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ventures and could be noisy at all hours, seven days a week. He objected to the placement of bed and <br />breakfast businesses in residential neighborhoods. <br /> <br />st <br />Scott Bartlett <br />, 1445 East 21 Avenue, recalled the different city managers who had served Eugene over the <br />years. He read in The Register-Guard that City Manager Dennis Taylor might be “lured” away by a job in <br />Lawrence, Kansas. He valued all of the elected officials. He had met Mr. Taylor several times and <br />understood that Mr. Taylor had originally come from Kansas. He remembered hearing that Robert F. <br />Kennedy was a source of inspiration for Mr.Taylor. He appreciated the natural tensions that happened <br />between a city council that would want “legitimate oversight” and the city manager who acted as “the <br />traffic cop” that juggled all the elements of the City. Having viewed the City Manager on Channel 21 and <br />read about him in the newspaper, he concluded that Mr. Taylor was a very decent human being, motivated <br />by high principles. He averred that our country needed to be in touch with its greatest political thinkers on <br />both sides of the aisle as we enter into difficult troubled waters. He presented a picture of John F. <br />Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy to Mr. Taylor that he had owned for 30 years. <br /> <br />The City Manager graciously accepted the picture. <br /> <br />Bob Kline <br />, 594 Covey Lane, chairman of the Harlow Neighborhood Association and a Quail Run resident, <br />related that he and his wife had witnessed the transmission lines fallen across their backyard. He attended <br />two meetings with EWEB and felt that while many questions were asked, not many had been answered. He <br />reiterated that transmission towers were all over the City and averred that this was not just a Quail Run <br />issue. He asked if no one had oversight over EWEB. He read a resolution passed unanimously by the <br />Harlow Neighborhood Association that demanded that neighborhood residents be allowed to participate in <br />the process to place the towers and to inspect the damaged remnants of the tower that fell. <br /> <br />Zachary Vishanoff, <br /> on Patterson Street, averred that if the City denied discussion of adaptive reuse of the <br />current city hall complex “with people who really know about that stuff” it would be “continuing its <br />destructive pattern.” He reiterated his unhappiness with the razing of the closed cannery building, now the <br />location of the new federal courthouse. He asserted that adaptive reuse was “real sustainability.” He said <br />the problem with new urbanism was that it always made “it new” and did not respect existing communities. <br />He was afraid that creating a sustainable business initiative without public input to point out potential <br />pitfalls, would allow there to be ways for a pesticide producer to declare itself sustainable. He noted that <br />there had not been much public input at the SBI Task Force meetings. He was concerned that sustainabil- <br />ity was a “slippery term.” He asserted that there were many “Fortune 500” companies with sustainable <br />initiatives and he did not want them expanding in Eugene. He wanted a public hearing to be held. He <br />recommended that the councilors Google the following: “Smart Growth: Smart or Not.” <br /> <br />Charles Biggs <br />, 540 Antelope Way, expressed his agreement with the Quail Run residents’ demand to <br />inspect the remains of the concrete towers, the testimony objecting to the annexation of roads, and the <br />supporters of the Sustainable Business Initiative. Regarding the latter, he had tried to attend as many of the <br />meetings as he could. He encouraged the City Council to learn as much as possible about the “triple <br />bottom line: the environment, the economy, and the social aspect.” He thought it important to engage in <br />“whole system thinking” and asked that the City Council think about how sustainable a decision they were <br />about to make would be in all aspects of it. He wished to see sustainability permeate the status quo of <br />local government. <br /> <br />Cary Thompson <br />, 966 Jackson Street, expressed his support for the work of the SBI Task Force. He <br />hoped the report would not sit on a shelf and gather dust. He thought the initiative was an opportunity to <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council September 25, 2006 Page 5 <br /> Regular Meeting <br /> <br />