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Minutes of the regular meeting of the Port Ange~s Planning Commission,
December 15th, 1959.
'4It Members present were Hunt, Anderson, Driscoll, Reiners and Strange. Also
present was City Engineer Warder.
Minutes of the previous meeting were read apd approved.
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Under heading of unfinished business, first matter under consideration was
the application of the Assembly of God Church for the vacation of the
alley in Block 264 for a distance of 150 feet easterly from Pine St. whiCh
end point is approximately at the brow of the hill of the Valley Creek
Gulch. A deligation of parishiners headed by Mr. William possinger was
present to explain that the area required for the proposed new church
building makes it necessary that the building proper extend across the
alley. The church presently ownes Lots 8-9-10 on the north side of the
alley and 11 & 12 on the south side with arrangements already made for
lot-l3 which will make them owners of the abutting property on the
proposed vacation. A survey was made of the attitude of the people owning
property and living down in the gulch abutting on the easterly end of this
alley. They offer no objection to the application for vacation. After
considerable discussion covering all phases of the proposal, it was
regularly moved and seconded and unanimously passed that the Planning
Commission reco~~end to the City Council that the application be approved.
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Next itemunder unfinished business, was the consideration of the petition
of property owners abutting Alder Street asking fon the vacation of Alder
St. from the southerly margin of 2nd street to the northerly margin of
the alley between 4th and 9th streets. After a lengthy discussion and
study of this matter, with special emphases on the need for the availability
of a north-south street on the westerly margin of Whitets Creek Gulch,
most points of which deemed it inadvisable to comply with the request, a
motion was made, seconded and unanimously passed that the Planning
Commission recommend to the City Council that this application be denied.
There was general discussion and further consideration relative to the
off-street parking problem in the business area, but inasmuch as the
Commission had not yet received a reply from the Department of Planning of
the State of ~ashington Highway Dept., the matter is further layed on the
table until the next meeting.
No further business appearing, meeting adjourned at 9:30 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
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John Warder
H. E. Dodge
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