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ATTACHMENT C Planning & Development Planning City of Eugene th 99 W. 10 Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97401 (541) 682-5481 (541) 682-5572 FAX www.eugene-or.gov M EMORANDUM Date: October 15, 2007 To: Eugene Planning Commissioners From: Lisa Gardner, Division Manager Subject: House Bill 3337 legislative requirements In response to a council request, the City Attorneys Office (CAO) will be advising the Eugene City Council with regard to the requirements of HB 3337 (“the Bill”) in advance of the October 24, 2007 Annual Joint Work Session with the Planning Commission. Planning staff has conferred with the CAO to provide the Planning Commission with a summary of the requirements of HB 3337, as well. We reviewed this information with you at your meetings to assist in the development and prioritization of Planning Commission recommendations for the FY07-08 Planning Division Work Program. HB 3337 amends the needed housing statutes to require that Eugene and Springfield have, within their own separate UGBs, provided sufficient buildable residential lands to accommodate their estimated housing needs for 20 years. The Bill dictates the location of a portion of the new UGB; by reference to the Metro Plan, the Bill requires that the division between the cities will be the I-5 corridor. However, the Bill does not specify where the remainder of the separate UGB is to be located. In order to determine the lawful location of the rest of the new UGB, the city must study the supply of, and demand for, buildable land within its new, separate UGB. The Bill sets a January 1, 2010, deadline for each city to complete the initial steps in that study: those steps described in ORS 197.296(3). ORS 197.296(3) sets out the first three steps a city must take to demonstrate that is has provided sufficient buildable residential land. First, it must inventory the existing supply of residential buildable lands and determine the housing capacity of that land (“inventory of existing capacity”). Second, it must conduct an analysis of housing needs considering the type of housing and density ranges needed for the next 20 years (“demand analysis”). Third, based on the demand analysis, the city must determine the number of residential units and amount of land it needs within its UGB for each housing type for the next 20 years (“demand determination”). In consideration of the FY07-08 Planning Division Work Plan, the Planning Commission should recommend that the Planning Division address the deadline-driven requirements detailed in the Bill: the inventory of existing capacity, the demand analysis and the demand determination. The Planning Commission could expand the scope to also include: Page 1 of 2