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M I NUT E S e Eugene City Council Lunch/Work Session McNutt Room--City Hall April 30, 1986 11 : 30 a.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Richard Hansen, Debra Ehrman, Emily Schue, Cynthia Wooten, Ruth Bascom, Jeff Miller. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Freeman Holmer, Roger Rutan. The adjourned meeting of April 28, 1986, of the City Council of Eugene, Oregon, was called to order by His Honor Mayor Brian B. Obie. e I. LAND USE FEE SCHEDULE UPDATE (memo, background information distributed) City Manager Michea1 Gleason introduced the discussion of the Land Use Fee Schedule Update. Finance Director Warren Wong said a review of City fees and charges was included in the financial strategy adopted by the council to fund the operating and capital budgets. He said a Cost of Services Study has been undertaken by every department. The study is identifying the direct and indirect costs of City services. He said the Planning Department is the first department to finish a Cost of Services Study and to propose fee increases. Carla Marmaro of the Planning Department said the department inventoried the services it provides, identified the beneficiaries of its services, determined the total cost of each service, and decided how the services should be financed. She said fees charged by other jurisdictions were examined. She noted that land use application fees have not been changed since 1980. She said the proposed fee schedule will recover about 21 percent of the total cost of application processing services. She said a City policy indicates it is appropriate for the City to subsidize land use fees because the community, as well as applicants, benefit from development activity. She said the changes to the fee schedule initiate charges for processing appeals, water and sewer extensions, street name changes, and modifications to Planned Unit Developments (PUD's) and conditional uses. The changes also waive the fees for annexation requests and modify the sliding scales for par- titions, subdivisions, and planned unit developments. e Answering questions from Ms. Ehrman, Ms. Brody said the present annexation fees discourage annexations. She said the council may decide to waive the annexation fee only for the area served by the River Road/Santa Clara Sanitary Sewer Service System. Mr. Gleason added that annexation fees are not as important financially to the City as the long-term financial impact of annexations. MINUTES--Eugene Ci ty Council., April 30, 1986 Page 1