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Home My WebLink AboutMiscellaneous APPLICANT 5/8/2007 Rtgl5ttr-(!marll Ci 1 Region SoWing seeds InsIde of change SECTION D OSU looks at Calendar 02 how to redraw For The Record D2 thedlmate Obrtuanes D2 lJESDAY MAYS 2007 - - map the final )rEdllor ChnstlilllWihtol word," .81 cwlhlol@gllardnetcom gardemng / D3 1arcola Meadows project criticized 'ldful of Sprmgfield reSIdents vorce thefT concerns about evelopment, whIch would mclude a Lowe's home center development company based In Reno Nev for $8 mIllIon OffiCials representmg the finn - JHB Ine Internattonal - say they have grand plans for the SIte They enVlSlon bUlldmg clusters of homes apartments shops and office bulld mgs there Anchonng the Villages at Marcola Meadows" development would be a 170 OOO-square foot Lowe 5 home unprovement center Dunng a hearmg Monday ntght the City CounclllLstened to Folk and about a half-dozen others who Said they would lIke to see JHB s plan stopped Statmg that sbe belIeves there are more appropriate SItes In Sprmgfield for a home unprovement store Falk smd she found the proposed mix of uses on the property puzzlIng Sucb an exclUSIve development why would they want to plop a home unprovement store U1 the mId dle of It? Fa1k SaId There s no need for another home unprovement store WIth Jerry s on OlympIC Street nearby BY JACK MoRA.."i The ReglSter~Guard 18 well aware that It could soon change In a big way The Spnngfield City CouncIl 18 set to decIde In June whether to ap- prove an apphcahon that would set the stage for WIdespread construc hon on the vacant lQO-acre field The property long owned by the local Pierce fanulY was sold last year to a INGFIELD - For the past 44 Nancy Falk has been able to (t her front wmdow and see a :rassy field on the north SIde ..ola Road says she hkes the View but "If It were up to the commUDlty, they would come down . nght now and rebwld It " - CODY OTT, OWNER OF LAKEVIEW GROCERY Others saId they oppose the plan because It would mcrease traffic and the number of chIldren enrolled In schools m the neIghborhood I m concerned abant addmg all of those people In an area that s already saturated Marcola Road resIdent Darlene Hrouda saui "The traffic 18 already bad enough to where I can t hardly back out of my driveway Also testIfying at the heanng was Plea:,e turn to LOWE'S, Page D4 Food bank director i leaves I fornewjob In hlS three years at FOOD for Lane County, Pat Farr has led a turnaround BY SVSA."i PALMER The RegtSter Guard Food bank execuuve director Pat Farr announced on Monday that he s leaVIng the hIgh profIle Eugene based SOCIal services agency to take a Job Wlth a local consultIng firm FOOD for Lane County the non profit agency that provIdes food for financIally strugglmg people Will soon name an In terIm dtrector and begin a search for Farr s replace ment saId Galen Ohmart vice chalrtnan of the boardofd1rectors fist full of bubble gum for their less~fortunate underclassmen 1ft the summer tune, kids fhpplty flopped across the high- way ll1 dnppmg SWll11suits to buy their candy Elderly residents, who've gIVen up the long dnve to town, rehed on the Lakevlew Grocery for everythmg Through her long tenure, Chizek Bnstow had hstened metIculously to her customers and saw that she always had what they needed She worked until she got SIck and then sIgned the store's e10S111g papers from her hospl tal bed Just before she dIed, Ott sald Barkley ran the 8tm e while carma for the couple's 5 and 13 yea 1 daughters ',- _ family kept brutal hours 7 a m to 7 p m weekdays and Saturday and 9 a m to 6 p m Sunday They had been holdlllg out for the day when Ott could qUit hiS day Job and help run the store The couple decided that be- cause their chIldren spent so much trme there they needed to make a better place for them to play "We realIzed thIS IS home now Make It home Make It comfortable for the gIrls," Bark ley saId "ThIS IS home WIth a Lowe's: Developer says project will bring new jobs Contmued from Page Dl a representatIve of the develop er, who argued that the propos ailS a sohd one that will benefIt the entire communIty Speakmg on behalf of JHB, plannmg consultant RICk Satre of Eugene Said the Villages at Marcola Meadows would pro- VIde Sprmgfleld residents With new employment, housmg and shoPPIng opportulllhes, and create about 10 acres of publIc parkland As far as the neIghbors' quahty-of hfe wornes, Satre saId the development would III elude a landscaped buffer that would work to mamtam much of the VieW to the north that Marcola Road residents such as Falk and Hrouda enJoy now He showed a slide on the meetmg room's projector screen depIct mg new bUIldmgs that were mostly hlrlden behmd vegeta- tIon frontmg the road "The (developer) IS paYlllg attentIon to concerns of the neIghborhood and the commu- mty at lalge," Satre saId "ThiS (shde) shows that the mountam views will shll be there" The City Council's expected vote on June 14 will not repre- sent a rulmg on JHB's develop- ment plan Rather, the deCISIOn at hand IS whether to amend the CIty lonIng map and the Eugene Spnngfleld Metropoh tan Area General Plan to allow commercial and resldenhal de velopment on 56 acres now zoned for mdustnal use The city planning - ...............,...." , commlsslOn last month voted 5 2 m favor of recommendmg the City Councl! approve the changes The vote came after a dlscusslOn m whIch COInrlllS- SlOn members expressed heSI- tancy over supportmg a reduc hon m the city's supply of hght mdustnalland CitYWIde, there are 116 acres of vacant campus mdustnal land m the Gateway dlstnct, along With the 56 acres that are part of the Marcola Road prop erty City planners say that de- velopment of the Jasper-Natron area Just southeast of Spnngfielrl will ultnnately add another 180 acres of campus 111 dustnal property to the city's Inventory In 2001, the City Council re Jected a proposal from Home Depot to build on 8 acres on the former PIerce p.L UpC.L~.l' Coun cllors at the tnne ruled that the land should be preserved for campus-style mdustrral devel- opment But cIty offic131s say the demand for campus mdus tr13lland has declmed In recent years The Home Depot apphcahon faced far more community op- posIhon than the current Vil lages at Marcola Meadows plan Unlike the Home Depot propos ai, the JHB plan calls for devel opment over the entIre 100 acre parcel If the zonmg and plan chang- es are endorsed by the City CouncIl, the development's master plan would still need to galll approval from the Plan- nmg CommISSIon , - road Ice cream, the couple saId All was qUiet then, Bal kley saId A fIlend callen _ ...-Jl1etIme af ter mu!mght to say the store was on fire By the hme they reached the scene, It was engulfed Three fire engmes and two watel tenders fought the fire, WhICh was hckmg up mto the trees on the hillSIde behmd the store LIttle IS left now The Iron legs of the pIcmc table A few Jars of Jrlfy Peanut Butter on a lower shelf A ceramIC bowl that Barkley bought at the Tn angle Lake Fair The stOle was msured and L , Any nwnber of thmgs could have started the blaze, Hanson saId But the thmg to do now IS to help Ott and Barkley get back on then feet, he sald He wrote the couple a check for $500 "TheY'I e so sweet and they worked so hard Bad thmgs shouldn't happen to such good people," he sald BeSides, Hanson saId hIS dog Molly keeps nosmg hIS hands and seal chmg hIS pock ets, seekmg her daily Jel ky wa- reI s rlom the LakevIew stOI e The fabrIC IS tm n "1 can't explam to her we can't do that nght now," Han son Sald "1 , /rftlQ(i ~. 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