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THE ISSUES WE ARE FACING <br /> <br /> <br />We spend too much time reveling in the negative aspects of the community. <br /> There is no <br />over arching fissure dividing this community, but a series of smaller fissures, with shifting <br />disagreements of supporters and opponents of each fissure. We have many small fractures rather <br />than one large chasm in our community. Not just one large crack, but lots of little cracks. Any <br />little cracks are huge to some people. <br /> <br />We as a community are not in the same room yet. <br /> Sometimes I am not sure whether we are in <br />the same room looking at different walls or in different rooms. Many people in this town are not <br />in the same room so they can’t even see the same walls. <br /> <br />We have a diverse community with ultimate goals but varying ways to get there. <br /> We are <br />diverse with conflicting goals and values, but commonality in some areas (overlapping circles.) <br />Community members have varying opinions on every subject, but can we get there form here? <br />Long Tom Watershed could be a model of divergent points moving together. <br /> <br />The community is not linear but more like a Ven diagram with many circles, some that <br />overlap, but some have no overlap. <br /> The area of most overlap is the seed of the solution. <br />Intersecting circles create kernels to grow form. And people have such different values that do <br />not overlap at all. The different inputs result from differences in outlook on outcomes. <br /> <br />As a community, we are all going in the same direction, but in different ways. <br /> We have a lot <br />in common. People in Eugene have more in common than they realize but since they won’t <br />really listen to each other, they don’t know it. <br /> <br />The differing views in the community are not the problem. <br /> The problem is the lack of <br />tolerance of differing views. There is Council discourse (R-G etc.). We are experiencing not <br />just a lack of respect for historical families, but a clash of values and cultures. It is normal to <br />have rifts in college towns. It is the college town phenomena. <br /> <br />There is a lack of value for those in resource based industries and their contribution to our <br />community and economy. <br /> People with different sets of values can’t be expected to change <br />them to appease the other group. The community is split and we need to find a way to move <br />forward realizing we can achieve success through balance. Those who disapprove of growth are <br />not always the new people to the community. <br /> <br /> 8 <br />