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ENVISION EUGENE <br />COMMUNITY FORUM NOTES <br />March-April 2012 <br />Page 5 of 12 <br /> <br />Home delivery may prevent need for 20 minute neighborhoods <br /> <br />Feel that a lot more people will think about where they choose to live based on proximity to <br /> <br />services and smaller multi-family housing <br />Pushing single family housing is passé <br /> <br />Large lots <br /> <br />R <br />Feel that we are expanding in the wrong direction <br /> <br />People would like to move from single-family to multi-family or a smaller unit in their own <br /> <br />neighborhood <br /> <br /> <br />R <br />Feeling that big housing will not be big need in the future <br /> <br />Desire to have a bus loop through Friendly and Amazon <br /> <br />Get to a close community area without having to go downtown or change buses <br /> <br />R <br />Challenge/tradeoff with transit between productivity (80%) and coverage (20%) <br /> <br /> <br />R <br />but produce good coverage <br />Parks in Santa Clara and Golden Gardens will be destinations (regular parks) <br /> <br />Should couple services nearby (things people would want while there) and integrate <br /> <br />R <br />Need more transit <br /> <br />R <br />More development incentives <br /> <br />R <br /> <br /> <br />Since expansion costs money, growing in saves us money <br /> <br />R <br />Utility runs are shorter if you grow closer-in and more dense <br /> <br />Keep property tax what it was for old property when they redevelop (at time of redevelopment) <br /> <br />This keeps community from paying for the tax benefit <br /> <br />R <br /> <br />the tax break) <br />Get info on available industrial lands in the county <br /> <br />City standards can be a discouragement to development <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Too difficult to develop <br /> <br />R <br />Permit process too lengthy <br /> <br />R <br />With EmX, businesses need to take greater good into account and into their bottom line <br /> <br />thth <br />5 Ave, REI-area lots of central areas with room for high density (5 and Charnelton) <br /> <br />Support for 20 minute neighborhoods <br /> <br />Support for planning for more multi-family than seen in the past <br /> <br />Single family market collapse is happening <br /> <br />Crescent Village will take off in the future <br /> <br />Gas prices will force walking and driving and need to plan housing for this <br /> <br />Co-housing: encourage mixed-age/demographics housing types (code, other city actions to <br /> <br />encourage this) <br />High demand for medium density housing: garden apartments, town or row houses. Better use <br /> <br />land because fewer roads (also more social benefits) <br />th <br />Support increased flexibility north of W 11 (e.g. mixed use) <br /> <br />But with safeguards such as mixed uses but not a heavy industrial use <br /> <br />R <br /> <br />