Item B: Envision Eugene-Commercial Employment,, Mixed-Use, Multi-Family

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ECC UGENE ITY OUNCIL AIS GENDA TEM UMMARY Work Session: Envision Eugene – Commercial Employment, Mixed-Use and Multi-Family Housing Meeting Date: February 8, 2012 Agenda Item Number: B Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Lisa Gardner www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-5208 ISSUE STATEMENT This work session provides an opportunity to update the City Council on analysis of Eugene’s future land need for commercial employment and multi-family housing. The current status of commercial employment and multi-family housing need will be addressed, as well as the potential magnitude of interventions required to meet that need inside the current urban growth boundary (UGB). BACKGROUND Commercial Employment The draft Envision Eugene Proposal calls for accommodating all commercial jobs and multi-family housing needs within the existing urban growth boundary with a focus on core commercial areas and key transit corridors. Following the November 23, 2011, council work session on this topic, a subgroup of the Envision Eugene Technical Resource Group (TRG) has made significant progress in assessing the ability to meet this goal. In particular, the subgroup helped create a new tool for estimating potential redevelopment city-wide. A substantial amount of redevelopment of existing built land will be needed to keep commercial and multi-family housing within the current UGB. Some of this redevelopment may happen without any additional actions taken by the City, while other redevelopment activity will be contingent on actions or interventions taken by the City. Initial results of the amount of redevelopment that is currently estimated to occur without City interventions will be presented at this work session. Multi-Family Housing The multi-family housing need is predominantly comprised of land that is designated for medium- density residential (MDR) and high-density residential (HDR) uses. As was discussed at the January 25, 2012, council work session, there is a surplus of land for multi-family housing that is designated MDR. As such, staff is evaluating the potential to re-designate specific areas of town from medium-density residential (MDR) to low-density residential (LDR). The amount of land that is re-designated may end up causing a deficit of MDR lands. Preliminary estimates also show a deficit in HDR lands. In order to meet future needs for multi-family housing inside the UGB, City actions may be required to support additional multi-family housing on commercially and multi-family designated lands. A revised range for multi-family capacity will be presented, as well as an initial estimate of how much multi-family redevelopment may be seen in the future without any actions taken by the City. S:\CMO\2012 Council Agendas\M120208\S120208B.doc