Courthouse: Redevelopment has two phases to improve downtown area
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offices for other federal employees,
according to Lesh.
After the new courthouse is fin
ished, the old courthouse building
will be leased out by the GSA to other
federal agencies, Lesh said.
The city purchased 6.5 acres for the
site, 4.5 acres of which it sold to the
GSA. The city plans to sell the remain
ing land to developers after the court
house is built.
“We want potential developers to
have a better sense of what the area
will be,” Ward 3 City Councilor David
Kelly said.
Kelly believes the sale money will be
equivalent to the city’s costs to acquire
the property.
Kelly said the city hopes the new
courthouse will bring other business
es into the area.
“It is very much at the conceptual
stage,” Kelly said.
Part of the redevelopment will be a
two-phase improvement to the streets
around the courthouse site, Kelly said.
The first phase will improve Eighth
Avenue from Mill Street to Ferry
Street, extend Ferry Street north past
Eighth and improve Ferry Street
south of Eighth. Improvements will
include new curbs, gutters, sidewalks
and trees, according to Michelle
Cahill, principal civil engineer for the
Eugene Public Works Department.
The second phase will be much
more extensive.
Traffic headed for Highway 99
West will be diverted at Hilyard
Street and run to a new road that
will travel along the railroad tracks,
hopefully decreasing traffic on
Franklin Boulevard headed toward
the Ferry Street Bridge.
“If we could unbraid some of that
traffic,” Cahill said, “we could have a
traffic signal (at Eighth and Mill).”
A new traffic signal would allow
pedestrians to cross from the new
courthouse to downtown Eugene.
Currently the area has too much traf
fic to consider it.
“The courthouse would only be a
few blocks from city hall,” Kelly said,
“but if you’re crossing as a pedestri
an or a bicyclist, you kind of take
your life in your hands.”
The road improvements will cost
around $7.7 million, the bulk of
which will be paid for with federal
money. Lane County will contribute
$1.6 million, and the city of Eugene
will pay $600,000.
Most of that money will come from
the urban renewal fund, Cahill said.
The city hopes the first phase will
be complete by next fall and expects
to start utility construction in the area
in March or April 2006, Cahill said.
Cahill said it is still too early to
set a date for the second phase, but
she expects the project to be com
plete after courthouse construction
is finished.
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Rape: Women have options
for medical care after attack
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The student said her perpetrator
was a 22- to 25-year-old white male,
5 feet 9 inches tall, with a thin-to
medium build and dark brown hair.
One in four college women are
raped or somebody attempts to rape
them, and 90 percent of these cases
are not reported, according to a
1995 study published by The Bac
chus and Gamma Peer Education
Network.
Women should always be aware
of their surroundings and know
who is around them, Donaca said.
Also, they should try to be with
other people and make sure they
are in well-lit areas, he said. The
student’s advice to other victims of
sexual assault is to understand that
it is never the victim’s fault, to al
low time to heal and to feel com
fortable about seeking help.
Most victims of sexual assault do
not report it because of fear of not
being believed, self-blame, shame
or because the perpetrator can be
someone the victim knows and
loves, said Maria Paladino, director
of programs and services for SASS.
Knowledge that the judicial sys
tem doesn’t always do a good job of
holding sexual assault perpetrators
accountable also discourages vic
tims from coming forward, Paladino
said.
Victims of assault should seek
medical care, whether they want to
file a report or not, and find some
one they trust to talk to, she said.
Victims can speak with sexual as
sault advocates and call hotlines,
such as SASS, Paladino said.
The student said she is not letting
her attack interfere with her classes
or plan to graduate on time.
“Rape is about power,” she said.
“My revenge is being successful.”
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