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r ~ ' . ~: •-, Hannah Wilson ~ "~ ~~ f:.Y# Yk G.r~ tll ~ :~ iti=~.i i, it..~L~ DEB 1 0 i99k City Engineer Public works Department S~8 Pearl Street Eugene 0~ 974U~ February ~, ~ 9~4 ~.f:u 1 ~,-- .~~~U~ '~~,wn . r...w .~____ ~~ ~ ccc ~ dEQT ~,~~-~f~f "1 r' ~k~ 0 ~ ~~ I am writing to object to what I consider to be the unfairness ofi the assessment fiat sidewalks an Emerald Street. I recognize the sidewalks are in, costly, and that someone needs to pick up the tab. I recognize, too, the claim that sidewalks improve my property value twill my assessment go up now?}, although I prefierred the concrete -less path, Na, my complaint is with how the City decided to go ahead with the project, The City responded to the Amazon Neighbors' concern that traffic an Emerald Street was a dangerto the residents. Drivers tend to use Emerald as a thru-way between 24th and bath; the hill encourages the speedster in too many hearts. At a meeting to consider the problem, those of us who live on Emerald suggested speed bumps or a roundabout at 25th or closing off the street at 28th and Baker. fur neighbors from Onyx and Baker and Elinor, and those who live south of 28th, suggested sidewalks and limiting parking to one side of Emerald, steps that would perhaps make it safer far pedestrians but that in noway would stop for has stopped the speeding. At the meeting, Emerald Street residents were outvoted. lrt chart, everyone else in the group voted to assess the people least responsible for the problem. It was a little like assessing people to p~. bars on their ground-floor windows to fail robberies, ~~~ ..r ..~ Betwee~r~ that meeting and the tearing up ofi the street, Emerald St, residents forwarded letters, petitions, and phone-calls to you objecting to the "solution." Interestingly enough, families who live between 2~th and 24th have always had sidewalks, but fear for the safety of their children was the main driving force behind the Neighborhood Association's raising the problem with the City. what naw~ 1 don't know. The City might suggest sharing the costs ofi the sidewalk among all the residents between ~3oth and the Masonic Cemetery, between Emerald and Elinor--all those who felt they needed to continue using Emerald Street, that any street-closing would be undue hardship. ~C~ne man complained that if he needed to go to Albertson's three times in one evening and faced a barrier at Baker and 28th, he would have to drive around to 2~th--such waste!} 26fiD Fmerala~ St. Fugue, 4R9~4~3 (503J 343-5386