Item 8: Ordinance Establishing Chambers Special Area Zone

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In addition, the proposed S-C development standards that are based in large part on recommendations in the previous version of this report provide specific design and siting standards to prevent or mitigate the negative impact of infil1 and redevelopment. Although this report and the S-C development standards focus on the CR project area, many of the concerns and solutions will apply to other established Eugene neighborhoods, as welt. Wherever your interests lie, we also recommend your read the Guest Viewpoint, "Eugene zoning laws sacrifice livability:' published in the July 10, 2005 edition of The Register-Guard and available at www.cnrNeighbors.org.This essay presents the fundamental rationale that underlies much of this repores recommendations: protecting established neighborhoods is essential to compact growth and a healthy urban core. The people who wrote this report This report is a collaborative product of over thirty households in the CR project area who have contributed hundreds of hours toward the project. Most of the participants live east of Chambers Street in the larger Wests ide neighborhood. Many of the neighbors who helped create this report participated in one or more of the three "Neighborhood Meetings" that were conducted by City staff and consultants, including the Visual Preference Survey (VPS) and the discussion of the VPS results at the third meeting.7 Neighbors also actively participated in the City-led "Residential Focus Group" in March 2005 and the "Public Design Review" meeting in April 2005. Since the CR project "kickoff" meeting in September 2004, neighbors have had many discussions among themselves, including via an ongoing Yahoo! e-mail discussion group, numerous group meetings in residents' living rooms, a group walking tour of the project area, a design standards educational "boot camp," and numerous sidewalk and telephone conversations. In early 2005, we formed an organization known as Chambers Area Families for Healthy Neighborhoods (CAFHN, pronounced "caffeine"). CAFlIN maintains an independent Web site (www.cnrNeighbors.org) with information on the CR project and our organization's work. We encourage you to visit this site and especially take the visual tour of , 'Good, Bad, and Ugly InfiIl in Eugene" to see local examples of what this report describes. Neighbors who belong to CAFHN represent diverse interests, backgrounds, and areas of expertise. Among our group are many families who own and live in their houses. We also have several long-term and newer neighbors who rent houses and apartments in the neighborhood. Our group includes people who have a secondary rental unit on the same property where they live, as wen as people who own separate rental properties. We also have several families that are local real estate 7 Results of the VPS are available on the City's Mixed-Use Development Web site. See "Resources" in Section IX of this report. November I, 2005 Chambers Revisited - NeighborsJ Report 3