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Assault Services seeks more space, privacy Neighbors debate bow the change would affect traffic and parking nea rby By Felicity Ayles Oregon Daily Emerald Some Eugene residents are worried that if Sexual Assault Support Services moves to a resi dential neighborhood, its clients will take up too many parking spaces. At a public hearing at City Hall on Sept. 23, SASS members and Eugene residents debated the or ganization’s plans to move. Through a conditional use per mit, SASS members are request ing to operate their organization at 591 West 19th Avenue. SASS, a Eugene organization that aids survivors of sexual abuse or assault through support groups and crisis lines, wants to move to a larger residence at the corner of 19th Avenue and Jefferson Street, in the heart of a residential neigh borhood. The organization has meetings Thursday nights, as well as Monday night drop-in groups. Nearby residents are concerned about heavy parking and traffic. About 15 people usually attend the meetings each week, SASS ex ecutive director Phyllis Barkhurst said. Clients need a safe place and a sense of confidentiality, which SASS can provide better through a residence than an office, Barkhurst said. The organization is currently located in a smaller building on Lincoln Street. One requirement of the condi tional use permit is that the orga nization provides off-street park ing to its clients and employees, and it must construct a parking lot on the property. After filing the original applica tion, SASS amended the applica tion, asking to have the parking lot requirement waived. "We feel that the parking lot is basically unnecessary,” Barkhurst said. A staff report compiled by the City of Eugene states that because other available parking is nearby, the construction of a parking lot is “an unnecessary physical hard ship.” SASS does not support the con struction of a parking lot because it will be obvious that the house is no longer a residence, Barkhurst said. The organization has put a lot of time and energy into finding other parking near the proposed residence, Barkhurst said. Mem bers have found available parking in a nearby Park and Ride at 18th Avenue and Lincoln Street near the house. SASS has reserved four parking spaces at the Park and Ride, and with the two spaces already on the property and surrounding street parking, the clients and staff have ample places to park, Barkhurst said. Throughout the hearing, citi zens of Eugene and the neighbor hood in question were able to voice their opinions about the or ganization’s planned move. Dorothy Dunn, who lives near the proposed site, was one of sev eral neighbors opposed to the change in her neighborhood. She has written two letters to the Eu gene Planning Division express ing her opinion. “This is a residential area, and 1 do not understand why commer cial enterprises have to creep into residential areas,” Dunn wrote. But many people supported the organization at the hearing, par ticularly those who had friends or family who were survivors of sex ual abuse. "I think the neighborhood would profit by having such peo ple nearby,” said Cynthia Kokis, a supporter of SASS and the permit request.' The City of Eugene will make a decision on SASS’s request with in 15 days of the hearing. Felicity Ayles covers city develop ment, the West University neigh borhood and thisfall's ballot mea sures for the Emerald. 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