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From AnnaKate Malliris 09/16/2016 Towhoever is on the other end of this and particularly Mayor Piercy: I know that you have been told before and I am sure you will be told again on Sept. 19th (although only in3 minute increments) that this plan makes no sense. I have told the council(wo)men before the reasonsthat this plan is ridiculous but now I want to share the actionsthat arealreadyhappening as a result ofyour ongoing push to change the character of this area. I have sold one andam preparing to sell another house in this zoning district. I may not beable to get you all to see that the plan is ridiculous (which one of you has the crystal ball that can see out past the 20yearsworthofhousingthatEugenehasalready provided), destructive tothearea(theSouth Willamette Neighbors have shared with you the outcomes of this kind of ridiculous development plan in other places around the country; primarily the creationof slums as investors buy up and run decaying rentals until they acquire enough property to build large developments), and leads to long time residents fleeing furtherout from these central neighborhoods. And that brings meto me. I haveno interest in riding your ridiculous roller coasterthat is guaranteed to crash at the end. I will not have the $650,000 worth of real property that I own outright devalued so you can play Legos with my neighborhood. I will not wait until my next door neighbor is a revolving door of tenants lacking any connection or commitmenttothe neighborhoodoreven their property while someone rakes in rent payments while watchingtheproperty deteriorate and waiting for the big payday when they can buy up the adjoining property for pennies on the dollar from hardworking people like me whojustwant out and any cost. I will not livenextdoor to a 7 story, 5 story or even 3 story apartment building. And, as I move further out to find an intact neighborhood, I will drive farther to get to work and shop which has the opposite affect on the environment than what you want. But at least for now, you can't stop me. After living ontheedge ofdowntownfor 25 yearsandwatching it become overrun by homeless people going through my garbage cans, people walking through my yard as if it were a thoroughfare, and people stealing from my back yard, the thing thathas made memove is you. I don't know where you live but I was the person willing to live inan area close enough in to have all of the challenges because I wanted to be able to walk to the grocery store, be part of a stable neighborhood, and take advantage of being close to downtown; even whendowntown was a ghost town. But now you want to turn my neighborhood into a revolving door of apartment tenants who will literally tower over me so that some developers will make a lot of money and the "newbies" to Eugene will be able to live on prime real estate. You alreadystarted to change things when, in your infinite wisdom, you re-stripped the streets so that traffic is often backed up from 18th Street to 30th Avenue. I, fortunately, do not have to put up with it so I am out and the rentals are already moving in. You will, by the time you run your agenda, have turned one of the oldest andmoststable neighborhoodsin Eugene into a slum and driven me and many of my neighbors out to thesuburbs. Well done. So I won't be there Mondaynight andyouwon't really care what anyone says(it'sjustall process to you) and theplan willrun down the rails.It's a pilot so if it fails, you had a learning experience so no worries. But whether is "succeeds" or fails, the neighborhood will be destroyed and all of it's residents will be out in the suburbs with me (and I'm guessing you).