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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1982)
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O Sj ( , I I \ * H 5 S n a I I GE.VE SPKI\( .HEml •COME EARLY—HAVE DINNER reservations recommended fiSS**' ARTIST'S MARKET YOUR COMMERCIAL ART _ 3,000 to sell your advertising art mdranderijjgt ALL FINE ART BOOKS in the Book Department REDUCED 20% February 1-6 Limited to stock on hand Cash register sales only Sale ends Saturday J 1 3tr & Kincaid Mon-Fr, 8 15-5 30 BOOKSTORE Sat 10 00-3:00 Textbooks 686-3520 West University neighborhood may get six new bus shelters By Rich Burr OtWf Ementd Controversy over the West University Neigh borhood Refinement Plan is far from settled, if Wednesday night's forum on the longe-range planning document is any indication Harold Lannom, a member of the West University Neighborhood team that wrote the original planning draft, clashed with representa tives from the Eugene Planning Commission, Sacred Heart Hospital and the Eugene Chamber of Commerce in a OSPIRG-sponsored forum Members — including Lannom — of the neighborhood have withdrawn their support of the plan since the planning commission revised it last fall All the hospital wanted out of the process” was a compromise, said Ed Mann. Sacred Heart s planning director And that's what the Eugene Planning Com mission gave them, said Eleanor Mulder, a plan ning commission member "We were not acting as brokers between groups. Mulder said The commission and groups representing area interests created a plan to benefit the whole community, she added At issue is expansion of the medical com munity in the vicinity of Sacred Heart Hospital The notion that clinics are gobbling up the land” is false. Mann said He cited an independent study that shows clinics occupy only 6 percent of the West University area Basic economic and business principles will keep clinics from over-running the neighborhood and crowding out housing, said Tom Swocum of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce Swocum said it's unlikely the medical com munity will replace present housing, and, more over, its presence is an economic boon for the WUN and for Eugene The neighborhood is a part of the city of Eugene,” Slocum said He added that the plan serves the interests of the city as a whole But Lannom said the medical community creates a traffic problem to the WUN area Two University representatives also voiced opposition to the plan in its present form Dave Lesser of the University's off-campus housing office and Dave Rowe of the campus planning office defended the protection of residential housing Lesser said the present plan could harm student interests He called for abandonment of the plan unless changes favoring housing are made Both Lesser and Rowe suggested more student participation and increased unity between student organizations and the WUN in future planning "It's not an us and them situation — them is us,” Rowe said of the relationship between the University community and the WUN Refinement plan controversy divides neighbors, commission By Brian Bubak CM tfw fiMraM As many as 50 new bus stop shelters may be built in Eugene with money from a special $100,000 federal grant, says Lane Transit District marketing representative Carla Chambers Six of those are scheduled for the West University Neighborhood, which would give it more shelters than any other neighborhood in the city, says Chambers, The federal grant specifies that the money be spent only for bus shelters and other passenger boarding improvements, she added LTD will pay for three of the West University shelters and the neighborhood association will match LTD's three through Community Develop ment Block Grant funds and a Federal Aid Urban Grant that was awarded to the community through LTD Block grant funds were given to the city and then placed "under the umbrella of the neighbor hood, says Marshall Landman. West University grant administrator The bus shelter additions, which cost $2,000 each, are part of nodal" developments in the West University area. Landman says Nodal developments are areas where people naturally congregate or places that could be made more conducive to congregation In addition to the shelters, six wheelchair-ac cessible concrete pads and three benches will be installed in the West University area along LTD bus routes The neighborhood association will finance the additions entirely says Brenda Shea West University bus shelter implementation dir ector Originally. LTD planned to install two bus shelters, but it added one more when the neigh borhood association offered to match the bus district with three neighborhood-financed shelters. Landman says Shea compiled a photo album of the eight most heavily used bus stops and presented it at a neighborhood meeting, she says The neighbors then voted for six locations through ballots in the neighborhood newspaper she added They were real enthusiastic about it Shea says It was a real needed project " The West University Neighborhood Center at 1458 Ferry Street will receive nodal improvements as well, Landman says Those developments include a covered bike rack, a highly visible bulletin board, landscape plantings and a bar becue to make the yard more useable for neigh bors The final designs will be completed in a month and construction is expected to start in two months, Landman said Rainbow ICS SERVICE Own Lab On Premises STYLE Over 1,000 frames on display SENSITIVE To Your Needs Present this Ad and receive . 10,00 OFF ON PRESCRIPTION EYEWEAR (Frame & Lenses) ' fle* expires Fee 2r O' V one cojrxy. per person; v. 766 E. 13th ST. • 1 BLOCK FROM U OF O • 343-3333
