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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1996)
Study: Transportation concerns citizens ■ MEETING: The Growth Management Study gave its first results to Council By Melissa tetoahn Cawwi/wly tOmerse The Growth Management Study produced rasull* from its firut forum end lane Transit Dis trict asked the Eugene UlbBt Renewal Agency to a%*ome a financial risk Monday In a City Council work session Alan, the Council asked the staff to prosuie pert odic status report* on the Growth Management Study until lanuary 199? During the last two years, the city of Eugene ha* experienced an tm tease In M imoaiit and papula lion growth, which has created a demand tor new residential, commercial and Industrial develop ment This increased development has created some concern within the community about the nature and effectiveness of the city's growth man agement efforts and programs The study has three phases agenda setting, strat egy development and strategy review In each phase, a mailer is sent to every address in Eugene in the form of e questionnaire, then a community forum generates citizens' comments and hears their perceptions and concerns about growth Ed Weeks, director of the University Delibern five Democracy Project, presented results from the mailer and ih# forum. including that a maturity of the people in Lugen* wwr# CBBawnd mostly with transportation #dui allow and * «loan environ mwit Lat#r ihai evening. t.Tt) made a requett to ih# City Council to modify it* commitment to guaron to* hilt funding of St * million for patting miti gation lot ih# fTiigww station protect LTD ia abl# to guarani#* only a portion of the St B million According to LTD * attorn**. it i* abl* to t-.ommit only S01' 000 LTD aaked ih# City Council to consider ukirtg a rt*k far Saft i OHO if the station prop* t dr*** not proceed In November 1992, th* Qly Council, ac.ting aa lb* Kugen# Urban Rrnrail Agency. approved th# option far LTD to porc h**# property at th# Me Don aid Th#ai#r *ii*. which it a Renewal Agency owned property In fnly »99V th# Qly Council approved th# Peart Street Garage proposal to make th# parking lot* at th# LTD tit# I#** *#v»r* However, thi* agreement expired on Dec Si, tU9S LTD gav# the City Counc il option* to proc eed with land tale and parking mitigation and take the additional risk, nnt proc eed with either land tale or parking mitigation unit! LTD can find a way lo either accept or improve the rttk. or agree to tell th# *it# to LTD UO professor invited to women’s conference ■ WHITE HOUSE: The conference was formed fo discuss recommendations made at Beijing last year By Jennifer Schmitt Htgrm fauHutvftnt An associate professor in the International Studies program received an invitation from Hillary Clinton to attend a brief ing Wednesday at the White House on implementing the global agreement reached at the Beijing Conference on Women Dr. Anita Weis* was invited by the First Lady to participate in the Women's Conference Cir* i.le whii h will comment on the implementations the U S gov ernment will be enacting a* a result of the 1995 Bui jtng confer ence. The Women's Conference Cir cle is a group of 2M> people from all walks of life that is organized to give feedback to the govern ment and to the people in their communities. Weiss said The briefing by the president's Intern gem y Council on Women will be working on a plan to implement ihe Platform for Action that vi-at agreed upon at the Betting United Nation* con fer*n< e ia*t September Srj« - *"*' mg bin anil! it mn'i the l S telling other countrte* how thing* should be," W*iM Mid "At! of the countries made the agreement and now the U S t* looking at the agreement and deciding how to implement it in thl* country," The particioant* at the brief ing will be able to bear a report from the Interagenc y Council on its plan* for implementation Participant* will have the opportunity to explain the con cent* in their communitie*. both on a focal and global level The Council t» working toward* a five veer plan to implement the agreement* from the Bei)ing conference "The di*cu**ion will help u* to discover a vision of what ha* been dona, what can be done and what Mill need* to lie done." Wei** said At tin* Beijing awlwwat, the world'* representative* made agreement* to deal with the com ent* women have in area* such a* health, education. gov ernment representation and women* fight* Domestic violence I* an important issue here in Oregon, Weis* said "We need to resolve the com nut (retween the penalties for domestic violence and the penalties that a man gets for heating another man." Wei*« said "Why should a man gel a lesser punishment |u.*t because the person that he heats is hi* wife?” The Beijing conference also globally agreed that women s rights are human right*, said Wets* This is an important take of! point for women.“ Weis* said "It is a take off point for poople in Oregon. 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