children make forts and caves in blackberry bushes. For years before OMC, the neighbors have been k-imming <br />the black berry bushes back when they become wild and in the street. We try to prevent our bike from getting <br />flat tires by thorns in the street. We feel this chore is about stewardship and the reward is delicious <br />blackberries. <br />The neighbors on Oakleigh Lane are all great people in community. Each family has an unique skill or <br />connection that contributes greatly to Eugene. We each bought our homes for the same reason, country <br />charm. We wave to one another while passing by each other on our small lane. We enjoy our street being a <br />quiet dead end street. I have watched houses being sold and bought by new families. I have seen a new pride <br />of -ownership reflecting with these older homes being cleaned up, junk being removed, painted, new roofs, and <br />new landscapes with beautiful gardens in the front yards. Our Lane is looking good and friendly these <br />days. We were happy that Joan Connolly and David Adee bought the meadow at the end of the street as they <br />just moved from a house on Oaldeigh Lane to the next street McClure Lane. The rumor on the street was this is <br />a good f amity, they help protect Rasor Park another meadow a few blocks away on the river path, and they will <br />protect this meadow as well. They asked neighbors to help them mow the tall grass and pull weeds. Neighbor <br />Bryn Thoms mowed many days and let them use his tractor mower. Joan and David invited me and the <br />neighbors to feel welcomed to walk through the meadow to get to the river. Many neighbors of the River <br />Community for years help pick up crash and pull invasive plants along the river way before OMC was even a <br />group. Many of those neighbors are disappointed and upset about the large condo project being built on the <br />greenway. Many people commute, exercise, leisure walk, and enjoy the greenway of the bike path. My dog . <br />loves to run in the tall grass. We.walk the greenway just about every day. I have meant many kind folks on my <br />walks. I also enjoy bird watching, my husband gifted me binoculars for my hobby. I was inspired by the bald <br />eagles mating in the trees at the east end of OMC property. I feel that there has not been enough study by OCM <br />developers regarding storm water runoff and flooding the greenway. <br />I did not have any intent to live in a neighborhood where condos would be built across the street from my front <br />door. I feel ganged up by a group of strangers who does not respect the people and tax payers that already live <br />on this street. When I was first buying this my home in 2004 my father and I went to the city planning building <br />and learned that -at maximum two buildings of four units homes could be built, and no commercial. I was <br />informed that there was no water, electric, or gas lines on the property, so it would likely not be developed. I <br />was told that property owners could not build on the flood plain. Now I feel that I have been tricked into a <br />housing investment that does not Jiit my values of a dream home. I will be looking at the backs of condos that <br />are taller than my own single story. OMC condos will be towering over my front yard and looking into the <br />windows of my kitchen and dining room, were I spend most of my indoor living. Head lights on all of their <br />traffic will shine directly onto house. <br />I moved to Eugene in 1997, when I was twenty years old. My work profession is direct care providing and <br />personal assisting. I have taken care of people in our community for sixteen years, all ages, all kinds of <br />physical and behavioral disabilities or no disabilities, all of different wealth status, each job being totally <br />different from one family to another. Now it is my turn to start a family. My husband and I have been married <br />for four years and I am ten weeks pregnant.. I always dreamed about being a mom and look forward to watching <br />my child play in the front yard of this quiet dead end street with the other children. If the PUD request is passed <br />then my dream and all my hard work will not come true. OMC planes to develop their driveway into their 47 <br />car parking lot right in front of my home. There will be up to 32 units with who knows how many people living <br />and visiting in each unit. Some units are four bed rooms. OMC has only sold 10 units in the last two <br />years. Their condos are overpriced by $100,000- $200,000 compared to the houses in our neighborhood. It is <br />possible that they could go bankrupt and bail out of the project and some other developer buys it and does not <br />care at all about Oakleigh Lane's citizens. <br />962 <br />