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Comments and Responses, September 26, 2000 Public Hearing in Eugene <br />T6.3-The GSA has no plans to <br />construct a parking structure as <br />part of the proposed federal <br />courthouse project. <br />T6.4-Comment acknowledged <br />T7 Russ Brink <br />T7.1-All of the sites discussed in <br />the draft EIS are located within <br />the existing downtown areas of <br />Eugene or Springfield, except that <br />the Gateway site is within a <br />transitional area that is being <br />developed for commercial and <br />industrial uses. Three of the site <br />alternatives addressed in the draft <br />EIS, including the Gateway site, <br />have been eliminated from further <br />consideration. <br />Transcript 1 <br />19 <br />'rg,g 1 land to construct an aesthetically pleasing, please, parking <br />eontl. 2 structure. My own peradnel experience with mixing contemporary <br />.. structural and bulldingc listed On the historic registry, <br />4 there's an aura of compatibility here that I feel lends a <br />5 character and a Certain authentlclty 1a Drought about Dy mixing <br />6 the old and the new. <br />Tfi 4 T The Cntqulta/Agripac tlietrict pan be a fine new <br />8 atltllticn, anew neighborhood, to add Lo Cho downtown. Just let <br />9 Lhia building ba dati9ned well and let us be proud of it when <br />10 wa ors Hoar it and then 1t will have ey bloaaing. Thank you. <br />11 NR. NEERBCHEIDT: Thank you. Ruse Brink. <br />72 MR. BRINK: Rues Brink, B-R-I-N-K. I'm the executive <br />13 tliroctor of Downtown of Eugene, Incorporated. You net one of <br />14 my board mambort earlier, John Lawless. Mere an organization <br />1S of about 120 property owners and about 400 buainssa owrwra in <br />18 Lho downtown core. <br />'T'~,t 17 we've boon cdndernetl about the future of Eugene <br />18 downtown for cults awhile now and we're invoatod to the <br />19 downtown violontnq program that you and Nancy have already <br />20 alluded Lo. Seems Lo aie the great cities of worth America end <br />21 the world really, as tucv Just aeitl. era characterized by <br />22 certain a.~,ior urea that are regional, if not national, in <br />23 nature aomettmea. <br />24 Ono of those la that Lho downtown areas ere <br />2b normally the seat of povernmontal activities. And eo it ttekes <br />' ~' New Federal Courthouse 219. Final EIS <br />