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<br />Ms. Solomon felt that planning should adhere to historic trends and not try to create a new trend to be <br />followed. She said the strategy would be completely unproductive for the community and therefore she <br />could not support it. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman cited regionalizing decision-making as the primary reason she could not support the strategy. <br />She pointed out that many rapidly growing small communities did not have system development charges and <br />the capacity to serve that growth. She said that once utilities and services were regionalized that capacity <br />would be subsidized by the higher concentration of population in Eugene, similar to the effort to add Coburg <br />to the regional wastewater system. She said Eugene would pay for adding capacity to outlying communities <br />either by increased rates or diminished local service. <br /> <br />The motion failed, 6:2; Mr. Kelly and Ms. Ortiz voting in favor. <br /> <br />B. D. WORK SESSION: An Ordinance Prohibiting Extreme Fighting; Adding Section 4.740 to <br />the Eugene Code, 1971; and Amending Section 4.990 of that Code <br /> <br />City Manager Taylor stated that the work session had been requested by Mr. Kelly and introduced City <br />Attorney Jerry Lidz to discuss the proposed ordinance to regulate extreme fighting, also known as cage <br />fighting. <br /> <br />Mr. Lidz said the question before the council was whether the ordinance should proceed to public hearing. <br />He said the structure of the ordinance was that it regulated only amateur participants because State law had <br />exclusive control over professional boxing and wrestling, which included extreme fighting. He asked the <br />council to review the definition of extreme fighting in the proposed ordinance and determine if the attributes <br />represented those activities the council wished to regulate. <br /> <br />Ms. Ortiz commented that some communities regarded extreme fighting as a form of entertainment. She <br />was not opposed to a public hearing on the ordinance but would not support a ban. She would consider <br />some regulation. She said the fights happened whether or not the City regulated them and she would prefer <br />to provide a venue for people to take out those aggressions. She said her rationale for regulating was <br />concern for people who were injured and permanently disabled. She thought the organizations sponsoring <br />extreme fighting should be required to have insurance. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor said he was cautious about the City regulating what people chose to do with their lives, but <br />recognized that cities did regulate everything from motorcycle helmets to seat belts. He thought that cage <br />fighting was barbaric and endorsing or supporting that type of behavior was repugnant, but he questioned to <br />what extent his personal opinion should be imposed on others. He supported taking the ordinance to a <br />public hearing to learn more about the subject. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly commented that he raised the issue because extreme fighting was utterly unregulated and <br />untrained amateurs were seriously injured and in some cases permanently disabled. He said there were both <br />male and female matches and, while walking through the Lane County Events Center he had observed an <br />event and found it to be the most brutal and dehumanizing experience he had ever witnessed. He said <br />extreme fighting encouraged a lust for blood and questioned whether that was what young people in the <br />community should be exposed to. He said that society had taken steps to regulate things like cock fighting <br />and public executions, choosing not to appeal to the basest instincts in all of us. He supported moving the <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council August 14, 2006 Page 9 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />