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From Jane Katra 09/20/2016 <br />Dear MayorPiercy and council members, <br />I am JaneKatra, a residentinSEEugenefor43years, currentlyresidingat4017 <br />Dillard, Rd., Eugene, 97405. <br />I am caring for a sick friend in Seattle,and was not able to attend the forum last night. <br />I'd like to contribute now, if I may. <br />1.I wholeheartedly support the development of a refinement plan for the SWSAZ and <br />south east Eugene. It is a tried and truly workable state-recommended <br />solution with legal clout, which we want and deserve. <br />2.I support the Brown-Evans Initiative. The people who live in and own houses and <br />businesses in theaffected neighborhoods, along withlots of help from those <br />of us among the 700 signers wholivewithin the 4 neighborhoods surrounding the <br />SWSAZ will collaborate and producegoodplansfor the area. <br />3.I washighly angry and horrifiedto learn that our planners decided that all the <br />charming and affordable houses between Willamette St. andAmazon Parkway, <br />alongwith thesmallhouses and little gardens in the blocks south of 30th andeast <br />of Willamette St. in the SWSAZ, were expendable. I and my newly-retired <br />friends are wanting tomoveout of ourlargerhouses,nowthat ourchildren are <br />grown and gone. It's really hard to find a small house to buy in those charming <br />areas! Everyone wants them! <br />We seniors are competing to buy there withfirst-time home owners. Those small <br />houses with little gardens, on level ground perfect for bicycling, are already <br />20 minute neighborhoods!!!! I've been looking forwardtomovingthere for years! <br />Those are just the kinds of houses we love! Groups of such cottages with <br />community commons areas and gardens are wonderful. Now I and my friends are <br />afraid to buy there. We don't want multi-storied buildings to ruin our sunlight <br />for gardens. <br />4.Please let people fromthe four affected neighborhoodschoose "opportunity sites" <br />for the construction of multiple family dwellings, in placesalong themain <br />transportation corridors that are already available. We have foundmany such <br />places. <br />5.Please do notchange the zoning of R-1 neighborhoods in such a way as to allow <br />developers to buy up perfectlygood houses and tearthemdown and turn <br />neighborhoods into their investment properties. This iswhat is happening in <br />Seattle and Portland, where buyers can't compete with foreign investors <br />who pay large sums ofcash to out-bid anyone else and then teardown the houses <br />and makeit impossibleforpeopleto buy houses at all. <br />Please choose specific sites within neighborhoods for development. <br />6.Please protectthe availabilityof sunlight for growing food forresidentsin R-1 <br />neighborhoods, andplease make it a priority to preserve the tall evergreentrees <br /> <br />