Item 9: Ordinance on Minor Code Amendments

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ATTACHMENT D on this testimony, the Planning Commission voted 7 to 0 to modify the amendments to provide an allowance for the temporary keeping of one additional dog for up to six months in any 12-month period. This would allow a dog owner within the city limits to keep three dogs permanently, plus keep one additional dog on a temporary basis for up to six months. 9.Provide the original amendment on parking proposed by the West University neighborhood. Clarify the Infill Compatibility Standards Task Team’s position on this amendment. West University Proposal: The West University Neighbors’ original proposal on multi-family parking requirements included two components. The first linked the parking requirements to areas adjacent to the City’s Residential Parking Program zone, and the second based the minimum number of required parking spaces on number of bedrooms in each dwelling unit. As originally proposed by West University, for dwelling units with two bedrooms or less per unit, the minimum number of required off-street parking spaces is one per dwelling unit, and for dwelling units with three or more bedrooms per unit, the minimum number of required off-street parking spaces is two per dwelling unit. The amendment was broadened in scope by City Council to address concerns of excessive demand for on-street parking by multi-family development in R-3 and R-4 zones with a substantial number of dwelling units that have three or more bedrooms Infill Compatibility Standards Task Team: The Infill Compatibility Standards (ICS) Task Team submitted a report to the Planning Commission providing recommendations on a number of the proposed amendments. For the amendment on multi-family parking requirements, the ICS Task Team judged that the West University’s suggestion “better addressed the specific problem in Residential Parking Program (RPP) zones [as compared to the project team’s recommendation] without introducing a potentially contentious city-wide change.” The ICS Task Team’s report was based on the original project team recommendation on the topic of multi-family parking, which was prepared prior to City Council’s action to broaden the amendment topic. In the revised recommendation on this topic, prepared in response to City Council’s action to broaden the scope of the amendment, the project team recommended the Planning Commission not create a link between the multi-family parking requirements and the Residential Parking Program (RPP), as the RPP program is not a part of Chapter 9 and is administered and enforced by the City’s Parking Services program, with permits issued by Diamond Parking Services. Given this disconnect from the land use code, the project team believed it would be difficult to administer and enforce. Furthermore, not all properties within the concerned areas are within RPP zones. The project team suggested an alternative that based minimum number of required parking spaces on the number of bedrooms, and provided options for applying it in all R-3 and R-4 zones or for specific areas within the city. The Planning Commission decided to pursue a modified option that would require a minimum of one parking space for the first bedroom and an additional .5 parking spaces per each additional bedroom, and made the amendment specific to multi-family developments in the West University and South University neighborhoods. The ICS Task Team did not provide comments on this modified option. Please contact me at 682-5508 or via e-mail (alissa.h.hansen@ci.eugene.or.us) if you have questions or need additional information. 4