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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 /> January 28, 2008 <br /> 5:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor, Betty Taylor, Bonny Bettman, George Poling, <br />Mike Clark, Jennifer Solomon, Alan Zelenka. <br /> <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. She announced <br />changes to the sequence of items on the agenda and cancellation of the public forum during the regular <br />meeting due to weather conditions. <br /> <br /> <br />A. WORK SESSION: GloryBee Foods Enterprise Zone Boundary Amendment Request <br /> <br />City Manager Angel Jones introduced Denny Braud, Planning and Development Department, to present the <br />item. <br /> <br />Mr. Braud said that GloryBee Foods, a local company located in Eugene for over 30 years, was requesting <br />consideration of a boundary amendment to the West Eugene Enterprise Zone that would expand the <br />boundary to include a recently acquired 60-acre parcel. He said the company had grown rapidly and its <br />current operations were scattered among five different facilities. He said the proposed new facility would be <br />a $15 million investment with over 100,000 square feet designed to be a very energy efficient and sustain- <br />able building. He said GloryBee planned to build on 20 of the 60 acres and wanted to subdivide the <br />remaining property in order to create a sustainable business park that would require tenants to meet specific <br />sustainable building design standards. He said subdivision and sale of lots was critical to financing the cost <br />of the new facility. <br /> <br />Mr. Braud distributed an aerial photograph of the parcel showing its location immediately adjacent to the <br />existing enterprise zone boundary. He said it was zoned I-2, Light and Medium Industrial and noted that the <br />parcel was inside the previous enterprise zone boundary but was removed when the zone was reconfigured in <br />2005. He said the parcel was outside of the city limits but within the urban growth boundary (UGB) and <br />included in the Industrial Corridor Community Organization area, which through an agreement with the City <br />allowed development of property within the corridor without annexation. He said the Lane County Board of <br />Commissioners in September 2007 unanimously approved expansion of the enterprise zone boundary to <br />include the parcel. He said the expansion would also need to be approved by the City Council as a joint <br />sponsor of the enterprise zone in order to submit a request to the State for approval. He emphasized that the <br />recommendation was to approve the boundary amendment and direct the City Manager to submit the <br />amendment to the State only after GloryBee's project had progressed to a point of some certainty as reflected <br />in approval for a subdivision of the property and submission of a building permit application for the new <br />facility. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council January 28, 2008 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />