Item A: Joint Meeting with Planning Commission

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ATTACHMENT D Maybe this is part of a project that is already listed but I could not tell so.... 16. Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan Update. Get more, better, safer bike routes in this city. Facelift of downtown Eugene to truly reflect Eugene really is the "Greatest City of the 17. Arts and Outdoors" and especially, a well defined gateway to to surrounding outdoor activities in rural Lane County * Adopt code to implement refinement plan policies. 18. * Develop/update refinement plans for all residential neighborhoods not covered by CC&Rs. If we want to save our environment it seems paramount that we do all that we can to 19. restore our air quality. One of the most important I feel is to plant as many trees as possible and to maintain good health on all of the trees here in the city and in all of Lane county. Restoring the funding for the city foresters would be a major step forward to creating better air quality for all of us. University of Oregon site selection. It is the elephant in the room and despite state 20. exemptions the planning department cannot continue ignore where the elephant rolls. The Mac Court move is a planning fiasco. Continue planning Rasor MUC - it has the support of the community and can function as 21. a model for a successful MUC process. Downtown dense development not edge development! 22. Making public transportation REALLY cheap and attractive and useful. 23. Attracting and promoting sustainable businesses and deliberately saying NO to big box stores and other polluters and anti-union, anti-ecologically sound businesses. Full EmX implementation on major corridors, cleaner fuels for transit 24. More aggressive TDM strategies to get people out of their cars Population and consumption control measures--education, etc. Tree planting and protection/restoration of natural areas All needed ASAP to reduce driving, carbon emissions, and consumption/waste, preserve and increase carbon sinks, prevent imminent, irreversible climate catastrophe. Resource sustainability 25. 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. Unless one were already involved, many of the titles of projects on the list are not 1. descriptive enough for one to make an informed decision I think the City should be working with the State land use board to radically modify the 2. requirement that the UBG should contain 20 years of growth potential, or whatever it is. We can't continue to grow! There has to be a limit. I predict that as we run out of oil (read cheap energy) there will actually be a reduction of national as well as global population. We can't accommodate every person who finds themselves living in Los Angeles in the era of collapse. At some point we need to close the gates, so to speak, and take care of ourselves. The City should have staff working on, and lobbying for, change in the state land use law that requires this rubber band UGB.