Last Chance To Save Our Riverfront!
For over 20 years, students, faculty and community members have been pushing against University administration’s plans to turn University-owned open riverfront space into a private office complex. But we are now running out of time. Construction could begin before the end of the year with a plan that calls for the development of a 4.2 acre area of land for a suburban-style office building and a surface-level parking lot.
In the 1980s, the University and City of Eugene established a partnership to govern the public land on the riverfront. Since then, taxpayers’ dollars have been wasted while the University has continued to ignore wide-spread opposition. The plan has not been revised since its creation in the 1980s, leaving the proposal outdated and exclusive of public input.
Despite consistent community efforts to be involved in discussions concerning the placement and design of the Oregon Research Institute building, public dialogue has been overlooked, and there has not been a single public meeting.
Today at 3 p.m. in Knight Law Center room 175, the University Senate will discuss whether the University should include students and the broader community in planning the future of the riverfront. Please join us today and wear blue to show your support. This week may be the last chance to voice our concerns.
Amelie Rousseau
ASUO Student Body President
Zachary Stark-MacMillan
ASUO Senate President
Nathan Howard
ASUO Environmental Advocate
Emma Newman
Climate Justice League Co-director
Nicolas Garcia
LiveMove President
Charles Denson
OSPIRG Board Chair
Ben Jones
Survival Center Co-Director
Kelly Zillmann
Campus Recycling Compost Coordinator
Letter: Last chance to ask University to allow input on riverfront development plan
Daily Emerald
November 9, 2010
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