Item 3: Ordinance on Extraterritorial Extension Procedures

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ATTACHMENT D AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY April 22, 2008 To: Eugene Planning Commission From: Steve Nystrom, Planning Division Subject: CA 08-1: Public hearing to consider an ordinance revising procedures for processing of Extraterritorial Extensions Action Requested Hold the public hearing, deliberate and recommend action to the City Council regarding the proposed ordinance. Briefing Statement In December, 2007, the City Council adopted an ordinance establishing the procedures for processing of annexation requests, extraterritorial extensions, and withdrawals from special districts. Immediately following adoption of this ordinance, the City Council directed staff to schedule a work session to further discuss extraterritorial extensions. On January 23, 2008, the City Council held the work session and concluded that a discrete amendment to the procedural requirements for extraterritorial extensions was warranted. In response, the City Council passed the following motion: Move to direct the City Manager to prepare an ordinance amending the code so that the process for considering extraterritorial extension applications: 1) Requires a public hearing before the City Council and makes the City Council the final local decision making body; and 2) Requires that notice of the City Council’s public hearing be posted on the property which is the subject of the application so that the notice is visible from adjacent streets and that the notice be mailed to the appropriate neighborhood associations, and all property owners and residents within 750 feet of that property’s perimeter. Further move to direct the City Manager to hold any applications submitted for extraterritorial extension of water or sewer until the City Council has acted on this proposed ordinance or 60 days after the City Council holds a public hearing on the ordinance, whichever is earlier. As a result of this motion, staff is processing a code amendment to carry out Council’s explicit direction. Accordingly, this code amendment is limited in scope to the process revisions specified in the City Council motion above.