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MINUTES <br />Joint Meeting of the Eugene City Council and Eugene Planning Commission <br />McNutt Room — Eugene City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street — Eugene, Oregon <br />November 22, 2010 <br />5:30 p.m. <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Mike Clark, Betty Taylor, Jennifer Solomon Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor, <br />Alan Zelenka, George Brown. <br />COMMISSIONERS <br />PRESENT: Heidi Bierle, Chair; Jeffrey Mills, Vice Chair; Randy Hledik, Richard <br />Duncan, Jon Belcher, Lisa Warnes, William Randall, Planning Commis- <br />sioners. <br />A. WORK SESSION: Joint Meeting with the Planning Commission – Envision Eugene <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the November 22, 2010, work session of the Eugene City Council to <br />order. Planning Commission President Heidi Bierle called the November 22, 2010, meeting of the Eugene <br />Planning Commission to order. City Manager Jon Ruiz, Assistant City Manager Sarah Medary, Planning <br />Director Lisa Gardner, Planners Terri Harding and Carolyn Weiss, City Attorney Glenn Klein were <br />present on behalf of City of Eugene staff. Community Resource Group (CRG) members Don Kahle, Ann <br />Vaughn, and Pat Farr were also present. <br />The following is a summary of statements collected from Eugene City Council and Eugene Planning <br />Commission members responding to each person's worst and best outcomes for Envision Eugene. The <br />statements also include those from staff members and the three CRG members who participated in the <br />session. Assistant City Manager Medary facilitated the session. <br />Worst Outcomes <br />No decisions are made in February. Envision Eugene cannot find a vision and uses continue to stay in <br />conflict because of the lack of decision. The council will not feel able to provide a clear direction on <br />how /where to accommodate Eugene's population and employment needs. Our plan fails to account for the <br />residue of our unresolved land use issues. We never adjust our unsuccessful existing plans. We'll be <br />stuck, and all the work will have resulted in failure. <br />Each tactic will require three work sessions to enable decision making. The two planning commission <br />meetings, two council meetings, and one public hearing are insufficient to inform the players as well as <br />provide ample feedback to sufficiently develop a viable plan in February. We go too slowly to accommo- <br />date the anxious, and too fast to develop sufficient wisdom and clarity in order to meet the February <br />deadline. <br />Framework does not meet expectations for information needed to make clear policy choices. Bad on -the- <br />ground assumption data (ECLA) leads to unrealizable strategies. The framework does not have enough <br />information/choices to make specific decisions that we can agree on to move forward in a timely manner. <br />MINUTES —Joint Meeting of Eugene City Council/ November 22, 2010 Page 1 <br />Eugene Planning Commission <br />