ridgeline; Metro Map attached. We weren't informed of a City Annexation, nor the first <br />UGB change over 36 years ago, and we're just NW of the property and still don't have <br />sewer service. <br />About 30 years ago the power company was putting in lines down our driveway, which <br />was built, graveled, maintained and used only by us. The City had no application on <br />file, the County had ro application, until it was finally traced to the McDougal's, owners <br />of the current applicant's properly. It now serves development on the opposite ridgeline <br />and the valves were !~ecently enlarged twice. The explanation was that people up on <br />the hill needed more jpressure. In both cases we asked about future development and <br />were told by EWEB and the City, who came out for meetings, there were none they <br />were aware of. Looking at planning records, unannounced at the time, tells another <br />story. <br />The Metro Plan has become the guiding document but it would never exist without the <br />plans and policies that it originated from. City Ordinance 2295 states it is adopted as <br />policy and refinement of the Metropolitan Plan for the south hills area and are to be <br />used in making land-use and other decisions in that area. It is also stated the ridgeline <br />of the south hills marks the most southerly extension of the urban service area. We <br />realize codes and ordinances written over it take precedent and the 2004 map is what <br />matters; but, how dol you negate geological data, soil conditions, steep slopes and a <br />ridgeline? Isn't Laurel Hill Creek, Augusta Creek and its' tributaries through this very <br />narrow ridgeline areal to the Willamette River, protected by federal law as an important <br />water resource? The, amount of time and money involved to go through five stages of <br />review to previously turn down the application at each stage says a lot about how <br />people feel about this area. <br />Citizens, City, State End Federal Government have millions of dollars into studies, <br />plans, policies, and ordinances advising and requiring protection of the area. 30th <br />Avenue, the only route in has a long history of the neighborhood law suits, advisory <br />road committee and county commissioner's warnings of the dangers, and finally law that <br />"No through access will be allowed from this interchange northerly to existing streets in <br />the Fairmount area (e.g. Spring Bv., Laurelwood) or Laurel Hill Valley, nor to 15". Laws <br />change for the economy, but over safety and major natural resources? It is on the <br />FEMA Hazards Map for landslides and soil problems right at the area where you exit <br />30th at Spring Bv., it is how Frontage Road came about. Roadwork traded for later use <br />as a Frontage Road if developed; but the north lane of 30th fell again in heavy rain and <br />had to be repaired again at great cost to all of us. <br />i <br />Aerial photos with the UO show the area was densely tree covered and after years of <br />spray, rock and gravel debris being brought in for repairs the trees began dying down <br />the valley to the Willamette River. The coyotes, bobcats, foxes, frogs, birds, owls and <br />wildlife lessened, andIagain were worsened by the Ribbon Trail as they believed it was <br />an oak savannah andl took more firs and orchard trees for trail. It was and still manages <br />to be significant Goa15 area although codes that existed in the past seem <br />unacknowledged, changed but not compatible or with notification. It is in several <br />