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- ~ e . .~ June 12, 1981. She noted that the reason for this hearing was to amend the code to comply with that order. Ms. Lannom read from pages 86 and 87 of the compliance report, which called for preservation of R-3 and R-4 land for residential develop- ment and for disallowing non-residential uses in these areas unless it could be demonstrated that permitting those uses would not prevent housing from being built on the land. Ms. Lannom stated that clinics do not need to locate on high-density residential land in the West University area because there is sufficient vacant and available commercial land. Ms. Lannom therefore recom- mended that Item 2-d be deleted and that instead clinic use in R-4 be made conditional city-wide. Ms. Lannom said that about a year ago, the Hearings Official had denied a condi- tional use permit application for expansion of Serenity Lane on the basis of Metropolitan Plan considerations. She said that since then, the Planning Commis- sion had allowed some expansion of Serenity Lane. She concluded by stating that if the council adopts the amendments as proposed, it would be allowing Serenity Lane to do the very thing that the Hearings Offici al denied only a year ago on the basis of conflict with the Metropolitan Plan. Ed Mahn, 375 East 46th, Director of Planning, Sacred Heart General Hospital, spoke in support of the code amendments. He was pleased that the council had decided to postpone act ion on the amendments unti 1 it had had time to study the West University Refinement Plan. He gave some background on the figures that had been used to project the expansion needs of hospitals and clinics, and offered to provide more information if the council requested it. Mr. Mahn supported the concept of using site review procedures rather than the conditional use process for clinics on R-4 lots in the hospital area, since he felt that the issue was one of compatibility with the surrounding area. He said that the amendments before the council represented what Sacred Heart General Hospital considered to be a reasonable compromise. Clark Cox, 1085 Patterson, #9, spoke in his own behalf. He said that he was mostly in favor of the proposed amendments. He felt that more work needed to be done on the definition of "under development control." He explained a situation involving a church that wished to locate in the West University area and requested that churches be made outright uses in as many zoning districts as possible. Tom Slocum, 2125 Fairmount Boulevard, said that the amendments before the councll represented a reasonable compromise. He noted that while the exclusion of new clinics in the West University neighborhood south of 13th Street would prevent such clinics, it would not prevent the R-3 property in that area from becoming R-4 property. He said that this R-4 property should allow adequate provision of housing in the area. He urged the council to accept both the code amendments and the West University Refinement Plan as submitted by the Planning Commission. MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 8, 1982 Page 4