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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY October 26, 2004 ~ TO: Eugene Planning Commission FROM: Shawna Adams, Planning Division SUBJECT: public hearing regarding a City-initiated proposal to establish a site-specific S-H Historic Special Area Zone and to apply it to the Gertrude and Ludwig Kaufman House. ACTION REQUESTED: Conduct a public hearing and forward a recommendation to the Eugene City Council. BRIEFING STATEMENT: On October 26, 2004, the Planning Commission wilI hold a Public hearing for three land use actions affecting the Gertrude and Ludwig Kaufman House (a.k.a Kaufman Senior Center or Kaufman House), a City of Eugene Historic Landmark. These land use actions include: · The establishment of a S-H Historic 'Special Area Zone ordinance specific to the Kaufman House. · A zone change applying this S-HK Historic Kaufman House Special Area'Zone to the Kaufman House site (City file Z 04-12). · A code amendment establishing a zone change criterion'that references siting requirements in uncodified site-specific S-H Historic Special Area Zones (City file CA 04-2). BACKGROUND: The Kaufman House and'the Kaufman Annex were donated to the City of 'Eugene by Trude Kaufman in 1972. The two properties were used together by the City as a senior center under a conditional use permit (City file CU 72-45) for the next twenty-six years. The city's operation of programs at the site ceased in 1998 due to budget cuts. Lane Community College cOntinued to support senior programs at the site until June of 2003 when LCC budget cuts necessitated that operation of the Kaufman House as a senior center would be taken over by a private non-profit, Emerald Empire Council on Aging (EECA). Use of the Annex property had ceased prior to 2003, when the organizations using the building moved out. The Annex has remained vacant due to the extensive repairs needed to make the building suitable for public use. In April of 2001; the City Council directed the City Manager to explore the possibility of selling the Kaufman Annex. Facilities staff concluded that selling the Annex into separate ownership would void the conditional use permit for the Kaufman House and Kaufman Annex, which allows for the continued use of the Kaufman House by EECA for senior activities. Satre Associates was hired by the City to help identify options that would allow continued use of the Kaufman House as a senior center as well as allowing the possible sale of the Kaufman Annex as a single family residence. Satre Associates and Facilities staff consulted with senior center representatives, the Jefferson- Westside Neighbors, and staff from other City departments to determine how to best carry out the City Council's directive. Satre Associates' February 2003 report identified four procedural 1 1