Item A: Ordinance Amending Metro Plan and Willakenzie Area Plan (Huntington Crossing)

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Huntingt9n Crossing MCKINNEY Lydia S ATTACHMENT E From: Judith Van [jvari@asu.edu] Sent: Monday, October 23,,2006 3:16 PM To,: MCKINNEY Lydia S Subject: Huntington Crossing' Judith Van 89326 Old Coburg Road Eugene, OR 97408 To Lydia McKinney and the City of Eugene Re: Huntington Crossing (MA 06-3, RA 06-2) I have been a resident of Old Coburg Road (OCR) since 1951. The house J now own has been standing at . the north end of OCR (directly across from the proposed Huntington Crossing) since 1937. I am opposed to the development of Huntington Crossing as it is now outlined because · The City of Eugene is considering overturning a stated plan for the OCR area that since the 80's has privileged the removal of existing residences and placed prohibitions on building new residences in favor, of developing the area as light industrial. This plan combined' with the proposed development of Chad Drive (a truck route) which was to travel east across this land, caused my family and others to sell their property and move. The plan was for NO residential development on OCR. Again, most residents believing that their area would never again be residential because of this plan sold their property and moved. The residents had been involved and didn't want to move but because of the larger property sizes there were fewer voices and those few voices had been largely ignored for the twenty years of. planning meetings when the City was deciding what to do with the land. The residents maintained that the area should always remain the same low density residential/small farml mixed use it had been. When the zoning changed to light industrial, residents suggested that at least some of the neighborhood's integrity be maintained. The city didn't listen to us for all those years, why now, is the city, on the request of one landowner, considering spending even more money, redesigning the area once agaif1, and changing the' plan back to residential but this time high-medium density with commercial? Shouldn't property owners have the security 'of knowing that they can count on the city to follow its own stated plans and not overturn them at the request of one landowner/developer? . . · The plan is irresponsible because of the current road/traffic problems in the area. Not only does this zone change go against a twenty year city plan, but the present and projected road system cannot support this over~development of the area. Traffic is already dangerous on Game Farm Road. The road is traveled too fast by too many cars and big work and gravel trucks, and speed limits are not enforced. I know this as I am the one pulling out of OCR and onto Game Farm each time I leave my house. Sometimes it takes me twenty minutes to drive the four or five miles to Beltline, and forget going around to Coburg Road, it's even worse. In short the traffic in the area, as anyone knows who has to drive there, is a mess and the new interchange at 1-5 and Beltline is not going to help. In future, traffic volume will simply increase onto the smaller roads leading to this exchange and increase congestion. I propose that you reconsider the traffic plan before you consider consider a zone change whereby cK:Jding even more traffic. On a personal note, the additional traffic onto OCR from a large apartment complex will make using my driveways dangerous. The proposed development will have two large streets with 1 0/24/2006