Testimony for Eugene City Council - Hope Marston, SE Eugene resident - March 1, 2017 G <br />6) Drivers seeking to escape the traffic pileup on 32nd will use University, Potter, Harris and Kincaid <br />to gain access to drive into Eugene. We already have an occasional outside-the-neighborhood <br />car treating our streets as hot-rod heaven, causing us to fear for our pets and children. If <br />Amazon Corner is built as proposed, hot rod heaven will become our norm, because of an <br />injection of drivers who will zoom down our streets, looking for a way out of the bottleneck at <br />32nd and Hilyard. <br />7) Lowered property values for Alder especially - who wants to have a 5-story dark shadow <br />looming over a private back yard? These homes would become defacto movie theaters for <br />residents of Amazon Corner; an invasion of privacy for the Alder Street residents. Already I know <br />of a friend who sold her house specifically to avoid the lack of backyard privacy, construction <br />noise and potential lower property values - as costs of dealing with Amazon Corner. <br />This is a project which must be scaled back to fit the setting chosen for it. It is not up to the Planning <br />Department to help make this pencil out economically for the developer. It currently doesn't fit the <br />neighborhood. It poses a threat to safety and smooth movement of traffic. It adds unreasonable <br />demands on residents of the surrounding blocks to provide parking for the development - a form of <br />welfare. The City of Eugene must set parameters to protect our neighborhood from a project that <br />either must be a smaller building, or belongs somewhere else. <br />Please take Southeast Neighbors into consideration - our homes / our lives in which WE have <br />invested for many years and many more. <br />