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MINUTES Eugene City Council Regular Meeting Council Chamber--Eugene City Hall July 26, 2004 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Bonny Bettman, George Poling, Nancy Nathanson, Scott Meisner, David Kelly, Betty Taylor, Gary Papd. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Jennifer Solomon. Mayor James D. Torrey called the regular meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. 1. PUBLIC FORUM Council President Bettman reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. Cheryl O'Neill, 24347 High Pass Road, Junction City, assistant director of Womenspace women's shelter and coordinator of the Domestic Violence Council, spoke in support of collocating with the City in a Community Safety Center. She provided a copy of the grant her organization had received on which all of the partners were listed. She stressed that collocation had been a ~part of the conversation" among victim services providers for some time. In response to a concern heard at the public hearing, she stated that collocation would not replace any of the other locations that services for domestic violence victims were provided. She underscored that the victim services provided in such a center would be for victims already involved in a criminal matter. David Sonnichsen, 2435 Skyline Boulevard, noted he had sent the council an email on July 15 regarding the unanimous opposition of the Whilamut Natural Area Citizen Planning Committee (WNACPC) to the proposed Agate Street extension. He read the motion into the record, as follows: ~The Citizen Planning Committee for the Whilamut Natural Area of Alton Baker Park opposes the proposed Agate Street extension and recommends that the Eugene City Council favor a Patterson Street extension into a proposed hospital site on the current Eugene Water & Electric Board property. Extend- ing Agate Street would compromise the integrity of the Whilamut Natural Area of Alton Baker Park by impacting the open space river corridor and would potentially result in a subsequent conversion of Autzen Footbridge into a structure designed to carry regular motorized vehicle traffic." While he recognized the need for another access point, he maintained that the Agate Street extension was not the answer. He asked what the schedule for public input and public discussion was. He wished to know when the City would begin to schedule public hearings. Glen Love, 393 Ful Vue Drive, member of the WNACPC, commented that he noticed in the planning documents for the Riverfront Research Park a zoning change from open space to University-related research. He questioned whether a hospital with no intention of conducting research would fall under this heading. He added that the Riverfront Research Park had failed to attract researchers after 20 years of trying. He thought it advisable to return to the Metro Plan to determine how to zone the land appropriately.