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Laurel Dill Valley Citizens
Co-Chairs
Gunnar Schlieder
Jan Wostmann
Secretary
Stephanie Midkiff
Treasurer
Betty Hemmingsen
Executive
Committee
Adam Jones
Bill BIN
Betty Hemmingsen
Betty Hosokawa
Deborah Kelly
Kathleen Frazer
Kaye Downey
Mitch Hider
Natalie Whitson
Paul Orum
Seamus Corbett
Sheryl Kelly
Susan Ratzlaff
Testimony by Jan Wostmann at the Zone Change Hearing
for Laurel Ridge ZC 15-5 on August 26, 2015
At issue this evening is whether the map as drawn by the applicant provides a
reasonable representation of the Metro Plan Diagram as currently adopted. It is
the position of Laurel Hill Valley Citizens that it very definitely is not, and in fact is a
gross distortion of the position of known geographic referents.
If this is the case, as I will demonstrate it is, the application does not meet approval
criteria EC 9.8865(1): The proposed zone change is consistent with applicable
provisions of the Metro Plan.
For my demonstration I will use two map sheets from the applicant's zone change
application, specifically Sheet No. ZC-2 and Sheet No. ZC-4, copies of which are
included has attachments. In his methodology, the applicant says the following:
Fit the location of the Metro Plan Diagram on the subject property by
utilizing the Metro Plan Diagram referents. Kept north oriented north,
while aligning the Metro Plan Diagram's single black line representation
of 30th Avenue with the survey-located 30th Avenue centerline. Printed
the Metro Plan Diagram alone as Sheet No. ZC-3 -Zone Change - Adopted
2004 Metro Plan Diagram. Printed the Metro Plan Diagram on top of the
Subject Property as Sheet No. ZC-4.
[Show sheets]
The resulting combination is simply wrong. How do we know that? Note the blue
dotted line which represents the city limits where they appear on Sheet No. ZC-4.
As the city limits cross 30th Avenue the dotted blue line is well to the west of the
black line that represent Spring Blvd.
Now we know that the city limits where it crosses 30th Avenue is actually at the
eastern edge of the right -of-way for Spring Blvd. How do we know that? Also
supplied as attachments are three maps that clearly show the location of the city
limits at 30th Avenue and Spring Blvd. The first is the City of Eugene Zoning Map,
the second is from the Tax Assessor's office, and the third from Lane County's
online mapping facility.
[Show maps]
LaurelHilIvaIleyCitizens@gmail.com
Deceived in Public Hearing
City of Euaene Planning & Development
AUG 2 6 2015
1=iie -Z_ 15- 5
2480 Laurel Hill Drive Eugene, OR 974c3'hiLiito;',`:w4vw Ihvc.org
Testimony re ZC 15-5, page 2
How this happened is pretty obvious. When you align two lines as the applicant did when they aligned the
survey-located 30th Avenue centerline on their tax lot map with the black line representing 30th Avenue on
the Metro Plan Diagram, you can slide them back and forth along each other as convenient. In the applicant's
case they slid their tax lot in a northwesterly direction along the representation of 30th Avenue on the Metro
Plan Diagram. Had they stopped when the blue dotted line on their tax lot map reached the actual location of
the city boundary to the east of Spring Blvd. on the Metro Plan Diagram, it would be an entirely different map.
In fact it would look remarkable like map SA 7.0 - SITE ANALYSIS: LAND USE AND INFRASTRUCTURE (copy
attached) that was submited by the applicant as part of a zone change request back in 2013.
[Show SA 7.0]
So why does this matter? For the applicant it matter a great deal, it reduces the portion of their property that
the Metro Plan Diagram designates as Parks and Open Space from about 40 acres, as shown of SA 7.0 to about
20 acres in their current application. For taxlot owners along Spring Blvd., part of their taxlot may now be
outside of city limits, and they may be entitled to a tax refund from the City.
The bigger picture is that no property owner should be allowed to redraw a community's boundaries to benefit
themselves.
We ask for the following remedy: First, that you deny the Zone Change Application Z 15-5. Second, that you
direct the applicant to contract with LCOG to determine the correct registration between the Metro Plan
Diagram and the tax lots in the vicinity of of the applicants property. LCOG has decades of experience with
geographic data systems, and are generally recognized as the experts when it come to generating maps for
public purposes.
In summary, it is clear that the applicant has placed their tax lot in the wrong place on the Metro Plan Diagram.
Other speakers will present additional evidence that this is so. Therefore EC 9.8865(1) is not met and the
application must be denied.
Respectfully submitted,
Jan Wostmann
Co-Chair, Laurel Hill Valley Citizens
2645 Riverview St.
Eugene, OR 97403
LaurelHillValleyCitizens@gmail.com 2480 Laurel Hill Drive . Eugene, OR 97403 . www.lhvc.org
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