Testimony for Eugene City Council - Hope Marston, SE Eugene resident - March 1, 2017 <br />fact that the property owner also owns Burley - and that Burley connection somehow adds up to <br />fewer cars on site. Reality check: Even bikers and walkers have cars, and need to park those cars. <br />And they will drive those cars. If this development doesn't provide enough parking, it's requesting <br />welfare from the surrounding community to provide what the development is not providing. That <br />would be foisting the daily cost of dealing with too many extra cars - on residents of the <br />neighborhood. The developer shirks paying the true full cost of his project. This does not fall under <br />the definition of being a good neighbor. <br />Most households have 1 or 2 (or more) vehicles, so I think it is prudent to plan this development to <br />provide sufficient parking to accommodate at least 2 cars per apartment. If sufficient parking is not <br />planned, this development becomes an invasion of neighborhood streets for parking. This is <br />expropriation of our neighborhood for someone else's profit. <br />On Mazzi's Pizza Tuesdays, we already see cars lining surrounding streets, and though I am not one <br />of the people whose parking strips are clogged with cars on those nights - it is limited to just a few <br />hours on one night a week during the summer. Now multiply that situation every day and night of <br />the week. We do not deserve this much disruption in our neighborhood. <br />This project is at least 75 spaces short of adequate parking for residents. That does not even include <br />parking needed for the shops and restaurants planned for the space. <br />As you know, people park their cars at home. They don't move their cars until they're ready to drive <br />somewhere. So if you're building 117 apartments, you know that probably means up to 234 parking <br />spaces needed on a 24/7 basis. So, even if Peace Health opens up its parking spaces in the evenings, <br />that is a miniscule mitigation. It will not even start to address the parking deficit. <br />Hugely Increased Traffic, Congestion, Safety Issues <br />Amazon Corner proposes to encroach on a sleepy neighborhood of single family residences that <br />encompass many blocks of residents who count on using 32"d and Hilyard to access the rest of Eugene. If <br />you add hundreds of new cars into that scenario, and we will have several problems: <br />1) Enormous traffic congestion <br />2) Chaos at 32"d and Hilyard in morning and evening rush hours <br />3) Kids and older people taking their lives in their hands to cross at 32nd and Hilyard. <br />4) Many drivers trying to head south on Hilyard from 32"d will turn right on Hilyard and left onto <br />315tand left onto Ferry, since increased traffic will make a left turn at 32nd and Hilyard <br />impossible most of the time. This left-turn workaround potentially endangers children on Ferry <br />Street, for which there is no sidewalk, and so young children without the safety of sidewalks <br />must reckon with impatient drivers who have been thwarted from a legitimate left hand turn <br />because of a needless traffic burden. <br />5) People on Alder and Kincaid will be barraged by overflow cars parking in front of their houses - <br />squeezing out opportunities for on-street parking for residents' friends and family. <br />