City Council establishes goals
By Diana Elliott
Of the Emerald
The Eugene Planning Commission listened to two
hours of public testimony on issues that were outlined
in "1984 Eugene Community Coals and Policies," a
document designed to describe the hopes of the
citizens of Eugene for the future, last night at the City
Hall council chambers.
The public hearing followed an April 21 Community
Goals Conference, when 147 delegates met to draft the
goals and policies. The document contains 11 goals ad
dressing issues such as environment, culture and
leisure, public safety and housing.
Besides listing the community goals, the document
also contains policies that would provide the basis for
consistent action and suggests actions on how to imple
ment the policies.
The 11 draft goals that are being considered by the
planning commission are as follows:
Take steps to ensure that citizens have an understan
ding of the issues that face the community, and assure
them a voice in resolving those issues.
Provide citizens with as much choice as possible in
the fields of culture, education, employment, housing,
recreation and transportation.
Broaden, improve, and diversify Eugene's economy
while maintaining or enhancing the environmnet.
Manage growth using methods consistent with other
goals in order to recognize such determining factors as
the limitation of the airshed, Eugene's role as the
regional center for Southwest Oregon and the necessity
of coordinating growth management with other
jurisdictions in the metropolitan area.
Establish a pattern of land uses consistent with the
needs and well-being of all interests in the community.
Protect and improve the quality of air and water,
and protect and enhance the quality of our
environment.
Protect the continued availability of natural
resources by wise management and careful assessment
of needs.
To provide accessibility to arts, sports, and leisure
opportunities in order to make this a thriving and
liveable culture/leisure center.
Protect peace and safety while protecting rights
guaranteed by the Oregon and U.S. constitutions.
Play a proper role in the development of the
metropolitan area, recognizing the difference between
problems that are suitable for solution by city action
alone, and those that require city leadership or coopera
tion to develop solutions which are metropolitan,
regional, state, or national in scope.
Upgrade accessibility for the disabled of all ages.
The planning commission also decided to extend the
deadline for receiving written public testimony until
June 4.
Campus 'shape up'
seeks volunteers
The University campus will get a special “face
lift" with the help of volunteers on Thursday and
Friday, May 24-25, as part of the Eugene
Springfield “Shaping Up '84“ campaign.
“The University's Physical Plant staff does ma
jor clean-up work every spring and is taking on
some extra projects as well this year," says Mary
Hudzikiewicz, community relations director.
"In addition, we are inviting volunteers to
help us give the campus some extra finishing
touches, in preparation for our thousands of
visitors this summer," she says. The work days fall
just one week before the NCAA track and field
championships at Hayward Field, the first of the
national and international events the University
hosts this summer.
Volunteers including students, faculty, staff,
alumni and friends are welcome from 9 a.m. to 6
pm. both days. They will help clean up the cam
pus kiosk, the bus structure, bulletin boards and
flower beds, among other projects.
A campus "Shaping Up" headquarters will be
located on the north side of Johnson Hall, across
from the Pioneer statue, Hudzikiewicz says.
For more information on volunteering for the
campus project, call University Relations at ext.
5555.
Rust given
endorsement
for election
One week after finishing third
in the race for county commis
sioner from south Eugene, ]ack
Craig has endorsed incumbent
lerry Rust, who will face runner
up Tonie Nathan in a run-off
election in November.
Speaking Tuesday at the
Bavarian Restaurant, Craig, an
EWEB commissioner who
received 14.5 percent of the vote
May 15, said he would abide by
what he called an unofficial en
dorsement of Rust by
Democrats.
Lane County Commissioners
are non-partisan, but Craig said
each of the five candidates had
clear party affiliations.
“There's no question that
Jerry Rust won the Democratic
nomination, and therefore I
strongly endorse him for the
election in November," he said.
Craig said his support does
not automatically guarantee re
election for Rust — who won
38.3 percent of the May 15 vote
— because an indeterminate
number of votes cast in
November will be anti-Rust
rather than pro-Democrat.
"You never know about this
riding the coattails business,"
he said.
Nathan, who was the Liber
tarian vice-presidential can
didate in 1976, netted 18.5 per
cent of the vote. Rust fell short
of the 50 percent he needed to
win re-election outright.
Craig said the other two can
didates, Barbara Kienlen and
Shirley Whitehead, were “iden
tified quickly" as Republicans.
Kienlen was active as a
Republican in Oklahoma, while
Whitehead ran as a Republican
for state representative in 1980.
Having based his campaign
on what he called the “scandal"
in the county assessor's office,
Craig said he would continue to
voice his concerns. Bran
dishing a letter dated May 14
from the Oregon Department of
Revenue, which read, in part,
"we do share the same con
cerns," Craig said the county is
tardy on several thousand pro
perty appraisals.
"Right now nobody is getting
a fair shake as far as taxes," he
said.
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