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choice would make use of the
parking lot on Willamette Sci
ence and Technology Center
grounds. The other two are along
Leo Harris Parkway and an exist
ing parking area on the northeast
side of the stadium.
WISTEC currently sells season
passes to football fans for parking
privileges at the center, which is
located southwest from Autzen,
across Leo Harris Parkway.
McBride said that he and other ad
ministrators have to work through
the complexities of overlapping
agreements between the Universi
ty, WISTEC and the city, which
owns the parking area, before they
can sit down and hash out a re
structured arrangement with WIS
TEC.
“We would prefer to see the
staging area built on University
property because that makes the
most sense to WISTEC,” said Meg
Trendler, executive director for
WISTEC. Trendler added that her
organization is not opposed to the
Autzen Stadium expansion nor
the passage of the parking code
amendment.
City Manager Jim Johnson spoke
briefly at Monday’s meeting and
addressed the bus staging issue. He
said that he has had “good meet
ings” with both WISTEC and Uni
versity officials, but the discus
sions are on-going. No date has
been set for resolution, although
McBride said he would like some
thing in place before next month’s
season-opener.
According to Planning Commis
There’s help.
sion President Peter Bartel, he has
concerns in regard to how the loss
of that parking lot income would
impact WISTEC.
“The success of the athletic pro
gram at the University has caused
that site to develop rather inten
sively with extremely large build
ings and drawing large numbers of
people,” he said. “Those two things
— WISTEC and its constituency
and the Athletic Department and
its constituency — appear to be on
sort of a collision course.
“In this [potential] agreement, I
think it behooves everyone to
think very seriously [and] to have
a plan about where WISTEC will
be and what will happen to them,
because these dollars that they get
are very important to them.”
Other opposition to the code
amendment is expected to come
from the East Alton Baker Park Cit
izen Planning Committee, which
is an city-appointed group of 15
Eugene and Springfield citizens in
charge of maintaining the park.
“My main concern is ... how the
infusion of several thousand more
fans walking to and from Autzen
Stadium will affect [the park],”
said David Sonnichsen, vice chair
of the EABPCPC. “I’m not con
vinced that the University’s in
creased attention to the park at this
time really addressed the future
continuing health of the park.”
Bartel said that he believes
everyone involved in the process
has been sensitive to the environ
mental and logistical concerns
brought up during the plethora of
meetings and work sessions.
“It will be doing a good thing for
a broad cross-section of the com
munity to have this be successful
and success is defined by how gen
tle a footprint they’re going to put
on the landscape,” he said. “It’s
[also] going to be defined by how
cooperative people are and being
sensitive to problems that will ex
ist just because it’s a new thing
that we’re doing.
“We have a chance to establish a
paradigm in our community that
says you can have major events that
do not require you getting in ydUr
car and driving there yourself. ”
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