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<br />M I N U T E S <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />Regular Session <br />Council Chamber—City Hall <br /> <br /> July 25, 2005 <br /> 7:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, Bonny Bettman, David Kelly, Gary <br />Papé, Chris Pryor, Betty Taylor, Andrea Ortiz. <br /> <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy convened the meeting of the Eugene City Council. <br /> <br /> <br />1. PUBLIC FORUM <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy welcomed everyone to the City Council meeting and reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. <br /> <br />Peter Ferris <br />, 1400 Candlelight Drive, Space #224, explained that he was the owner of an older model <br />trailer in Briarwood Mobile Home Park. He felt there was a crisis in such parks. He related that the <br />management of the mobile home park indicated it might sell the side of the park on which his trailer was <br />located. He said park residents met with the Mayor and representatives of the Planning and Development <br />Department (PDD) and also with the Chair of the Housing Policy Board, John Van Landingham. He <br />averred that mobile home parks represented the greatest resource for affordable housing in Eugene and in <br />Lane County. He noted that there were over 18,000 mobile homes and 70 mobile home parks in the County. <br />He stated that he paid $14,000 for his mobile home, $345 for his monthly space rent, and there was nowhere <br />else one could find housing space at that cost. <br /> <br />Dan Herbert <br />, 1913 Potter Street, summarized his previous three presentations. He pointed out that three <br />critical issues would likely dominate the City’s planning and development agenda: 1) population growth 2) <br />the City’s role in problems related to inequality in its schools; and 3) and the development of mixed-use <br />centers. He felt these issues would create new planning and development tasks that would demand <br />rethinking the City’s role in development, especially for large projects. He suggested that a specialized <br />public agency should be designated for such larger projects that would be empowered to formulate <br />development policy and act as a partner in public/private agreements. He thought the Housing Policy <br />Board, created by the City Council in 1989, and other national and regional examples could be used as a <br />reference to help create this new agency. While he did not expect the City Council to endorse his suggestion, <br />he asked that councilors consider asking its staff for a preliminary survey of the facts related to the ten <br />points he had raised in his time at the podium. Those points were: <br /> <br />1. The projected population of 2050; <br />2. School inequality problems; <br />3. Mixed-use centers; <br />4. The present organization for planning and development; <br />5. An estimate of the changing demand for planning and development services in the coming decades; <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council July 25, 2005 Page 1 <br /> Regular Session <br /> <br />