BERG-JOHANSEN Erik <br />From: <br />Hope Marston <hmarston@epud.net> <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, January 10, 2017 8:24 AM <br />To: <br />BERG-JOHANSEN Erik <br />Cc: <br />*Eugene Mayor, City Council, and City Manager <br />Subject: <br />Amazon Corner Feedback from a SE Neighbor <br />Attachments: <br />SE neighbors land use Amazon Corner.docx <br />Hi Erik, <br />Please see my attached letter (also pasted below) as my citizen comment on the proposed Amazon Corner <br />development. I have included references to city code. Please make note of my (and other neighbors') concerns, and act <br />wisely. <br />Thank you. <br />Hope <br />Hope Marston <br />3110 University St. <br />Eugene, OR 97405 <br />541 683-5634 <br />hmarston(@eoud.net <br />28 December 2016 <br />Erik Berg Johansen <br />Associate Planner <br />City of Eugene <br />Dear Erik Berg-Johansen, <br />I have been a property owner in Southeast Eugene since 2004. 1 take good care of my home. I replaced the sidewalk in <br />front of my home last year, a new roof just a few years ago, and I grow my own food during the long growing season. I <br />love my home and the peaceful neighborhood. I am grateful that we have schools, churches, a bakery and grocery <br />within walking distance. I do not need nor want a behemoth apartment complex to be built near us, changing the tenor <br />of where we live. 1, and many of my neighbors are opposed to the construction of an apartment building on the site of <br />what had been a quiet church. I recently went door to door in my neighborhood, and out of more than 30 residences, <br />found only one person with tepid support for the project. <br />Already, at least one young couple on Alder Street has moved out of the neighborhood, describing the development <br />noise as outrageously loud and "pounding hour after hour." They just want to live a quiet life here in Southeast Eugene. <br />They were not willing to stay and experience more disruptions from a proposed development on the other side of their <br />back yard fence. They have put their house up for sale, but it has not sold. So, even before the apartment project is <br />approved and built, it is driving people away, economically tainting our neighborhood, and we may have a hard time <br />finding new home-buying neighbors. <br />When people begin to move out of their own neighborhood because of the impending destruction and disruption of <br />their everyday lives, you know something is wrong. The proposed apartment building does not fit at all with our <br />neighborhood. It would change our environment from sleepy to bustling. It would introduce more renters with no stake <br />in the betterment of our community. It would introduce potential for crime in an area that has thankfully escaped a lot <br />of burglaries and assaults - by attracting people with no investment in our community. <br />