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property one found on Greenhill Road. He questioned whether staff had considered the transportation impact of hospital placement on such a road. Councilor Solomon felt it to be an opportune time to address the concerns that Mr. Kloos had raised. She asked if staff concurred. Mr. Coyle replied that embedded in the assumption was that the proposal would look at 20 to 25 acres for a hospital site. He said that it was unclear as to what ancillary uses would become over the next 10 to 15 years and how the uses would fall under zoning uses. He suggested that the issue be covered in a discussion of zoning amendments. Councilor Pap6 did not think that an ancillary clinic needed the same kind of consideration that a hospital did. Mr. Coyle opined that the ancillary uses were the uses that impact neighborhoods the most, as a hospital would have a large setback. In response to a question from Councilor Pap~, Mr. Coyle explained that a traffic impact analysis (TIA) was related to the scale of a project. He stated that it would not be possible for the Planning Department and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to obtain different results as ODOT was concerned with the transportation assets of the State and not the City. Councilor Kelly requested a written response on the issue of scale, noting that he agreed with Councilor Pap~ that there was a big difference between a 250-bed hospital and a 10-bed clinic. He suggested that the issue of ancillary clinics be addressed in depth at a later date. Councilor Kelly reiterated his concern that allowing a hospital as a permitted use would not allow site specific conditions to be placed on such a development. He asked staff to respond to this. Continuing, Councilor Kelly requested clarification from the City Attorney regarding the opinion that no Metro Plan amendment was needed. He wondered how the situation in Eugene was different from the situation in Springfield, which was currently in the process of addressing a Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) suit regarding the hospital proposal there. He noted one of the central points of the appeal was the contention that the Metro Plan would not allow development of a hospital in residential zones. He advised caution prior to proceeding ~down that same road." In conclusion, Councilor Kelly advocated for bringing a specific proposal as to how to indicate to providers that the City was willing to discuss incentives and property assembly. He added that it was not necessary to fix the hospital zone at a two-mile radius as per the recommendation from the Planning Commission, that the City could choose to make the zone larger. Councilor Bettman speculated that a new hospital could be as large as 750,000 to 1 million square feet. She asked how this would affect the assumptions in the Trans Plan. She said that LCOG had based all of its modeling on assumptions on what the different zones would be used for and that allowing such a large development in any zone, as she asserted the staff recommendation would do, would change those assumptions. She asked staff to address this. Mayor Torrey asked staff to provide copies of the information requested by the council to all councilors. MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 8, 2003 Page 13 Regular Meeting