CC Agenda Packet 05-29-18A Work Session

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Public Involvement Plan Overview Through the Envision Eugene adoption process, the need to accommodate approximately 15,000 new homes within our urban growth boundary (UGB) over the next 20 years was identified. A diverse mixture of s regarding livability, public health and safety, and natural resource protectionas expressed through the Envision Eugene pillarswith the need to mitigate existing barriers to housing development. requires that local governments adopt and apply only clear and objective standards, conditions, and procedures regulating the development of housing. The standards, conditions, and procedures may not discourage needed housing through unreasonable cost or delay. A number of legal challenges have occurred, through appeals of land use decisions, where applicants asserted that our approval criteria violated the State requirements to be clear and objective, increased cost and uncertainty, or were otherwise difficult to meet on specific sites. Several existing clear and objective housing approval criteria are perceived by some as barriers to providing the housing our community needs. Two approval criteria we previously relied on can no longer be applied after being determined that they were not clear and objective. Given our need to accommodate growth, the state requirement to provide a clear and objective path to land use approval, and the values; it is a worthwhile exercise to reevaluate and possibly update criteria to meet these goals. The Eugene City Council directed an update to approval criteria for housing applications, with a target for bringing proposed updates before them within 1 which occurred January 2018. Goals of the Public Involvement Plan The purpose of this plan is to guide stakeholder and public involvement in updating the clear and objective approval criteria for housing. The project will include reaching out to identify development barriers, potential legal vulnerabilities, and gaps in our criteria that might hinder achieving our community vision. The Project Management Team is committed to a public engagement process that is: Meaningful: We will use the input received to help draft clear and objective land use approval criteria for housing. Accountable: We will respond to ideas, critique, comments, and praise. Inclusive: We will strive to communicate with all stakeholders, including under-represented groups, in ways that people understand and can relate to. Transparent: We will make decisions public and share information in a variety of ways. Realistic: Outcome-oriented: We will create community-supported clear and objective policies and procedures. Page 1 | 9 Draft Public Involvement Plan