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Comments and Responses, September 26, 2000 Public Hearing in Eugene <br />T10 Kevin Matthews, Friends of <br />Eugene <br />After the issuance of the draft EIS, <br />the Gateway site alternative <br />(Alternative 3) was deemed <br />impractical and has been eliminated <br />from further consideration. <br />Alternative 3 was eliminated from <br />further consideration because it lies <br />within the 500-Year Floodplain for <br />the McKenzie River, lacks <br />adequate public transportation and <br />public parking in the vicinity. <br />T10.1-Comment acknowledged <br />T10.2-The draft EIS describes the <br />Gateway site location away from <br />the business and government <br />centers of Eugene and Springfield. <br />The draft EIS also notes the limited <br />availability of public transportation <br />to the Gateway site and discusses <br />potential traffic impacts at the site. <br />Tranaertpt 1 <br />23 <br />1 NR. NEERBCHEIOT: Thank you. And thank you for She <br />2 correction. <br />3 NR. JOHNSON: Yos. <br />4 MR. NEEA8CHEI0T: I know an engineer who's going to <br />6 get a nasty a-evil. Kevin Matthews. <br />0 NR. HATTHEWB: Kovin Hatthowo, H-A-T-T-H-E-YI-S. Goctl <br />7 evening. I'm a board member of Friends of Eugene, which 7a n <br />8 local lantl use entl onvironmentatly ortentetl citizens group; <br />9 prositlont of 80utheast Notphbors, which is a neighborhood <br />10 association; and editor and chief of ARCHITECTURE MEEK, which <br />11 1s a national archttocture magazine. <br />T10.1 12 The Friends of Eugene has not endorsed any of <br />19 these sites. And for the record, we have not entlorsotl the <br />14 tlOwntOwn visfohlhg prOJodt which hao been s committoe effort <br />16 thnt. from our perspective, hasn't bean Pully open to Lhe <br />iB general cltizonry. <br />T102 t7 However, there is one ails that stands out, <br />18 nccordinB to our analysis, 1n the negative. And that is <br />19 altornativo 3, the Gnteway sito. And to put it spsciffcally <br />20 in environmontal impact etateawnt terms, the environmentai <br />2t impact statement suemary that talks about transportation only <br />22 atltlroseoc the moat local traffic In~pnets. <br />23 Antl it's n etau roduirement. ns well ac a <br />'4 generally iaportant thing in Oregon, to plan transportation at <br />e larger scale. And I think it's npproprtete Tor that larger <br />New Federal Courthouse 223 Final EIS <br />