Public Comments submitted at hearings official hearing (1)

Received in Public Hearing City of Eurlene Planning & Development Capital Hill PUD testimony MAR 07 2018 file PDT r7- My name is Mark Conley. I am located near the proposed development. I am opposed to this development entirely. I open my testimony quoting Attorney Thomas Berry with regard to property and development rights: "Human rights do not cancel out the rights of other modes of being to exist in their natural state. Human property rights are not absolute. Property rights are simply a special relationship between a particular human "owner" and a particular piece of "property," so that both might fulfill their roles in the great community of existence." I believe that the developer, and City of Eugene Planning Department, by ignorance and omission, respectively, are not paying attention to the rights of other beings - plant, animal, and human neighbors and hikers - in this development. Specifically, Ridgeline vegetation and native communities are rarer and fragile. Oak, Madrone, Stellers Jay and associated birds, Deer families, especial Western Swordfern grotto, Hairy Honeysuckle, Tiger Lily, Great Hounds Tongue and rare plants such as Fairy Slipper Orchid, must all be studied and protected. There may also be endangered plants and animals. This area must be studied and fully documented for a full year. Development approval ignores the rights of the many, who hike, live in this area, and find exceptional peace in the midst of urban development, and commune with these fragile and ephemeral beings. Our rights supersede the few, who by greed and ignorance, seek to take and erase forever this irreplaceable beauty, sovereignty, and unique genetic message for the temporary benefit of the elite moneyed few. These reasons are compelling. You must deny this application. If current planning code does not address what I have just uttered, it needs to be immediately updated and applied to this development proposal. Thank you.