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Continuing, Mr. Spencer supported making the River Road area a target for an "urban village nodal-type <br />zone." He felt the River Road area needed a neighborhood place. <br /> <br />Regarding oil production, Mr. Spencer noted the recent interest on the part of a Chinese company to <br />purchase Unocal Oil Company. He averred this was symptomatic of the "global energy scene." He <br />quoted a letter written by two Republican representatives from California to the President that emphasized <br />the critical importance of controlling energy resources. He remarked that the representatives were behind <br />the curve. He observed that if one looked at United States military deployments all over the world, it <br />would look like "bees coming to honey," as the deployments largely focused on areas of oil production. <br /> <br />Mr. Spencer opined that everyone agreed more densification was needed in the downtown area. He felt <br />anything developed downtown should be multi-stow and there should be detailed traffic impact studies <br />with the understanding that energy would cost more in the not-too-distant future. <br /> <br />Ken Silverman, 2744 Harris Street, remarked that building a one-stow grocery in the downtown area <br />would not fulfill density goals. He thought it would be unfair to take public money and use it to foster <br />private business. He recalled that in kindergarten he learned that if one brought gum to school, one had to <br />bring enough for the whole class. Given that, he averred he should be supplied with a covered bicycle <br />garage in front of his small business if a parking structure would be built for the Whole Foods Grocery. <br />He said there was never enough parking in front of the Sundance Natural Foods and asked why it should <br />not be provided with a parking structure. He asked that public money be used for public good. He <br />commented that the City frequently demolished and rebuilt in the downtown area and every time it did so <br />people made money from it. He asserted that this was the only city he had ever lived in that did not <br />preserve most of the downtown buildings. He said the cities of Baker and Cottage Grove had "cute little <br />downtowns" but downtown Eugene looked like a bulldozer had been over it. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy closed the Public Forum and called for questions and comments from the council. <br /> <br />Councilor Kelly thanked everyone for their testimony. He commented that whether Whole Foods would <br />improve, make worse, or have little effect on the local stores was a worthwhile discussion. He noted that <br />someone mentioned city planning and he wished to point out that locating a full-service supermarket in <br />downtown had been a key element of planning for years. He indicated that Whole Foods had been the <br />first to step forward to provide a full-service grocery store in the downtown area. He said in an ideal <br />world the public could dictate what kind of store it wanted in the downtown area, but the reality was such <br />that unless someone from the private sector wished to build one, it would not happen. He stated that he <br />would oppose any financial incentives. He underscored that there were proposals, but they were verbal, <br />and it was his understanding that if Whole Foods wanted parking in a parking structure, it would pay for it <br />just like anyone would. Additionally, he wished to point out that Whole Foods could build "tomorrow" <br />on any land zoned C-2 or C-3 Commercial by filing a building permit. He averred that dissuading them <br />from the downtown location would not mean that the store would not locate in the city of Eugene. He <br />noted that Whole Foods had been cited for being anti-union and commented that Sundance Natural Foods, <br />Kiva, and the other locally-owned natural foods stores were not union stores. He pointed out that Safeway <br />and the Fred Meyer stores were union employers. <br /> <br />Regarding land swap proposals, Councilor Kelly stressed that such proposals almost always came from <br />landowners, which made it difficult to plan "up front" for them. <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 27, 2005 Page 5 <br /> Regular Session <br /> <br /> <br />
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