Hundreds of area residents are begging someone, anyone — Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson, Eugene city councilors, local air protection regulators, state wetlands regulators — to halt the massive parcel-distribution center that’s in the construction permitting stage near the Eugene Airport.

But elected officials and regulators appear toothless.

The center — assumed to be an Amazon facility — will exacerbate air pollution, destroy wetlands and clog airport-area roads, these critics say in hundreds of emails they’ve sent to local officials, including to the Lane Regional Air Protection Agency and the Eugene City Council.

The facility won’t bring well-paying jobs to the area, either, even though high-quality, high-paying job-creation was what the City Council expected in 2018 when it designated

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