Item A: Joint Meeting with Planning Commission

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ATTACHMENT D Figure 3. Summary of responses to Question #3: Are there projects listed that you feel don’t merit high priority status or should be dropped altogether from the list? Please list the projects and tell us why. Modify UGB to stop growth Stop development of Riverside Business Park with UO Neighborhood Associations don’t represent breadth of neighborhood All projects look worthwhile Infill compatibility not consistent with larger vision Comp/Metro Plan Update (2) Neighborhood Action Plans (2) Mixed Use (2) ICS Task Force shouldn’t change code Reduce neighborhood programs and grants Climate and energy plan Land Use Code Maintenance Jeffries Metro/Zone Change (2) Full Text Responses to Survey Questions 2 and 3 2. Are there other priority projects not listed above that you believe are central to Eugene’s livability? If so please list the projects and tell us why they are important. Response to peak oil issues - the likely oil prices rises coming soon and the falling supply 1. of fossil fuels that will cause huge changes in the way the community and the US operate. Make neighborhoods more walkable and bikeable! 2. Improvements to the built environment to encourage active transportation in low 3. income areas. Expansion of community garden program with particular attention to low income neighborhoods. The most important issue facing the City of Eugene is the same as the most important 4. issue facing humanity, world-wide: ENERGY. I find the statement "In the past few years evidence has emerged that suggests global production of oil and natural gas is likely to reach its peak or has already peaked." http://www.eugene- or.gov/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=4083&qid=03586657&rank=2&parentname= SearchResult&parentid=34&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true to be rather timid. It has been long established as fact, not merely direction that the data "suggests." I can only work at the most local level, and therefore want to put my primary efforts into the neighborhood association and development of a neighborhood action plan, but I think the City and EWEB should be very focused on what we are going to do as oil prices skyrocket, oil is rationed, and we don't have all this diesel and gasoline around. It is very important for the City to reduce its energy consumption at every point of use, including vehicle fuel, natural gas and electricity. EWEB and the City should be cooperating to produce as much dispersed electrical generating capacity (local hydro, photovoltaic arrays, etc.) as possible.