Laurel Lull Vley Citizens <br />2480 Laurel Hill Drive . Eugene. OR 97403 + 541.729.4271 <br />www.lhvc.org Iaure IhiIIva IIeycit izens @gmai1.corn <br />September 9, 2015 <br />Mr. Fred Wilson, Hearings Official <br />c/o Gabriel Flock <br />Planning <br />City of Eugene <br />99 West 10th Ave. <br />Eugene OR 97401 <br />Re: Z-15-005 - Laurel Hill Valley Citizen's Association 2nd Open Record Submittal <br />Dear Mr. Wilson: <br />This letter comprises part of the arguments submitted during the second open record <br />period relating to the Zone Change application for the Laurel Ridge property. LHVC <br />previously submitted written comments regarding this matter on August 14, at the <br />hearing on August 26th, and again on September 2nd, 2015. <br />Applicant's 9/2/15 Testimony - a Study in Self-Contradiction and Obfuscation <br />"Mea culpa, me culpa, mea maxima culpa. / was wrong." <br />That is how the applicant's land use consultant starts his letter of 9/2/15. He admits to <br />having overlaid the boundary survey oriented to True North, and the Metro Plan <br />Diagram to State Plane Coordinate System. Or does he? <br />In the following two-and-a-half pages, he backpedals from this statement and tries to <br />confuse the issue, ending finally on page 3 (2nd paragraph) with this statement regarding <br />the adopted 2004 version of the Metro Plan: <br />'If rotating the north arrow was not an intentional decision, with a methodology, <br />justifications, and findings supporting such, it can only be viewed as an error in <br />the construction of the diagram. Causing further concern that it maybe just that - <br />a scrivener's error - is that on the currently available Metro Plan diagram, date <br />1213112010, the only one available at the above-referenced website, the north <br />arrow appears to have been rotated back to its previous orientation, thus <br />matching the 1980 and 1987 diagrams" <br />Oh, so now it's not really an error of Schirmer-Satre, it's actually an error of the <br />"scrivener" that the north arrow is rotated 2 degrees on the 2004 version. <br />What an unbelievably disingenuous statement!!! <br />