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July 22, 1994 <br /> AMAZON PARK DEVELOPMENT PLANNING <br /> CRITERIA AND CONSIDERATIONS <br /> BEHIND THE <br /> PLANNING DECISIONS <br /> The act of planning for how Amazon Park will be developed was <br /> essentially an exercise of balancing competig needs for park <br /> space within the community. The adopted planning <br /> govern in this situation (Oregon Statewide Planning Goals, the <br /> Lane County Metropolitan General Plan [Metro Plan], aals and ph <br /> Eugene Parks and Recreation Plan) all contain g <br /> that are often, to ,some extent, in conflict with each other. <br /> Briefly, all plans speak to the need to prose enhance <br /> to <br /> community's natural resources, and all plans speak ea in tooys the that da <br /> provide a variety of recreational opportunities <br /> population. The oral and written input <br /> them accessible to the P o P planning process affirmed that those <br /> received in the Amazon Park <br /> conflicting goals and objectives exist in the community. <br /> Fortunately <br /> there is a natural way these interests sort <br /> themselves out: Areas of high natural <br /> because <br /> have not been disturbed at this point The areas of low natural <br /> most costly to access and develop. <br /> resource value include those rean conjunctionewith1various by <br /> past use of the land or grading <br /> projects and park improvements. <br /> The proposed plan generally focuses new rdevelopmenttinithnatural <br /> disturbed areas, proposes managing <br /> opportunities for recreating <br /> and suggests <br /> resource value, <br /> wetlands in areas that were filled years ago. Not all <br /> a suggested a oy the public are <br /> recreational amenities that wereg for expanding natural <br /> being included, and not all suggestions <br /> resource values are included. <br /> What follows are a series of "findings" that are pertinent to <br /> Amazon Park. Following that are a series of discussions about <br /> each planning decision, and how the findings have affected some <br /> of the planning decisions. <br /> FINDINGS <br /> Citizens of Eugene, raising money through the Century 1946. Early had p Tanners ha visions <br /> Fund, acquired Amazon Park in greater for developing the entire park with g <br /> Tanned to <br /> offerings than are planned today. Before Amazon Creek was purposes in the late '50's, there <br /> engineered for flood con <br /> was rural development along the west <br /> was frequent flooding. <br /> side of Hilyard Street had existed during p re -park days, <br /> primarily involving livestock grazing. <br /> 1 <br />