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of which only 29-30 percent was built with MUPTE. The UO had not historically provided new <br />housing while it did have plans for future student housing development. The demand for the <br />university area would continue to grow. The City was currently facing a budget deficit and he did <br />not want to give away money where it was not necessary. <br /> <br />Responding to a question from Mr. Zelenka about why the area around Sixth Avenue and Seventh <br />Avenue in the Trainsong neighborhood was included in MUPTE, Mr. Weinman said Ms. Ortiz <br />had made that request and it presented an opportunity to redevelop deteriorating properties. <br /> <br />Mr. Zelenka said the area in northwest Eugene needed stimulus to provide multi-unit housing. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman wanted to incentivize where it was not attractive or profitable to build housing. The <br />proposed addition requested by Ms. Ortiz worked for Ms. Bettman because this was an area of <br />interest for the next Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route in Eugene which would be a great compli- <br />ment to multi-unit housing that was not currently being built. She was not interested in regulating <br />for quality standards, preferring that those issues be addressed in the code. She was concerned <br />that affordable and low-income older houses were being torn down in the WUN. She asked if <br />existing housing would be torn down in northwest Eugene under the proposed expansion <br />displacing low-income people. She asserted it was about tax breaks and not development, and <br />everyone should pay taxes. <br /> <br />Mr. Weinman concurred that demolition of older homes and new construction in the university <br />area cost more, adding the proposal was likely to occur on the west side as well. Typically <br />redeveloped and new rentals tended to cost more per month than older rentals. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark asserted the question was one of density policy. Everything the council did had an <br />effect on what was or was not built in the community, and drove what and where development <br />occurred regardless of whether it was incentives, regulation or density policy. He opined that <br />without MUPTE some things would not be built, but with it or without it, development occurred, <br />with a variety of impacts. People in the industry had told him that without MUPTE the only way <br />to make a project profitable was to make it taller, with more bedrooms per unit, and increase the <br />th <br />parking load on the street, similar to what was occurring at 19 Avenue and Alder. He asked if <br />without MUPTE more of that type of development would occur. <br /> <br />Mr. Weinman responded that there was an increased chance that development that occurred would <br />be of lesser quality. Development was difficult with an incentive and without an incentive there <br />would either be no development or something of lesser quality. This was one of the reasons that <br />the council adopted quality standards in the past. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark said this was not about profitability, because people in the business of developing <br />housing needed to make money or they would not stay in business. The question was what they <br />could afford to build: either those things that worked well and fit with the City’s policy regula- <br />tions and direction, or those things which created more problems. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor emphasized MUPTE was never a guarantee but had been interpreted as such over <br />time. She said everyone should pay taxes, and the only way she would support exempting people <br />from taxes for ten years was if there was a very clear benefit to the City and the community as a <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council May 27, 2008 Page 7 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />
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