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

related websites: forestclimate.org - oilempire.us - permatopia.com - road-scholar.org
feedback to mark at permatopia dot com

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]