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Roxie Cuellar, 2053 Laura Street, spoke on behalf of the Home Builders Association of Lane County. She requested that the record be left open until the following Friday. She also requested that the plan be changed to eliminate any alternative criteria other than the "safe harbor" option. She also urged the standard procedure be applied to riparian corridors because it allowed for setbacks on stream corridors. Bob O'Brien, 3525 Gilham Road, showed a map of the Metro Plan update from 1978. He outlined the 1978 plan and noted that the current plan repeated much of the data on the 1978 plan, but that much of the inventoried land in the older inventory had been lost. He urged the council to finally approve the inventory plan. Marry Peers, 3734 West 58th Drive, Portland, Oregon, submitted written material into the record. He noted that land that he owned had been included on the inventory. He said his land was currently in the planned unit development process with hundreds of staff hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent over three years. He raised concern that all of the time and money spent would be wasted if the overlay were applied to his property. Lauri Segel, 120 West Broadway, representing 1,000 Friends of Oregon, read her written material into the record. She said maintained that staff had not upheld its obligation to complete the Goal 5 process. David Hinkley, 1350 Lawrence Street, said the City had been working on the inventory for 15 years. He stressed that the work had been done in the Goal 5 process. He stressed that the document was just an inventory and 15 years was enough time to complete it. Carol McGuigan, 860 West Park Street, submitted written testimony into the record. She said there was no way staff could have visited each site and made a determination. She remarked that many sites did not belong on the inventory list. Ron Farmer, 3330 Bardel Avenue, raised concern over waiting for the council to make a decision. He said he might not live long enough for the council to make a decision. He suggested taking a safe harbor approach which would save time and money. He raised concern that removing 3,500 acres of residential land from the UGB would only hasten its expansion. Debbie Jeffries, 3800 North Delta Highway, asked the council to replace the standard inventory process with the safe harbor approach for the riparian corridor and the upland wildlife resource categories and use the existing West Eugene Wetlands Plan to satisfy the wetland component of the Goal 5 process. She listed questions she felt should be answered by City staff: · The upland portion of site E76 was now part of a golf course. Why are other similar upland golf courses, such as the Eugene Country Club, not included? · Why did the agenda item summary not mention that over 80 percent of the people who testified at the December Planning Commission meeting opposed the inventory being considered? · Why have staff not explained that the delays in the process were due in part to staff not reading the entire OAR (Division 23) to discover that old Goal 5 and new Goal 5 cannot be used at the same time? · Why is land which staff requires be excluded from the PUD process as nonbuildable, included in the Goal 5 process as buildable land? MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 9, 2003 Page 14 Regular Session