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Residents bring proposals
to city open-spaces meeting
Eugeneans showed up
Saturday to submit ideas
about developing parks
and recreational areas
By Parker Howell
News Reporter
Eugene residents convened at a de
sign forum Saturday to identify com
munity needs and form a future vi
sion about parks, recreation and open
spaces in the city.
The meeting, designed to collect
neighborhood-specific feedback
about planning and creating new
parks and recreational opportunities,
took place at Churchill High School.
City parks and recreation staff
gathered the input as the latest step
in the Eugene Parks, Recreation and
Open Space Comprehensive Plan.
Staff members will compile and
present findings from the forum to
the 13-member PROS Mayor's Com
mittee during its May meeting, Parks
and Open Space Planning Manager
Andrea Riner said.
Riner said the city has already in
volved nearly 3,000 residents in the
planning process. She said a door-to
door survey of more than 400 resi
dents showed about 95 percent of Eu
gene citizens "strongly believe parks
and recreation services and open
spaces are important to Eugene's
quality of life."
Riner said the city's goal is to make
use of current facilities.
"Our top priority for all people we
talk to is to improve our existing
parks," she said.
Ward 8 City Councilor Nancy
Nathanson, PROS Mayor's Committee
chairwoman, said the forum will bene
fit future residents and current citizens.
"We're planning for the future of
Eugene parks for today and for the
next generation," Nathanson said.
Nathanson said she would person
ally like to see more neighborhood
parks, greenways and bikepaths. She
also wants every region in Eugene to
have a community center and pool.
Plans resulting from the forum will
determine how the city will use nor
mal revenues, along with money from
potential future bond measures,
Nathanson said.
Residents interested in the City
Central region, which covers much of
the downtown region and the Univer
sity campus, suggested several ideas,
including the possibility of monthly
park walks and converting school
parks to city parks as schools close.
The group talked about a new down
town pool that would serve as a safer
alternative to swimming in the
Willamette River, and it discussed cre
ating new skateparks in the area.
Senior Caroline O'Leary said West
University Neighborhood residents
would like the West University park,
which is currently closed, to be re
opened and moved to a more visible
location.
Outdoor Program Trip Facility
Manager Ed Fredette discussed his
plan to transform the Alton Baker Ca
noe Canal into habitat for endan
gered aquatic species and a paddling
and board-sports park. His Habitat
Restoration and Recreation Develop
ment Proposal for the canal, which he
developed as his master's thesis at the
University, would create more suit
able habitat for several endangered
species that once thrived in the area.
Fredette also said the area would be a
unique and safe area for kayakers and
other water-sports enthusiasts to en
joy their activities.
Because the benefits would be two
fold, finding funding and support will
not be a problem, Fredette said
"I have no doubt in my mind at all
that this project will happen," Fre
dette said.
Fredette said he attended the meet
ing to get his project on the master
plan for parks.
"It's very sexy, it's very glamorous —
it's Eugene," Fredette said.
Assistant Landscape Architecture
Professor Liska Chan attended the
meeting to promote her idea for con
verting the Eugene rail yard into a city
park or open space. Chan said her
plan would ask the city to zone the
yard, which remains unzoned, as an
open space. Zoning would result in
higher cleanup standards. She said the
park would benefit neighbors in a
low-income area with few parks.
Fredette said the results of the
planning meeting will ultimately
benefit students.
"The reason a lot of people came to
the UO is because of the outdoor
recreation opportunities in the area.
They come because they like to be
outside," he said.
Carolyn Weiss, park planner for
Eugene, agreed that creating a plan
is important.
"We're trying to create a vision for
the next 20 years," she said. "If we
don't make a vision now, we'll lose it
because we're growing so fast."
University graduate Tlilsi Wallace said
the forum was a unique opportunity.
"It's very valuable that the city is
constantly revisioning and improv
ing on the resources that it already
has," she said. "If students ever
come to these events, they would
see that Eugene has a very innova
tive planning process."
Contact the cHy/state politics reporter
at parkerhowell@dailyemerald.com.
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Morse Center panel discussion entitled “The Invasion - One Year After: Continuing Challenges to the Quest for Stability and Security," Room 175, Knight Law
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