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Campus buzz
Thursday
Registration for EMU Craft Center spring
workshops, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., EMU Craft
Center, 346-4361.
"Gene Kelly, Music and American Mas
culinity" (dance historian Beth Genne
presents the final Trotter Professorship
Presentation), 1-2 p.m., Beall Hall, free,
346-5678.
"Indigenous Women and Ethnic Identity
in Huasteca, Mexico" (Kristina Tiedje), 1
5:30 p.m., 330 Hendricks, free, 346-2263.
University of Michigan pianist Martin Katz
(instruction to pianists and vocalists), 5
p.m., Beall Hall, $5,346-5678.
Open dance showing (brief demonstra
tions by students; the audience is invited
to sit on the floor or lean against a wall),
5:30 p.m., Dougherty Dance Theatre, Ger
linger Annex, free, 346-3386.
Marek Cecula (head of the ceramics de
partment at Parsons School of Design in
New York City, Visiting Artist Lecture Se
ries), 7 p.m., 177 Lawrence, free, 346-3610.
Nathan Douthit (author), 7 p.m., Universi
ty Bookstore, 346-4331, Ext. 228.
"Galatea" (Guest Ensemble Concert fea
turing Marc Vanscheeuwijck, bass violin,
and several guest artists, performs music
of the Early Baroque period), 8 p.m., Beall
Hall, $7 general, $4 students and senior
citizens, 346-5678.
Locals favor new
node boundaries
At a public hearing, residents
discussed development and
favored limiting the proposed
Walnut Street Station Node
John B, Dudrey
Freelance Reporter
More than a dozen local residents
spoke in favor of limiting the proposed
Walnut Street Station Node bound
aries at a City Planning Commission
public hearing Tuesday night. The pro
posed development would affect the
neighborhood adjacent to the Univer
sity running northeast from 17th Av
enue and Villard Street.
Nodal developments are new to
the Eugene area, but are an estab
lished tool of urban planners. The de
velopments are self-sufficient neigh
borhoods that incorporate housing,
pedestrian walkways and shopping
centers. Ideally, these “urban vil
lages” offer residents easy access to
all of life’s necessities.
The Walnut Street Nodal Develop
ment is one of nine potential node
sites in Eugene. The plans, if com
pleted, would not constitute a node
but instead would serve as a node
“starter-kit” to be further developed
at a later date, said Kent Kullby, a city
planner with the Eugene Planning
and Development Department.
Most speakers at the meeting op
posed the node’s extension to 17th
Avenue and favored one of two sepa
rate plans that would halt the devel
opment zone at 15th Avenue be
tween Villard and Walnut streets.
“Our neighborhood is one of the
few in Eugene that has preserved its
pre-World War II character,” said
Douglas Daniel, who lives within the
boundaries of the potential node.
Daniel believes that, with the
neighborhood close to the University,
students would inevitably live in new
apartment buildings built under
node regulations. Daniel worries that
property values would drop dramati
cally because of the new apartments.
He added that the node could still
support the possible apartments if it
were to end at 15th Avenue.
“The University is expanding,” he
said. “By keeping the boundary at
15th, you get what you need in a node
without the possibility of destroying
one of Eugene’s older neighborhoods.”
Daniel was not alone in his opposi
tion to the 17th Avenue boundary.
“I don’t think (the contested area)
serves any purpose for the node,”
said Steve Gab, who owns both a
home and a business near the node.
Gab, along with many speakers at the
meeting, favors a compromise solu
tion that would include five proper
ties south of 15th Avenue.
Other residents have opposed the
expansion for statutory reasons.
“The Metro Plan ... requires, for
nodal development, that a transit stop
... is within walking distance (general
ly one-quarter mile) of anywhere in
the node,”’ wrote David Wade in an e
mail that was submitted as evidence to
the City Planning Commission. “I did
not measure it, but I can estimate that
one-half of the ... area on Orchard
Street is outside the quarter mile area.
Apparently, the Walnut Node was
drawn hastily without even doing dis
tance measurements.”
The City Planning Commission
did not take action on the proposal
and will hold an additional meeting
Monday, April 7.
John B. Dudrey is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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