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M I NUT E S e Eugene City Council Lunch/Work Session McNutt Room--City Hall October 21, 1987 11:30 a.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: President Debra Ehrman, Freeman Holmer, Jeff Miller, Emily Schue, Ruth Bascom, Cynthia Wooten, Roger Rutan, Robert Bennett. I. EXTENSION OF AND REVISION TO THE TAX DIFFERENTIAL PLANS IN THE RIVER ROAD, SANTA CLARA, AND HIGHWAY 99 AREAS Ci ty Council President Debra Ehrman opened the work sessi on. Planning Director Susan Brody presented the staff report. She said that when the City Council had adopted an annexation program in April 1986, it also had approved a tax differential schedule that could be applied to properties in the River Road/Santa Clara area. Ms. Brody said the schedule would phase-in taxes for all residential, commercial, and industrial properties in the River Road area over a five-year period and for those in the Santa Clara area over a six-year period. She added that the reason for the difference in phasing was that Santa Clara residents currently paid less taxes than River Road residents did. Ms. Brody said the current tax differential plan was scheduled to expire in e March 1988, and staff recommended extending the plan for an additional year. She said the annexation program had been underway for one year now, positive results were being noticed, and the tax differential plan was a useful tool that should be continued. Ms. Brody said staff also suggested considering the possibility of using a ten-year tax differential approach for industrial properties in the Highway 99 area. She pointed out the locations of those industrial properties on a map. Ms. Brody said State 1 aw a 11 owed 1 oca 1 government tax differentials for periods of up to ten years. She said the longer phase-in had been suggested by several industrial property owners in the area, and staff then had investigated the idea and had contacted property owners for responses. She said 13 responses had been received and were described in staff notes. She said several property owners had indicated that the ten-year plan would make them more receptive to annexation. Ms. Brody said staff felt that a ten-year schedule for industrial properties was justifiable because the cost of providing services to them was lower than for residential properties and could be phased-in over a longer period of time. Industrial properties also added substantially to the tax base, she said. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council Lunch/Work Session October 21, 1987 Page 1