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TO THE EDITOR
TITLE TO CAPSTONE
This [7/12 EW] article states that
Capstone is going to start a proposed
project without having title to all of the
land. Looks as if bumps are starting to
happen.
Capstone has a local history that is
less than sterling. University Commons
apartment buildings west of Garden Way
and just south of I-105 is an example.
Due diligence by the city of Eugene
planning/permitting department among
other responsible government, private and
business interests could have fi gured this
out.
Eugene does not have to hop on the fi rst
turnip truck to come along. If it is a good
location someone with capital, vision and
maybe integrity will show up.
Also, what sort of long-range
management agreement is part of this mix?
University Commons has had more than its
share of problems.
Chris M. Percival
Prior Capstone sub-contractor
Eugene
HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEXTER
I attended the July 12 land use hearing
on Lost Creek Rock Products’ mining
of Parvin butte. For nearly three hours,
neighbors of the Butte offered compelling,
often heartbreaking testimony about the
impacts the mining has already had on
their lives, and the much greater impact the
mining and transport of Parvin Butte rock
would have over the next 20 years.
At stake is the health and wellbeing, the
economic and even physical survival, of a
large number of Dexter residents — not to
mention the viability of salmon and other
wildlife in the area. Not only livelihoods,
but lives may be destroyed if the blasting
and transport of Parvin butte are allowed
to continue.
Multiple neighbors of the Butte testifi ed
that they had moved to Dexter specifi cally
because they not only wanted, but needed, a
quiet area in which to live, having suffered
noise-related trauma and hearing loss that
The Shedd Institute
make living in close proximity to active
blasting not only an annoyance, but literally
a health- and life-threatening proposition.
A nearby home houses 11 Vietnam-era
veterans suffering from PTSD; those
men have been re-traumatized by recent
blasting. Another resident with an already-
compromised immune system suffered
major health setbacks as a result of the
April 10 blasting, and needed to testify in
absentia. Add dust from the gravel mining
into the equation, and the health threats are
even greater.
Residents’ animals, crops and home
businesses are all endangered by the
mining. One massage therapist needed to
cancel a week’s worth of appointments
because of mining operations earlier this
year. Many of the mine’s neighbors have
put their life savings into their homes and
properties there, believing they’d be able to
work from home, support themselves and
age healthily there. These plans are now on
hold.
Testimony also made it clear that the
transport of the rock (one large gravel truck
every fi ve minutes, 11 hours a day, six days
a week, for 20 years) over the already
dangerous Rattlesnake Road (with its blind
curves, blind pullouts, frequently stopping
vehicles and no shoulder) is a recipe for
traffi c deaths.
The plan to mine Parvin Butte violates
basic human rights — the rights of Dexter
residents to health, to safety, to the pursuit
of their livelihoods. Only a heartless system
of governance would allow this plan to
continue. If the codes are poorly written,
rewrite them. Meanwhile, when lives are at
stake, the code should be simple: Protect
them.
Chris Roth
Dexter
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