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CITY OF SPRINGFIELD
DATE: February 22, 1989
TO Mike Kelly
City Manager
FROM: Joseph J. Leahy
Office of City Attorney
RE Whether the Springfield Plasma Center Located at 225 "B"
Main Street, Springfield, Oregon, is a Use Permitted in
the Community commercial Zoninq District?
ANSWER: Yes.
DISCUSSION: The Eugene Plasma Corporation has located a
"Springfield Plasma Center" at 225. "B" Main Street in the
downtown area of Springfield, which is zoned community commercial
(see Article 18 of the Springfield Development Code).
The Plasma Center is open to members of the public. The center
extracts a unit of a person's blood, and through the use of a
centrifuge will extract the plasma from the blood, and return the
blood, sans plasma to the person. The person is paid a fee for
participating in this process.
The plasma is used
and also provides
immunizations.
in the treatment of hemophiliacs and burns,
the basis for some medication and some
section
include a
matter) .
18.020 of the Springfield Development Code does not
designation for a plasma center (or blood bank for that
section 18.020 does provide in pertinent part as follows:
"(3) Business and professional offices and personal
services...includinq, but not limited to."
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"(k) Clinics and laboratories."
The plasma center as described above, appears to be essentially a
business and professional office of the variety of a clinic or
laboratory. As such, it is a permitted use..
Thank you for the opportunity to be of service.
further questions, I would be happy to respond.
If you have any
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