CC Minutes - 01/16/08 Work Session and Meeting of URA

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were recommended. Ms. Gardner said a comprehensive assessment was recommended because it was important to have all of the information available when making land use decisions and having only residential land information might comply with HB 3337, but would not provide the clear data points necessary for mixed use planning. She said conducting the assessments together provided an integrated, comprehensive look at all lands within the UGB. Mr. Zelenka asked if the end result of the analyses would be rezoning some land to more appropriate designations. He gave neighborhoods around the university as examples where seven-story buildings were adjacent to single-family homes and hoped that rezoning could allow for a better transition. Ms. Gardner said that rezoning or redesignating was not within the scope of the comprehensive assessment, but could be a subsequent task. Mr. Pryor, seconded by Ms. Bettman, moved to direct the City Manager to initiate a Comprehensive Lands Assessment based on the key elements in the attached pro- ject outline. The City Manager will fund this work through a combination of fund- ing strategies including, but not limited to, State grants and existing resources in- cluding the reserve for revenue shortfall. Ms. Taylor stated she would not support the motion. She said the City had already allowed rezoning from housing to industrial when a developer requested it. She did not think that rezoning actions, such as in neighborhoods around the University, were depending on a comprehensive assessment. Ms. Bettman said that Springfield was permitting building at half of allowable densities on residential lands. She said a "pretend" UGB based on jurisdictional lines would have to be created for purposes of conducting a buildable lands analysis. She said Springfield had rewritten its comprehensive plan and was vying for 50 percent of the population, even though population projections from Lane County were not available. She questioned how a UGB could be drawn based on jurisdictional boundaries when those boundaries did not exist in the comprehensive plan. Ms. Jerome replied that the dividing line between Eugene and Springfield was clearly defined and a meaningful analysis would consider a UGB that was not expanded and only changed by the dividing line between the jurisdictions. Ms. Bettman said that using a theoretical UGB violated Goal 2 requiring use of existing, adopted provisions in the comprehensive plan to make decisions, which was why she believed the UGB should be established before moving forward with other steps. Ms. Bettman, seconded by Ms. Taylor, moved to amend the motion to direct the City Manager to proceed immediately with the steps to comply with House Bill 3337: first, establish an urban growth boundary consistent with the jurisdictional area of responsibility specified in the comprehensive plan and, second, demonstrate, as required by ORS 197.296, that the comprehensive plan provides sufficient buildable lands within an urban growth boundary established pursuant to Statewide Planning Goals to accommodate estimated house needs for 20 years. Ms. Bettman stated that her motion reflected the minimum required by the bill. Ms. Taylor said she would support the motion. She urged councilors to think of the money the City needed for street repairs and other things before spending money that was not necessary. MINUTES—Eugene City Council January 16, 2008 Page 4 Work Session