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<br />M I N U T E S <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />McNutt Room—City Hall—777 Pearl Street <br />Eugene, Oregon <br /> <br /> December 9, 2009 <br /> Noon <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Alan Zelenka, Mike Clark, Andrea Ortiz, Jennifer Solomon, Chris Pryor, <br />George Poling, George Brown, Betty Taylor. <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the work session of the Eugene City Council to order. <br /> <br />A. WORK SESSION: <br /> Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment <br /> <br />Planning Director Lisa Gardner provided an overview of the Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment <br />(ECLA) process to date. She said the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) had been reconvened and <br />met several times. She introduced Jason Dedrick, Planning Division, to present the resolution to accept the <br />draft products associated with ECLA. <br /> <br />Mr. Dedrick stated that the resolution and attachments were the same documents presented to the council in <br />October 2009, and constituted the City’s compliance with House Bill (HB) 3337. He said the resolution <br />was an acknowledgement of the work that had occurred to-date and the fact that further work would <br />continue until April 2010, which was why it was draft in nature; further work would address data issues that <br />arose late in the process. The CAC had reconvened to continue that effort, but wished to recognize the <br />amount of work that had already been completed by the CAC and staff to produce a baseline land need of <br />approximately 2,200 acres. Based on guidance by the CAC, he said a range of 33 percent higher and lower <br />than the baseline had been created. He said CAC members indicated they were comfortable with acceptance <br />of the draft land need by the council as long as it was acknowledged that the ongoing process would likely <br />change that number. <br /> <br />Mr. Dedrick said the broader objective was to produce the data needed by the community to understand its <br />land need in the future. He said the process could require involving additional stakeholders and partners and <br />forming work groups to meet as needed on specific topics. He said there was no one right answer to the land <br />need question and the statute spoke to holding the data to a reasonable level of precision. He said the data <br />should be the foundation for a community-wide discussion around the larger policy issues. He said data <br />would continue to be refined and a final land need determined in April 2010. <br /> <br />Ms. Piercy was pleased that stakeholders were in agreement on the process for moving forward. <br /> <br />Ms. Gardner described a recent training session attended by many throughout the community, including <br />representatives from the CAC, which helped participants develop skills related to exploring hopes and fears <br />as part of the visioning process. <br /> <br />Ms. Ortiz agreed that the training was insightful and a valuable tool for finding common ground. She was <br />pleased to have been able to participate. <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 9, 2009 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />