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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1960)
o Public Hearing on Annexation Jwo Appear in meeting. City Manager Rob- crt A. Duff told the council there is no particular hurry on this project and the city The Medford city council Thursday night called pub lic hearing July 7 on a pro posed annexation to the city. in aid Kiucn nas pen-1 administration 11 preparing tioned to be n n e x e d is I some information on it for the bounded by Prune and Alberts council's consideration. lis., Dakota and Columbus Appro Liquor Licenses ives. The planning commis-1 The council approved liq sion has recommended to the j uor license applications for council that the area be an- Jay William and Colleen nexed because It would solve j Eatherton, 3522 North Pacific a "rathe.- serious'' sanitation highway, and forTaywin In problem. I vestment company, 236 North Two other public hearings Front st. were called by the council. ! A representative for the One of these, set June 2. in-1 Tay win Investment company volves a request to name a ' said the company is planning previously unnamed street in i ,0 convert the r'ood Market, the Medford Heights addition. ! The name proposed for this street is Medford Heights lane. The other public hearing was called July 7, and invol ves a request for the city to vacate an alley between Haw thorne and Genessee sts., north of Main st. Commission Recommends The planning commission has recommended to the council that both of these re quests be approved. Another request from the planning commission was given council approval. This concerned two requests from persons who want to oper ate beauty shops as home oc cupations at 880 Stewart ave., and 1015 Winchester st. The commission had said a beauty shop operated by one person meets the definition of home occupations as set forth in the loning ordinance. Council approval was given to a park and recreation com mission recommendation that the city sell three lots (n Effie and Bessie sets., and the rev enue be put into the Park and Recreation fund. These lots had been designated for park purposes and the commission said that they did not fit into the general park plan. Approve Recommendation The council also approved a park and recreation commis sion recommendation that 80 acres be set aside in Prescott park for the Rogue Camp Fire council to use for day and group camping purposes. The parks and recreation department would control the development of the area, and the Camp Fire Girls council would bear the cost of the im provements. A request from L. R. Pil eher, manager of the Ever green Bus lines, that he be allowed to put benches at the U. S. National Bank and Cen tral Drug bus stop locations, was denied by the council. Councilman Stanley Stark said he opposed the benches from an appearance stand point and also noted the fact that few cities have bus stop benches any more. Amend Rules The council amended the council rules, as provided in the city code, so that subsid iary motions appearing before the council for the first time would not require a three quarters majority to pass. This means that only main motions will now require the three quarters margin to pass when they appear before the coun cil for the first time. Previously the council had had to approve all matters by a three-quarters vote in order to pass them the first time they were considered. The council granted the Na tional Gunite company and Holiday Pool Construction company an eight-day exten sion in their contract time for completion of the Jackson park swimming pool. The con tractors had requested a 15 day extension time, but the engineering firm suggested that only eight days extension be given. They recommended this because of the time con sumed in the coordination of the wading pool into the pro ject. Schedule Not Affected The council noted that the extension would in no way affect the city's scheduled opening day for the pool June 10. A request from Moore s Patio and Toy shop, 815 South Riverside ave., for a 31-foot extra width driveway was granted. Grade lines on several city t streets were adopted by the council so buildings which are 1 to be constructed near them ; will conform to street grades at the time the streets are constructed. The grade lines adopted are for portions of Narregan St., Clark St., Taft St.. Walrut St.. Beatty st., Niantic St., and Woodlawn dr. The council pointed out that there are no present plans for constructing these particular portions of the atreets. A proposal to approve plans and authorize the partial pav ing of Summit ave.. between Mary place and Clark st., was postponed until the next 236 North Front St.. into "high-class" lounge and res taurant. The remodeling cost of this building will be ap proximately S75.000. he said. The Taywin Investment company had previously tak en over the liquor license of the Owl club, 32 North Front st. The spokesman pointed out that the Owl club and ad jacent business establishments would have to move by next September in order to make way for a U. S. National Bank parking lot. He said the new lounge and restaurant should be open in September. lumbermen's Group To Meet in Ciiy Two persons appeared In circuit court Wednesday af ternoon before Judge Edward C. Kelly. Sentenced la three years in the Oregon Correctional Institute was Truman Thur man, 39, of Klamath Falls. He was previously on pro bation for uttering and pub lishing a false check. Arraigned on district attor ney's information after he pleaded guilty to a charge of uttering and publishing a false check was Paul T. Thompson, 23, of Riverside, Calif. Cub Scout Cub Scout Pack A four-point program on is-1 Coast i,.k c,,i Coi, ViM li. sues aiiecnng iiimnennen oi May meeting in the Wash- Medford Council Postpones Action on Proposed Center The Medford city council Thursday night postponed for one month any action on the proposed Medford civic cen ter, apparently so it can first determine the effect of the center on property in the area. The proposed civic center site is an 11-square block area bounded by Mistletoe. Main, 10th, and Holly sts. The plan ning commission last week unanimously recommended to the city council that the site be given preliminary approv al. As proposed, the center would include the existing county courthouse, west side park, the library, the proposed federal building and future state and city buildings. A request for a change of zone appeared to have some bearing on the council's ac tion, the request is for a change of zone to permit a service station to be erected on a lot directly across from the west side park, and in the eastern portion of the pro posed civic center site on Eighth st. between Holly and Ivy sts. In Multiple-Family This lot is located in the center of a multiple-family zone and the request is to change it, and an adjacent lot, to commercial zones. The planning commission also con sidered the request at its last meeting, and unanimously recommended to the council that it be denied. However, owners of the lots appealed the commission's ac tion to the council and re quested a public hearing. The council granted the request, and set the hearing date for June 2. Several city and county of ficials have financial interests in the lots, including Robert A. Boyer, a member of the county planning commission. District Judge Roy Bashaw, i Municipal Judge Alan B. Holmes and City Attorney Joel Reeder. Also Have Interest Also listed as having Inter ests in the property are At torney Stanley Jones and C. W. and Joe Brooks. Boyer was spokesman for the group at the planning commission meeting. Councilman R. L. Van Sickle brought the matter up Thursday night when he said that the civic center site is quite a large area to be set aside for future development and to do so might have an adverse effect on property owners in the area. City Manager Robert A. Duff told Van Sickle that the plan would have no effect on property at all. It is only part of a preliminary land-use plan for the city, he said. Van Sickle replied that it does affect property "the planning commission used the proposal as one of the reasons for denial of the zone change." Duff said this was not so. that the request was refused because, if granted, it would be strip zoning. Reasons For Denial At the planning commission meeting the commission said its main reasons for denial were that it would be the be ginning of a strip commercial development which would lead to traffic congestion and it would be an inter-mixing of commercial and residential uses. The commission, also point ed out in its recommendation to the council that it has been its policy to discourage strip commercial development along arterial streets, and the granting of this request would make it difficult to deny a similar request on any other arterial street in the city. The civic center idea had been mentioned in conjunc- with the request for change of zone, but was not given as one of the commission's main rea sons for denial. Built Around Plan Councilman Donald Hanson pointed out that the civic cen ter site is built around a plan originally presented in 1931. The idea of a civic center would be a wonderful thing for the city." he said, and add ed that it has been "delayed long enough." Hanson suggested that the request for a change of zone was prompted by the knowl edge that the federal building might locate in this area, but Van Sickle promptly said this was wrong. When it became apparent that a number of the council men wanted additional time to study the civic center plan. Hanson moved that action be postponed until the second council meeting in June. Van Sickle suggested that the matter be delayed even longer, but Councilman Al Bradford said that a month should be long enough time to get the facts. Development Explained The council requested Plan ning Consultant Ned Langford to explain the center develop ment. Langford said the plan was brought to a head by the gov ernment's proposed federal building and when the city began receiving questions like "where will they put it?" and, "where would the city like to have it?" The area had already been delineated, he said, on a rough land-use plan as a civic center development. It was selected, he added, because it I is easily accessible from all ; parts of the city, it is conven- f lent to the business area and I it already has a nucleus in the courthouse and city park. ington school gym recently. The cubs that received ad vancement awards were: wolf, Danny Sutton, Wayne Carlon. Billie Osbourne, Br;;ct No! son. Danny Niekodyn, Michael Crosslcy, Jeff Werner, and Bobby Reicke. Gold Arrow on wolf, David Mann. David Aeschliman, Ter ry Gillespie, and Stephen Note. Silver arrow on wolf, Ed ward Chriss, Myron Gaston. Hugh Ferguson. DrWayne Butler, and John Stratford Bear. Jimmy Keeton. Terry Howard, and Hugh Ferguson. Silver arrow on bear, Phil lip Morton. Lion. Kevin Hayes, Doug las Howard, and Dennis Kur- ousky. Dennis also received the Lion gold and silver ar rows. Weblo and graduation. James Gunther, Ronny Duce, David Landis, George Pen land, and Howard Douglas. After the regular meeting a colored film about rescue breathing was shown. this area will be discussed at a district meeting of the West APPROVE LIQUOR BAN Washington -4PI - The Sen aie Aviation uticummiiU'c has approved a bill which would bar liquor on cuinmcr cial airplane flights. The measure next goes before the full commerce committee which has refused to recom mend similar bills. The Highlands occupy more than one-half of the total area of Scotland. Lumbermen's associa tion at the Rogue Valley Country club Tlnirday, Muv 2H, H. V. Simpson. West Coast Lumbermen s association, ex ecutive vice president, has an-rm-.nced. Tle po iv. dialer will start at 6 p.m. Points to be discussed are competition from substitute materials and how to lick it, possible future changes in West Coast grading rules, ef feet of FHA grade stamping requirement, first showing in this region of the new colored film on WCLA projects for the new year which covers promotion, advertising, re search and all other associa tion activities. All area lumber manufac turers are invited to attend MAIL TtlBUNf, MWfor'. Or. Sunday, Mn 22, 140 the WCLA district meeting, Simpson said. Ornamental Iron FOR YOUR SILAGE Car of Beef Pulp To Arrive Soon- $C Q50 Per Ton Musi Sell Off Car JO Off Car ALBER'S FEED & FARM 330 No. Fir SP 3-4503 Van Sickle asked Langford. "could you assure me that the planning commission would favor legitimate zone changes in the area" if the thought of the civic center was before them? Langford replied that he could not answer for the planning commission. Move For Change Hanson moved that the en tire area included in the civic center plan be changed from the present multiple-family to a Class 1A residential zone in order to prevent undesir able uses from being con structed in the area without the city being able to do any thing about them. Some uses such as office buildings are presently per mitted under the existing multiple-family zone. Boyer told the planning commission last week that an office building has been proposed for future construction on the lot next to the one on which they hope to erect a service station. Hanson's motion was de feated by a 6-1 vote. The mo tion for deferral for one month passed unanimously, An unfinished en trance spoils the f.3 V.1 effect of the entire $151 home. Finish the entrance NOW feSSs 'ron- Be sure to tuysw get GENUINE 5 t -itlihrVi" ornamental iron pwSevrs. ( .iJ-lHSkj! for your money. 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