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e Mr. MacDonald said he would feel different if there were five votes the Blue Water Boats, since that would be a solid council majority. an evenly split vote would have no impact on the MPC. He said this opposition would not be constructive. Mr. Boles said he would prefer to postpone a revote on this issue until Ms. Ehrman was present and a full council vote could be taken. Ms. Norris point- ed out that all the councilors were not scheduled to be present at the same time at a council meeting until the end of June. Mayor Miller said he felt the vote would be the same whether or not Ms. Ehrman were present. against He said kind of Ms. Bascom said that, as one of the council's MPC representatives, she felt the issue of housing needed more consideration before the May 31 MPC meeting. She said testimony on the issue of the Good Neighbor Care Center amendment, and the votes of the other jurisdictions, had been confusing. She said she would like a clear majority vote of the council on this issue to take to the MPC. Mr. Nicholson said he would like the council to address the major issue of whether it was the council's policy to allow projects to locate outside the UGB. He said Major Defoe, owner of the Blue Water Boats company, had said that his primary objective in locating outside the UGB was to get land cheap- ly. e Mayor Miller asked Mr. MacDonald if he would move to reconsider the Blue Water Boats amendment at the council's 7:30 p.m. meeting that night, and Mr. MacDonald said that he would. Mr. Boles asked if the second for this motion would have to come from the prevailing side in the previous motion on this issue, and Ms. Norris said it would not. Mr. MacDonald discussed council guidelines. Ms. Bascom said she appreciated the fact that Mr. MacDonald had taken a statesman-like role in this process. II. WORK PLANNING SESSION Responding to a question from Mr. MacDonald, Abe Farkas, Director of the Planning and Development Department (POD), said the Retail Task Force (RTF) had not completed its recommendations in time to incorporate them into the Commercial lands Study. He said that on May 7 the Chamber of Commerce pro- posed that the City create a separate task force similar to the Systems De- velopment Charges (SDC) Task Force to work on the Commercial lands Study. Mr. Farkas said the Planning Commission agreed to this proposal and planned to extend the timeframe for commission action on the draft Commercial Lands Study. In addition, he said staff felt that most of the RTF Part 4 recommen- dations could be included in the Commercial Lands Study. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 28, 1991 Page 4