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D. Segregation of Assessment SE 79-1 Located on Dillard Road; applicant: Helen Hollyer for W. Scott Bartlett III . - Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, to approve the segre- gation of assessment. Motion carried unanimously. IV. Citizens Involvement Advisory Committee--Materials distributed. Manager said the issue involved the relationship between the Citizens Involvement Advisory Committee (CIAC) and the Planning Commission. Materials submitted by the CIAC outlined their position and their requested recommendations. Also distributed was a memo from the Planning Commission which had been reviewed and adopted at its January 22 meeting. He noted Denyse McGriff from the CIAC, and Dr. John MacKinnon and Robert Barkman from the Planning Commission were available to make presentations. Denyse McGriff said the two basic issues from the CIAC's standpoint were: First, under the present setup, the Committee's role is to evaluate the existing citizen involvement program and make recommendations to ensure citizens have access to the land-use planning process. In order to make that process evaluation, it is felt the Committee must first review the land-use planning program being used by the City. This would afford a better understanding of where citizen involvement access points are. The second issue is the Committee feels it is difficult to evaluate citizen involvement in land-use planning processes when the very group to be evaluated is directing the program. She reviewed the recommendations from ~ the CIAC: 1) Council to allow the CIAC to report directly to the City Council; 2) Council to approve the adopted work plan of the CIAC; and 3) Council to directly appoint the at-large members of the CIAC and allow the membership to remain the same. Dr. MacKinnon, President of the Planning Commission, said one of the responsibilities Council has given to the Planning Commission is to be the citizen's advisory committee for the City. He said there was a distinction between that advisory committee and the CIAC. The function of the CIAC is to help develop better citizen involvement. He noted high compliments from LCDC to Eugene on its citizen involvement program at all levels. The Planning Commission was very encouraged at the formation of the CIAC, as the Commission's workload was such that it could not devote the time neces- sary to improve citizen involvement programs. It was hoped this Committee would improve input, and the Commission felt the most critical level was participation, particularly at the policy level. He said when meetings were held for policy action, a very small citizen turnout resulted. Thus, the Planning Commission felt a critical part of the ClAC's workload should be directed to attempting to solve that problem. The Commission feels the logical relationship should be the ClAC to report to the Planning Commissio~ as the citizens involvement committee. He said the Commission"would very much like to work with that Committee. He noted the Planning Commission memo was not a staff report, but had been developed over the weekend by Mr. Barkman and himself, with the Planning Commission endorsement. He said - 1/24/79 - 6 50