OCHS Steve P <br />From: Marilyn Mohr [mmohr @uoregon.edu] <br />Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 8:30 PM <br />To: OCHS Steve P <br />Cc: mixtapemadre @hotmail.com; REILLY Carleen (SMTP); Ray Neff; rene @uoregon.edu; <br />SCHAUM Julie (SMTP); KANE Rene C; HANDY Rob M <br />Subject: ST -10 -002 and Z -10 -003 <br />Follow Up Flag: Follow up <br />Flag Status: Flagged <br />Dear Steve, <br />I'm writing with concerns about the proposed zone change and proposed subdivision, Allea <br />Estates, which abuts the Northwest Expressway and is accessed via the Maxwell overpass; to <br />Old Maxwell, to Allea. <br />I realize that the MetroPlan designates this site as R -2. In an earlier conversation Alissa <br />Hansen told me that the developer would have to to great lengths to get the Metro Plan <br />amended to allow this site to be developed as R -1, that all current documents require this <br />site to be R -2. When the Metro Plan was developed perhaps this area looked promising for R <br />2, but this really is no longer the case. <br />I apologize for not having the R -2 criteria on hand, but I believe R -2 is to be sited along <br />neighborhood collectors and other streets that receive more traffic than local streets, and <br />that R -2 should have easy access to mass transit, parks and commercial services. There are <br />sites that would be excellent for R -2 along Maxwell, but this is not one. <br />Volunteers in the River Road neighborhood have put in countless hours working on planning <br />projects with the City with the hope of getting an updated refinement plan, overlay zone, <br />special area zone or some means of guiding development in our area. We attend Envision. <br />Eugene meetings and acknowledge that we need to accommodate density in our neighborhood, <br />while we hope to retain some of the characteristics of the neighborhood that we love. I do <br />not live near the proposed Allea Estate subdivision, but I strongly object to the City's <br />advocacy of this project. <br />Primary objection to the proposed subdivision is the limited access off of the Maxwell <br />overpass on to Old Maxwell. The speed limit on Maxwell is 40 mph, and the access is mid -way <br />up the over pass. Vision is severely limited. R -2 developments should have easy access to <br />transit, yet the closest bus stop is down Allea, Old Maxwell, cross Maxwell, and a walk down <br />the street to North Park Avenue. This is a marginal area, and will attract marginal quality <br />development- - - -R -2 density will amplify this issue of quality. <br />R -2 developments should have access to parks, yet the nearby Bramblewood Park will not be <br />accessible by foot to the Allea Estate residents. <br />Regarding the subdivisi <br />members met with G &R to <br />of this subdivision, we <br />approval. Yet one home <br />truck activity. Is the <br />unit development? <br />3n application: earlier this year, <br />discuss a 7 -unit subdivision. We <br />assume that the City- required zone <br />has been recently constructed, and <br />newly constructed home a permitted <br />or perhaps late last year, RRCO <br />did not receive notice of approval <br />change led to a postponement of <br />neighbors report on -going dump <br />structure? Is it a part of the 7- <br />1 <br />HO Agenda -Page9 <br />444