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Kyle Burns, 1390 West 10th Avenue, also identified himself as a Monroe Park neighbor and wanted to thank the Budget Committee and everyone present for all the work done towards getting the bicycle patrol of the neighborhood. He stated that it had made a "big difference already." He appreciated the responses to all of the emails the neighbors had sent. He stressed that if there was any doubt the patrols were necessary, they should have been dismissed after the recent murder attempt by the river was thwarted by bicycle patrol officers. Mark Rabinowitz, PO Box 51222, wished to call attention to the multi-hazard mitigation report on the City Web site. He felt it was well-done but he had three areas of concern: 1) fireworks should not be sold to children during fire season; 2) several dams upstream from Eugene were not designed for the Cascadia subduction earthquake which made it important to make available a map of potential inundation areas; and 3) climate change and peak oil. He underscored that the world was at peak oil production. He recommended that subsidies for "big box" stores be stopped and that plans for new freeways be ended. He also recommended supporting local business instead of corporations such as Whole Foods and Triad Corporation, which were both based in Texas. He averred that the large sum of money investors proposed to spend for a power facility to be constructed near Coburg would be better spent on building solar panel factories, because that would guarantee some renewable energy when the oil was gone. He suggested that plans for parking garages next to transit facilities be cancelled. He predicted that the country would have to deal with economic crises that would precede the energy and food crises of peak oil. He did not think the rhetoric of sustainability would help make things work when the nation was in chaos. Elizabeth Twombly, 5015 Nectar Way, submitted her testimony in writing. She thanked the councilors for the work they had done on behalf of the East Fork Amazon Headwaters property. She wished to remind councilors that support for the purchase of land in the area went far beyond the immediate neighbors. She stated that the East Fork Amazon preservation group had over 150 people on its email list and had been endorsed by some neighborhood groups in Eugene as well as the Native Plant Society, the Audubon Society, and Citizens for Public Accountability. Ms. Twombly believed that the developers' plan to build over 100 houses on the property was unrealistic. She reminded those present that developer Joe Green had bought the property in 2004 for $325,000 and now wanted $600,000 from the City for it. Because the appraisal of the property indicated it was only worth $435,000, the City was unable to purchase it at that price. She said the appraisal was based on an expectation that only seven houses could actually be constructed on the property because of the terrain. She urged councilors and staff to continue working toward creating a plan to acquire the property at a reasonable price. Lisa Warnes, 5020 Nectar Way, thanked the council and staff for the work they had been doing on the proposed acquisition of the East Fork Amazon Headwaters. She felt it unfortunate that time had run out in the work session of the previous week and that a motion had not been voted on. She believed she could work with Councilor Taylor to draft a motion that would be acceptable to most of the council. She thought the planned unit development (PUD) process would likely "change many things and open up new options." She opined that developer Joe Green did not have a "basis in reality" because he still thought he could build 100 homes on that site. She said after the work session it seemed there was a renewed energy for acquiring the stream corridor, a ten-acre property. She was curious as to what the reasoning was behind giving $150,000 for a piece of property that would be protected anyway. She had observed, when looking at plans in a meeting with Joe Green, that the plans included 50-foot setbacks from the stream corridor. MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 13, 2005 Page 2 Regular Session