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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1982)
Fairmount group wants controls on Chevy dealer By David Brown Of the Emerald Part of a recommendation to improve the neighborhood south of Franklin Boulvevard is ‘‘inappropriate” says Steve Romania, general manager of Joe Romania Chevrolet Among the improvements proposed by the Fairmount Neighborhood Association is a stipulation that the Eugene Planning Commission review the car dealership's property any time it applies for a permit for new construction A Fairmount planning com mittee put the site review provi sion into the Fairmount Special Area Study to head off possible adverse effects on the neigh borhood from development on Romania’s property, says Chuck Sowards, president of the Fairmount Neighborhood Association The site review provision, which applies to all commercial property, is there to protect the neighborhood from unsightli ness, noise, excessive lighting and traffic problems, Sowards says But Romania says the plan may be overprotective. ‘‘If we wish to erect a partition in our showroom which was over five feet in height we could potentially be required to install landscaping along an en tire block face, modify lighting systems, or take any number of other actions which theoretical ly could be required as part of the site review process,” The cost of an initial site review — the planning commis sion charges $375 — and subsequent costs of adherence to site review requirements could be disproportionate to the cost of development, Romania says. The "provisions do require that he jumps through some ex tra hoops beyond just get ting a building permit,” Sowards says. But the car lot may be "the most prominent problem we’ve had in the neighborhood ” In 1976, the Fairmount Neighborhood Association unanimously endorsed a statement signed by over 375 area residents who opposed the zone change of an adjoining lot that Romania wanted to expand into. The city rejected the zone change Therefore, the dealer ship operates on a space re strictive basis, says Jim Saul, planning consultant for Joe Romania The 1976 statement cited ex cessive lighting, noise pollution, unsightliness and parking as major problems associated with the dealership Those problems still draw complaints, Sowards says Romania says he has received only one complaint from area residents over the past four years He points out that the lighting on one of three lots was modified to comply with problems mentioned during his participation with the neighbor hood committee. Before the study began, an area resident landscaped the face of Roman ia's lots abutting the neighbor hood, he says Sowards calls the landscap ing minimal" and says traffic problems caused by trucks un loading in the street and em ployees parking in the neigh borhood are main concerns of his. Luring a public hearing for the area study recommenda tions, Sowards testified that he almost had a car accident as a direct result of a truck unload ing cars into the Romania lot from the street Trucks unload on the car lots whenever there is room, and restricted space makes em ployee parking on dealership property impossible, Romania says. In his statement to the Eugene Planning Commission, Romania proposed restricting site review to a strip of land, 67 feet long, facing the neighbor hood. The Fairmount plan, which is being reviewed by the planning commission, also sets policies to guide future government, in stitutional and business development in the neighbor hood. 2 CAREERS IN 1! 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