CC Agenda Packet 05-29-18A Work Session

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Overview/Purpose tƩƚƆĻĭƷ 5ĻƭĭƩźƦƷźƚƓ Envision Eugene adoption process, the City expects to accommodate approximately 15,000 new homes in the next 20 years within our current Urban Growth Boundary (UGB). We anticipate that a mixture of diverse and changing needs over this period. Our housing needs must be also be balanced with the related to neighborhood livability, public health and safety, economic opportunities, and natural resource protections expressed through the Envision Eugene pillars. Senate Bill 1051 amended the definition of means all housing on land zoned for residential use or mixed residential and commercial use. Needed housing includes the following housing types: attached and detached single-family, multiple family, government assisted, mobile home or manufactured dwelling. Needed housing developments are entitled to a land use application process under clear and objective approval standards as required by State law. In 2001-e Eugene City Council adopted a two-track system for the following types of land use applications: partitions, subdivisions, site reviews, oval criteria required by state law for housing applications The approval criteria included in the Needed Housing tracks are intended to be clear and objective, and to offer a predictable path to approval for housing projects that meet the criteria. The City also offers land use applicants an alternative process that includes discretionary (i.e. subjective) approval criteria and is designed to allow more flexibility in discretionary track. Housing applicants are entitled to choose either track. An excerpt of the applicable State statutes is provided at the end of this charter for reference. Several of adopted clear and objective approval criteria are viewed by some as overly burdensome or as barriers to housing; not necessarily the best way to achieve the regulatory intent; and, in some instances increasing the cost or time required to obtain land use approvals and construct housing. time period, a number of legal challenges have occurred through land use appeals where the applicant has asserted that our criteria violate State law because they are subjective, increase cost and uncertainty, or are otherwise difficult to meet on certain sites. In their view, these criteria are a barrier to housing and should be amended or repealed. clear and objective approval criteria - by the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) to violate the statutory requirement for being clear and objective, and can no longer be applied. This is a problem for our community because we do not have a clear and objective criterion in place that addresses concern about safe access to and from developments. Additionally, a recent decision by the Eugene Hearings Official determined that the Traffic Impact Analysis standards are not clear and objective. The purpose of the Traffic Impact Analysis review, when applicable, is to ensure that developments provide facilities to accommodate the traffic Page 3 | 16 Draft Project Charter