which might be a large fire truck - came rushing up Oakleigh Lane towards the OMC and <br />encountered the oncoming cars in the choke point - Who would back up, and how long would <br />that emergency vehicle be delayed? <br />TWO DEAD HORSES AND A SKUNK IN THE ROOM <br />There were already three elephants, a gnat and a red-herring in the metaphorical room in which <br />this process is unfolding. <br />In his letter of August 27, 2015, Michael Weishar throws two dead horses and a skunk into the <br />mix. <br />The skunk in this case is Mr. Weishar's insinuation (in his Footnote 1) that I may have not been <br />involved in an accident at the intersection of River Road and Oakleigh Lane. This suggestion is <br />simply false; is another attack on my character; and echoes similar tactics used by the applicant <br />in my first appeal. <br />As I'm sure commissioners understand, and as the Court of Appeals decision made clear, my <br />character is not the issue before you. Continued attempts to undermine my credibility are not <br />clever in the slightest, but instead are both irrelevant and insulting. Furthermore, I would <br />gladly provide police call logs, accident photos, and insurance correspondence related to the <br />accident if any commissioner would like proof of my statements. <br />Mr. Weishar's first "dead horse" is his attempt to portray Oakleigh Lane as a "queuing street." <br />Oakleigh Lane is not in any way configured as a "queuing street," according to city and ODOT <br />descriptions. Oakleigh Lane lacks a reserved and designated parking/pull-in lane and <br />sidewalks, as well as striping, curb markings and signage that are essential for a genuine <br />"queuing street." <br />Therefore, Oakleigh Lane would not, in its current configuration, perform at all the way a <br />properly configured "queuing street" would perform. <br />The only way that "queuing" will have an effect on Oakleigh Lane related to this decision is that <br />emergency vehicles may be forced to wait in a "queue" when they encounter an oncoming <br />vehicle. Yes, as the Hearings Official noted in his decision: "the queuing effect of having a single. <br />travel lane along Oakleigh Lane is likely to result in lower speeds." And that would include <br />slowing down, and therefore delaying, emergency response. LUBA Rec 373. <br />By the way - Be sure to note that the Hearings Official himself seemed to acknowledge that <br />there is "a single travel lane along Oakleigh Lane." Unfortunately, he drew the wrong <br />conclusions from this fact. <br />It seems a shame that a professional traffic engineer would use his credentials to try to slip the <br />ruse that Oakleigh Lane is a "queuing street" by the Planning Commissioners again, especially <br />since this meritless argument had already been debunked in testimony before the Hearings <br />Official. (See LUBA Rec 268.) <br />One more time, here is the accurate description of a "queuing street" from the Eugene Arterial & <br />Collector Street Plan (LUBA Rec 886-894, excerpt from Rec 894): <br />Trautman Appeal Testimony PDT 13-1 Page 4 <br />276 <br />September 4, 2015 <br />267 <br />