Natural Resistance : Pedaling in Paradise A quarter of a century on two wheels BY MARY O'BRIEN The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. — Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist My bicycle is 25 years old this year. It's a heavy clunker, with moderately fat tires, a milk crate-type basket, a bright blue bell with fishes painted on it and dozens of spots where the paint is chipped. It has a 25-year old pedal-powered headlight and a good padded seat because mine isn't. I don't have any bike clothes. [Read More]   Viewpoint: Snob Zoning Choices coming on infill and downzoning BY DAVID HINKLEY I fear that elitist snob zoning is raising its ugly head in Eugene. "Snob zoning" is the development of a set of zoning restrictions to preclude the construction of selected "undesirable" types of development. In this particular case, this snob zoning is in the form of a call for infill development standards, in the name of "protecting a neighborhood's residential character," and the undesirable types of development to be zoned out are affordable rental housing in the form of duplexes, four-plexes and other types of small apartment buildings. [Read More]
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