CC Minutes - 11/28/07 Work Session

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see the minor code process grind to a halt. He suggested incorporating them into the preamble of the City Code. He proposed looking at them before the council’s summer break. Ms. Bettman accepted Mr. Zelenka’s suggestion as a friendly amendment to her proposed amendment to the motion. Ms. Taylor said anyone involved in civic activities in 1995-1996 could not help being aware of the broad- based, expensive effort on the part of the City which the City could not afford to replicate. Mr. Clark said it was the purview of every City Council to set its policies during its time of service. While he appreciated and respected all of the public input that went into the growth management policies development twelve years ago, he was not as familiar with them as he would like. He asked for a work session to review the growth management policies. He felt strange encumbering a future council to the policies when they might want to change them. Ms. Ortiz said she and her daughter had been active in the community in the mid-1990s and she never heard anything about the growth management policies process in the Bethel neighborhood. She did not know what had been done for outreach. She asked if the motion passed, would the work already completed move forward. Ms. Gardner responded that passage of the motion would not affect the work currently underway on the 20 code amendments in process. Mayor Piercy summarized the motion on the table. Work would continue on the code amendments that were in motion. In the future the City Council would investigate how this would apply to procedure parts of Chapter 9. The growth management policies would only be put in the code as an overarching policy to the code, having basically the same emphasis as they now have. The motion passed, 5:3, Mr. Clark, Mr. Poling and Ms. Solomon voting in opposi- tion. Mr. Pryor explained his vote, stating that his vote was an acknowledgement that this was an official City policy that needed to be recognized in the appropriate place. He explicitly heard that it would be in a place where it would not be applied procedurally; it would be applied as an overarching policy. Ms. Jerome said we are talking about incorporating, as part of the pending minor code amendments, incorporation of growth management polices into Chapter 9 to serve as policy direction and to direct the city manager to schedule a future work session to discuss implementation of them. Ms. Bettman: As criteria. Ms. Jerome: As criteria. Ms. Bettman, seconded by Ms. Taylor, moved to direct the City Manager to amend the work program of the Planning and Development Department (PDD) and the Planning Commission to address only the deadline driven requirements de- tailed in HB 3337 which were the inventory of existing residential capacity, the residential demand analysis and determination, and to specifically delete consid- eration of UGB boundary changes other than any consideration required by HB 3337. MINUTES—Eugene City Council November 28, 2007 Page 7 Work Session