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Eugene Drix, High Street, had discovered that dandelions were food. He had learned that they were originally <br />brought from Europe for food purposes. He was not certain how official this news was, but he had found out that <br />there were sheep grazing in the wetlands. He said everything was new once. He had been thinking about who <br />Eugene was. He loved the city because of its people, though it seemed to him that the city did not have its ducks in <br />a row yet. It seemed to him that an appropriate phrase was "so you are from Eugene, I've heard of you, you're the <br />blank that blanks" and the City did not know what that was yet. He suggested that they hold a party because the <br />downtown holes were now being filled. He thought it was a wonderful cure for the downtown. <br />Lorraine Kerwood, 2575 Friendly Street, Ward 1, member of the Friendly Area Neighbors, stated that she had <br />previously served on the Sustainability Commission and was presently a member of the HRC and its Accessibility <br />Committee. She was speaking as a member of her neighborhood. She thanked the council for their dedication to <br />making the City a "premier city dedicated to enhancing the lives of all of its community members." She wished to <br />discuss sustainability, which was at the center of the City's Climate Action Plan. She said the United Nations <br />Universal Declaration of Human Rights called for the right to food, shelter, education, health care, work, and an <br />adequate standard of living. From her perspective, access to food was paramount to making all of the other things <br />happen. She encouraged the council to suspend the limit on chickens and to increase the limit for backyard <br />chickens. She did not have any at present but planned to build a coop and have chickens. She brought forward a <br />chicken to represent the chickens in the community. She also wanted them to work to enhance bicycle amenities. <br />Kevin Matthews, P.O. Box 1588, had appreciated the testimony of the Public Forum. He thought councilors <br />might think the EmX was an LTD project and that the City should sit back and let LTD do its job. He said there <br />were some things the City was involved in, such as a Planning Director's decision that he opined was "pretty <br />farfetched," as it suggested the transportation plans supported the Amazon Canal option. He related that this <br />decision was appealed by "a private party" and was turned down on appeal. He asserted that the City was working <br />"behind the scenes" to facilitate the project. He alleged that the City was involved in detailed site design. His <br />perception was that the City was not involved in "holding LTD's feet to the fire" around the West Eugene <br />Collaborative's consensus - approach to West 11th Avenue, which was to use a multi -way boulevard. He thought <br />the LTD approach for EmX would be hard on businesses on West 11th Avenue without finishing the job and <br />giving them access streets and rising property values that he believed would compensate them in the long run. He <br />believed that the multi -way boulevard would be a win -win solution. <br />Carlis Nixon, 1556 Wilson Court, said she did not own a car and used the bus for a major part of her <br />transportation. She was a fervent supporter of public transit and believed it was an important component of urban <br />health. She was present to ask the council to oppose the Amazon option for a new EmX route. She averred that <br />the City, true to its slogan, valued the outdoors and the bike path that ran by the Amazon Canal, which ran all the <br />way to Fern Ridge Reservoir. She believed the bike path had the potential to be a national treasure. She said bike <br />commuters deserved quiet and to be encouraged. She did not think it would encourage commuting to ask them to <br />compete with large buses that went each direction every 12 minutes. She predicted that the bike path would be <br />increasingly used for recreational purposes. She stated that it was a natural phenomenon as well; one could see <br />great blue herons in the City. She questioned the need for the West Eugene EmX in the first place. She had grown <br />up in Vancouver, British Columbia, which had a great public rapid transit system that she used and appreciated. <br />She had recently read a book, Green Metropolis, which posited that cities needed to stop having a "kneejerk" reflex <br />to rapid transit; not all rapid transit was good. The author suggested that when rapid transit was brought to <br />underdeveloped areas it encouraged sprawl. She thought this was something they would not want to do. <br />Majeska Seese- Green, Ward 7, agreed with the proponents of opening the Ribbon Trail to mountain bikers and of <br />increasing the limit on backyard chickens. She thought it would be nice to have goats allowed in the City as well. <br />She wanted to provide comments in regard to the recent dismissal of Dawn Reynolds, former deputy police <br />MINUTES— Eugene City Council May 24, 2010 Page 8 <br />Regular Meeting <br />
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