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Appendix B Community Forum #5 Comment Cards The new Eugene City Hall is going to be a green building, built on string budget on limited space in downtown. The building should not be more than 4 floors high. Several entrances, even as open walkways on all 4 sides would help spread the parking problem, rather than concentrate it. We need to see your plans for the other two facades. The wigwam is totally unharmonious with the rest of the plan. If it has to stay it needs to incorporate more features of the atrium so it isn’t quite such a sore thumb. Your water recovery garden is wonderful. Pyramid building forms. Federal Court House had to be certain number of steps higher for flood water or as superior building? Might City Hall have same requirement? For security reasons, NO public parking UNDER the building. Also, integrate the “anti-car bomb” defenses into the design. It does little to make a beautiful design if the next day a line of concrete planters are placed along the street edge. The building needs a plaza that is large enough to provide space for a public/civic function (i.e. stage speakers) and for the protest opposing it, without walking on the grass or blocking the sidewalks. The building needs to have an exhibit space for changing art, natural history and local history. Eugene MUST have a place to protest a city action at the City Hall. Having a protest at the Wayne Morse Plaza regarding a city matter DOES NOT WORK! The materials used need to be able to survive deferred maintenance without looking run down. Avoid painted surfaces. Staged construction may make fiscal sense, BUT I have two concerns: 1. If you leave vacant ground for future development, the public may resist the loss of open space when it becomes time to expand. 2. If you plan on adding floors, the problem is changing building codes. Please set specific, quantitative sustainability goals soon. 1. Each time I go to City Hall, I’d like to feel proud, dignity, wonder, change, happy, welcome, inspired, and different.