SUSTAINABLE EUGENE? Eugene Sustainability Quiz Eugene Sustainability Commission steps toward sincere sustainability City Manager or democracy? Regional Transportation Plan: $817 million for roads 2010-2015: Cities & County $186.5 million for roads EWEB's $85 million new maintenance yard U of O Arenas - Bus Rapid Transit - big box stores hospitals - disasters - intelligent urban design - trains grass seed to grains - food security, no more field burning
WEST EUGENE PORKWAY WETLANDS: West Eugene Transportation, Land and Neighborhood Design Solutions - WEP alternative Mayoral Election bypasses highway history Kitty Piercy's West Eugene Collaborators excluded neighborhood groups, tolerates half a WEP Jim Torrey wasted money promoting WEP after June 2001 "No Build" consensus by Fed, State, County & City the 2001 City vote for the WEP - a federal, not local, decision WEP violated laws signed by Nixon and LBJ Lane County: Bobby Green vs. Rob Handy
Aerial Photos of West Eugene Wetlands and WEP
photos taken August 2002 by Jan Spencer www.suburbanpermaculture.org
Ten photos of west Eugene with the WEP route superimposed.
[April 2002 is when that parcel was purchased]