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WHAT WE DON'T WANT (cont.) <br /> <br /> <br />Unemployment increases. High unemployment and low wages continue to be a hardship for many in <br />the community. We create economic polarization of high end “professional” and low paying service or <br />a/o paying unemployment. <br /> <br />We expand the Urban Growth Boundary and end up with unused brown fields left over in town. We <br />will see more brown field sites and displaced unemployed workers. Industries will be allowed to locate <br />and not have proper pollution controls and are allowed to pay low wages. Too much will be <br />compromised. <br /> <br />We don’t like ourselves as a community. Neighborhood clashes result in growth by lawsuit. Old <br />enmities will re-emerge. No growth will occur or possibly Eugene will have negative growth. <br /> <br />Eugene is no longer a desirable place to live. We develop a reputation for a city where no one wants to <br />be. Quality of life decreases because underlying economic/financial base of the community erodes. <br />Funds to support public investment will wither. We miss opportunities to expand our community <br />economic wealth and the downward trend continues downward toward failure. <br /> <br />Our community dies a slow death. Eugene falls into a longer recession. Poor planning that would result <br />in prolonging on increasing effects of the recession. Stagnation or worse, things decline further, <br />greater unemployment, families struggle more and we lose hope. People get sick and die. Schools fail. <br />Kids grow up in poverty, there are more homeless folks and ultimately more crime. <br /> <br /> <br />Community Resource Group October 12, 2010 <br /> <br />