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e M I NUT E S Eugene City Council Council Chamber, City Hall August 9, 1982 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT:, John Ball, D.W. Hamel, Mark Lindberg, Gretchen Miller, Brian Obie, Emily Schue, Betty Smith, Cynthia Wooten. Regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Eugene, Oregon, was called to order by His Honor Mayor Gus Keller. Mayor Keller announced that the Council had agreed to remove Item V, Discussion of Community Development Block Grant-Funded Economic Development Projects, from this evening's agenda and to reschedule the item for a future council meeting. 1. PUBLI C HEAR I NGS A. Code Amendment Concerning Public Lands (CA 82-2) (memo, background information distributed) City Manager Micheal Gleason introduced Gary Chenkin, Planning. Mr. Chenkin e said that the Planning Commission had recently considered phasing out the Public Lands (PL) zone in the City, but that Eugene School District 4-J had requested that the zone be amended, since the district wished to reuse surplus school properties currently zoned PL. Mr. Chenkin said that the amendments before the council were designed to meet the needs of the school district, as well as overall City needs. He said that the amendments listed both outright permitted interim conditional uses, some permanent and others temporary. He said that on June 8, 1982, copies of the proposed amendments had been sent to Eugene neighbor- hood groups, a number of public agencies, and other interested groups. Mr. Chenkin said that the Planning Commission had discussed the amendments at its August 3, 1982, meeting and had voted to recommend the amendments to the council . He noted that the commission had proceeded with some urgency in this matter, since the school district has a number of leases awaiting the outcome of the City's action. Mr. Chenkin noted that the minutes of the Planning Commission meeting were not yet available but that a summary of the discussion at the meeting had been distributed to councilors. He said that at the Planning Commission hearing a number of people had testified regarding the proposed use of a portion of the Laurel Hill School building as a vocational training center. He noted that under Section 9.402 (d)(8), the proposed use would be allowed as an outright use as a "private educational institution offering an academic or state licensed vocational curriculum." Mr. Chenkin said that the Planning Commission had discussed the possibility of e changing all outright uses in Section 9.402 (d) to conditional but had finally decided, instead, to recommend to the council addition of language to Section MINUTES--Eugene City Council August 9, 1982 Page 1