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August 5, 2004 Patricia Thomas City of Eugene Planning Division 99 West l0th Avenue Eugene, OR 97401 RE: RA 04-1 RECEIVED Dear Ms. Thomas: The Laurel Hill Valley Citizens neighborhood association ask that RA 04-1, A REFINEMENT PLAN AMENDMENT TO THE LAUREL HILL PLAN, be rejected because it meets neither of the two criteria for approval of Refinement Plan Amendments contained in EC 9.8424. (1) The refinement plan amendment is consistent with all of the following: lc) Remaining portions of the refinement plan. The request is not consistent with the remaining portions of the Laurel Hill Plan. The applicant is correct in stating that the East Laurel Hill section (adopted in 1982) of the Laurel Hill Plan applies to the subject property. In particular Policy 5. No additional sector of East Laurel Hill shall be designated for commercial purposes until a public need can be demonstrated. (Laurel Hill Plan, p 15) This policy directly contradicts the applicants' desire to designated the subject property for commercial development. The dear and plain intent of this policy is to preclude designating additional acreage for commercial purposes until the acreage set aside for such purposes in the commercial node has been developed and then an additional unmet public need for commercial property in East Laurel Hill is identified which outweighs the need for other uses. Since no commercial development of any kind has yet occurred on the land within the commercial node (including on land owned by the applicant that is within the node), it is preposterous to suggest that a public need for additional commercial land already exist. (2) The refinement plan amendment addresses one or more of the following: {c) New or amended community policy. I-A-3