The citizens\u2019 Measure 3-568 will provide all our natural parks the same protections that Spring-brook has. It does so by clarifying specific parks by name and extending to these parks the same protections citizens created in Chapter X for Springbrook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The citizens\u2019 Measure 3-568 will provide all our natural parks the same protections that Spring-brook has. It does so by clarifying specific parks by name and extending to these parks the same protections citizens created in Chapter X for Springbrook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The city has historically shown a preference for developed and landscaped parks incongruent with local flora. The city pushing a tennis center into Springbrook park prompted citizens creating Chapter X in the first place. We need Measure 3-568 with all the protections of Chapter X passed to the other natural parks to protect the intent of their inception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The original Chapter X has always allowed long term planning as Springbrook Park is the only park with a master plan. Measure 3-568 and Chapter X both allow for unpaved ADA paths, fire abatement, removal of diseased and dead trees as well as invasive plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Measure 3-575 does not do this. Measure 3-575 is purposely vague and leaves decisions up to a rotating cast of city officials and employees. The people who wrote the measure will only be making decisions during their terms of office, or their current employment. In a few years new people with different ideas will make the decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Intentions change, case in point: the buildings on First Street. The City had an idea that new construction in town should look like a village. Four years later a different group decided on a different look for the new City Hall. Drive by yourself, do they match?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vote against allowing fickle and vague intentions in Measure 3-575, and vote YES on solidified protections and planning in Measure 3-568.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jean Eves
Lake Oswego<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With Jean Eves’ permission, we have reproduced her Reader Letter for your convenience and for those who don’t subscribe to the LO Review<\/em>. Read her letter in the LO Review here: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n