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The campaign is expected to prompt a statewide debate of the is sue that could attract national at tention and campaign contribu tions. “Life for a Life” campaigners have about a year to gather the near ly 90,000 valid signatures required to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot. The “Life for a Life” campaign would abolish capital punishment in favor of life without parole and financial restitution for convicted murderers. Supporters said they hope to gather enough signatures using vol unteers, but they would consider using paid signature gatherers if needed. Oregon voters have gone back and forth on the death penalty over the years, although in the last vote in 1984 they overwhelmingly sup ported reinstating capital punish ment. Oregon last carried out execu tions by lethal injections in 1996 and 1997. Twenty-five men cur rently are on death row in Oregon, although the next execution likely won’t be carried out for several years because of legal appeals. Steve Doell, head of Oregon Crime Victims United, has said most Oregonians still support capi tal punishment. The Associated Press Sacred Heart continued from page 1 posed plans in March to build a more than 500-bed hospital hous ing mostly inpatient and emer gency services and employing 2,200 people on a 38-acre parcel of land in North Eugene. The organization purchased the land at the northeast corner of Coburg Road and Crescent Avenue in 1992 for $1.8 million, and con struction was set to start in mid 2002. The downtown facility would have been remodeled into an out patient, administrative and support services and enhanced urgent care facility employing 1,800 people. But after expressing concerns about a northern relocation, city of ficials approached PeaceHealth with a desire to discuss alternatives and encourage compact urban growth theories. At a City Council meeting June 18, councilors and PeaceHealth of ficials proposed an alternative plan to acquire 37 acres of land six blocks immediately west of the cur rent campus. The land encompass es many apartment buildings, busi nesses, and historic landmarks, approximately 391 trees and the University’s Riley Hall. Community members say this is reminiscent of Sacred Heart’s dem olition of the 60-year old 11th Street Mayflower Theater in 1986, hours before a meeting with the Eu gene Historic Review Board that could have declared it a historic landmark. Citizens’ concerns include the re moval of trees and historic land marks, details of land acquisition and condemnation, relocation, and the possible mixture of church and state. Residents also questioned why the hospital can’t build up rather than out and why other sites were not chosen. Terrett said because of seismic upgrades and the need to have adjacency to certain departments, an expansion upward would di minish the quality of the health care the hospital hopes to pro vide. He added that other sites didn’t meet either the space spec ifications or specific hospital zon ing policies. Expansion of the downtown site is estimated to cost $100 million more than the $300 to $350 million of the proposed North Eugene hos pital. The timeline for the project would be lengthy, due to the need to complete it in phases as opposed to the four to five years for the North Eugene site. PeaceHealth has asked the city to contribute $35 million to the project, $30 million of which would come from a taxpayer-sup ported bond measure, and to ease zoning regulations and provide tax breaks. It also wants the city to pay half the cost of acquiring, condemning and relocating homes and busi nesses within the six blocks from Patterson Street to High Street and 11th Avenue to 13th Avenue. This costs are more than $40 to $60 mil lion. PeaceHealth would agree to repay the city the cost and limit its development of the North Eugene site to only outpatient and limited inpatient services. Most city councilors, however, have agreed only to make a finan cial commitment of $25 million, $20 million of which will likely be a property tax-supported bond levy the city intends for use in control of traffic flow and park ing. Should voters reject this bond measure, PeaceHealth is asking the city to support the move north and to help expedite land 009720 942-8730 484-1927 GOLF 9 HOLES $10 Students Only. Must show ID. (Monday ■ Friday) use actions to build there.The al ternative of expanding at the old Eugene site has been rejected by PeaceHealth due to lack of space in the area, no adjacency to the hospital, street placements and nowhere to move the nearly 400 employees in the building during construction. When the controversy over a move north started, groups such as the North Eugene Growth Im pact Committee, the University Small Business Association, Citi zens for a Hospital in the Heart of Eugene and local doctors and nurses urged the hospital to re consider, citing traffic problems the north would face, changing growth patterns, distance and the hole it would leave in the city cen ter. Many believed the latter would be a barrier in the revital ization of the downtown area. “I’ve tried to make sure that peo ple in this neighborhood know what’s going on,” said Richie Wein man with the City Planning and De velopment Department. “I know the time frame has been short, and we’ve made an effort to make sure that people will know about these meetings and know about the dis cussions so they’re not terribly sur prised by it.” Tom Olshanski, the spokesman for the city of Eugene, also said it was too bad that many local resi dents were taken unawares. “It was really unfortunate that it occurred that way,” Olshanski said. “It really is the result of a lot of work happening very quickly.” He added that it is important for concerned citizens to attend anoth er public forum scheduled for Mon day, July 2, at 6:30 p.m. at the Cen tral Presbyterian Church at 555 E. 15th. “A lot depends on what the pub lic senses and what they’re feeling out there,” he said. 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