement Specifica
tions." Improvement Flans
Improvement work plans must
be approved by the county en
gineer before works begins.
If construction of streets,
service roads, alleys or high
ways will interfere with under
ground utilities, sanitary sewers
or storm drains, the latter must
be installed first.
Service connections must be
placed so as to avoid disturbing
street or alley improvements
when connections are made.
Streets and highways will be
paved to cross sections and
grades approved by the county
engineer. The subdivider must
improve extensions of all sub
division streets, highways, or
public ways to the intercepting
paving line of any county road,
city street or state highway.
Structures for drainage, ac
cess or public safety will be in
stalled as determined by the
county engineer.
Sidewalks Installed
Curbs, gutters and sidewalks
must be installed by the subdi
vider. Sidewalks will have a
minimum width of four feet.
Sanitary sewer facilities con
necting with an existing city
sewer system will be installed
to serve each lot. No septic
tanks or cesspools will be per
mitted , without approval from
the county health department.
Water mains and fire hy
drants connecting to the water
system serving the area will be
installed. Street trees may be
required by the commission. .
Provisions will be made by
the subdivider for all railroad
crossings within the subdivision.
Map of Improvements
When improvements have
been completed, a map with im
provements included must be
Luther Sheriers and the Earl
Sheriers. '
Mrs. Marian Greene reports
an enrollment of 13 children at
her Green Garden school on the
Redwood highway. Seven or
eight kindergarten or first grad
ers will be accepted before the
school's capacity is reached, she
said.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. O.
Greene this summer are their
grandchildren, Richard and
Cherilyn JCellert, of Klamath
Falls.
James B. Sharp, 73, a former
resident of the Illinois valley,
died July 22 in Los Angeles. He
made his home with his daugh
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert (Mike) Smith, for seven
years before moving to south
ern California in 1954. Mrs.
Smith went to Los Angeles for
funeral services.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Etherton
and Janice arrived home Tues
day from a trip around the
Olympia Peninsula. En route
they visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Forward at Toledo, Wash.
Janice Masters, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Masters,
of Grants Pass, was a recent
guest at the E. V. Cooke home
in Cave Junction,
Visiting relatives in the val
ley last week were Mr. and Mrs.
Rufus Cooke of Seattle. Cooke
is the cousin of Jim, Ed and Ells
worth Cooke; and of Mrs. Paul
Fattig of Wonder.
' Fuller Bennett, a former resi
dent, is visiting his sister, Mrs.
Bert Adams, this month. Recent
guests at Mrs. Adams' home in
Kerby were her two sisters,
Eleanor Glass from Walnut
Creek, Calif., and Lottie Wood
cock of Ashland.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Smith at Rancho Park last week
was Ralph's sister, Mrs. Harry
Shetrone, of Simi, Calif. Mrs.
Shetrone came to take her
daughter, Dorothy, and her two
nephews, Paul and James Smith,
to their homes, after a summer
in the Illinois valley.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sedam
of Los Angeles visited Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Hutchison at Holland,
and Al Brown at his mine on
Althouse creek last Monday.
At the Paul Glines home this
week are two of Mrs. Glines'
brothers and their wives, Mr.
and Mrs. Clinton R. Lewis of
Los Angeles and Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Lewis of Seattle.
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filed with the county engineer.
Permanent iron pipe monu
ments will be set at each bound
ary corner of the subdivision,
along the exterior boundary
lines at intervals of not over
500 feet, ' and other points.
' Concrete monuments depres
sed below street, grade will be
set at intersections of street
center line tangents. Permanent
elevation bench marks will be
required at each street inter
section. The subdivider may obtain ex
ception to parts of the ordinance.
To do so, he must file a peti
tion with the preliminary map.
The county court has final de
termination on granting excep
tions. Appeal Decision
Appeal may be made from
any decision of the planning
commission, subdivision commit
tee, county engineer or county
surveyor. The subdivider must
file notice of appeal in writing
with the county clerk within 10
days after the disputed decision.
A written report to the county
court will be made by the party
whose decision is being appeal
ed. Within 10 days of the appeal
filing, the court will set a hear
ing date, to be within 10 days
thereafter. The court will rule
then on the appeal.
Three Face Death in
Bombing Murders
Los Angeles (IB Three men
Saturday face death or life im
prisonment for the fire bombing
murder of six persons in a
neighborhood bar last April 1 4.
A Superior Court jury Friday
returned a verdict of first de
gree murder against ex-convict
Clyde Bates, 36; Manuel Cha
vez, 25, and Manuel Hernandez,
18. The jury recommended the
death penalty for - Bates and
Chavez, but requested that Her
nandez be sentenced to ,life im
prisonment.
The vedict was returned by
jurors after three days of delib
erations. Judge Maurice Spar
ling ordered the three to be re
turned to court Aug. 20 for sen
tencing. Witnesses testified the defend
ants dumped- a bucket of gaso
line in the Club Mecca and set
the fuel aflame after being
thrown out of the bar earlier
for annoying patrons.
The explosion and fire that
swept through the tiny bar burn
ed five patrons and a waitress
to death.
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Lyndhurst, N.J. (IP) Edward
Cizon- wasn't worried when a
dozen birds escaped from a cage
in his auto after an accident Fri
day. The birds homing pigeons
were waiting for him when he
got home. .
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Holmes to Attend
Meeting in Medford
In Early September
Salem IW Sixteen cities all
over Oregon have been selected
by Gov. Robert D. Holmes for
his living tour of the state next
month to spur industrial and
business development.
The governor, Development
Department Director Julius Jen
sen and other state development
leaders will make these stops:
Tuesday, Sept. 3, .Eugene,
meeting Eugene hotel, 10 a.m.,
luncheon, Eugene hotel, 12:15
p.m.; Coos Bay, meeting Coos
Bay armory, 3:30 p.m., dinner,
Tioga hotel, 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 4, Medford,
meeting Medford armory," 10
a.m., luncheon, Hotel Jackson,
12:15 p.m.; Klamath Falls, meet
ing Klamath Falls armory, 3:30
p.m., dinner Winema hotel, 6:15
p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 5, Bend,
meeting Bend armory, 10 a.m.,
luncheon Pilot Butte Inn, 12:15
p.m.; Ontario, meeting Ontario
armory, 3:30 p.m., dinner, Moore
hotel, 6:15 p.m.
Baker Meeting
Friday, Sept. 6, Baker, meet
ing Baker armory, 10 a.m.,
luncheon Baker hotel, . 12:15
p.m.; La Grande, meeting La
Grande armory, 3:30 p.m., din
ner Hoke Hall, Eastern Oregon
college, 6:15 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 10, The Dalles,
meeting, The Dalles armory, 10
a.m. luncheon, The Dalles hotel.
12:15 p.m.; Pendleton, meeting
Pendleton armory, .3:80 p.m.,
dinner, LaFontaine's 6:15 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 16, Albany,
meeting and luncheon, Albany
hotel, 10 a.mr and 12:15 pm.,
Salem, meeting room 6, state
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capitol building, dinner, Marlon
hotel:
Tuesday, Sept. 17, Tillamook,
meeting new Moose temple, 10
am., luncheon. Victory house.
12:15 p.m.; Astoria, meeting and
dinner Astoria hotel, 3:30 pm.
and 6:15 pm.
Portland. Roseburg -
Thursday, Sept. 19, Portland,
time and place to be set.
Friday, Sept. 29, Roseburg,
meeting at Roseburg armory, 10
ajn. luncheon site still to be set.
Hundrers of industrial, busi
ness, labor and public leaders
are being invited to the regional
sessions which are aimed at
helping regain Oregon's econom
ic growth through new and ex
panded industry.
"We plan to make this an op
portunity for the free exchange
of ideas for encouraging and de
veloping new industry," the gov
ernor said in announcing the
16-stop list.
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