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EUGENE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Work Session: Hospital Update Meeting Date: September 22, 2004 Agenda Item Number: A Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Tom Coyle www. cl. eugene, or. us Contact Telephone Number: 682-6077 ISSUE STATEMENT A work session has been scheduled on September 22, 2004, for the purpose of briefing the City Council on the latest developments related to siting a hospital in Eugene. Specifically, staff will provide three transportation alternatives to extend Agate Street. BACKGROUND Initial council discussions about hospital expansion and siting in conjunction with PeaceHealth took place in 2001. At a City Council work session on September 18, 2002, the City Council directed staff to prepare a draft list of potential sites and inducements for hospital development. A continuation of the study session on Eugene hospital sites was scheduled for November 13, 2002. These work sessions were in response to the intent to induce a hospital to Eugene. In early 2003, the council initiated a zone change to accommodate hospital uses in a wider range of zone districts and subsequently adopted the ordinance (that ordinance is currently in appeal at the Court of Appeals). A City Council work session was held on January 21, 2004, to update the council on the status of attracting a hospital to Eugene. The latest update to the council was on June 16, 2004, when staff sought affirmation on an access strategy. At that time the City Council directed the City Manager to evaluate three alternatives to extend Agate Street to provide access to a potential hospital located on the EWEB site (see Attachment A for alternatives prepared for review). RELATED CITY POLICIES Hospital development on the EWEB property has been identified as a City Council goal for 2004. McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center has identified the need for access as being critical for siting a hospital on the EWEB site. Is the council willing to provide access to the site via Agate (through the Riverfront Research Park) and Patterson (through a railroad underpass)? As part of a negotiated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center will provide an improvement of $85 million with a substantial Willamette River setback. COUNCIL OPTIONS The council's options are to review the three street alternatives provided in Attachment A and determine if any of those proposals are acceptable. The estimated costs for the alternatives presented in the attached memo from Mark Schoening note estimated costs as follows: 1) Street Alternative 1 at $10 L:\CMO\2004 Council Agendas\M040922\S040922A. doc