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<br />Mr. Duncan asked what effect annexation requests would have on staffing requirements. Mr. <br />Nystrom said there were 35 - 40 annexation requests per year, and administration was <br />looking at the time and effort involved in processing these, along with a new fee structure. <br />(The fees would not be a part of the subject ordinance, but were under a separate mechan- <br />ism.) He added that funding previously received from the state for this process would be <br />disappearing, thus creating an added burden for the City. The ordinance, at the discretion of <br />the Council, would likely parallel the existing process, with a two-track process of expedited <br />review as well as public hearings. <br /> <br />Mr. Duncan asked why the Planning Commission would not be involved in annexation <br />requests, as they involved land use. Mr. Nystrom replied that the annexation criteria were <br />more cut and dried, as the Metro Plan was in place, so there was usually no question of <br />whether an annexation could take place, but rather a question of could it be served. <br /> <br />Ms. Kneeland asked that citations of relevant statutes be added to future reports, as Mr. <br />Handy had requested. Mr. Nystrom said some issues involved a large number of statutes, but <br />they would comply, to the degree possible. Emily Jerome said Chapter 199 governed the <br />Boundary Commission activities, but with its being abolished, the new ordinance would fall <br />into Chapter 222. She noted that there were numerous references in 222 to other statutes as <br />well. <br /> <br />Mr. Lawless asked for clarification about the impact of annexation procedures on City policy. <br />Mr. Nystrom said the current effort involved getting the procedural steps in place, but that the <br />Council could decide later that it wanted to review overall policies. He said the latter task <br />would require significant resources. <br /> <br />Ms. Jerome said that because the Council had always been a recommending body to the <br />Boundary Commission, they had, over time, developed criteria for deciding to recommend or <br />not recommend annexation or extraterritorial extensions. Some of those policies would be <br />incorporated into the ordinance, but could be added to or changed. <br /> <br />Mr. Belcher asked if Oregon cities with a population over 50,000 typically had planning <br />commission involvement. Ms. Jerome said that smaller cities nearly always had their <br /> <br />MINUTES-Eugene Planning Commission <br /> <br />October 15, 2007 <br /> <br />Page 5 <br />