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HANSEN Alissa H From: MCKINNEY Lydia S Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:32 PM To: HANSEN Alissa H; THOMAS Patricia S Subject: FW: (Fwd) Comments on Proposed Changes to Laurel Hill Refinement P ..... Original Message ..... From: David G. Hinkley [mailto:dhinkley@efn.org] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:26 PM To: mayorandcc@ci.eugene.or.us Cc: lydia.s.mckinney@ci.eugene.or.us; Dennis.M.Taylor@ci.eugune.or.us Subject: (Fwd) Comments on Proposed Changes to Laurel Hill Refinement P Mayor and Councilors As a leader in a Eugene Neighborhood with a refinement plan, I am extremely concerned with the cavalier manner in which the provisions of a properly adopted refinement plan, are being changed by this action. Refinement plans are the result of months of work on the part of city staff, local residents, property and business owners with large amount of public involvement. The result of this work is a common vision of how the neighborhood should develop. There is no argument that Laurel Hill Valley's plan is dated and that it would benefit from a full update. But a lot by lot revision of small portions of the plan is not the way to revise a refinement plan. The correct way is a comprehensive review and revision of the whole plan, with full public involvement. Until then the existing plan should be followed and not discarded because it contains an inconvenient restriction. It is unfortunate that the applicant did not do due diligence before he acquired his property. But his lack of diligence on his part is no reason to change a part of a properly adopted plan regardless of its age. I respectfully request that the City Council reject this unnecessary change in a local refinement plan and make it clear to the Planning and Development Department that piecemeal changes to local refinement plans are not acceptable. Thank you for your time and consideration on this most important of issues. Sincerely David Hinkley