University child care facility
location met with resistance
■ Students and residents have
contested the Moss Street
facility because of its location
and communication issues
By Brad Schmidt
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University hopes to submit
paperwork by the end of the
month that will pave the way for
construction of new child care fa
cilities, despite two-fold opposi
tion from a handful of students af
fected by the proposed east
campus location and residents of
the surrounding neighborhood.
The location of a new $2.8 mil
lion, 14,000 square-foot child care
facility is at the center of debate,
even after the University decided
in February to move the potential
site from 17th Avenue and Colum
bia Street to 17th Avenue and
Moss Street and even though the
land is University-owned.
Most resistance has come from
the Fairmount Neighborhood As
sociation, which claims the Uni
versity is breaking a 20-year pact
with the east campus district in its
proposed development of residen
- tial land.
Sophomore Mark Donahue, who
lived until May 31 at one of the sev
en University-owned houses affect
ed by the childcare center, said he
supported the new child care facili
ty until the University mistreated
him before he left his residence.
Donahue said in an e-mail that
his house was opened to the pub
lic for viewing, said his cable was
shut off and said a fence was con
I
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Sneaker the cat peers from the window of a house in the Fairmount neighborhood. The new
child care facility will be built on the land where Sneaker and his family live.
structed in his backyard without
his consent. All this, he said, came
without prior notice and while he
and his partner, Kate Workman,
lived in the house.
East Campus Housing Director
Frank Gaddini apologized for the
problems but denied any involve
ment, saying that all students were
given 24-hour notification, that
housing didn’t have anything to do
with the cable disconnection and
that the fence was constructed to
protect a historic tree, not to incon
venience the residents.
Cathy Gray and her husband,
Russell, a law student, are the only
residents still remaining in the Uni
versity-owned houses affected by
the child care center.
Gray called the situation “pretty
nasty,” adding that she’s been kept
in the dark by the housing depart
ment and subsequently has been
forced to rely on hearsay.
“I have no problem with them
using their property however they
want,” she said. “University Hous
ing is the problem; they’re not
forthcoming.”
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