O'DONNELL Heather M <br />From: Mary Leighton <leighton.mary@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 5:21 PM <br />To: O'DONNELL Heather M <br />Subject: Re: Rest-Haven applications; public hearing materials for sept 21 <br />Heather, I would like to submit the following short testimony, because I have choir practice at 7 and need the <br />singing more than the testifying this week! To whom/where do I address my comments? <br />9/19/15 <br />Dear City Council Members, <br />This letter re-affirms my earlier comments on the subject of re-designation and re-zoning related to the property <br />that includes Rest Haven Memorial Park. As a resident of the neighborhood, with an address less than a block <br />west of Rest Haven, I personally support the proposed changes. The current zoning and designations are not <br />consistent with common use and pose an unfair limitation on private property, in my opinion. Although they are <br />not required to do so, the owners of this property are tolerant of our using it as a park already, as long as we <br />behave with proper respect for those buried there and the friends and family who come to remember them. We <br />are blessed with abundant green space in the South Hills. In any case, we have no claim on this space and the <br />City should make the proposed changes to bring the zoning and designation into compliance with their common <br />use. <br />If the owners decide later to initiate development in line with the new designations, we in the immediate <br />neighborhood will be strongly supportive of the City's adherence to the guidelines about traffic management <br />and watershed accommodation, erosion, and other existing rules that assure safe new construction and <br />protection of homes downhill and downstream, especially those on Braeburn that share boundaries with Rest <br />Haven. Some of us even harbor the wish to see more affordable housing constructed, as was once proposed. But <br />those discussions are in the future. <br />I appreciate the care City staff members have taken to make sure we all knew about the proposed changes and <br />in particular I am grateful that the property owners and their consultant have been in good communication with <br />the neighbors. <br />Although I do not speak on behalf of the homeowners' association, Edgewood West Park Association, I have <br />been on its board for several years and serve now as the vice president. In our many discussions of this <br />proposed change of designation and zoning, we have discovered that our members (even those living on <br />Braeburn) hold every kind of opinion imaginable on the subject and therefore we will take no formal position as <br />an organization, except in the future, as mentioned above, to monitor compliance with the kinds of City policies <br />that protect our neighbors from being materially damaged by development (eg, by poor watershed <br />management). <br />Sincerely, <br />Mary Leighton <br />4046 Normandy Way 97405 <br />On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 5:42 PM, O'DONNELL Heather M <Heather. M. ODonnell(dci.eugene.or.us> wrote: <br />