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e e - M I NUT E S Joint City Council/Planning Commission Dinner/Work Session Bloch Room--Eugene Community Conference Center May 9, 1988 5:30 p.m. PRESENT: Mayor Brian Obie; Freeman Holmer, Ruth Bascom, Robert Bennett, Roger Rutan (after 6:14 p.m.), City Councilors; Ken Tollenaar, Gerry Gaydos, Dorothy Anderson, Lloyd Billingsly (for Alan Yordy), Nancy Nathanson, John VanLandingham, Planning Commissioners. Mayor Obie opened the meeting. He said he was unaware of any plans described in press reports indicating that he would visit Eugene's Soviet sister city in July. I. PLANNING COMMISSION FY89 WORK PROGRAM Planning Director Susan Brody reviewed the agenda and distributed copies of a memo and of the FY89 Planning Commission Work Program. She described work program items in the agenda item summary, including continuing work on the Metro Plan economic and natural resource working papers update; work with a citizens group on Phase II of the Glenwood Refinement Plan; work with a citizens group on a special area study to address inadequate commercial parking in the 19th and Agate area; task team recommendations on the Historic Preservation Ordinance; and staff work on a Willakenzie Refinement Plan, which currently did not exist. She said a recommendation from the Metropolitan Policy Committee to elected officials suggested it would be more efficient and less confusing to combine the Metro Plan and the Transplan into one document. She also noted that new work program items 2, Ferry Street Bridge; 3, Storm Sewer Master Plan; and 4, Sign Code Update, in addition to the 19th and Agate area, would involve both the Planning Commission and City Counci 1. Ms. Brody said the transfer of urban building permit and land use application services from Lane County to cities had been very successful, and Lane County officials now were interested in a similar transfer of legislative planning responsibility. with a proposed intergovernmental agreement expected in the next six to eight months. She added that the transfer might involve a code change to allow citizens from outside the city to rppresent the River Road/Santa Clara area on the Eugene Planning Commission. Mr. Vanlandingham reported that the Planning Commission had met with the River Road/Santa Clara Citizens Advisory Team about urban facilities planning and annexation. He said the session had been constructive and rewarding, and MINUTES--Joint City Council/Planning Commission Work Session May 9, 1988 Page 1