Development plan denied for Amazon Headwaters
EUGENE, Ore. - A Eugene hearings official has ruled that a housing development in the Amazon Creek headwaters area would not be a good idea.
The area is tucked away in the southeast hills at the end of East and West Amazon drives.
Most people only see the water as it flows through Eugene in the Amazon Canal.
Others, like Kevin Matthews, believe the source of the Amazon is critical to save.
"Once again the Amazon Headwaters keystone has managed to dodge a bullet," said Matthews, president of the Southeast Neighbors.
Landowners Leslie and Martin Beverly proposed a 75 lot housing development on forestland they own southwest of West Amazon Drive. Representatives from the group representing the Beverly family declined to talk to KVAL News for this story.
Their planned unit development application plan would have put dozens of homes along the wooded hillside.
"It's not that we don't want anything built, not that we don't want anyone else to live in the neighborhood," Matthews said. He said the 26 acre development is planned in the wrong place.
But a city code section that prohibits development on slopes greater than 20 percent loomed large in the city official's ruling.
The developers could appeal the case.
The liberal movers and shakers in South Eugene have a serious case of elitist NIMBY syndrome.
 @OregonOrator I guess that means liberal movers and shakers in South Eugene must have taken over the Army Corps of Engineers, since they've studied the whole of Amazon Creek and recommended the Amazon Headwaters Keystone area as a top priority for acquisition, based on their own technical analysis.Â
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@Kevin Matthews - ArchitectureWeek @OregonOrator Don't get your panties in a knot. N othing I said conflicts with any of your possible facts.
@Blahblahblah @OregonOrator And you are missing the point I'm making. What I said doesn't conflict with you posted either. Point out where and I will happily concede it.
 @OregonOrator @OregonOrator You are missing the point, The Army Corps of Engineers has no reason to take sides. The Corps makes reccomendations based on facts, you are making assumptions based on a location. Many people who use and enjoy this area are not rich folk who live on the hill, but us regular folks who are tired of the mcmansions being built on what should be protected land in the watershed.