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City Council news
Council votes to reduce height of Naegele sign
by Linda Hanson
The City Council agreed
March 15 to require the
Naegele billboard along the
Cedar Freeway to be reduced in
height by 10 feet.
But that wasn't enough to
satisfy about four angry
residents from River Hills
Ninth Addition, which is
across the freeway from the
sign.
The residents have been
complaining since last fall that
the sign is an eyesore and is 13
feet higher than allowed by city
ordinance.
Dick Decker, president of
the River Hills Nine
Neighborhood Association,
said he couldn't understand
how the council could allow
Naegele to violate the sign or-
dinance.
Since there is a hill between
the sign and the freeway, if the
sign were lowered 13 feet, br-
inging it into compliance with
the ordinance, part of the sign
would be hidden by the hill
when viewed from the freeway.
According to the city or-
dinance, a sign is to be
measured at lot level or road-
way level, depending on
visibilitiy factors.
The controvery came about
over confusion on how to
measure a sign's height. The ci-
ty interpreted the ordinance
one way and Naegele inter-
preted it another.
Councilmember Jim Smith
suggested a compromise by re-
quiring Naegele to lower the
sign by 10 feet.
But the residents weren't
happy with that. Dick Decker
said the sign should either be
brought into compliance or it
should be taken down.
Voting in favor of the
10 -foot reduction were Smith,
Tom Egan and Jerry Thomas.
Voting against were Ted
Wachter and Bea Blomquist.
After the vote, the council
unanimously voted to change
the wording of the city's sign
ordinance in order to clarify it.
According to the changes,
the height of a sign is measured
from the lowermost ground
point to which the sign is at-
tached to the highest point on
the sign.
Signs are not to exceed 40
feet in height, as measured at
lot level, roadway level, or a
specified point between the two
levels as determined by the City
Council.
The level used will be based
on visibility factors on the ad-
jacent roadway.
Council approves single family home development
by Linda Hanson
The City Council March 15
approved a rezoning and
preliminary plat which will
allow 26 single family lots on
Tiberon First Addition.
The development, in what
was formerly called Mallard
Park First Addition, is nor-
theast of Woodgate.
The 6.86 -acre parcel was
rezoned from R -1 (residential
single) and R -4 (residential
multiple) to an R -1 planned
development.
According to developer
Mark Parranto, who is a
former member of the City
Council, the smallest lot will be
8,500 square feet and the
largest 28,500, with the average
lot size 11,000 square feet.
Sidney Johnson, who had
previously tried to buy the pro-
perty from the Willmuses and
rezone it for a duplex develop-
ment, opposed the rezoning for
single family homes.
Johnson's 1978 rezoning re-
quest was denied by the council
when Parranto was still a
member. Johnson took the city
to court in 1979 over the rezon-
ing denial and lost.
Before the March 15 council
meeting, Johnson's attorney,
Richard Meshbesher, wrote a
letter to the city which alleged
that Parranto was the key per-
son in denying his client's
rezoning in 1978.
Meshbesher added that Par -
ranto had said in court that the
land was to be used for 12
single family homes and that
the 12 duplex lots proposed by
Johnson was too dense.
Parranto told the council he
doubts he used those exact
words and he resented
Meshbesher's accusation that
he has been in cahoots with
Willmus for the last five years.
"I only started negotiating
(with Willmus) two months
ago," Parranto said. "These
accusations are ludicrous."
Johnson said his contract
with Willmus to develop the
land had not been formally
canceled and he would fight the
cancellation.
"We don't feel the war is
over yet," he added.
Councilmember Tom Egan
said the council didn't want to
get involved in a sour grapes
situation and moved that the
preliminary plat and rezoning
be approved. The council
voted unanimously to approve.
Council, firefighters agree on size of department
Fire Department officials
and the City Council agreed
last week to having an average
of 75 volunteer firefighters in
the department.
The Fire Department will be
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able to have slightly more than
75 firefighters if recruits are
added to fill the positions of
people planning to quit.
Fire Chief Bob Childers ask-
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