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Council approves wetlands plan The public will have the opportunity to discuss the plan’s amendments at a later date By Jesse Sowa Community Reporter The Eugene City Council unanimously approved amend ments to the West Eugene Wet lands Plan on Wednesday after noon that prohibit the ability of the Eugene Water and Energy Board to put power lines where it sees fit. The council previously dis cussed and approved language for the amendments to create the Planned Transportation Corridor and Utility Corridor wetland des ignations, which city staff then prepared for adoption. According to Jan Childs, plan ning division manager for the city, the amendments also allow for the approval of construction of new roads through the wet lands area, although no action was taken on that issue. The amendment restricts new roadway construction projects not listed on the plan prior to 1992, Childs said. Neil Bjork lund, metro area planner for the city of Eugene, added that the corridor can only be used for road construction with permis sion from state and federal offi cials. The designations will not take effect until applied to specific properties, which requires subse quent action by the council and the Lane County Board of Com missioners. The commissioners will discuss the council’s action on the amendment June 2. The amendment is part of a larger group of policy and text amendments which will be dis cussed further by the council on June 17. That discussion will in clude the decision on the future of several pieces of land in the wetlands area, including those owned by Hyundai. Councilman Bobby Lee voiced concern that community mem bers want to have their say before a final decision is made. "People perceive utility as part of a development concern,” he said. Staff members told Lee the public will have a chance to voice their concerns on this issue at a later date. Bjorklund said public opinion could affect actions taken on the issue. “Both the [Eugene] Planning Commission and the elected offi cials could direct staff to do fur ther analysis based on public tes timony,” he said. Group calls for Measure 11 ’s repeal A committee rallied in Eugene for Initiative 66, which attempts to overturn Measure 11 By Jessica Temple Freelance Reporter About 20 people attended a Cit izens for Measure 11 Reform rally Wednesday at the Lane County Courthouse. The Portland-based committee was formed in an attempt to pro mote Initiative 66, a proposed bal lot measure that would overturn Measure 11 in the November gen eral election. Ballot Measure 11, which was passed by voters in 1994, current ly requires mandatory prison sen tences for 23 specific felonies for persons age 15 and up. However, Initiative 66 would require 7,400 signatures before it could be added to the November 1998 bal lot. Ron Chase, a speaker at the ral r ly, talked about the results of Mea sure 11. He said it was marketed by its creators to ensure repeat vio lent criminals would receive longer prison terms. “As of November 1997,” he said, “57 percent of inmates prose cuted and convicted under Ballot Measure 11 had no prior criminal history.” Chase also stressed that Mea sure 11 negatively altered the en tire judicial system by changing the relationship between defen dants, prosecutors and judges. “It eliminated judicial discre tion, taking authority away from judges to impose sentences based on not only the offense, but the of fenders’ prior criminal history and special circumstances,” Chase said. Ed Whitelaw, a University pro fessor of economics, also spoke at the rally in support of Initiative 66. He wrote an article for Oregon Quarterly about the downfalls of Measure 11, in which he stated that the growth of prisons does not make sense financially. "If we had tried to set out the most expensive and least effective measure ... we would have come up with Measure 11,” Whitelaw said. Chase agreed. “Rather than working with chil dren and providing family sup port to prevent this behavior, we are investing our scarce resources into building prisons and deten tion facilities to confine them af ter they have committed a crime,” he said. “While much lip service is given to prevention, Ballot Mea sure 11 ensures that the real mon ey is spent on reactive remedies. “I don’t think anyone had the vision to foresee the chain reac tion set off by Ballot Measure 11,” he said. "It inhibits, rather than promotes the administration of justice. It places an unacceptable financial burden on the state. 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