September 17, 2013 <br />City of Eugene <br />Planning and Development Department <br />attn: Becky Taylor, Associate Planner <br />99 West 10th Avenue <br />Eugene, OR 97401 <br />Re: Preliminary Information in Opposition to the Proposed Land Use Change for the Oakleigh Meadow <br />Cohousing Project - Application PDT 13-00001. <br />Dear Ms. Taylor: <br />The following letter presents information regarding the inequitable comparison of three cohousing <br />projects from California, recently publicized In letters of support for the public comment record. in <br />addition, this letter presents reasons why The City of Eugene (City), and the Hearings official should not <br />be persuaded to approve this project simply because of the predominant emphasis on a lifestyle choice <br />(e.g. cohousing) presented in the application. <br />Inequitable Comparison of the California Projects <br />Oakleigh Meadow Cohousing (OMC) is proposed as a 28 unit, 7 townhouse condominium complex on <br />2.3 acres of land situated wholly within the Willamette Greenway at the east end of a dead end lane <br />(Oakleigh) in a 1950s single-family-detached-home ne,ighborhood. The area Is predominantly zoned as <br />R-1 (low density residential) with a maximum allowable density of 14 units per acre. Figure 1 presents a <br />Google satellite image and the City's zoning map for the proposed project location with surrounding <br />neighborhood. The Satellite image shows very little asphalt or concrete, moderate amount of space <br />between buildings, detached middle Income homes, access on a dead-end unimproved lane, and <br />significant open space and vegetation associated with the riparian zone of the Willamette River. <br />The three projects used for comparison are the Nevada City Cohousing project, Doyle Street/EmeryviIle, <br />Cohousing project, and the Wolf Creek Cohousing Project. These projects were referenced in letters of <br />support uploaded to the City's application webpage on September 10, 2013. On the attached figures <br />the red circle denotes the approximate project locations. Scales are not consistent, but each of the <br />images was presented with north at the top of the page. <br />1248 <br />