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-; e e - .... '. implementation. Ms. Miller said the council's central area housing strategies, such as the tax deferral program, etc., could be used. Incentives would need to be provided to have adequate central area housing. Councilor Miller questioned the findings in the December 14 memo to. the Planning Commission regarding the expansion of Sacred Heart Hospital and the demand for 62-141 additional physicians. She asked who prepared the estimation of future expansion, upon what they based the estimates, and how this related to the fact that the hospital is laying off personnel and the allegations that there are empty beds in the hospital. Ms. Jody Miller replied the findings concerning the Sacred Heart expansion were from Sacred Heart. The findings regarding future demand for clinic space are trend data from the medical community and Economic Consultants Oregon. The current recession would move the trend data back. Ms. Schue asked how density in the medical offices could be created. She was concerned and hoped that current low-income housing would be preserved. Ms. Miller said the Planning Commission considered minimum intensive requirements for clinics and concluded that the economics of clinic development at that land cost would dictate that clinics be intense. Ms. Schue noted that recently a house was moved and the use converted to a clinic/emergency room. Ms. Miller said legislating intensity has never been done that they were aware of. Ms. Decker reviewed the discussion of the Planning Commission and their conclusion that they would use site review along with economic conditions to obtain inten- sity of use. Mr. Gleason added that if the City required criteria in the site review and in the plan, the applicant would have to use those as part of their findings. Criteria could be made to require intensity. Ms. Miller said that the conditional use tool would be better than the site review to require inten- s ity of use. Councilor Miller questioned whether the Planning Commission considered the physicians' declared need to be near the hospital. Ms. Decker said there was a discussion and disagreement even in the medical community about what doctors should be near hospitals. Mr. Obie and other councilors suggested they review the question of why doctors needed to be near the hospital. Ms. Miller replied that they could list the practices that needed to be near the hospital. There are problems with policing clinic land use and property owners do not want their property to be limited to renting to certain practices. Councilors recognized that doctors were dispersed throughout the city. Ms. Schue wanted to pursue how the City could assure that clinics were put in buildings that were an intense use of land. Ms. Wooten felt that housing was given "short shrift" in the Planning Commission's document. She had asked staff what the conditions were of "conditional use" and "mixed use" and what could be attached to site review criteria. She referred the councilors to the document prepared by staff to explain these designations. Mr. Lindberg suggested a possibility of clinics on the first floor and housing above. While councilors were open to the suggestion, they raised the question of available mortgage money and physicians' openness to being landlords. Mr. Lindberg suggested the experience of Washington Abbey might have answers for the councilors. MINUTES--Eugene City Council February~, 1981 Page 4