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what the council wanted to hear. He said the City did not know the answer because the council continued <br />to not want to ask the question. Eugene was best served when both the Planning Commission and City <br />Council had all of the necessary information to make effective decisions. <br /> <br />Ms. Solomon concurred with Mr. Pryor’s comments. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy appreciated the work program elements related to sustainability and working with the <br />Sustainability Commission. She opined it would serve the Planning Commission well to allow the City <br />Council to further consider the work program to enable the council to provide the commission with <br />meaningful feedback. She added it did not serve to characterize the City of Eugene nor the City of <br />Springfield in any particular ways. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman said she could not understand what pieces of the work program related to FY08 or FY09. It <br />was interesting that the Planning Commission was looking at form based code in that it had not been <br />discussed by the City Council. She asked for more information on the advantages and disadvantages of <br />form based code. Ms. Bettman said the City had the tools to look at capacity, including the GMPs, which <br />enabled the City to use the available commercial and industrial land more efficiently. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark agreed that the State statutes were clear that if there was an insufficient land supply, either the <br />UGB could be expanded or density policies could be adjusted. He was interested in having accurate <br />information to enable the council to have an honest discussion. He was interested in doing the best for the <br />people of Eugene and a part of doing that was to participate in regional planning. He opined the Region <br />2050 planning effort “fell apart” because the Eugene City Council did not do a good job of collaborating <br />with other jurisdiction. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark was concerned that the City of Springfield was interpreting the Eugene City Council’s actions <br />and words as not wanting to work together in a regional way, which would have harmful effects for the <br />people he served in Eugene through HB 3337 due to the nature of Eugene’s relationship with Springfield. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark echoed Mr. Pryor’s comments that it was important for the City Council to have the information. <br />The Planning Commission had good and important work to do, and was telling the City Council it needed <br />more information to plan appropriately, and he wanted to ensure that the Planning Commission got that <br />information. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor said although no one objected to having more information, she did not know if this was the <br />correct time to spend all of the council’s time and energy gathering particular information. She was also <br />concerned that there were not enough resources to revise all of the refinement plans. She added it would <br />be good for the City Council to know each time it took action if the proposed action would violate any of <br />the GMPs. <br /> <br />Ms. Gardner said the refinement plan update was a concern not only of the Planning Commission, but also <br />identified regularly through public input from neighborhood leaders and the public at-large that the tools <br />were outdated. The Planning Commission found it difficult to make land use recommendations with <br />outdated tools. The scoping project outlined in the work program assumed neighborhood based refinement <br />planning could be done with existing resources. She said the Planning Commission wanted to know if the <br />City Council was interested in finding a mechanism to look at the refinement plans, many of which were <br />20 years old. Some of those refinements may need only minor adjustments, while others would need to be <br />completely rewritten. Appropriate tools needed to be identified to discover the most effective method for <br />individual neighborhoods. She emphasized including this in the work program was not a request for new <br />funding. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman said code amendments should be consistent with the GMPs. She said she never seen staff <br />recommend not moving forward with a zoning change, land use designation, or variance on the basis of <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council October 24, 2007 Page 7 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />