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MINUTES Eugene City Council McNutt Room--City Hall November 22, 1999 5:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Scott Meisner, Nancy Nathanson, David Kelly, Bobby Lee, Betty Taylor, Gary PapS, Gary Rayor. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Pat Farr. DINNER WORK SESSION OF THE EUGENE CITY COUNCIL Mayor James D. Torrey called the work session of the City Council to order. Mr. Johnson announced that Jim Carlson had been hired as the Assistant Manager of the City of Eugene. He said that a news release would be sent out on November 23 detailing Mr. Carlson's qualifications for the job. Mr. Johnson said that he was pleased that Mr. Carlson had accepted the position. A.Work Session: TransPlan Jan Childs, Department of Planning and Development, introduced the item and noted that Tom Schwetz, TransPlan Project Manager from the Lane Council of Governments, was present at the meeting to help answer questions. Ms. Childs referred to the material contained in councilors' packets. She noted the two process options for how to proceed with deliberation and review of the draft TransPlan, listed on page 13, which were being considered by the Eugene City Council, the Springfield City Council, the Lane County Board of Commissioners, and Lane Transit District Board of Directors. She identified the options as: the Friends of Eugene Proposal and the Adopting Officials Review Proposal. She said that councilors would have to decide whether to move ahead with reviewing the public testimony themselves or whether to begin a new public input process. She pointed out that one of the cons of proceeding with a new public input process was that it would conflict with the City Council schedule for public hearing(s) and adoption of the new Eugene Land Use Code. She added that after one work session with the Lane Transit District Board of Directors, the directors indicated approval for the adopting officials review proposal and added that December 2000 seemed like a long time before approval of the TransPlan. Mr. Kelly expressed his concern that by the time TransPlan was adopted and put into place, nodal development, which he considered key to the success of TransPlan, would be decades in coming to pass. He read the following motion into the record: Achievement of nodal development -- with a mix of residential, commercial, and employment uses at a scale that promotes walking and alternate modes MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 22, 1999 Page 1 5:30 p.m.