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<br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT C <br /> <br />From: Teresa Damron [mailto:teresa@sperrytreecare.com] <br />Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 7:49 PM <br />To: *Eugene Mayor and City Council <br />Cc: KEPPLER Peggy A; WALCH Therese <br /> <br />Subject: Stormwater ordinance <br />Dear Mayor Piercy, Council and City Staff, <br /> <br />I am unexpectedly unable to attend the Council meeting this evening and speak to you in person, <br />so I am sending my comments via email instead. <br /> <br />First off, a concern: <br /> The River Road/Santa Clara Basin Master Plan is close to completion, but not yet <br />complete. This is an important piece of work that should be considered first. We have an <br />extensive natural stormwater drainage system that works here in River Road and it should be <br />preserved. I know this ordinance talks about bioswale design and other natural sounding <br />systems, but my experience is they tend to be expensive, artificial, over-engineered, and <br />generally overbuilt reproductions of the real thing we have in our neighborhood. We like our <br />natural drainage system that was created in the same geologic event that created the Willamette <br />River, and believe it will be threatened by the Stormwater ordinance as written. <br /> <br />But, if you must move on this ordinance before our plan is complete: <br />Please fold the Open Waterways ordinance into this current Stormwater ordinance. That <br />ordinance spoke well to the water quality values important to all of us. Goal 5 is complete and the <br />language from that ordinance belongs in this Stormwater ordinance. <br /> <br />Thank you for your hard work and consideration, <br /> <br />Teresa Damron <br />605 Howard Ave. <br /> <br />Eugene, OR 97404 <br /> <br />