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Mayor Obie thanked Mr. Baker and the other delegation members for their report to the council. Mayor Obie said he hopes there will be many exchanges between e Eugene and Kakegawa. He said Eugeneans can learn much from Kakegawans and Eugene's economy will be related to the economies of Japan and other Southeast Asian nations for the next 100 years. Mr. Holmer said he has been in Kakegawa twice. He thanked Mayor Obie and other members of the 1986 delegation for representing the City so well. II. PUBLIC HEARING: WILLAMETTE GREENWAY CODE REVISIONS City Manager Mi chea 1 Gleason introduced consideration of the Willamette Greenway Code Revisions. Planning Director Susan Brody gave the staff report. She said the proposed code revisions respond to concerns raised by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) during its evaluation of the Metropolitan Area General Plan Periodic Review. Ms. Brody said the Planning Commission studied the DLCD concerns, reviewed the testimony from two public hearings, and unanimously recommended the proposed revisions to the council. She said the revisions continue to require approval of a conditional use permit for development within the Willamette Greenway but the revisions modify and clarify the criteria which must be met when the request for a conditional use permit is considered. The revisions clarify how proposed development must conform to the Metro Pl an, how use management considerations in Statewi de Goal 15 (Willamette River Greenway) apply to proposed development, and how the term "greatest possible degree" should be interpreted. e Ms. Brody said the DLCD staff reviewed the revisions recommended by the Planning Commission and expressed two concerns. They suggested the revisions requi re a defi nite setback from the ri ver and they said the term "greatest possible degree" in Section 9.260 (2) should be defined better. Ms. Brody sa i d the DLCD staff indicated that they might raise the issue of the definition of "greatest possible degree" to the Land Use Board of Appeals if the Planning Commission's recommendation is not changed. Therefore, the City Attorney and the Planning staff recommended the following change to Section 9.260 (2) on page 3 of the proposed ordinance. (Words in parentheses should be deleted. Underlined words should be added.) As used in this section, the words lithe greatest possible degree" are drawn from Statewide Planning Goal 15 (F.3.b) and are intended to require a balancing of factors so that each of the identified Greenway criteria is protected to the greatest extent possible without (unreasonably burdening an otherwise permissable urban) precluding the requested use. Goal 15 (C.3.j.) provides that "lands committed to urban uses within the Greenway shall be permitted to continue as urban uses. II Ms. Brody said the criteria and standards in the revisions address most of the concerns of the DLCD about setback standards and no change to the Planning Commission recommendation is needed in that regard. She sa i d a specific - MINUTES--Eugene City Council October 27, 1986 Page 2