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::= --' ~ . e e M I NUT E S Eugene City Council City Council Chambers January 25, 1982 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Gretchen Miller, Betty Smith, Mark Lindberg, D. W. Hamel, Eric Haws, Cynthia Wooten, Emily Schue. COUNCILOR ABSENT: Brian Obie. The adjourned meeting of the City Council of the City of Eugene, Oregon, was called to order by His Honor Mayor Gus Keller. Mayor welcomed Scout Troup #175 to meeting. I. PUBLIC HEARINGS A. Consideration of the Planning Commission Recommendation re: West University Refinement Plan (memo, maps, and background information distributed) Micheal D. Gleason, City Manager, introduced Jody Miller, Planning Department, to qive the staff report. Ms. Miller said that the public hearing was on the West University Refinement Plan draft, and the Planning Commission's recommendation to the City Council on that draft. It is a refinement plan to the Metropolitan General Plan. It is a comprehensive long-range plan with four elements: Transportation and Parking, Neighborhood Design, Public Facilities and Services, and Land Use, Housing, and Commerce. The Planning Commission has recommended adoption of the plan with some changes. Ms. Miller introduced Randy Thwing, chair of the Planning Commission. Mr. Thwing said that after five years of study by the planning team, six months of study by the Planning Commission, three public hearings, and twelve planning sessions, the Planning Commission was able to unanimously forward a compromise recommendation for competing land uses in a complicated area. He described the area and the components that made it difficult to balance competing needs. Issues that confronted the Planning Commission were: the balancing of residential/non- residential uses, balancing planned areas of competing uses, and relating plans to city-wide goals and guidelines. Predominant uses were residential, hospital- related, commercial, and educational. The compromise unanimously approved and sent to the council was to allow outright use of clinics in the R-4 land north uf 13th with a site review suffix. The second recommendation was to preserve housing stock south of 13th by removing future non-residential uses from the area by changes in R-3/R-4 zoning. For the existing clinics in residential zones south of 13th, expansion would be allowed through the conditional use permit process onto land under development control as of December 1, 1981. Changes in the City's R-3/R-4 zone were considered along with other considerations. The R-3/R-4 changes will be forwarded to council at a later date. Mr. Thwing explained those changes. MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 25, 1982 Page 1 ''.