Oregon and Lane county and Eugene govts. have always been like this.To put it politely, the whole local govt. are crooks and thieves and dictators. I advise, if you want a real environmental area, move out of Oregon.This town has always been run by crooks and thieves. It's like a dictatorship-little-town in the Deep South, run by a tiny handful of families,and crooks at the top. Take some disreputable low-class totalitarian jerks, crooks, from the Deep South, that is Lane County,Eugene, and the state of Oregon. 

People who were natives, or lived here forever, have seen this. The reason you don't MEET NATIVES of Oregon, is, most of them MOVED AWAY.I know some, quite  a few, who hate it, and will never come back.