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Revised plan for UO arena hits tree snag.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Revised plan for UO arena hits tree snag.(Education)(The proposal for the basketball center calls for less parking and removal of a heritage oak)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard

Eugene residents may get to vote on one aspect of the University of Oregon's proposed new basketball arena: whether the UO should be allowed to cut down an old oak tree on Franklin Boulevard.

A revised plan for the UO's new arena features a significantly smaller underground garage and could include new limits on street parking aimed at keeping cars out of the Fairmount neighborhood.

The plan also calls for cutting down more than half the trees in and around the arena site, plus one so-called heritage tree on Franklin that might come under a city ordinance requiring a citywide vote before it can be felled. It's unclear at this point whether a citywide vote is required for removing the oak, which has a 14-inch diameter trunk and is in the city-owned landscaped median on Franklin.

The new elements are all part of the UO's final application for the conditional use permit it needs to begin construction of the $227 million arena. A public hearing on the application is scheduled for Oct. 7 in the City...

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