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February 27, 2018 To: Nick Giollo, Assistant Planner, City of Eugene Re: Application for the Capital Hill PUD (PDT-17-10) Please enter this letter into the public record. My husband and I live at 2840 Alta Vista Ct., here in Eugene, in the neighborhood of the proposed PUD. To leave home and return each day and sometimes several times during a day, we travel the length of Capital Drive and Spring Boulevard. It is a common occurrence already, for me to catch my breath and feel my heart race as a result of some near miss that happens on this road. As anyone knows, who travels this road, there are no shoulders or sidewalk on much of this narrow road. There is no place for parking so cars, increasing numbers of them, just park in the right hand lane. This would be acceptable in ordinary conditions but on this hill there are many blind curves. A blind curve means that you cannot see what is coming down the hill towards you from the opposite direction. Because many people do not understand blind curves they don't get why cars creep along behind them as they are trying as an innocent pedestrians (sometimes whole families with small children, to leisurely walking up this steep hill.... or a biker huffing at a slow pace to get up there. They naively wave you on to go on around them. They seem not to get that you can't see what is coming. Parked cars are also in the way. So one is often forced to pass on the left without knowing what is coming down towards you around the curve, too often at a surprisingly rapid speed. Imagine trying to get around a series of parked cars. You have to get over in the left lane to do it only to be met by a biker coming head on towards you at a racing speed down the hill. He is unaware you were over in "his" lane because the curve is blind on both sides. This is the situation already on Capital Hill Drive. Now imagine that instead of a bicyclist or a speeding pick-up, you have