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Good Samaritan Society, Tuesday, August 16, 2016, 7-9 PM Organized by South Willamette Neighbors (http://www.swneugene.org) Notetaker/Transcriber: Joyce Eaton 1 70 to 80 people attended the meeting. Christine Sundt (CS) gave the introduction, first asking Neighborhood Association board members or their designees to stand up and introduce themselves. CS said that South Willamette Neighbors (SWN) received 25 questions and comments on the swneugene.org website, plus additional e-mails and Facebook posts. The types of questions were on refinement plans; Clark-Brown initiative; mixed use development; parking & traffic; building heights; legal loopholes; hurdles to prohibit or restrict development; uniform or accurate data; how can we agree on terms such as townhouse or townhome, affordability, missing middle housing; MUPTE; upzoning; what is rationale for using established neighborhoods; how to resolve increased density with other problems it causes; respecting the character of the neighborhood (Envision Eugene pillar); affordable, low & middle income housing. All questions were given to Terri Harding. Any questions not answered today \[will be answered by Terri and put on the website\]. Or, if you want to provide rebuttals to what Terri said, send your comments to swneugeneinfo@gmail.com. All answers, rebuttals, comments will be provided as testimony to the forum. Terri gave an introduction, similar to the one that she gave at the Friendly Area Neighbors meeting in =================================================================================== Good evening, I am Terri Harding, opportunity to introduce myself to you. I have lived in Eugene for 21 years, since moving here to attend Planning school at the University of Oregon in 1995. I have rented a duplex and a single family home in the Jefferson Westside Neighborhood, owned my first home in the Far West Neighborhood, and have owned my current home in the Southwest Hills Neighborhood (SHiNA) since 2007. I love this community and am raising my family here. I started my job with the City of Eugene in 2006. I am motivated to come to work each day to help our community move toward the most livable, sustainable, equitable, and prosperous Eugene imaginable. I value fairness, collaboration, responsible stewardship of resources, and shared learning in pursuit of Sometimes, we make mistakes. The South Willamette Special Area zone is one of those times. One thing we did poorly was to communicate from the beginning of the project what problem we are trying to 1 in square brackets so for these areas, it may not quite be what was said.\] Page . 1 of 9 SWN Conversation About Neighbhorhoods, 8/16/2016