From:Tracie Shojai <br />To:GIOELLO Nick R <br />Subject:PUD 24-001 and ST 24-003 <br />Date:Saturday, August 3, 2024 12:23:27 PM <br />You don't often get email from tmshojai@gmail.com. Learn why this is important <br />[EXTERNAL ] <br />Dear Mr Gioello, <br />I am a concerned neighbor living at 2623 W 29th Ave, Eugene, OR 97405 and I believe in <br />higher density housing up here in the hills but this proposed development should not be <br />allowed as it is. <br /> AREAS OF CONCERN AND RELEVANT CODE SECTIONS <br />STREETS, PARKING AND EMERGENCY ACCESS <br />*Note: At the hearing, the Fire Marshall’s report was described. It stated that the streets as <br />designed could have no parking at all, and all houses would need to have interior fire suppression <br />sprinkler systems. <br />EC 9.6815(1)(a) Streets in a development must be designed to efficiently and safely <br />accommodate emergency fire and medical service vehicles. <br />We believe they have not met this requirement. The Fire Marshall’s report states that the <br />streets cannot have any parking on them at all, clearly showing the streets were not <br />designed to safely and efficiently accommodate their emergency vehicles. <br />EC 9.6815(2)(d) Secondary access for fire and emergency medical vehicles consistent with EC <br />9.6870 is required. <br />• Secondary Access. This requirement has not been met! The developer is asking for an <br />exception to this rule. As many of us stated in written presentations and at the hearing, in <br />the event of fire, people will be trying to flee through the single exit while fire and <br />emergency vehicles will be trying to enter through the same entrance. A house fire requires <br />multiple emergency vehicles, and the design of the streets and ridiculously long driveways <br />will make access difficult, especially if there is only a single way in. Additionally, as 70% of <br />the wetlands (a natural fire break) will be gone, as well as many of the slow-burning oak <br />trees, the chance of a fast-moving wildfire goes up drastically. o The developer does not <br />want to have to build a second access, which would likely need to be at the north end and <br />connect to Hawkins (where the property meets the undeveloped lot), because to do so <br />would mean losing a lot or two. This developer is putting money over people’s safety. We <br />have suggested and submitted a design for such a second access road at this point. <br />o Note that one of the main reasons the Paradise Fire in California a few years ago was <br />such a disaster, was that the development had only a single access point. (AP article of <br />4/25/2019.) <br />EC 9.6815(2)(c) The proposed development shall include streets that extend to undeveloped or <br />partially developed land that is adjacent to the development site… (there is more, but this is the <br />pertinent portion)