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Land use policy direction is needed for the River Road/Santa Clara area. e Mr. Hayes told the City Council that the entire Urban Facilities Plan will be adopted in the fall of 1986. Mr. Hayes reviewed the policies which include low-density, prohibiting strip commercial, eliminating commercial floating nodes, allowing no neighborhood commercial on River Road, allowing mobile homes in parks and subdivisions, allowing commercial agriculture as an interim use, and medium-density residential development in areas close to shopping and transportation. ~r. Hayes reviewed the 12 subareas and the land use recommendation for each.. Mr. Hayes discussed the issues related to the light-medium industrial site. Mr. Hayes said one suggestion at the RUbliC hearing may be that planned unit development procedures be added when t e industrially designated site is zoned for industrial development. Staff had reviewed this suggestion and had no problems with it. Members were told that they would take no action tonight but would take action January 9, 1985. III. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE STATUS REPORT--TERRI VANDERPOOL Ms. Vanderpool explained that the goal of the Development Assistance Center was to make it easier to do business in Eugene. She explained the phases that had been accomplished by bringing together public information, planning, business licensing, and parking permit functions. She said they were also working on streamlining regulations. Ms. Vanderpool explained what had been done and what was currently happening. A special Chamber of Commerce Committee and City staff are working on the building permit process, and Susan Smernoff is working on the business license process. e Ms. Vanderpool explained the services currently offered by the Development Assistance Center. She said the spring will bring in the building permit and related development functions. Ms. Marentette explained that with building permits added to the DAC, the average customer contact will go from 250 per day to 550 per day. The fourth phase will mean relocating the center. Staffing will ~e done by using existing professional and technical staff transferring into' the center on loan. Mr. Nolte spoke to members about how work was being done to streamline the building permit regulations. He reviewed the broad guidelines which have set direction for the review. Staff was working with the Chamber of Commerce building codes committee. They had met three times and will meet twice monthly. They are working with the County. Most regulations are State mandated. Mr. Obie and the councilors agreed that they had had many complaints. Ms. Vanderpool said that among other things the Chamber of Commerce Committee has discussed holding hearings in order to get a first-hand understanding of problem areas. Mr. Nolte explained the inspection process. He said that the turnaround time on plan checks was one-half of what it used to be. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council Dinner Session December 10, 1984 Page 3