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B. WORK SESSION: Street Assessment Policies <br /> <br />City Engineer Mark Schoening joined the council for the item. He provided a PowerPoint presentation on <br />Eugene's street assessment policies. Copies of the presentation were provided to the council. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy called on the council for comments and questions. <br /> <br />Responding to a question from Ms. Taylor, Mr. Schoening said residents pay for their side of the width of <br />a local street, the width of which could be from 20 to 24 feet, depending on the parking provided. That <br />was the same amount a resident living along a collector street would be assessed for improvements, <br />although in the case of a collector, the City would assume more of the costs for street lights and traffic <br />calming. Ms. Taylor suggested that residents living on a collector lost their ability to choose whether to <br />be assessed or not. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor asked how many people had lost their homes because of street assessments. Mr. Schoening <br />believed there was a situation in the River Road/Santa Clara area that involved a sewer assessment on an <br />undeveloped property. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor believed there had been situations where a street assessment exceeded the value of the <br />property being assessed. She observed that some communities pay for such street improvements by <br />issuing bonds, while others use General Funds. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor continued to be disturbed about the City's use of the term "benefited properties," suggesting it <br />should be "abutting properties" because frequently residents did not benefit from street projects and were <br />actually harmed by the changes to the their streets. In addition, she believed properties on side streets may <br />benefit more than those being assessed. <br /> <br /> Ms. Taylor asked if people in the West University Neighborhood were accepting of the alley improvement <br /> project. Mr. Schoening said that many of the property owners were absentee landowners, and the City had <br /> not had a lot of contact with them. PeaceHealth, which was being assessed for alley improvements, was <br /> supportive of the project. He had heard no negative feedback from other property owners being assessed. <br /> Ms. Taylor found that interesting given the negative feedback the City heard in other places in regard to <br /> street assessments. <br /> <br /> Mr. Pap6 recalled that the council subcommittee that had worked on the City's assessment policies had <br /> been formed to make the policies more equitable. It had examined many different approaches before <br /> developing its recomtnendations to the council. <br /> <br /> Mr. Pap6 determined from Mr. Schoening that the City used systems development charge (SDC) revenues <br /> to underwrite the public cost of arterials and collectors. SDC revenues could not be spent on local streets. <br /> <br /> Mr. Pap~ determined from Mr. Schoening the City could deviate from its street design standards in areas <br /> with slopes, waterways, and vegetation using the context-sensitive design process. Mr. Schoening said <br /> that would allow the City to take into account the topography and character of a neighborhood. He hoped <br /> staff had conveyed that message at the work session on the Crest Drive street classification issue. Mr. <br /> Schoening said the question in regard to the Crest Drive area was whether the City could do the design <br /> work without the need to initiate a local improvement district (LID) and then recover those costs if the <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 14, 2005 Page 3 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />
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