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. It
creates more problems than it
solves.”
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