Item 3: Ordinance Concerning Jefferson/Far West Plan Amendments

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....1-- LL IIIC( a: c 15 as an intact, healthy,. single-family section of the neighborhood that spanned both north and south of the Amazon. Channel. Both sides shared characteristics of older homes with similar setbacks, lot plans and architectural features. Observation confirmed that residential development on Je,fferson and Washington Streets renlained relatively uniform on both sides of the channel. Without an adequate public . process to change the boundaries' of sub-areas defined in the refine.ment plan, Area 15 s110uld not be partitioned by the amendment under consideration. Splitting Area 15 would.be contrary to tIle intent of planning team residents that would unnecessarily fragment the neighborhood. She said all of the residents} inside and outside of Area 1.5 appreciated the area's character and have a stake in its stability and future. .There \vere families with children in the neighborhood, and families must be accommodated to provide truedi,rersity in JWN. Triplexes and fourplexes shoehorned into backyards did not provide this. T'his destabilizing development did not belong in Area 15 as well as in the.JWN heritage neighborhoods. Reducing the amount of pervious surfaces in the neighborhood by addillg , rooftops, onsite. parking, and drivewaysnecessat)l' \vith R-2 scale development, meant a subsequent rise in the water level in the Amazon Channel was ine~vitable. Tllis \vas a temporary fix, an.d neighbors \vere ready to guide sensible de\relopment in the neighborhood. Matt Sl\rite, 1424 Washington Street~ said his family searched for six lnollths b.efore buying a house in JVv~ because of the character of the neighborhood, because it \vas a safe, stable neigllborhood. He understood the neighborhood was zoned R -1 and \vas sllocked to learn that-t.his Vlas n.ot n.ecessarily the case. He asked that the Plal1nillg Com.mission not ruin the character of the neighborhood by al1o\ving triplexes alld fourplexes. I-Ie added. that the J\\lN contributed to a healthy dOWlltO""TI. lIe ul1derstood that infill was needed but it needed to be done ill a thouglltfulmanner. Steven Franzen, 1727 La\vrence Street, stated he llad lived at this address since 1975. Durillg this time, he had seen the neighborhood revitalized, "'lith renovation of derelict housing b)r n.e\~r residellts, and an increased desirability. of the 11eigh.borhood. R-2 zoning \vould deprive residents of pri\racj\ be out of scale \;\lith the existing houses, al1d bring an M.l.NlJ1"'ES-Eugene Planning C011101ission Publ ie l-learing I)ecenlber 5, 2006 Page 7