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more floors. He described the structure as having a three-foot slab for a foundation over the entire block <br />which had taken 48 continuous hours to pour. He said it was made as ballast so that it does not “pop out of <br />the ground like a swimming pool.” He did not know why the City and the County could not use that <br />building. He had heard rumors that it had been said the structure would not hold up. He maintained that it <br />would hold up and offered to put his engineering study up against any engineering study that asserted <br />otherwise. <br /> <br />Russ Brink <br />, 132 East Broadway, provided the names of 225 people who visited the Downtown Eugene, Inc. <br />website to show their support for the project. He acknowledged that Whole Foods Grocery could build a <br />store on any properly zoned land in the City. He predicted the store would come to this community at some <br />time and that parking would be key to its location at any site. He wondered how many parking spaces <br />th <br />Whole Foods Grocery would be required to build under current code on West 11 Avenue and Coburg <br />Road. He asked why people would want to encourage surface parking at a suburban location when a City <br />center location was more consistent with smart growth principles. He pointed out that the City built and <br />operated parking in the downtown area because it was a parking exempt zone, which meant that developers <br />were not required to provide parking. He stressed that the City provided parking as a public service and as a <br />means to implement city growth management policies. He thought the site could be documented by any <br />common sense analysis given the recent developments in that area such as the federal courthouse and the <br />Shedd Institute. <br /> <br />Bart Ricketts <br />, 921 Southwest Washington Street, Portland, President of Lease Crutcher Lewis, spoke as a <br />construction professional and contractor with a great deal of experience with the no-bid delivery method. He <br />said this was the type of project that fit the no-bid contract and was allowable according to ORS 279. He <br />averred that the crux of the process was the speed of delivery, coordination of trades on a complex site, the <br />provision of public benefit to the public agency involved, and having a contractor that had public contracting <br />experience and good rapport with the contracting community. He stressed that there was still “plenty of <br />public bidding opportunities” built into the process as over 90 percent of the hard costs of construction <br />would be competitively bid by local trades-people, vendors, and subcontractors in the community. He hoped <br />the council would support the process. <br /> <br />Kelly Saito <br />, 1120 Northwest Couch Street, Suite 600, Portland, stated that he worked for Gerding/Edlen <br />Development Company and his company partnered with the Broadway and High Associates to put forth the <br />proposal for this development. He asked for approval on the resolution to grant the sole source exemption. <br />He commented that it was unfair to paint Whole Foods Grocery as a corporate baron coming to town to put <br />local businesses out of business. He felt it was a good company that would provide good jobs. He pointed <br />out that Whole Foods had been consistently ranked as one of the 100 best companies to work for. He <br />predicted Whole Foods would be a steward to the community and to the environment. He also wished to <br />underscore that the parking garage project was not a subsidy to the Whole Foods Grocery. He stressed that <br />Whole Foods was paying a premium to be in this location and was paying for its parking. He asserted that <br />the store could purchase land with surface parking for far less in the outlying areas of the city. <br /> <br />Mike Schwartz <br />, 725 Olive Street, said he and his family had owned a business in downtown Eugene for 69 <br />years. He had served on the Downtown Commission, the Downtown Development Board, and the Eugene <br />Renewal Agency. He stressed that Whole Foods Grocery was “everything” the Downtown Plan that had <br />been passed in 1984 wanted, both in scope and in the parking garage. He wondered why this debate was <br />being held at all. He stated that the city and its citizens had spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours <br />of volunteer time trying to set up a downtown just for the projects it was now beginning to see proposed. He <br />averred that any downtown in the country would love to have a Whole Foods Grocery interested in locating <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council -- March 13, 2006 Page 17 <br /> City Council Meeting <br /> <br />
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