JANISCH Amy C <br />From: GIOELLO Nick R <br />Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 4:03 PM <br />To: JANISCH Amy C <br />Subject: FW: Zone Change Hearing <br />Follow Up Flag: Follow up <br />Flag Status: Flagged <br />Please add this correspondence to the record for Z 16-5 Furtick. <br />-----Original Message----- <br />From: Pat Holleran [mailto:holleran@shannontech.com] <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 7:00 PM <br />To: GIOELLO Nick R <Nick.R.Gioello@ci.eugene.or.us> <br />Subject: Zone Change Hearing <br />Mr. Gioello: <br />I returned from a trip to find that the zone change hearing for the plot of land adjacent to my property is scheduled for <br />March 8. This provides very little time for any kind of preparation of testimony for a hearing. A zone change which would <br />alter the existing allowance of a single house on the property to 6 or more is a pretty major change, and in this particular <br />case the developer in question has also expressed intent to use my property for a road, and for the delivery of basic <br />utility services. So a decision on this rezoning request obviously has a major effect on my property values, livability of my <br />residence, etc., and it would also result in a significant alteration of a neighborhood which has changed little in 70 years <br />and affect its many residents. <br />A few weeks might seem adequate to a developer spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a property and plan, <br />with legal and land use experts on staff, or for a city employee workingevery day on this and related issues. But for <br />ordinary citizens with normal daily activities, this does not provide nearly enough time to study the documents and <br />issues, access necessary expertise, meet to determine a reasonable course of action, etc. I note also that in the letter I <br />received that the "Northeast Neighbors" group is incorrectly identified as the relevant neighborhood association, and I <br />believe the correct group, the Laurel Hill Valley Citizens, are just now notifying their members. <br />It is only fair to give affected citizens enough time to put together a reasonable response to a plan for significant change. <br />-Patrick Holleran <br />