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ATTACHMENT B <br /> <br /> YEITER Kurt M <br /> <br /> From: Jack Radabaugh [jradabaugh@comcast.net] <br /> S nt: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:48 PM <br /> To: mayorandcc@ci.eugene.or.us <br /> Cc: kurt.m.yeiter@ci.eugene.or, us <br /> Subject: Fw: Letter to City Council <br /> <br />..... Original Message ..... <br />From: Jack Radabaugh <br />To: Charles Biggs; Terry Wh_it~e; Terry Froemming; Marian Spath; Louise Wade <br />Cc: <br />Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:01 PM <br />Subject: Letter to City Council <br /> <br />To: The Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />From: Jack Radabaugh, Chairman, Chase Gardens Node Committee <br /> <br />Subject: Chase Gardens Nodal Development <br /> <br />At its March 16, 2005 public meeting, the Harlow Neighbors Neighborhood Association voted to support continued <br />development of retail services for the Chase Gardens area. Specifically, the neighbors desire, at minimum, <br />creation of a grocery store. A formal resolution rejecting an exclusively medical services facility was passed with <br />only one negative vote. <br /> <br />After more than ten years of work, Harlow Neighbors urges the City Council to act in a manner which will result in <br />the ongoing greatest good for the largest number of people residing in this underserved high density area. Retail <br />services will provide relief, not only to student renters, but also to persons who will live in the 240 Iow inome units <br />planned for the future. The last thing this congested area needs is a regional medical center. The $60,000 major <br />planning effort contracted for the the City for area development called for an upscale retail urban village. <br />Development of any regional facility was rejected by both the study plan and the neighborhood. <br /> <br />The Satre Assocoates plan suggested several configurations of retail layout, all of which would result in <br />improvement of vehicle miles travelled in the area. A system of internal sidewalks along with a seventy-five <br />percent <br />reduction in driving distances would result in a reduction of VMT for all the inhabitants of the area. It would also <br />add retail advantages for the people living south of Martin Luther King Boulevard. A regional medical center <br />which devotes most of the eight acres to parking lot purposes guarantees a future traffic mess which the improved <br />Garden Way will never be able to mitigate. <br /> <br />At this point the City Council still has an opportunity to complete its first successful node in Eugene. The <br />extremely high density of the area makes this possible. Creation of an urban village is, in itself, desirable. The <br />urban village proposal meets all of the best asperations of the Willakenzie Plan, the Metro Plan and Trans Plan. <br />A need still exists to make the money spent on the area study worthwhile. Finally, the City Council and staff are <br />urged to accept the advice of the neighborhood in urging broad and general retail services for Chase Gardens. <br /> <br />4/4/2005 <br /> <br /> <br />