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• <br /> DRAFT <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> February 1, 1994 <br /> TO: City Council, City of Eugene <br /> School Board, School District 4 -J <br /> Board of Directors, Eugene Water and Electric Board <br /> FROM: John Etter, City of Eugene Parks Planning <br /> John Lauch, ( fill in how you wish to be identified ) <br /> Mark Oberle, <br /> SUBJECT: Land Exchanges in the Gilham School area <br /> Beginning in the winter of 1993, staff from the three agencies have worked <br /> together to achieve implementation strategies for proposals made in the <br /> Willakenzie Area Plan, adopted in September, 1992. We seek approval from each <br /> agency for land exchanges that are needed to allow the plan to move forward. <br /> Background: Following adoption of the Willakenzie Area Plan the Parks <br /> Planning Office (City) was approached by Paradise Development, Inc. <br /> (developer) with a proposal to exchange park sites, consistent with the Plan. <br /> City staff were supportive of this move, but related issues forced <br /> consideration of ultimate development plans in the area. Locations for a <br /> collector street described in the Plan, and pedestrian access to the school <br /> were the principal issues. These have been worked out by staff and the <br /> developer during 1993. They have been reviewed by both a parent group at <br /> Gilham School in June and a meeting of the Cal Young Neighborhood group in <br /> October. <br /> The Plan: An attached map shows the following: A new collector street will <br /> connect Gilham Road with County Farm Road. It begins in alignment with an <br /> established intersection on Gilham Road, leads east into a parcel currently <br /> owned by EWEB, then shifts south to an alignment separated from the school by <br /> residential development, a preference of 4 -J planners. The alignment of the <br /> street as it moves east of the school's longitude is a suggestion by the <br /> traffic engineer: final alignment will be approved in the subdivision design <br /> and permit process. The 4 -J objective of having vehicular access to the <br /> southwest corner of the school site is met in this plan. <br /> EWEB staff were agreeable to making their Gilham Road site available since <br /> recent studies showed that 4 -J's Coburg Road site was a superior location for <br /> the substation to serve this area. It was subsequently determined that the <br /> substation site configuration at 4 -J's Coburg Road site would afford greater <br /> buffering potential than the current site would. The configuration of the <br /> substation at the Coburg Road site does not reduce the already limited access <br /> to the 4 :J property, nor does it occupy a space that would adversely impact <br /> the develnt_ potential, either for a school, or for other non - school uses. <br /> This suggested that EWEB and 4 -J trade sites to achieve that relocation <br /> objective. <br /> The land needed by the developer for the street (and possibly four home sites <br /> to the north) would be the subject of an exchange between the developer and <br />