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<br />ATTACHMENT D <br /> <br />Jefferson Westside Neighbors <br />A City-Chartered Neighborhood Association <br />www.jwneugene.org <br /> <br />November 13, 2006 <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy and Eugene City Council <br />City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street, Room 105 <br />Eugene, OR 97401 <br /> <br />RE: Measure 37 claim for 1333 W. 10th Ave. <br /> <br />Dear Mayor and City Councilors: <br /> <br />On behalf of the Jefferson Westside Neighbors (JWN), we want to state our conditional <br />support for approving Ms. Judith Bush's Measure 37 claim for 1333 W. 10th Ave. <br /> <br />The JWN supports the claim only under the conditions and terms specified in the <br />~'MEASURE 37 CLAIM AGREEMENT", which was developed in cooperation with <br />Glenn Klein, the City Attorney, and which has been signed by the owner, JWN Co- <br />chairs, and nearby property owners. We understand from the City Attorney that this <br />agreement will be incorporated as an attachment to the Council resolution recommended <br />by the City Manager. <br /> <br />We are very pleased with the way Ms. Bush and her son and representative, Mr. Ron <br />Blacquiere, supported the intent of the Chambers Special Area Zone (CSAZ) goals and the <br />S-CIR-2 development standards. Ms. Bush and Mr. Blacquiere are to be commended for <br />genuinely acting in the best interests of the neighborhood that encompasses their property. <br /> <br />As the Agreement recitals explicitly state, this was a very unique situation in which the <br />owner's proposed single-family, detached home would fill a "missing tooth" gap.on that <br />block of W. 1 Oth Ave. The agreement required no compromise with the goals and intent <br />of the CSAZ and S-C/R-l standards. It is strictly on the basis laid out in the Agreement <br />recitals that the JWN supports this claim, and we support only those modifications <br />enumerated in the Agreement. <br /> <br />The JWN opposes any action on this claim or future claims that would undermine the <br />goals and intent of the CSAZ and S-CIR-2 standards. <br /> <br />Also note that our support for the claim and proposed modifications to applicable <br />development standards does not indicate our agreement to any of the statements in the <br />original claim application and attached materials, except that we believe the owner would <br />have been allowed to build a single additional unit on the subject property at the time the <br />owner purchased. the property. <br /> <br />Specifically, we do not believe the owner would have been allowed to build three <br />additional units, nor that the owner's alleged reduction of the subject property's value is <br />valid, nor that the facts and methods used in the calculation of this value by the owner's <br />appraiser are accurate and valid. <br />