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<br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER <br /> <br />December 15, 2011 <br /> <br /> <br />City of Eugene <br /> 777 Pearl Street, Room 105 <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97401-2793 <br /> (541) 682-5010 <br /> (541) 682-5414 (FAX) <br /> <br /> www.eugene-or.gov <br /> <br />IN THIS EDITION <br /> <br />PARKS STAFF HOSTS THIRD BETHEL COMMUNITY PARK MEETING <br />DOWNLOAD MUSIC AT EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY WEBSITE – FREE AND LEGAL <br />EUGENE ADAPTIVE PROGRAM DESIGNATED A PARALYMPIC SPORTS CLUB <br />ONLINE OPEN HOUSES INCREASE REACH FOR PLANNING PROJECTS <br />HUMAN RIGHTS RETROSPECTIVE BOOK PROJECT COMPLETED <br />COMMUNITY HELPS CREATE SOUTH WILLAMETTE DRAFT CONCEPT PLAN <br />NEW PARK IDENTITY SIGNS INSTALLED <br /> <br />AROUND THE CITY <br /> <br />Parks Staff Hosts Third Bethel Community Park Meeting <br />On Dec. 8, Parks and Open Space Planning hosted the third in a series <br />of community workshops to discuss updating the Bethel Community <br />Park Master Plan to include a 60,000-square-foot community center. The <br />conversation with the community began in May of this year and was <br />sparked by an offer from the Eugene Family YMCA to construct and <br />operate a new YMCA facility in Bethel Community Park. <br /> <br />The existing park master plan includes a community center; however, it <br />is currently shown as a 10,000-square-foot facility. Staff conducted a <br />second meeting in September and offered three site plan choices for the <br />community center building and related parking. Two of these showed a <br />new and larger community center, and one showed no change to the <br />master plan. <br /> <br />In web-based surveys, the majority of survey respondents have been <br />Bethel Community Park Master Plan Proposal <br />supportive of the new facility, while expressing reservations related to <br />(December 2011) <br />traffic and pedestrian safety both on and off site. A preferred option was <br />presented at the most recent meeting showing the new community center on the west side of the park along Legacy <br />Street. Community members are encouraged to submit feedback on this option by clicking the web survey link at <br />www.eugene-or.gov/bethelpark. <br /> <br />For more information, please contact Emily Proudfoot in Parks and Open Space Planning at 541-682-4915 or <br />emily.a.proudfoot@ci.eugene.or.us. <br /> <br />Download Music at Eugene Public Library Website – Free and Legal <br />The Eugene Public Library now offers free, legal MP3 music file downloads on its <br />website through the Freegal Music service. <br /> <br />Freegal Music is an online database that offers more than 500,000 songs from Sony <br />Music, including current hits, classics, and many other styles of music. New songs are <br />added to the collection daily. <br /> <br />From Ke$ha to Springsteen, Brubeck to Beethoven, once the songs are downloaded, they can be kept forever. The <br />songs never need to be returned and they never expire. <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 <br />December 15, 2011 <br />