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e Mr. Schwetz said the City of Portland's main concern at present is to ensure that its existing SDC ordinance is legal. Jim Carlson, Lane County staff, added that since Portland does not have transportation SDCs it is not faced with updating such charges by July 1, 1991. In response to a question from Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Lyle said there were no State constraints (other than the need to be tied to capital facility needs to support new development) on rate methodologies for SDCs and no mandate that the City charge a fee. Mr. Boles said the only constraint on the SDC methodology was that the City could not charge more than it calculated to be the true systems development costs. Mr. Nicholson suggested a provision be made for the City to charge less than the true costs if this would accomplish a council goal such as subsidizing low-cost housing. Mr. Lyle said the coun- cil would have to establish the groundwork for creating a unique and differ- ent rate. e In response to a question from Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Boles said the City could collect SDCs for the school district, the lane Transit District, Lane County, and other local jurisdictions and language was in the draft ordinance to that effect. Mr. Gleason added that public structures built by School District 4J, the City, etc., would not be exempt from paying SDCs. Mr. MacDonald said he felt regional facilities should be included as one of the elements comprising the park SDC. He said new development led to the need for new park facilities. Mr. Lyle explained that the SDC Task Force had not recommended an SDC for parks initially because of the development community's concern that parks were not impacted by development. However, he said the group finally took the global perspective that development does impact neighborhood park sys- tems. He said the group felt it would be difficult to include regional cen- ters in the park SDC, especially due to the fact that the entire park SDC must be paid by residential development. He said the final decision was a compromise. Mr. Nicholson said he did not understand the rationale of charging the entire park SDC to residential development. Mr. Boles said the SDC Task Force felt it should not attempt to collect a parks SDC from commercial and industrial developments because this practice has been attempted in so few jurisdictions statewide and nationally. Mayor Miller pointed out that the entire community benefits from positive growth. He said the issue was shared versus unique benefits and costs. Mr. Rutan said the City Attorney would probably wish to remind the council that if the City attempted to collect a parks SDC from commercial and indus- trial developments, it would be the first community in America to do so. Mr. Boles added that there are potential costs associated with being the first community to issue these charges to this type of development. He said the SDC rate methodology could be expanded at a later date. - MINUTES--Eugene City Council April 8, 1991 Page 8