Item 5: Ordinance Levying Assessments for West University Alleys

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Eugene Garden Club 1645 High Street · Eugene, OR 97401 January 30, 2006 TO: City of Eugene Hearings Official Janet Calvert, President Eugene Garden Club 1645 High Street 97401 As President of the Eugene Garden Club, I am here to question the accuracy of the calculation resulting in the $15,803.73 assessment for alley improvements. The improvements were much needed and access to our property has improved. FROM: The Garden Club property was assigned a weighting factor of 10, the highest factor. While the Garden Club is clearly not residential, nor is it general office, commercial or Industrial. The residents living in the apartments that surround us, frequently use our parking spaces. Many days of the week no one visits the club house. It is, in my opinion, "Other". Mark Schoening, City Engineer, states in a May 2005 memo to our attorney, "The table in Eugene Code 7.175(6) simply assigns a factor from 1.0 to 10.0 to a land use category and for those uses not listed in the table, directs the City Engineer to select a factor according to the most intensive use of the parcel most comparable to the uses listed in the table." It appears that the City Engineer does have discretion in the assignment of the use factor. We believe that the Garden Club should be assigned a lower factor, and therefore assessed less than $15,803.73.