HomeMy WebLinkAboutG-586 Zubrinsky 11-22-2023 Current Planning Public Comments and Testimony
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LU 23-0002/AP 23-04:A request for an RP District(wetland)Unavoidable Crossing
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Case Number- LU 23-0002/AP 23-04:A request for an RP District(wetland) Unavoidable Crossing
Verification* to Install a Sewer Line and Serial Lot Line Adjustments.
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First Name* Pierre
Last Name* Zubrinsky
Address Street Address
17647 Hill Way
Address Line 2
City State/Province/Region
Lake Oswego OR
Postal/Zip Code
97035
Email* pzubrinsky1@gmail.com
Stance:* r Support
C•' Opposition
r Neither for nor against
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Comments Why I Strongly Oppose the City's Tentative Decision on LU 23-0002
Looks like the mayor,the city council and the city staff have all turned their backs
on majority rule in Lake Oswego. I'm astounded by how the city is engaged in
trying to subvert the will of the thousands of Lake Oswego citizens who in
November, 2021 went to the polls to vote overwhelmingly in favor of citizen-initiated
Measure 3-568 in the November 2,2021 Special Election whose aim was to protect
15 natural areas in Lake Oswego from ANY and ALL development that was
inconsistent with preserving them as protected Nature Preserves.
The city seems determined to give the green light to a local developer to connect
his five-lot residential development project to city sewer services within the natural
area of Waluga Park—West, now a city charter-protected Nature Preserve, in spite
of the fact that the project involves the destruction of part of the parks's habitat. If
this isn't inconsistent with preserving a nature park,then I,for the life of me,don't
know what is.This is exactly the type of insanity that the voters were trying to keep
from happening when they voted in favor of measure 3-568 in the election of
November, 2021.
I was one of the many petition signature-gatherers who devoted precious time and
energy in trying to obtain the required number of signatures necessary to putting
the measure on the ballot by the required deadline.
Since the election, I've had occasions to reflect upon what was accomplished.
Citizens joined together, participating in meetings,donating money and time,
canvassing neighborhoods throughout the city in good weather and bad,talking
with neighbors about the issues. Over and over again, I witnessed the eagerness
with which citizens wanted to sign the petitions.
When the election results came in,jubilant neighbors on my street were literally
jumping up and down, shouting, and rejoicing in the knowledge that when citizens
believe strongly in something and mobilize to work together, big changes are
possible.
What the city is attempting to do fills me with disgust, knowing that,with their
actions,the City is making a mockery of what so many people believed in—the
democratic process.
November 20, 2023
Pierre Zubrinsky
17647 Hill Way
Lake Oswego, 97035
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