City Zoning Unit Approves Condominium Proposal
The City Zoning Unit votes 3 to 2 to recommend the Planning Commission approve Bjornsen Investment Corp. to rezone 15 acres at First Avenue and Cottage Grove SE from single family to multi family. The plan envisions 264 housing units in six 36 unit and two 24 unit buildings with underground parking, phased at no more than 72 units annually.
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First Avenue
Cottage Grove SE
City Planning Commission
Bjornsen Investment Corp
Bjornsen
Barlow Foods
Plaza East expansion faces holding-pond site and traffic concerns
The Plaza East project requests rezoning from R-3 and a building of 195 units, with the final 36 units near a holding pond to wait on storm sewer capacity. Neighbors cite traffic and drainage worries as four speakers opposed. planning committee deadlocks 2-2, chair votes in favor. Final decision awaits planning commission and city council.
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Kenwood Ditch
Plaza East
Bjornsen
Regency
Norman Dake
Ann Frenzen
Quest
Robert Blythe
John Walters
Dake
Frengen
Tom Chukas
Parking Ramp Bids Trimmed As Council Delays Award
City council and engineers eyed design cuts to lower the Kinderknecht bid on the First Avenue ramp to about 3.57 million plus revenue systems. A 62 week construction period awaits council authority and a next week bond study could shift funding plans.
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Kinderknecht Associates
Mel Meyer
Kim Steveley
Architectural Combine
McConnell Steveley Anderson
Brown Healey Bock
First Avenue
Knutson Contraction Co
Don Canney
Steveley
Knutson
Kinderknecht
Ad Executive Dies in California at 74
Fairfax Cone founder chairman and director emeritus of Foote, Cone & Belding died Monday in Carmel California. He was 74. ten years ago President Johnson and Premier Kosygin neared a summit conference.
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Chicago
Fairfax Cone
Foote, Cone & Belding
Carmel
Calif
Johnson
Kosygin
Rural Youth Conference Opens Doors at MSSU Springfield
The Rural Youth of the USA hosts a five day conference August 8 to 12 at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield Missouri. Activities include a day at Silver Dollar City the play The Shepard of the Hills a volleyball tournament guest speakers from Missouri state and a dance. The registration is $80 covering meals lodging group activities campus facilities. For information contact Alice Berridge by July 1 at 225 Twelfth street NE 52402 or (319) 398-7645.
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U.S.A
Southwest Missouri State University
Springfield
Canada
Silver Dollar City
Missouri State
Alice Berridge
Twelfth Street
Linn County to Rebuild River Walls Around May’s Island
Linn County engineers tell supervisors the retaining walls south of the Third Avenue bridge are in the worst condition and will cost about 1 million to rebuild. They will monitor deterioration to estimate collapse risk while the project faces Corps of Engineers flood plain concerns. total cost about 3.3 million, city bearing most of it.
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Linn County
May's Island
Linn
Third Avenue Bridge
Dave Johnson
Shire- Hattery and Associates
Johnson
Bill Harrington
Ning
Corps of Engineers
James Stokely Jr. Poet, Conservationist Dies at 63
James Stokely Jr. poet author and conservationist who wrote Neither Black Nor White won the 1957 Hillman award died Monday in Newport Tennessee at age 63. Ten years ago a house subcommittee approved legislation to make it a federal crime to travel between states to incite a riot.
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Newport, Tenn
James Stokely, Jr
House
Linn Food Stamp Schedule Changed
The Department of Social Services released a new schedule for certifying and selling food stamps at outreach centers. Public input may be directed to Joe Nassif at 398-3525.
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Department of Social Services
Joe Nassif
Center Point
City Hall
Mt. Vernon
Hacap Center
Central City
Oak Hill
Hawthorne Hills
Marion
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Mike Deupree
edAng
Ospews
People Vs. Machine
Meyer
Rural Youth Conference
Steve Helle
Garete
James Stokely
Panasonic
Sanford
Record and Radio
Third Ave. SE
Ch Patte
Thi
Ine
Smulekoffs
Alden
Armstrong
Mohawk
World
Wanda Were
Bigelow
Karastan
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