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ATTACHMENT A MINUTES Council Committee on Intergovernmental Relations McNutt Room--City Hall May 12, 2005 9 a.m. PRESENT: Gary Pap6, Chair; Bonny Bettman, Betty Taylor, members; Mary Walston, Jason Heuser, Lisa Klemp, Mary Feldman, City Manager's Office; Ellwood Cushman, Eugene Police De- partment; Kurt Yeiter, Allen Lowe, Planning and Development Department; Eric Jones, Tom Larson, Peter Ruffler, Public Works Department; Glenn Klein, City Attorney's Office. 1. Call to Order and Review Agenda Mr. Pap6 called the May 12 meeting of the Council Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to order. 2. Approval of Minutes Ms. Taylor, seconded by Ms. Bettman, moved to approve the minutes of April 25 and May 5, 2005. Ms. Taylor asked that the last sentence in paragraph 4 on page 3 of the May 5 minutes be stricken, and noted that the minutes indicated erroneously that she both moved and seconded the motion on page 5. Ms. Bettman asked sentence 6 in paragraph 7 on page 2 of the May 5 minutes be revised to read ;;The council had ;bought off' on the nodal concept as a policy approach but had not discussed and compared the mixed use and nodal concepts..." She also asked that sentence 2 in paragraph 4 on page 3 be modified to read ;;She reminded Ms. Taylor of her concern that her neighborhood could experience more unregulated infill development." The minutes were adopted as amended by a unanimous vote. 3. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Smart Growth Award Mr. Yeiter and Mr. Lowe were present for the item. Ms. Bettman asked staff to define ;;smart growth." Mr. Lowe said it was a nationally used term for a development concept that embodied many or most of the concepts the City had in its Growth Management Study in regard to mixed use development, compact urban growth, smaller lot housing, diverse housing types, transportation-efficient development, and containment within an urban growth boundary. Ms. Bettman asked if the audit to be funded by the award would determine if the City's code was at odds with its growth management policies. Mr. Lowe said no. The award would bring in a group of specialists MINUTES--Council Committee on Intergovernmental Relations May 12, 2005 Page 1