Kathleen Dixon <br />Weltzin Blix <br />2295 E. 29th Av. <br />Eugene, Oregon 97403 <br />September 9, 2015 <br />Fred Wilson, Eugene Hearings Official <br />% Gabe Flock, Erik-Berg Johansen; Planning Department <br />City of Eugene <br />99 W. 10th Av. <br />Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br />j <br />Re: Laurel Ridge Zone Change Z-15-5 <br />9.8865 <br />The proposed zoning change is not consistent with applicable provisions of the Metro <br />Plan. We also wonder;what happened to the purpose of the refinement plans; about the <br />order of the extension of urban facilities and services; and the applicable siting <br />requirements that arent consistent. <br />The turning of the map! is important to take notice of because it represents what gets <br />lost when we consider codes and ordinances constantly rewritten to get around the very <br />research, policy, codes; and ordinances put in place to protect us, the real issue. It's <br />what gets lost inside the misread map that is important. Government meetings are <br />ruled by Robert's Rules of Order that have us appeal to common sense when there is <br />doubt. <br />The concern is with their interpretation and use of the overlay map, along with the <br />honesty and integrity of the process. Bill worked as a physicist at Los Alamos, an <br />architect, taught for 30 rears at LCC, and has done large monumental sculpture for <br />government here and in Japan. I worked for the Architecture and Engineering <br />Department of UC Berkeley's Lawrence National (Radiation) Laboratory and for NWNG, <br />a utility, and wrote the ordinances and policy for the art programs for the City of Eugene; <br />both of us issued Q Clearances; and we've lived at the NW corner of the applicant's <br />property for -45 years. <br />The property in questio~ has been studied to exhaustion, it is why POS has been able <br />to acquire land there, it is in desperate need of being protected, it directly effects our <br />water quality all the way to Portland. With one sister having worked for the City's <br />planning department and another retired from the County tax assessor's office we've <br />followed the development of codes to protect the water and wildlife in the ridgeline over <br />the years. City services were not to have gone beyond the Ridgeline in the earlier <br />Metropolitan Plan. It should be an easy question, "At what point did the City decide to <br />extend services beyond the Ridgeline?" The property is outside the UGB on these <br />maps; constrained and documented by geological restraints, unstable soil, and <br />