HomeMy WebLinkAboutG-607 Zubrinsky 12-17-2023 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
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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* pzubrinskyl@gmail.com
Stance:* r Support
C' Opposition
r Neither for nor against
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I’m writing this to express just how utterly dismayed I am by what the city is
currently attempting to do at Waluga Park West.
The first stake won’t be the one that is pounded into the ground by a survey
party marking the spot where a proposed access corridor, trench and sewer line will
begin slicing through Waluga Park West. No. The first stake is the one that is
already being driven into the hearts of the Lake Oswego citizens who
overwhelmingly voted to ratify citizen initiated Measure 3-568 in the Special
Election of November 2, 2021.
That measure amended the City Charter by clearly specifying that any
development project in a nature park must be consistent with preserving it as a
Nature Preserve. The project now being envisioned for Waluga Park West has
nothing to do with maintaining and preserving the park's natural area. On the
contrary, it favors a private developer whose proposed project will have lasting
negative impacts on the park’s habitat.
I’m neither a lawyer, a consultant or a land use expert, and I haven’t the
slightest idea of what Serial Lot Line Adjustments might be, but I am one of the
62% of voters who went to the polls in the November 2, 2021 Special Election and
voted yes for Measure 3-568.
We voted yes because we wanted to preserve the natural areas of our nature
parks and ensure they would be protected from private as well as from city
development projects for generations to come. We believed that the election results
were clear and that the will of the people would be honored. We believed that this
kind of assault on the city’s nature areas by private developers would finally be
prohibited from ever happening again.
For the city to now give the green light to a private developer to run a sewer
line through Waluga Park West is a travesty. It makes a mockery of the Special
Election of November, 2021. It’s as though a dense fog of collective amnesia one
day floated into City Hall, carrying everyone there out through the windows into a
distant parallel universe where no is yes and yes is no. If the city is going to try to
pretend there was never an election, then one has to ask just exactly what value our
elections and our City Charter actually have. For what purpose does a City Charter
even exist? Is it nothing more than a piece of paper that can be made to mean
anything the city wants it to?
For these reasons and on behalf of the thousands of Lake Oswego citizens
who believed in and voted to ratify Measure 3-568 to amend the City Charter, I
urge you, the members of the DRC, to reject the fantasy that is LU 23-0002.
Pierre Zubrinsky
17647 Hill Way
Lake Oswego
A frequent visitor to Waluga Park West