Crowd voices support at hearing for meditation center.(Government Local) From: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | Date: March 4, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 The Register Guard. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard

The Dharmalaya Meditation Center offers the kind of ecological and community-building model that the city of Eugene should be promoting rather than preventing, several people told a hearings official Monday.

In all, more than 30 people testified in support of the center, which last summer stopped offering its yoga classes, permaculture workshops and other activities after deciding it could not afford to pursue a condition...