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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> Work Session <br /> McNutt Room, City Hall--Eugene, Oregon <br /> <br /> September 20, 2000 <br /> 5:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Betty Taylor, Nancy Nathanson, Scott Meisner, David Kelly, Gary <br /> Rayor, Gary PapS, Bonny Bettman. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: Pat Farr. <br /> <br />CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION <br /> <br />Land Use Code Update <br /> <br />Mayor James D. Torrey called the meeting to order. <br /> <br />Senior Planner Teresa Bishow said that the meeting would be a continuation of land use code <br />update matters. She noted that motions that were tabled or postponed from the September 18, <br />2000, meeting were before the members of the council. <br /> <br />Planning Director Jan Childs noted that the first of the motions that would be considered at the <br />meeting would be Item D. There were two options before the council. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly said that the motion was at his suggestion based on testimony by the Chamber of <br />Commerce and the Friends of Eugene. He said that he did not have a strong preference among <br />the two options and expressed his desire to hear from the rest of the council. He said that the <br />point of the motion was to ensure that in commercially zoned areas there would be commercial <br />business on the ground floor. <br /> <br />In response to a question from Ms. Taylor regarding why housing would need to be on the <br />second floor, Mr. Kelly said that traditional mixed-use development had commercial on the first <br />floor and residential on the second floor. Ms. Bishow added that if the council's preference was <br />to have a certain portion of a structure or development site residential but retain flexibility in how <br />it was designed, she would recommend the second motion. <br /> <br />In response to a question from Ms. Bettman regarding whether the building designs would be <br />multistoried or have separate commercial and residential structures on the same site, Ms. <br />Bishow said that the second option would allow stand-alone uses such as a restaurant with <br />housing elsewhere on the site. She noted that 25 percent of the ground floor needed to be <br />dedicated to commercial use. <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 20, 2000 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />