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