Appeal Testimony Batch 4 - Emails Received 11/12/2025

From:Joanna Rice To:GEPPER Jeffrey A Subject:Rice Opposition Letter, City File #OC2 25-01 Date:Wednesday, November 12, 2025 3:54:57 PM You don't often get email from joannarice1@icloud.com. Learn why this is important [EXTERNAL ] 11/12/25 To the City of Eugene Hearings Official: I live at 2899 Riverwalk Loop, which is located within the Valley River Village Planned Unit Development.I have lived here for 15+ years. Without my consent the City has accepted and processed a land use application filed by Patricia and Gregory McPherson. The McPhersons do not live in the Valley River Village PUD and have no authority to initiate a land use application on property that they have no legal interest in. The City characterizes the application as follows: “a Map Correction for Water Resource /WR Overlay application to correct the Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan map for riparian and wetland resources located between the Willamette River and Goodpasture Island Road.” The City gave application a file number - OC2 25-01 and named it “Valley River Village PUD.” I oppose the application, City File Number OC2 25-01. First, the McPhersons had no authority to initiate the application, nor did the City have the authority to accept and process the application. The City should have rejected the application. My interests are harmed because, as a member of the Valley River Village HOA, my HOA dues are necessarily being used to defend against this unlawful act by the City. Second, if the appeal is granted and the Planning Director’s decision to deny the application is reversed, the McPhersons and others insist on transforming private pathways and open space into public pathways and open space. The McPhersons’ effort to use a so- called “Map Correction” land use application as a tool to convert these private areas to areas open to the public, if granted, would constitute a taking under the Oregon and U.S. constitutions and would result in exposing the City litigation and to state Measure 49 claims. The private paths and open space that the McPhersons so desperately wish to make open to the general public through this unlawful proceeding are not designed as public corridors and spaces. In recent years these private areas have seen an alarming increase in trespassing, illegal camping, human waste, trash and other criminal activity. The HOA has gone to great expense to protect the HOA owners and residents by installing locked gates at both ends of one such private path to better control unlawful activity. These measures have reduced criminal activity and increased safety. Calls to the police have reduced significantly. Efforts by the applicants through this unlawful application should not be entertained. I respectfully request that you reject the application in its entirety because it was unlawfully accepted by City staff. Please place this letter in the record. Please send me a copy of the decision. Respectfully, Joanna Rice VRV Resident Riverwalk LoopSent from my iPad