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.
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