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Who will provide the grand design, what is yours and what is mine?
'Cause there is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here.
-- "The Last Resort," The Eagles, 1976
Dear CHOICES friends and subscribers,
As we noted last time, the tools we use for crafting the "grand design" -- what is yours and what is mine; who lives, works and plays where; who pays for public facilities and services and how; where we put our hospitals; etc. -- aren't working very well.
And Measure 37 is a monkey wrench thrown into the works. Philosophically, Measure 37 says: "Everyone should be able to do whatever they want their own land." While Measure 37 doesn't literally go quite that far, but it takes a big step in that direction. There's a name for that kind of system: anarchy.
So we -- all of us -- have got to figure out how to make it here. As I mentioned before, there's a new 10-member task force taking a "Big Look" at Oregon land use planning system. But who should do the looking, where should they look, and how should they look? Should just 10 people decide the fate of Oregon, or should we all be involved?
On behalf of all the co-sponsors, I'd like to invite you to an important event this coming Tuesday in Eugene that will offer some answers to these questions.
Rob Zako
343-5201
rzako@efn.org
CRAFTING A VISION FOR OREGON
IN CHANGING TIMES
A free public conversation with
John Fregonese
Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 7-9 pm
Room 175, Knight Law School, 1515 Agate St., Eugene
For more information, call (541) 343-5201
Senate Bill 82 creates a 10-member task force to take a "Big Look" at Oregon's system of land use planning and to make recommendations to the 2007 and 2009 state legislatures. But who should do the looking, where should they look, and how should they look? Mr. John Fregonese will offer his ideas for how to go about the "Big Look" and how the public can be better involved in crafting a vision for Oregon.
Mr. John Fregonese has been a planner for 25 years, where he has earned the reputation of being able to create both an energizing vision for communities and concrete, workable solutions to urban problems. He makes planning interesting, relevant and understandable to the average person. As a result, his projects tend to garner strong public input and support.
Since starting Fregonese Calthorpe Associates in 1997, he has led a variety of planning projects, including regional visioning projects in Austin, Salt Lake City, Nashville, Chicago and Los Angeles; county-wide coordination plans in California and Oregon; and city comprehensive plans and development ordinances in Texas, Vermont, Oregon, Georgia and Colorado.
Co-sponsored by:
- Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, University of Oregon
- Land Air Water (L.A.W.), University of Oregon
- Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management (PPPM), University of Oregon
- PPPM Student Advisory Council, University of Oregon
- Environmental Policymakers and Planners (EPP), University of Oregon
- Community Service Center (CSC)
- Jobs and Land Use Roundtable
- 1000 Friends of Oregon