Recent Announcements From SUNA Chair
RECENT LETTERS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD FROM MARILYN!
JANUARY 1ST 2010!
Hi Neighbor,
Happy 2010! Here’s SUNA news about a large-scale wood poetry event, our zoning victory and our January 27 meeting. For more neighborhood information, please visit our website, http://www.sunaeugene.org, or come to our January meeting.
As always, contact me if you have questions or ideas for our neighborhood.
Thanks,
Marilyn Milne, Previous SUNA Chair
Create Neighborhood Poetry: The Du’ma Community on Alder Street invites everyone to help them create a neighborhood poetry table. We’ll write words on pieces of a tree that had to be cut down and use them like giant word magnets to form poems on stump ‘tables’. Refrigerator poetry for all of SUNA! Join us on Sunday, Jan. 3 from 11 a.m. to noon at 2244 Alder. Questions? See more info in one of our kiosks or on our website, or call Allen at 541-343-1926.
Meeting on Transportation, Parking and Pedestrian Safety: Our January 27 SUNA general meeting will be a brainstorming session on neighborhood safety issues. Help us identify problem areas for vehicle, pedestrian and bicycle safety – and where parking could be improved. Share your ideas for possible solutions. Let’s get started tackling these issues! See you at 7 p.m. at Edison’s library.
Building Heights Made Reasonable: Years of work resulted in a December City Council vote to adopt the building heights along 18th and 19th, as recommended by SUNA. Our planning group, with the input of neighbors and the city’s Infill Compatibility Study committee, led the way. The new zoning places limits on building heights south of 19th in R-3 and R-4 parcels to 35 feet; 50 feet for the first half block north of 19th; and 65 feet from that point north to 18th. Developers may still build student housing adjacent to campus, but the limits are very helpful in preventing gigantic, out-of-scale developments and the impacts they would create. To read more details, visit sunaeugene.org and click on South University Neighbors Planning Group.