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Councilor Poling noted that when a motion was on the table there was no requirement for a motion to extend and the motion was not acted upon. Councilor Clark wanted to ensure that the City allowed the appropriate extension of service to people within the UGB and not outside of the UGB. He felt a lot of the distrust of the River Road/Santa Clara residents stemmed from what had been required of them to hook up to sewer service in a previous time. He said he was trying to avoid a situation where the County would allow development in non-contiguous places on county land where at some point a future owner would want to annex and would be required to hook up to sewer service along with the according costs. He understood that the City would have further work with the County regarding annexation issues in the next year. He believed the extraterritorial extension issue would come up again at this time. He urged his colleagues to oppose the amendment and support the original motion. Councilor Poling stated that he had read the ordinances as presented in Attachments A and B and nowhere in there had he found reference to any extraterritorial extensions going outside the UGB. He averred that there was “no conspiracy here.” He thought it made sense for people who had property outside the city limits and inside the UGB to be allowed to pay for and hook up to sewer service. He opposed the amendment. Roll call vote; the motion failed, 5:3; councilors Zelenka, Bettman, and Taylor vot- ing in favor of the amendment. Councilor Ortiz, seconded by Councilor Pryor, moved to revise the ordinance to in- clude the following text at the end of code section 9.7815: For annexation applications in the River Road/Santa Clara area the City shall not let an annexation application include the right-of-way if by doing so the annexation would cause unincorporated property to be surrounded as described in ORS 222.750. Councilor Poling ascertained from City Attorney Klein that the additional language merely restated what the council had done earlier in the year. Roll call vote; the amendment passed unanimously, 8:0. Councilor Bettman, seconded by Councilor Taylor, moved to amend the motion to substitute Attachment B for Attachment A. Councilor Bettman asserted that the difference between Attachment A and Attachment B was that the latter required that extraterritorial extensions come before the City Council. She averred that the language in Attachment A only required a Planning Director’s decision on extraterritorial extensions and that decision was then appealable to the Hearings Official. She declared that this type of issue would not receive a public hearing. Mr. Nystrom pointed out that Attachment B would elevate all annexation requests to a public hearing before the council. MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 10, 2007 Page 19 Regular Meeting