Item 6: Resolution Forming LID for Crest Drive

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From: DeGiulio, Jules [mailto:Jules.DeGiulio@lifetech.com] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:06 AM To: Eugene PSO Cc: DeGiulio, Jules Subject: Crest Drive Streets Remonstrance Dear City Manager John Ruiz, I have not written to you before but have writtin to sitting Councilors during the Crest Drive Street Design process. I'm writing today to ask that you please support and advocate for the overturn of the recently submitted remonstrance to the Crest/Storey/Friendly street improvements. I could, as many have, write a littany of reasons why I believe it is imperative to proceed with the design this year. I will keep to a single reason. I believe the overriding issue is the safety of the ~250 children attending Crest Drive Elementary school, which borders this project. I understand that I'm not one of the assessed. We live on Whitten Dr., a scant quarter mile from the school. It is almost beyond my imagination that I cannot allow my 8yr old to walk to school. It is an absolute failure of the community to provide safe walking and biking streets to and from our neighborhood schools. The design as worked out over the past several years would provide the best and safest option as far as this issue is concerned. It beats the City's original collector option. It beats the current "worst set of streets in the city" option. Until this stretch of street is upgraded, I simply cannot allow my son to make his own way to and from school. This is sad. We have stolen from these children this milestone in their growth toward independance. It is simply a right of passage. I know parents who live even closer to the school than we do who put their children on the bus because it is so unsafe on these streets. In our case, my wife walks him to school most days constantly on the alert for the swerving and speeding automobiles; constantly reigning in my typically excited-to-be-going-to- school boy. Please vote to overturn the remonstrance and proceed with the upgrade this construction season. Our children are depending on you. Warmest Personal Regards, Jules DeGiulio, Father of 8yr old Anzo 13 year resident at: 3265 Whitten Dr. Eugene, OR 97405 ph: 541 510 2937