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Article: Residents question boundary expansion.(Government Local)(The Junction City group feels left out of county discussion)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
A group of Junction City residents has raised objections to a planned expansion of the city's urban growth boundary. The problem, they told Lane County commissioners on Wednesday, is that they feel like they're being left out of the mammoth expansion.
At the suggestion of West Lane Commissioner Bill Fleenor, the board voted to establish a 17-person "stakeholder" group to hammer out the concerns of residents who live along the west side of Highway 99, across from the planned home of a state prison, hospital and 100-acre expansion of Eugene-based Grain Millers Inc. Those who spoke out against a proposed expansion of ...