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Ms. Bettman asked staff to explain what the money allocated in FY03 for master planning nodal develop- ment areas was to be spent on. Ms. Bishow said she would provide this information in writing. Mayor Torrey closed the work session. B.ACTION: An Ordinance Amending Chapter 9 of the Eugene Code Regarding Hospital and Related Medical Uses; and Adopting a Severability Clause City Manager Dennis Taylor requested council action on the amendment to the Land Use Code. He introduced Planning and Development Director, Tom Coyle, who would provide the final overview prior to the action. Mr. Coyle said the ordinance before the council reflected three changes that staff perceived as directed at the work session: 1) New language added regarding the hospital site, specific to its adjacency of a collector grade street or above. 2) A requirement that subsequent reviews would be subject to the public hearing process and modification to the site plans or elevations would go through the conditional use process. 3) The definition of hospital use was refined to now provide for PeaceHealth on the Hilyard campus as well as the project envisioned by McKenzie-Willamette Hospital. City Attorney Glenn Klein added that the allowance for the PeaceHealth campus on its current site did not allow for any expansion, as per the West University Refinement Plan. He explained that the only way the campus could expand would be through the conditional use permit (CUP) process. Mr. Papd moved, seconded by Ms. Nathanson, that the City Council adopt Council Bill 4849, an ordinance concerning hospital zoning. Mr. Kelly wanted any ordinance adopted to be provider-neutral. He was concerned this definition would allow PeaceHealth to buy the surrounding four blocks and develop it as an outright permitted use. Mr. Klein reassured Mr. Kelly that a CUP would be required for any expansion. Mr. Kelly called the adoption of the ordinance an "adoption of a very permissive use." Mr. Klein stressed that there were two levels of protection, a refinement plan incorporated into the ordinance through the definition of hospital development site and the existing code provision. Mr. Kelly questioned the need to hurry in adopting such a broad ordinance. He noted that the council had unanimously passed a resolution that welcomed hospitals in the City of Eugene and provided liberal incentives for hospital development within two miles of the core of the City. He did not feel the need to approve a hospital zoning ordinance when no hospital entity had concretely said it wanted to put a hospital '~just about anywhere" in Eugene. He said he would rather work with a specific provider when the time came and fashion something specific to its needs. In response to a question from Ms. Bettman, Mr. Klein assured her that the PeaceHealth Campus could not MINUTES--Eugene City Council October 22, 2003 Page 4 Work Session