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Article: City Hall renovation ruled out.(Government)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2006
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Byline: Edward Russo The Register-Guard
It's looking as if the city will ask Eugene residents to approve building a completely new City Hall someday.
The City Council on Wednesday voted 6-2 to drop the idea of renovating City Hall, or using a combination of renovation and new construction to get a new city government headquarters.
Planning now will shift to focus solely on building a new City Hall somewhere in the downtown. That may or may not include the present City Hall block, bounded by East Seventh and Eighth avenues and Pearl and High streets.
But the council's decision came as one councilor warned that the city first should ...