Item 8: Ordinance Establishing Chambers Special Area Zone

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investors or who have provided financing to area home owners or residential developers. The different mles CAFHN members play with respect to CR area residential property helped us produce a report reflecting a variety of perspectives, not just those of owner/occupants. CAFHN membersincJude professionaJarchitects and planners, as well as researchers in several disciplines. One of our members works professionally on policy and processes to protect urban historical areas. At least five CAFHN members have served as officers of the City-chartered neighborhood associations that encompass neighborhood areas within CR. One CAFHN member served on the 1986 Planning Team that wrote the Westside Neighborhood Plan, which is the official local refinement plan covering the CR area east of Chambers Street. Another CAFHN member is a current Lane County Planning Commissioner. Our members include an architect, an economics professor, and a local banker, as well. In writing this report, CAFHN members have thus been able to apply a broad range of professional knowledge and experience, extensive neighborhood involvement over a two decade period, and substantial experience with civic planning processes. Why we wrote this report Many homeowners and other residents of the CR project area have had longstanding concerns about the harm that poorly sited and designed infill causes our neighborhood. Our most important goals in producing this report are: · Document the official City of Eugene land use policies that require protection of existing neighborhoods' character. · Identify the elements and patterns that define the character of residential neighborhoods within the CR area. · Identify harmful infill impacts that erode or destabilize neighborhood character. · Help develop - and get adopted - effective standards to protect the neighborhood character against further erosion and destabilization by poor quality infill and redevelopment. Our involvement in the CR project, and our work on this report, are based on our taking in good faith the City's representation that this project provides an opportunity for residents to contribute to the adoption of quality standards for residential and commercial infill and redevelopment.8 We've undertaken a substantial effort to carry out our research and forge an organization that can present well-thought-out recommendations representing the 8 According to the Eugene Planning & Development Department's July 26, 2004 project "Briefmg Statement," the CR project "wiIJ develop residential and commercial injil/ and redevelopment standards and guidelines that promote quality infi/l and redevelopment projects in the Chambers Node." The project work plan submitted for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) funding stated as one of the project goal's: "Produce a set of residential injill and redevelopment standards that & promotes maintenance of the residential character of the Study Area. .. November 1,2005 Chambers Revisited - Neighbors' Report 4