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

 

Scanned in map of "Wetland Ownership and Acquisition Status in West Eugene Area," produced by Lane Council of Governments, June 2001.

The dashed lines represent the route(s) of the so-called Parkway to indicate which public lands would be destroyed.

If the Beltline / West 11th intersection is significantly widened for the WETLANDS alterantive (or even as part of the WEP), the edge of some LWCF property would need to be condemned.  However, if this was done instead of the WEP (and the rest of the WEP was genuinely canceled by converting the ODOT property to BLM conservation areas), this would meet the legal requirements for "avoidance, then minimization" that apply to wetland destruction permits (section 404 of the Clean Water Act) and protection of parklands and publicly owned wildlife refuges (section 4(f) of the 1966 Transportation Act).

The DARK GREEN shows parcels owned by the City of Eugene - note that they own two parcels in the path of the porkway: one immediately west of Danebo, and one at the proposed Bailey Hill / WEP intersection. When these parcels are transferred to the BLM for preservation and restoration, then the WEP will be on the way out.