VA,:~ - 0 <br />Eugene Hearing Official • <br />Eugene Planning and Development <br />Atrium Building <br />99 West 10th'Ave. <br />Eugene OR 97401 <br />Re: Citizen Comment Document Regarding th.e.0akleigh Meadows Tentative Planned Unit Development . <br />PDT 13-0001),. Willamette Greenway Permit (WG 13-0001) <br />Dear Hearing Official, <br />I object to the proposed PUD for the reasons stated in the Comments of Lauren Regan and Bryn: <br />Thoms,.and all additional objections incorporated by reference into that Comment. I am also a member <br />of the River Road Community Organization and submit my comment on. behalf of the RRCO as well.. <br />Please include this letter as partof the Public,Comments on this P.UD. <br />live'with my partner and 1 year old. son at 116 Oakleigh Ln, where we have resided for 3 years. I <br />would like to express a number of my concerns regarding the Oakleigh Meadow Cohousi_ng (OM'C) <br />project: <br />Upon first hearing of a,co.housing project. being planned on Oakleigh, I was intrigued: While not <br />a method of housing l think 1would thrive in, I think such ideas are interesting and worthy of, <br />co.nsid.eeation, My partner and 1 attended an early outreach.event, a:nd]earned that the propertywould <br />be developed into 7-10 houses. At such. a lever, I felt that the project, being low density, would have <br />minimal impact on the street, and perhaps even be a'nice ad.dition.1 continued in this belief until very <br />recently, when the public hearing notices came out. I was surprised and concerned that this project I <br />had lielieved.to be low=density had suddenly ballooned to 28: units; 3, to 4 times. the size we had <br />originally been told. My subsequent further understanding of the issues related to the project has only <br />served to deepen my concern. <br />Regarding the`Greenway (OAR 660-015-00.05): It. was only recently that I realized the project <br />actually.falls in the. Willamette River Greenway. Had I known when (first heard about OM.C,.1 would have <br />had serious reservations about the development:. Knowing that now,. and knowing that the development <br />is much, much larger than first proposed, I think the idea of using:Greenway land for this project fs <br />unconscionable. The Greenway is an expression of Oregonians'' long-standing and deep belief that the <br />Willamette River and its watershed are both a resource to be treasured,. and something we as a <br />community must protect. The huge amount. of excavation and fill the development requires in order to <br />mitigate flood risk due to being; in the Greenway; surely does not fall in: line with the ideas of protecting <br />the resource „and preserving native.soils and species. Further, this would be some of the highest impact, <br />highest density development ever to occur in this portion of the Greenway. Precedent is a powerful. <br />thing.. Once the door to-auch significant development, in this part of the Greenway is opened, it will. be <br />difficult to shut. <br />• <br />1204 <br />