f T.- 1'y" <br />TAYLOR Becky G <br />From: Joan Connolly <joan.m.connolly@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 201310:14 AM <br />To: TAYLOR Becky G <br />Subject: Submission to Hearings Official Attn. OMC <br />Hello Becky, <br />Please accept the following into the record: <br />"Joan Connolly <br />131 McClure Lane, <br />Eugene OR 97404 <br />541 688-3304 <br />9 October 2013 <br />Hearings Official, <br />I am submitting into the record a comment that neighborhood resident Becky Riley submitted to the Eugene <br />Weekly in response to a guest viewpoint about the OMC PUD's potential impact on Greenway development. <br />Comment by Becky Riley submitted to Eugene Weekly. com on October 2, 2013 <br />in response to "Goodbye Greenway?" Guest Viewpoint column of September 20, 2013 by Lara Bovilsky. <br />"I live near the Willamette River in the River Road neighborhood, too, and I certainly appreciate and share the <br />sentiment of wanting to <br />keep land within the Greenway as natural open space. However, whether we like it or not, many lots within the <br />Greenway boundary are <br />privately owned and subject to development. The Greenway designation was intended not to prevent <br />development, but to establish conditions <br />under which development would be allowed. Alas, the specified conditions are quite weak and subjective. <br />I can't see any way that Oakleigh Meadows Cohousing (OMC) is setting a precedent for development in the <br />Greenway, chilling or otherwise. <br />OMC is definitely not the "first residential development next to city park land on this side of the river..." since <br />establishment of the <br />Greenway. Plenty of other housing (and at least one commercial establishment) have been built in the <br />Greenway since I moved here <br />in 1990--20 duplex units and one single family home in the Kungys Estates subdivision along the north <br />boundary of Rasor Park; <br />two large single family homes adjacent to park land at the 'end of Arbor Drive; and the 11-unit Greenway _ <br />Apariments at Pask Ave. and <br />River Road are some examples. The newest commercial establishment built in this segment of the Greenway is <br />the large auto repair <br />shop and parking lot near Hansen Lane. Some of these developments are nearer to the river and with much less <br />screening than <br />the OMC site, which is over 200 feet from the river's edge, and behind a thickly wooded section of public park. <br />914 <br />