Agenda Packet 12-12-18 Work Session

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Community Response to Online Survey Following 11/28/18 Meeting 92 • I was hoping for some examples from other communities around the country where these approaches to housing affordability have been used. I would like to see more analysis done on many of the options with pros and cons and benefits and consequences identified. • When will the Planning (and Development) staff have competent management and performance accountability? • Clarity of interests needed... multiple representatives representing same interest makes for an option that seems like it has less broad support. Anything Else to Add? • This Working Group as a get to know one another, has been useful, but as far as producing reliable information for Council, it has only produced unreliable information due to the process followed, which allowed too many irrelevant to "how does this topic produce affordable housing, or availability of affordable housing, or diversity (of what, types of housing?)? This WG is an example of Planning following the planning idea that is in current fashion, despite information from Seattle and Portland showing the shortcomings of thinking that zombie-like imposition of density on residential zones will produce the goals they advertise it will produce, when in fact, it destroys the livability of residential neighborhoods. • Thank you for working on this! Long overdue! Plan for future residents/future humans. Don’t let the process by hijacked by people only out to protect their investment/inherited wealth. • Very poor survey! Need to define “needed housing by price.” Raising minimum raises is a sham and the taxes are raised for salaries of government workers. Housing Technology not addressed in survey. Price of land vs construction cost vs infrastructure not addressed. There is a cost for sewers, roads, traffic lights, water run off etc. redone current commercial to housing and turning some parks into housing not address. Transportation infrastructure (people moving - mono rail / subway) not addressed. Buses are worst form of mass transit because of impact on limited space for roads. Need dollar amounts for each bracket being discussed. Last, need a pro and con before each questions! • The public and the Council needs more information about many of these options in order to make informed decisions. This effort should be thought of as the beginning of the process • I'd love to see incentives for cooperative housing. Such as LECs but also on a micro scale. Perhaps something like first rights of purchase to renters living in a house for a certain amount of time. Some sort of tax break seems feasible too. • Not on the list is expanding the UGB for housing. How about adding an option of prefab homes. • This is a ridiculous amount of material to go through. This online survey will only be answered by partisans (myself included), and I think will contain very little of use. Not that council will see that. This will just be passed along as if it's representative. • Expand the UGB for compact and affordable housing. Implement Opportunity Siting Follow the explicit strategies that the Council approved for Envision Eugene Get competent leadership for planning processes December 12, 2018, Work Session - Item 2