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<br />He said the whole City was without adequate park space for its citizens <br />and felt this money could be spent in developing park space in otherCareas <br />of the City. He was not convinced that the development was going to ~ <br />ruin the Skinner Butte area, and the City had policies to save it. <br /> <br />Mr. Del ay agreed there was not adequate park 1 and in the Ci ty for all <br />citizens. However, he was looking at the acquisition of these two lots as <br />a real opportunity, citing a potential for development of park space for <br />the citizens of the community in the core area of the City. He was not <br />abandoning the idea of the urban compact growth policy, but that someday, <br />if the City owned this land, it would be in a position to make an <br />excellent public development in that particular area. <br /> <br />Mr. Haws moved, seconded by Mr. Hamel, to authorize City Manager <br />to proceed with acquisition of the one property lot as noted. <br /> <br />Mr. Obie said he could not agree with Mr. lieuallen's comments more <br />in regard to spending $250,000 for this small size of property and <br />its accessibility to a large segment of the population. He felt the <br />City could do more of equal value with that much money. He said <br />perhaps at some future point the Council might vote in favor of a <br />study for more intensive planning in the area, but that at this time <br />he would have to oppose the motion. <br /> <br />Mr. Lieuallen felt the Council should confront the issue of compact <br />housing, saying that Council will continually get to the point where some <br />citizens do not like what is being proposed. He felt Council would be <br />continually facing the issue, and should not back off from taking some ~ <br />stand. Mr. Delay replied he did not view the issue as one of a situation ~ <br />where people did not like it. He said it was more a matter of preserving <br />the historic portion of Eugene, and that option was available to the <br />Council only at this particular point in time. <br /> <br />Mr. Lieuallen said he would like to know the status of the private plans <br />in the area and what kinds of things the Historic Review Board would <br />be suggesting for that area. Jim Saul said the Planning Commission and <br />Planning Department staff had been involved in developing a refinement <br />plan for , that area, and it should be coming to the Planning Commission in <br />July or August when a series of hearings would be held. He said the <br />Planning staff did not see the particular refinement plan as needing <br />~cquisition of this particular piece of property. Also, the Historic <br />Review Board had been well-represented during public testimony in regard <br />to its role, that being providing infonnation regarding the history of the <br />community. He said what the Historic Review Board could do in regard to <br />the Butte area would be open to question. The Historic Review Board <br />preservations are oriented prlllld.fl'ly to e)(.htlrl!j ~lrw_turesJ and f10l <br />to taking undeveloped property and maintaining it. <br /> <br />1i/'l3/17,.,-a <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />tt03 <br />