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Page 3 Ellis Jones The facts are that they'. .ot~~n and use their fu~_1 property and ~~,~~ should have to pay their share of road construction casts, based upon a front footage just as da other taxpayers. Prior to the road project, I became aware that the City of Eugene was ~~ desirous of having a boat launching site and parking an r. adio station propE and road right of way, across fror~ the boulders, ~ '~ ~n Sept, 19, 1992, I received a notice from the City of Eu ene stating they ~; ~ ~ t would begin constructing a stormwater runoff treatmen~~ ~ediarectly across the street from the boulders on the River apartments. which happens to be the same area I referred to above , No indication was given in the notice that this was. a ma jor excavation project and that the contour of the land would be completely changed. . There was an innocuous reference to a Swale which wou7 d be one foot deep, six feet wide, and will follow the contour of the lanc~.~' T:~ here were at least ~5~4 cubic yards of material rernaved from the Bite-- mnstly from radio station property. The radio station received nv compensation from the material nor for a permit of entry. phis p~ project has an add on item, -~ it was not in the road construe bid and does not service ai~~ of the assessed property having road P ~i assessments from this project, The only ~~~~~ storm water drainage into the 1~~~ pipe is from six curb gutters north of_ the property an about 15J~Y' of assessed road frontage, The 18+~ pipe runs north t~ the end of the road construct ion project where it is c ~.pped and will serve. areas ~~~~~~~~ to the north towards Beltline road. There are no ~x storm drainage improvements on my own road frontage . This pro ject should. not be ~~~ be chargPC~to ~~~~~~~~~~~ property owners , It is a c ap it al in~nrovement~ properrty c~~arged to the city of Eugene which will be reimbursed by SDC funds as anti~;ipated developernent r c . ~ 6 C~•~ Pdha is comtemplated am unts to dcuble taxation ~- lst the city collects . ~ . for a capitol impro~~ ~ then.collectp a Gecond tame through system develapement charges. This work ryas an add on item, including the so-called experimental stormwater treatment excavation. It should be recalculated with a charge to the City of Eugene and a credit to each taxpayer -with a minor adjustment for the tiny bit of vrater ~~ahich goes to the ~.8~~ pipe. The job ~~.as not bid but was paid for on a time and materials basis . This storr~;rYater treatment c,?rt~.inly cost a lot of money for ~x~~x an almost non functional -~ro j ect at t~~is t, ime. developed I will say that it appears to me that the~rea would make an exc~e~llent boat launching site and parking site for the Eugene ~'r~rks ~7epar~~l~~~nt. E~F~~~3T..~,. Rf~~E 3 OF.~