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providers and determine how the hospital could be made to work for both the hospital developer and the community. He underscored that the joint ventures board for Triad Hospitals, Incorporated and McKenzie- Willamette Hospital had yet to meet and questioned the merit of casting any code change "in concrete" prior to this meeting. He noted the support for the focus of the Planning Commission's recommendation voiced by the McKenzie-Willamette Hospital board. Councilor Poling stressed that the main goal was to have a full service hospital for the community. He noted that the initial direction given to staff had been in regard to code amendments that would address hospital and related medical uses. He commended the work that staff had done toward that direction. He said the Planning Commission's recommendation seemed like an overlay zone. Regarding the assertion that the hospital should be built ~where the people are," Councilor Poling related that population demographics, according to the Lane Council of Governments (LCOG), indicated that the population of the City was most dramatically increasing north of the river. He supported the staff recommendation. He felt that it would not only follow the original direction to staff to assist in siting a new hospital, but it would help existing hospitals and medical facilities in renewing, redeveloping, and expanding their current facilities as technology advances and the needs and size of the community grow. Councilor Taylor said she tended to favor the Planning Commission's recommendation. She felt the council would not be ready to make a decision on September 22. She stressed the importance of location and of having hospital care available on both sides of the river. Mayor Torrey reiterated that there would only be two hospitals and that both of the hospital entities would have the Certificate of Need. He stressed that a hospital should be sited in Eugene and that no barriers should block this progress. He added that the PeaceHealth campus on Hilyard Street should be permitted as it is an existing hospital. He felt the recommendation of staff to be a responsible recommendation. Mayor Torrey called for a five-minute break at 9:25 p.m. Councilor Bettman requested clarification of the language regarding the placement of ancillary clinics as it could be interpreted to allow such clinics in every zone. She reaffirmed the importance of providing emergency health care to every part of the City. Regarding compatible uses in C-1 zoning, Councilor Bettman asked staff to provide examples of how the height restrictions would be interpreted. Councilor Bettman asked how the City could best demonstrate to McKenzie-Triad that it was willing to take the steps to put together assembled property. Councilor Kelly agreed with Councilor Bettman that the City needed to indicate to the hospitals that it was willing to facilitate its placement. He noted that there was no other large land-use aside from hospitals allowed in as many zones. He questioned the broadness of the staff ordinance. He remarked that a C-1 zone would not allow a commercial development to exceed 5,000 square feet, but that a hospital could be a 200,000 square feet, or that the rule for an R-1 zone was that the height of a structure could not exceed the length of the setback and, as such, a hospital could be 100 feet tall provided it was 100 feet from the nearest street. He asked if a large hospital could be built on any property zoned industrial, such as MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 8, 2003 Page 12 Regular Meeting