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<br />WEISS Carolyn J <br /> <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Subject: <br /> <br />WEBER Doug (SMTP) <br />Tuesday, March 07, 200610:43 AM <br />WEISS Carolyn J; *Eugene Mayor and City Council; roxieA@hbalanecounty.org <br />Parks Project List <br /> <br />These remarks are intended for use by the mayor and city council in <br />their meeting of March 13th, 2006 regarding the proposed Parks Project <br />List. I am not able to attend this meeting due to a work related <br />conflict. I am a member of the SDC Rates advisory committee and have <br />expressed these concerns to staff in various meetings. The amount of <br />land to be acquired seems to be excessive to me. All of the land to be <br />acquired is residential land and further reduces the residential lands <br />inventory which is already woefully inadequate in the Eugene area. The <br />City's ability to pony up their share of the money is highly <br />questionable, leaving the only sure funding from SDC's. What if the <br />City is unable to pass a bond measure? What happens to the SDC's that <br />have been collected for these specific projects, which then would not be <br />able to come to fruition? I feel that the committee and staff that <br />developed this project list were too aggressive in their fervor to <br />acquire and develop parks. If this list were simply a "wish" list, I <br />would not be so concerned. However, it will serve as the project list, <br />required by state law, to set the monetary value of SDC's to be <br />collected on each building permit issued within the City of Eugene. I <br />suggest that the list be trimmed down, or broken into parts that could <br />be implemented as the ability of the City to pay the non-SDC portion of <br />the costs is guaranteed by the approval of a bond measure by the voters. <br /> <br />Doug Weber <br />1330 Flintridge Ave. <br />Eugene, OR 97401 <br /> <br />1 <br />