What amenities do you wish Eugene had?

[u/Low-Obligation7326]

For the sake of breaking up the monotony of this sub’s typical posts, what are some amenities you wish we had here? I don’t care if they are unrealistic for the population. I’ll go first: Top Golf and go karts. I don’t want to drive 1.5-2.5 hrs for those up in Wilsonville and Hillsboro more than once a year, and would go to both a many times a year if they were local! Do not mention Swing Suite; I won’t try it since it seems like expensive Wii golf lol!

I searched the sub for a post similar to this and didn’t find one. If there is, I didn’t want to spend more than 15 seconds scrolling for it😆

Edit: The intent of this post is FUN- unrealistic or not. I totally get the valid qualms with Eugene’s problems but that is discussed daily on this sub. I said break up the monotony. For the most part everyone has been great about this and listed some excellent ideas. Please keep this fun and positive and save your grievances for the other posts in this sub that give you this opportunity daily!

[u/hezzza]

More riverfront dining. A bocce ball court. A hospital with a psych unit.

[u/TelepathicTiles → u/hezzza]

Hard pass on riverfront anything! Leave the fucking river alone.

[u/hezzza → u/TelepathicTiles]

Not IN the river, but a view of the river.  Like McMenimens.

[u/TelepathicTiles → u/hezzza]

Like how many feet away from it are we talking?

[u/YetAnotherAreaPerson → u/TelepathicTiles]

At least three.

[u/TelepathicTiles → u/YetAnotherAreaPerson]

Try 300. Building close to the river causes water pollution via urban stormwater runoff, sedimentation, and toxic construction materials. It the destroys habitat of chinook salmon, endangered river turtles, etc. The light pollution can be disruptive to wildlife and fuck with their mating, migration, etc. Not to mention the building itself is at risk of flooding, and its presence actually adds to that risk by dumping excess runoff and eroding the shoreline. It basically fucks everything up except from the most anthropocentric standpoint. All so people can choke down a burger while looking at some water, which they could do anyway by just getting takeout and walking their ass down to the river. All that said, I think mcmenamins is probably a decent enough distance from the riparian zone but idk, I’m not a scientist. Some kind of non-motorized riverboat dining experience might be cool. Motors are (I think, or at least should be) banned on the Willamette because they wash out river turtle nests and are the main threat to their existence. I’m pretty sure it fucks with salmon and their eggs too.