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Sustainable Community Development <br /> + · <br />Works with local environmental, transportation We don't often consider how our decisions <br />and economic development organizations affect jobs or job opportunities or at best it's the <br /> last consideration <br />Downtown Economic Development Strategy <br /> · Downtown revitalization and redevel- · Commitment to realistic and practical <br /> opment economic development <br /> · Strides being made downtown - growth · We have no economic strategy <br /> and development <br /> · ORI, Tate, Aurora downtown <br />Capital Improvement Plans Subsidies for large firms that may not stay in <br /> the City <br />Hospital siting Still have too many empty buildings and too few <br /> people downtown <br />Presence of U of O is stabilizing influence Nodal development still only an idea <br />We've made some good strides in transportation Sustainability principles not applied or utilized <br />funding - Lack of implementation or enforcement of <br /> strategies to achieve this goal <br />Infill and redevelopment is occurring Continues to portray as perceived anti-business <br /> attitude <br />Lots of sustainable practices Sometimes indistinguishable from ~no growth" <br />Trying to balance quality of life with economic Council staff decisions seldom go through <br />development sustainability filter <br />City organization making good intentional We keep ignoring the link between transporta- <br />progress on sustainability tion and land use <br />City administration and staff doing an Imbalance between growth demands and reality <br />admirable job on operational and building vs. available space and infrastructure <br />environ issues <br /> Planning often is reactive and piecemeal, not <br /> proactive and coordinated or comprehensive <br /> No unity of thought on what growth is and how <br /> it should happen <br /> <br />Healthy Natural and Built Environment <br /> + · <br />Parks Acquisition vs. Maintenance <br /> · Parks, Recreation and Open Space · Acquisition vs. maintenance with <br /> · Variety of parks and open space limited resources <br /> · Open space acquisitions · Lack of balance between desired out- <br /> . POS bond projects comes and available resources (cost vs. <br /> · POS bond issue benefit) <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 25-26, 2005 Page 4 <br /> Goals Setting Session <br /> <br /> <br />