Board votes to put school up for sale.Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard With the Eugene School Board's unanimous vote Wednesday, Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. Elementary School elementary school: see school. is officially for sale. And the district's real estate consultant expects the offers to start rolling in - even with a price tag of $7.15 million. "There's good, strong interest," Sue Prichard said of the 7.2-acre property, which hugs a stretch of River Road rife rife adj. rif·er, rif·est 1. In widespread existence, practice, or use; increasingly prevalent. 2. Abundant or numerous. with development potential. A small but determined band of Santa Clara neighbors, meanwhile, urged the school board once more Wednesday to do its part to ensure the 73-year-old building and land are preserved for community use - even if it means selling the parcel for much less. "We are rapidly losing our sense of history," said Ellen Hyman of the Santa Clara Committee for Sensible Parks & Open Space, a fledgling group that has met with little success in persuading either the city or the district to collaborate with it on saving the site. Nonetheless, Hyman said her group does plan to make an offer. Hyman, like other neighbors, has criticized the district's 2002 decision to close the school, pointing out that residential development in the area threatens to overload See information overload and overloading. nearby Spring Creek A spring creek is a stream that flows from a spring. Spring Creek may refer to any of the following specific places:
She noted Wednesday that the asking price is nearly double the total sale figures for the four school sites the district has sold in the past three years. The combined total for the Laurel Hill Laurel Hill may refer to the following: In Australia
"The price for Santa Clara just seems off the charts by comparison," she said. Neighbors also have questioned the legitimacy of the district's 2003 agreement with the Santa Clara Grange to waive To intentionally or voluntarily relinquish a known right or engage in conduct warranting an inference that a right has been surrendered. For example, an individual is said to waive the right to bring a tort action when he or she renounces the remedy provided by law for such a restriction in the original deed that called for a roughly one-acre portion of the land - donated to the district by the Grange in 1921 - to always be used for educational purposes. Neighbors believe that, because the new grange formed years after the original Grange dissolved dis·solve v. dis·solved, dis·solv·ing, dis·solves v.tr. 1. To cause to pass into solution: dissolve salt in water. 2. , it does not have the authority to sign such an agreement. Jon Lauch, the district's assistant facilities director, told the board that the title insurance company appears unwilling to remove the deed restriction, and that the district's attorney is looking into whether the current Grange is indeed a legal successor. If it is not, the district would have other options for erasing the restriction, he said. Board members voiced no hesitation in putting the property on the market, and said it is their public duty to get the best price the market will bear and use the money to better serve students. "The community makes it sound as though the board is somewhat hungry for money, and I think that is an absolutely correct characterization," board member Virginia Thompson Virginia Thompson was a Canadian figure skater. She competed in ice dance with William McLachlan. They won three national titles, and one silver medal and a bronze at the World Figure Skating Championships. said. |
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