Capital conflict <br />Residents it Drive push back against <br />housing project <br />Monday, March 27, 2017, <br />For Tom and Cynthia Dreyer, the reason to build houses on their 14-acre <br />property atop Capital Drive in east Eugene is simple: give others the chance <br />to enjoy the hilltop scenery and picturesque valley views they've enjoyed for <br />33 years. <br />"It's one of the best views in town," Tom Dreyer, a retired plastic surgeon, <br />said on a recent afternoon from the deck of a century-old house that the* <br />Dreyers recently moved into at the top of the hill. <br />But for many of the roughly 30 other homeowners who live along Capital <br />Drive, which twists and turns toward the Dreyers' land at the southern edge <br />of Hendricks Park, the planned 35-house development feels like a disaster in <br />waiting. It's the latest iteration of a project that Dreyer has been working on <br />since at least 2014. <br />With Eugene's growing population and city leaders' emphasis on dense, infill <br />development over urban sprawl, this kind of dispute has become more <br />common across the city, as residents push back against building plans that <br />could change the face of their neighborhoods. <br />"We plan to oppose this every step of the way, as much as we can," said Brent <br />Lorscheider, a retired engineer from Los Angeles who settled into a house <br />lower on Capital Drive two years ago. "The only thing we're asking Tom is to <br />afford us the same wonderful lives that he has enjoyed up there during his <br />lifetime, not destroy the environment for the rest of us." <br />The Dreyers moved into a single-story house on Capital Drive in the early <br />