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City Club forum seemed to think thatnotices inneighborhood association newsletters and the Register Guard should have been enough. It was not. Friendly Area Neighbors was heavily involved in the early planning, and there were informational articles in the newsletter.But the geographic extent and density kept morphing fromthe first article in 2010 to the present. That alone would cause confusion. And in an April 2012 Friendly Area Newsletter article by Patricia Taylor (then the planner in charge of South Willamette), she answered this question: “ Decisionsabout a planforthedistrictwillultimatelybemadebytheCityCouncil.Nochangeswill be madetotheplanfortheareawithout a publicprocessandnoticebeingsenttopeopleinthe if areaofproposedchanges.Forinstance,a zonechangewereproposed,allownersand occupantsofpropertieswithin a legallyproscribeddistance(500feet) wouldbenotifiedbymail. ” The emphasis on the “if” is mine.But it highlights that a potentialzoning change was downplayed and not a done-deal at that time. It seems that Southeast Neighbors, where my house is located, wasn’t involved at all until the 2014 summer picnic.How many residentsinand within 500 feet of the SW-SAZ attend this picnic? My guess would be 4 at most. The 2014 “public outreach” of the parklet at Arriving By Bike as an effective tool for contacting the residents was a joke. I remember driving by and seeing what I thought was a sale at Arriving By Bike. There was a blackboard with chalk writing that turnsout includedEugene Planning.Therewere nocitylogosthat could be seen when driving by, so no way to know that the citywas about to unleash a massiverezoning ofmyneighborhood. So the firstreal notice thatanyone in the residential areas received was the notice of the Open House prior to the Planning Commission hearing. (And some people say that they did not even receive this.) Page 2 of 3 09/19/2016