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Mr. Haws summed up that he felt the City Council had always supported City staff's efforts 100 percent. He felt Council was willing to support staff in going all the way if necessary. However, Council felt the City.s ~ position to be reasonable and they are willing to negotiate. ... Assi stant City Manager sai d the purpose of thi s update was to fore",: warn Council of the problems that may be coming. It is felt the citizens need to know that is not Eugene's choice of course of action that is creating the problem, and the City hopes others involved in the problem will attempt to find a better solution. Mayor Keller noted that recent critism against Eugene had been that this was an emotional issue. He said this last year the City has been able to gather some very technical data and EPA had requested the City to get together with the State people involved. The EPA is aware that the City is prepared to sit down and discuss the problem and try to come to some compromise. It was his hope that the proper State agency would proceed very quickly in making that meeting possible. III. Panhandle Policy Review Panhandle Policy statement distributed. Manager noted Council had taken a tour to see examples of good and bad panhandle situations in the city. He said this was a work session which could be followed by questions for Council. It was hoped that Council could decide on the next steps which might include further consideration of the policy, research further some individual items in the policy, or even call for a public hearing. Jim Saul, Planner, said the purpose of the panhandle tour was an attempt to include at least one example in different areas of the city. He cautioned that Council should keep in mind a distinction of what is a direct causal effect of that sort of land division as opposed to a particular type of structure built on the property. Also, he said Council should consider how significant the panhandle policy is particularly with respect to the City.s policy regarding more compact growth and better use of land. He noted in January 1976, there were 2700 lots in the City that ranged in size from 14,000 to 26,000 square feet; 665 of these lots were vacant while the remainder had single-family dwellings located on them. He said if one assumes all those lots were divided once, it would create a subdivision rate which would represent a two-year inventory of single-family permits. He likened it to two Cone-Breeden annexations. A second factor which Council should look at was ,one of the major objec- tions regarding traffic. He said the City Council should be aware that the standard set in the Code does not relate to whether or not traffic will increase, but whether or not it will result in traffic congestion. A third issue for Council to consider was that in both the General Plan and 3/8/78--4 150 e e