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<br />M I N U T E S <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />Work Session <br />McNutt Room – City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon <br /> <br /> May 27, 2009 <br /> 12:00 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Chris Pryor, Mike Clark, George Poling, Betty Taylor, Alan Zelenka, <br />Jennifer Solomon, George Brown, Andrea Ortiz. <br /> <br />Mr. Zelenka called the work session meeting of the Eugene City Council to order at 12:00 p.m. and noted <br />that Mayor Kitty Piercy and City Manager Jon Ruiz were in Portland attending the high speed rail <br />symposium. <br />WORK SESSION – Local Economic Development Plan – Part 2 <br />A. <br />Planning Development Executive Director Susan Muir presented the second half of the Economic <br />Development presentation as a follow-up to the previous work session discussion on April 13, 2009. Ms. <br />Muir noted that the topics covered in the presentation had been drafted in response to the Council’s <br />comments made during the April 13, 2009 work session and were focused on maximizing economic <br />opportunities with a minimum of adverse impact on the livability of the City. <br />Planning Development Loan Analyst Amanda Nobel noted the three previous discussion items from <br />previous work sessions and which had already been acted on by the Council: <br />? <br /> Increase funds available for rehabilitation of private and non-profit affordable rental housing <br />? <br /> Provide enhanced supportive services homelessness and housing assistance <br />? <br /> Increase Business Development Fund (BDF) capacity by directing some federal stimulus funds into <br />BDF; foreclosure counseling <br /> <br />Ms. Nobel noted that the three above-referenced items had provided approximately $1.2 million to support <br />economic investment and needed community services. <br />Ms. Nobel noted that the current discussion would focus on the following proposals for City action to <br />support economic developments: the sale of surplus real estate for identified development projects, limited <br />land use code amendments and Urban Renewal Plan (URP) amendment. Ms. Nobel proceeded to describe <br />each of the three proposals and their corresponding next steps in greater detail for the benefit of the <br />Council. <br />Ms. Noble, speaking with respect to the limited land use code amendments proposal, noted that current <br />economic conditions made it very difficult for projects to proceed as originally planned and further noted <br />that the amendments would provide a certain amount of flexibility with regard to timing and submittal <br />requirements thereby encouraging increased development. <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council May 27, 2009 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />