Meditation Center vs. Basketball Arena

Thanks for stepping up to the plate in exploring the immensely complex legal issues related to this doomed #3 attempt of Frohnmayers. There are literally hundreds of details associated with this proposal which are problematic and illegal .Free tickets were awarded to City of Eugene employees and a review of that activity is part of the appeal case on file at the planning office now .The real underlying intent of the arena replacement is to dramatically expand a new shining private campus"learning neighborhood" and abandon the main campus in disrepair .The shadow campus development site is to have the arena act as a catalyst spiraling into the UO Foundations wider and less known scheme to develop a public-private sport themed "walnut node" yuppy condo entertainment(thanks Zelenka) district.Alan has done some good past articles on this dubious and speculative "vision "It will be just like barcelona"the turkey-Portland planners love to say. Yeah those "mini-pearl"neighborhoods are great....as long as you are white! They pull this crap all the time in Portland. Smart Growth? Well it smells alot more like Goldschmidt-growth and with the current governor and arena champion cheerleader getting 187000 dukbuks from NIKEs machine in 2006 you have a much easier and clearer circuit(bribes)explanating this mysterious "streamling/greening" activities of the anarcho-oriented(sustainable) Eugene permit office. Meanwhile, they(UO foundation for undisclosed donors) are poised to keep up with "public" the use eminent domain along Franklin (while Con +woolers stand by licking their chops) and override all neighbors and solid planning concepts.Lets make Franlin walkable? Give me a break .Lets return to the river ? Give me a freaking break ! Fix the downtown-better yet just leave everyone alone and fix the darn potholes and call of this whole stupid "Rennisance" garbage. "Smart Growth" is dumb, dense, privatization pure and simple designed to quietly join UO, city hall, nike and uo foundation into a sustainable no bid contracting duck buck collusion cycle.It appears the UO Foundation has complete control of the entire Eugene planning department. Just look at who is in charge of the Hisrtoric Review Board for example and which neighborhoods they have dragged their feet on completing a timely Cultural Resources survey on(the ones on land UO wants to get or already seized). The conflict there is obvious. TVA is Nikes UO arena architect who has never built an arena(Oregonian) and has built the tallest yuppy tower(condos)in Portland which the Oregonian reported recently may have developed a recently discovered tilting flaw-it has been dubbed: The Leaning Tower of Portland? by bloggers.Not to mention that buildings legal troubles. Also United Front, ltd ,and the rest of the sport industrial-media complex are readying to rip out recently finished Emx Franklin boondoggle routing in another approx. 100 million extreme remakeover(to solve global warming alledgedly). KEZI media coverage on the arena is so infantile it is truly amazing . The real nationwide trouble this murky deal is in was adeptly covered in the Chronicle of Higher education recently. It is clear in this article and from my research that there is years long delay appearing if it is ever even built. To access this short and brilliant article use google to search www with keywords:uo nike arena red tape.

Please continue scrutiny here. Upcoming is a hearing (on July 21 I believe) about the proposed alley vacation(during vacation I might add). I am currently investigating if this vacation may be subject to appeal and what the money involved would be for neighborhood associations(they get a discount)or individuals. Please also cover the UO Autzen field of schemes. About a week ago I testified against it. A decision will be released soon. With any luck specificity of "masterplans" and open disclosure of wider schemes will be required by the hearings official. UO has planned secretly and unilaterally against our community and Civic stadium so their greenway permit should be denied outright.If you could attach the hearing minutes(U.O. c.u.p. appeal and Autzen greenway)to your blog somehow it would be very helpful for readers to get familiar with the details of both growing problems/developments/quagmires. Thanks for trying at least to retain the EW watchdog role in our community.The corporate sports-university industrial complex has stealthily spiraled out of control(while the corporate media/kezi feeds on high end shrimp rolls) and has joined forces with the campaign finance corruption bribe sustainable cesspool network(also known as the alledgedly progressive "Committee for a Livable Future") Scrap the sport and outdoor slogan "Swooshtucky" more accurately describes this area. Or even "Greenest Culture war on the West Coast" maybe

Alan Pittman -more issues about the arena and Nike:
Last thursday UO had a conference at the planning office. The proposed alumni center site is being changed. Now they have submitted plans with it attached to the west side of the arena. The UO has decided to file arena CUP materials and to also appeal the decision in favor of the Fairmount neighbors. That is so if they lose the appeal the c.u.p. process has already begun. There is a alley vacation hearing(a decision on this might be subject to appeal-still looking into that)on July 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Please testify at this hearing against the arena before UO/NIKE eminent domain abuse on Franklin blvd. spirals further out of control than it is already. Our NIKE-sponsored governor got 187,000 dollars from NIKE in fall of 2006 so he is spearheading this-he is a quid pro quo pro!Unfortunately coverage explaining this extremely complicated legal situation has been somewhere between little and none. The alley vacations, if approved, may be appealed for 325.00 dollars.

UO was trying to site a new dorm today at 16th and Moss street. The proposed dorm is a 60,000 square ft. bldg that will supposedly be finished in Fall of 2010(yeah right) and hopes to secure 8.5 million in bonding authority. Even funnier it is a block south of Frohnmayer's now infamous proposed arena site. Please investigate this new quack-attack now. I cant figure this all out alone. For more info email mossstreetconspiracy@yahoo.com

the arena alley vacations may be appealed or challenged with a referendum petition-where the heck was the notice to the public about this hearing(largest and shadiest proposed project in our areas history)dog at your homework again?-GOODNIGHT!you guys are slacking hard.

The U.O. C.U.P. application has been called "incomplete" by the city of Eugene permit office and returned to U.O. with a report detailing all the missing information recently. Unfortunately rock concerts and "chow" trump this important new development information in this "watchdog" paper. You can get the fascinating and revealing report for yourself at the Atrium building across from the library(goto the permit counter). $300+ million at stake you sleepin'weekly WAKE UP! I better be careful or you guys will spin another carbon nuetral "greenarena" piece. That was a real turkey!Increase Pittman's pay and deploy him to the city permit office immediately. Reporting on downtown issues in the Weekly has become fruitless. Historic
"Fairmount City" and the Moss street neighborhood deserve to have their story told. more info:mossstreetconspiracy@yahoo.com