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. protection, that there would be more crime in the area, and that growth costs money and demands many services from the city. He asked what benefits such annexation and rezoning will be offering to the citizens of Eugene, if it would just be asking them to dig deeper into their pockets. He said qrowth does not solve the unemployment factor. He gave three recommendations to the Council: 1) deny the request; 2) recognize the value of compact growth policy and place a two-year moratorium on any further annexation; 3) initiate a government task force to study the problems of growth. Mr. Bradley concurred with Mr. Delay's statement saying that the two competing policies seem to be an infilling of the city area, as opposed to annexation of area outside the city. He asked how annexation affected the livability of the citizens in Eugene when dealing with a limited amount of resources. He urged postponement of action and a moratorium on annexation also. He said there were other kinds of land uses for Eugene, olenty of property in Eugene, and a surplus of industrial land in the area. He said he did not feel there was a crisis situation where it was necessary to annex this property before discussing the issues and implications further. Mr. Lieua1len indicated he was not clear as to what the pattern of development should be in that part of the city. He said he was glad to see high level of debate in the community. He felt there were a lot of possibilities and he was not clear on the pattern of development needed. He said the Council should con- sider the future agricultural needs as well as housing needs for the city and said he would like to postpone the matter, too. . Mr. Obie expressed the opinion that the housing issue was the one involved, rather than industry and its opportunities. He said perhaps the housing issue is the greatest issue in the community today, and was bothered by the speakers indicating a lack of need for housing when several neighborhoods were upset with policies of placing ten-unit developments in the neighbor- hoods of single-family dwellings. He said this development would have the opportunity to relieve those pressures. He felt that relative to the future, if the housing pressures were not relieved, that the value of the livability in Eugene was going to be destroyed. He said this had been indicated as marginal farmland and posed the questions as to where people are going to go and where they are going to live. He said he felt this need of housing was a great one. He indicated again that he felt the housing issue is the greatest one, and he felt the Plan- ning Commission had done a good job in its preparation and its recommendation for annexation and rezoning. . Mr. Williams then stated that he felt secondary employment was an issue which had not been addressed in the testimony. He said the City of Eugene had created an image as being inhospit- able to industry. In the 1974 Community tDals Conference, he 2/28/77--15 15/