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4 <br /> 2 <br /> 2. In this location trees cannot be planted behind the curbs on <br /> each side of the street because this space is pre - empted by <br /> sanitary sewers and other public utilities. The only available <br /> growing room for the trees is in the existing street, which means <br /> installing curbs around elevated parking spaces which would jut out <br /> between the existing spaces. In the conventional pattern the cars <br /> are parked nose -to -tail with all such pairs separated by ample <br /> spaces for exit and entrance. The proposed plan is to use the <br /> entrance and exit spaces for growing trees. It seems obvious that <br /> the remaining parking spaces could only accommodate one car instead <br /> of two. The abutting commercial owners would violently oppose such <br /> a loss of patron parking. <br /> Also, new planter spaces would obstruct the flow of storm <br /> water, and accommodating this flow would require regrading of most <br /> of the abutting street surface at an astronomical cost. Dennis <br /> proposes to avoid this by installing 4" pipes in line and on grade <br /> with the existing gutters. This solution would only shift the <br /> astronomical costs from construction to maintenance as any <br /> slightest obstruction by leaves and other debris would quickly clog <br /> these tiny tunnels and create a constant chain of plugs for the <br /> eight wet months of the year. Also, the mobile street sweeper <br /> would be useless in the resulting pattern of curb lines. <br /> According to Dennis Lueck the principal purpose of the Tree <br /> Foundation is to focus the tree plantings of the City of Eugene on <br /> exclusively native trees, and the Willamette Street project would <br />