TL-t-C_t4 P. 2 of4 <br />Service vehicles will continue to park along Spring Boulevard and Capital Drive - regardless of <br />whether those travel ways are posted for no parking because they would have no alternative to <br />conduct their business at those locations. <br />ORAL TESTIMONY <br />I have lived at 2350 Spring Boulevard for 39 years and for the previous 10 years at another <br />hillside residence in the Fairmount neighborhood. For almost 40 years, I primarily walked to my <br />job at the University of Oregon. I have observed and experienced the increasing traffic in this <br />hillside area close to the University. Because I can attest to the limitations and dangers to <br />vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists, and emergency services presented by conditions of these <br />residential streets, I urge that the proposed CHPUD Application be denied. It could never satisfy <br />the requirement of Criterion 11 - that "the proposed development SHALL HAVE MINIMAL <br />off-site impacts, including such impacts as traffic I stress the imperative "shall." <br />I also attest here that I was a witness and took the photos of an incident demonstrating the <br />impediment to emergency response along the narrow neighborhood streets. On July 19, 2017, at <br />about 10:30 am, some residents at 2350 and 2360 Spring Blvd. noticed that Eugene Fire truck <br /># 13 was stopped in front of our houses in the middle of Spring Boulevard. Then it was being <br />directed by one of the crew to back down Spring Boulevard until it could be turned around at the <br />intersection with Fairmount Boulevard (See photos attached). <br />The reason that Fire Truck #13 had to stop was that a Sampac trash truck, one of their smallest <br />rigs in use, was making its every-Wednesday rounds. There was no way the two large vehicles <br />could pass each other. Now consider what would happen in an emergency. Suppose there were a <br />growing brush or house fire up the hill, even in the proposed CHPUD. As people began <br />evacuating down the hill - from all the narrow roads above the five-way intersection - backups <br />in all directions would result from trying to merge onto Spring Boulevard. At the same time <br />emergency vehicles would be trying to respond up the same and only primary feeder roads of <br />Spring Boulevard and Capital Drive. <br />There are approximately 112 existing residences along and feeding into Spring Boulevard as the <br />only efficient road in and out of Capital Drive below the five-way intersection. Adding 31 - 35 <br />residences proposed for the CHPUD would lead to a dangerous increase by probably adding at <br />least 70 additional vehicles belonging to the residential users of the proposed CHPUD, plus <br />additional service vehicles for these new residences. Service vehicles will continue to park along <br />Spring Boulevard and Capital Drive - regardless of whether those travel ways are posted for no <br />parking because they would have no alternative for conducting their business at those <br />locations. <br />The analogy is like adding 30% more people to an already crowded boat or meeting room. It may <br />be possible, but the potential for capsizing or clogging the exit doors would not be worth the risk. <br />PHOTOS ATTACHED as Pages 3 and 4 <br />