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not been able to produce a product. He said the Chambers Reconsidered Study would take this idea further. <br />He added that this was part of the reason grants such as these were sought. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly said he hoped staff would speak to the Land Use Code and other laws and policies in the grant <br />application. He thought the code could be area specific in many ways and already was given the different <br />zones and overlay zones. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly asked for an analysis of design standards in light of Ballot Measure 37. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman related that she had looked at the EPA Web site and had found that there were no mixed-use <br />policies from the City of Eugene. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman suggested that staff look at the minutes and listen to the tape of this meeting and inculcate what <br />Mr. Yeiter had said into the intent of the application. She asserted that the thrust of the Planning and <br />Development Department at this point was to remove obstacles to mixed-use development from the code. <br />She felt nodal development created a dense center with lesser densities as one moved farther from the center <br />and that mixed-use meant the entire area of a space was open for mixed-use. <br /> <br />Mr. Yeiter explained that this was not the definition the City was using for the mixed-use center program, <br />but rather the definitions of nodal development were still being used. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap~ commented that the council had been hung up on two words: ~removing obstacles.' He thought the <br />council should look at how to improve the code to better align with growth management policies or some <br />other way of calling it. <br /> <br />City Manager Taylor agreed that how things were said was very important. Mr. Yeiter added that the <br />objectives were the same. <br /> <br />City Manager Taylor said he was anxious to work with the council to find the way to express its direction in <br />a positive voice rather than in a way that sounded like there was skepticism regarding the policies that were <br />already in place. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap~ remarked that he welcomed people who knew nothing about Eugene and were not prejudiced by <br />what was here so that ideas could come out that had not been thought of before. He did not think the council <br />and staff had all the ideas. <br /> <br />The meeting adjourned at 1:21 p.m. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br /> <br />Dennis M. Taylor <br />City Manager <br /> <br />(Recorded by Ruth Atcherson) <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 18, 2005 Page 10 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />