3/14/2018:
After a full and frank and very interesting discussion, the motion passed 29 to 5. The President’s Office has 60 days to respond.
DRAFT agenda and additional information below. Video here:
Posts tagged as “riverfront research”
From Franklin Lewis in the Emerald: … Campus Planning says UO needs more athletic fields to accommodate growth and attract students. Opponents say building turf fields on the riverfront is ecologically inappropriate and other viable options exist for the area. …
7/7/2011: The RG has a good editorial on the ORI building: ORI could have been in its new building already, and the UO could have netted one-third more income from the lease, if the UO hadn’t insisted there was no suitable alternative to the riverfront site. Simple enough. But do…
7/2/2011: UO’s efforts to stonewall and prevent public input into the riverfront research park planning process have failed, in a major victory for the http://www.connectingeugene.org/ folks. Greg Bolt reports in the RG: But the move will cost the university. Under the new deal, Trammell Crow will pay the university $1.47…
5/7/2011: Lauren Fox in the RG, on the ORI building: Details about numbers of parking spaces and the size of setbacks needed for an office building may determine whether a years-long dispute over the proposed Oregon Research Institute building ends amicably. The question building experts are evaluating is whether the…
5/2/2011: Two press releases announce what seems to be an excellent resolution of the ORI / Riverfront Research situation. ORI will get a building south of the millrace Millrace Drive, in the area already under development. No further development in the RRP will happen without a plan and a public…
3/27/2011 Update: UO has now removed these offers to lease undeveloped land from one part of the RRP website but not another. Randy Geller fuckup? Let’s hope this is the beginning of a serious effort to reform the public input process and get some needed development in the parts of…
3/7/2011: Two significant things have been happening in student government. First despite a lot of pressure, and support from ASUO Pres Amelie Rousseau, they have refused to resume funding for OSPIRG. This has been a student government fight for years. The basic argument is that it sent too much money…
3/3/2011: ORI needs a new building. Fail. UO’s Riverfront Research Park needs to fill one of its many empty sites. Fail. Eugene’s environmentalists need to lose their reputation for ensuring nothing ever gets built here. Fail. UO needs to lose its reputation for sleazy real estate deals. Fail. President Lariviere…
1/12/2011: That is Oregon Commentator Stephen Murphy’s summary of President Lariviere at today’s UO Senate meeting on the Riverfront Research park ORI building: “I’m a big fan of openness and transparency,” Lariviere explained, and promptly proved the fact by saying that he had an appointment shortly and did not have…
1/11/2011: The people at Connecting Eugene sure know how get your attention with a press release: Now featured on BoJack.org.
1/10/2011: In the RG today: University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere soon will have an opportunity to turn a corner and bring openness and accountability back into the planning process for the university’s riverfront. By doing so, he also would be upholding a promise he made last April as he…
12/10/2010: The Connecting Eugene group recently made this appeal to the Senate Transparency Committee regarding UO’s delay responding to public records requests about the Trammmel Crow / ORI / Riverfront Research contracts, and UO’s refusal to grant a public interest fee waiver for the documents. Yesterday the committee met to address this complaint.…
12/1/2010: The Senate meets today, agenda here. A report from President Lariviere/Provost Bean on the Riverfront Research Park should be interesting, given recent revelations about UO’s apparent failure to follow the development procedures. I suspect the statement will be limited, given the potential for a lawsuit from the developer. France…
11/29/2010: The RG has an editorial with a clear and succinct summary of the issues around the proposed ORI building. At least it seems clear to a casual observer like me: … But now another obstacle has arisen. When the research park was created in 1986, the UO, the city…