Item B: Ordinance Concerning Goal 5 Natural Resources Study

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Page 1 of 1 Eugene Natural Resources 'NN__<<"_^V'=~''''''''''''''''''''''''~'~__,,,,,N~N,,,..,.,...m'N'''''''_~'''''''''''__m=~,,,,,,,,,N~~''''''''''''''~~~,'W^""~_.,~_-Nm "",.., RECEIVED SEP 7 2005 CITY OF EUGENE PLANNING DEPARTMENT From: Rich Bushell [richbushell@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 07,200510:13 PM To: Eugene Natural Resources Cc: PIERCY Kitty Subject: Goal 5 Information once again lacking completeness for the public Goal 5 weasels and interested public servants, You people would make excellent politicians. It's really a shame someone hired or appointed you instead of your positions being elected. Let me guess, you are required by law to provide information ten days prior to any public hearing. Once again your department has provided a map much too small to determine anything other than a desire to see something with more detail. Online there is page after dreary page of the legal-speak almost no one can fully understand and NO FRAME OF REFERENCE. By frame of reference I mean a map, that thing you all have been supposedly adjusting due to feedback from the public. Conveniently to you, the map will possibly be available online ten days after the mailer. Was a study performed to determine the mean time to forget, misplace or otherwise allow most of the public to lose the means to view the MAP? (Frame of reference if you missed it earlier) I'm betting us, the over-taxed and poorly represented public paid for the study to defeat us. It's difficult for me to fathom the amount of money being wasted on Goal 5 while our children flounder in under funded schools. It's clear that punishing a homeowner for planting a blueberry bush within fifty feet of a ditch carrying seasonal storm water is more important to the city of Eugene than whether or not a graduating senior is literate enough to read a job listing in the newspaper. You can bet I'll be one of the few citizens hitting your website at 12:01am on September 16th to see if you can deliver on a decent frame of reference for the rest of this gibberish. (MAP - if turning things around is too confusing) I'd really like to know if my hours of research, speech at the previous hearing, canvassing of my neighborhood and in-person review of my land with Neil and Ann had the slightest effect. In case I have been unclear, please file this response in the folder with the rest who have lost their sense of optimism over the past three years. I can't say yet if I am for or against this plan you have overwhelmingly approved on the behalf of the public, since the data is missing such a vitally important keystone. (Map or frame of reference) Even if the Goal 5 suggestions are a good idea, because of gross mishandling of communication, I lean currently towards recommending to the city council to defeat it. 9/8/2005