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make annexation more difficult for those properties. He said the council had authority to establish policy <br />around expectations of development inside the City versus outside the City. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman expressed surprise that the County was considering taking over permitting in urban transition <br />areas when the City already provided those services through an intergovernmental agreement. She <br />understood there were criteria and unique circumstances under which extra-territorial extensions occurred <br />and it would be difficult to anticipate all of those, which is why her motion focused on the process. She <br />wanted to assure that a public hearing before a decision-making body would occur when the boundary <br />commission no longer existed. <br /> <br />Ms. Ortiz asked if local jurisdictions had contributed funds to the boundary commission and whether cities <br />would be compensated for taking over the responsibility for annexations. Mr. Nystrom said that the <br />boundary commission was a State agency and jurisdictions supported it through their contributions to Lane <br />Council of Governments, which staffed the commission. He said any compensation for the City would come <br />through related fees. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark agreed that the council should be accountable for decisions, including annexations and extra- <br />territorial extensions. He said extra-territorial extensions were likely to be controversial and asked for the <br />criteria to be restated in any related ordinance. He wanted each application for an extension to be assessed <br />in accordance with those criteria to remove any arbitrary elements. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman remarked that the criteria were in the ordinance, but because they were in several different <br />places she was concerned that a request that was controversial could slip through without the stop-gap of a <br />public hearing. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman, seconded by Ms. Taylor, moved to direct the City Manager to pre- <br />pare an ordinance amending the code so that the process for considering extra- <br />territorial extension applications: <br /> <br />1. Requires a public hearing before the City Council and makes the City Council <br />the final local decision-making body; and <br />2. Requires that notice of the City Council's public hearing be posted on the prop- <br />erty which is the subject of the application so that the notice is visible from ad- <br />jacent streets and that the notice be mailed to the appropriate neighborhood as- <br />sociations, and all property owners and residents within 750 feet of that prop- <br />erty's perimeter. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman further moved to direct the City Manager to hold any applications <br />submitted for extra-territorial extension of water or sewer until the City Council <br />has acted on this proposed ordinance or 60 days after the City Council holds a pub- <br />lic hearing on the ordinance, whichever is earlier. <br /> <br />Mr. Poling asked for clarification of the noticing requirements. Ms. Bettman explained that there had been <br />problems in the past with property that was on a corner and notices were only posted on one street. <br /> <br />The motion passed unanimously, 7:0. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council January 23, 2008 Page 2 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />