Laurel Kill valley Citizens <br />Co-Chairs August 14, 2015 <br />Gunnar Schlieder <br />Jan Wostmann Mr. Erik Berg-Johansen <br />Planning <br />Secretary City of Eugene <br />Stephanie Midkiff 99 West 10th Ave. <br />Eugene OR 97401 <br />Treasurer <br />Betty Hemmingsen Re: Z-15-005 - Laurel Hill Valley Citizen's Association Response <br />Executive Dear Mr. Berg-Johansen: <br />Committee <br />Adam Jones This document comprises the input of the response committee of Laurel Hill <br />Bill Blix Valley Citizens to the zone change application submitted by the Schirmer- <br />Betty Hemmingsen Satre Group on behalf of Environ-Metal, the developers of the previously <br />Betty Hosokawa proposed Laurel Ridge PUD. <br />Deborah Kelly <br />Kathleen Frazer History <br />Kaye Downey <br />Mitch Hider <br />Natalie Whitson This zone change application seeks to address the shortcomings of the <br />Paul Orum applicant's previous proposal in which it was proposed that the PUD property <br />Seamus Corbett was not required to include Parks and Open Space (POS) zoning. The <br />Sheryl Kelly applicant's position was based on the fact that the Laurel Hill Valley <br />Susan Ratzlaff Neighborhood Refinement Plan does not show PRO zoning on the parcel, and <br />the applicant maintained that the earlier Refinement Plan superceded the later <br />Metro Plan because the latter is not parcel-specific and lacks accuracy. <br />Laurel Hill Valley Citizens and the City disagreed with this position, <br />demonstrating that the Metro Plan clearly shows POS designation in the <br />southern and eastern portions of the 121.68-acre Laurel Ridge PUD property. <br />The applicant lost at every level to the Court of Appeals. The LUBA decision <br />(p.21) included the following language, which was subsequently upheld by the <br />Court of Appeals: <br />"Because the Metro Plan Diagram is now digitized, and the depicted plan <br />boundaries are sharper than in previous versions, the problem may not be as difficult <br />to solve as petitioners fear. It may be possible to scale up the digital versions of the <br />map, overlay it with property lines from a digital database, and determine the precise <br />plan designation boundaries on the subject property with reasonable accuracy. If for <br />some reason this is not possible, the city and petitioner will have to do the best they <br />can with the tools at their disposal". <br />LaurelHil1ValleyCitizens@gmail.com • 2480 Laurel Hill Drive • Eugene, OR 97403 0 www.lbvc.org <br />