05/28/1991 Meeting - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Mr. MacDonald commended staff for taking the initiative on these adjustments ~ to the RTF recommendations and the Commercial lands Study. Mr. Boles said he adamantly opposed these changes. He said the newly created subcommittee was completely self-serving and not analogous to the SDC Task Force. He said the Citizen Involvement Committee (CIC) was unlikely to sup- port this group which was comprised of people with deep economic interests in the outcome of their review, rather than the larger values of the community. He said this seemed to be an attempt by the Chamber of Commerce to "come in the back door." e Mr. Rutan said Part 4 of the RTF recommendations was an additional layer of land use planning measures. He referred to the costs associated with a land development on Country Club Road. He said the City should be devising meth- ods for helping development projects located outside the downtown area be- cause costs were higher in those areas. Mr. Rutan said that the community has spent decades creating land use poli- cies and he felt it was inappropriate to create another layer of bureaucracy in an attempt to direct the value of land. He said the council should re- spect the will of the voters who just turned down one aspect of the RTF's recommendations, the Downtown Redesign, and allow everyone time to think about what should be done next. He said he did not support the call for a work program on Part 4 of the RTF recommendations. Mr. MacDonald said that in view of Mr. Bole's comments, he was not certain that a work program on Part 4 of the RTF Recommendations should be included in the Commercial lands Study. He said that while he appreciated Mr. Rutan's perspective on this work program, he did not agree with it. Mr. Boles said the RTF had been asked to find policies which would lead to compact urban growth and that Part 4 was one such set of policies. He said it had been Mr. Rutan who asked that this section of the recommendations not be given to the Planning Commission until after the council had had time to review it. He said the council should expect an independent work plan on these policies as originally requested. Mayor Miller pointed out that the involvement of the Chamber of Commerce in City projects in the past had helped to create consensus in the business community. Mr. Boles said this consensus may have led to the watering down of certain policies. He said Chamber involvement in the SDC process had been very successful because a clear distinction had been made between technical and policy issues. He added that the council has had sufficient time to hear from all interested parties on the subject of the Commercial lands Study. In response to a question from Ms. Bascom, Jan Childs, Planning Division Manager, said the Planning Commission preferred to address Part 4 of the RTF Recommendations in the context of the Commercial Lands Study. She said the commission was disappointed that the council had not held a work session on Part 4 to determine which sections it wanted the commission to address, until after it had released the draft Commercial Lands Study. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 28, 1991 Page 5