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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> Work Session <br /> McNutt Room-City Hall <br /> <br /> November 12, 2003 <br /> Noon <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Gary Pap6, Nancy Nathanson, Scott Meisner, David Kelly, Betty Taylor <br /> Bonny Bettman, George Poling, Jennifer Solomon. <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. <br /> <br />A. WORK SESSION: Transportation Systems Development Charges <br /> <br />City Manager Dennis Taylor explained that there had been requests to revisit the alternatives for the <br />adjustment to the transportation systems development charges (SDC). He introduced Fred McVey, <br />Engineering Data Services manager, who was present for the item. <br /> <br />Mr. McVey reported that staff had interpreted the request for a work session on this topic as direction to <br />focus on transportation SDCs as they relate to downtown development. He outlined the options for council <br />action as included on page 194 of the Agenda Item Summary (ALS). <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey called for council comments and questions. <br /> <br />Mr. Poling stated that he had requested the work session after the meeting in July of 2003 at which the <br />council voted down the amendments related to the SDCs based on concerns that it had "short-changed" the <br />City. <br /> <br />Mr. Meisner requested more information on the first option, that of directing the City Manager to prepare <br />modifications to the transportation SDC methodology to include adjustments which further consider reduced <br />capacity demand of development within the downtown area. He asked how the downtown would be treated <br />if designated as a node for transportation purposes in comparison to the geographic adjustment done before. <br /> <br />Mr. McVey stated that a geographic adjustment was a good example of a technical basis for providing an <br />adjustment to the SDCs that recognized the reduced impact of development downtown in relation to other <br />areas of the city. He said the adjustment would result in a 15 percent reduction in SDCs for the downtown <br />area, but this would correlate with an increase in an SDC in areas the council had expressed concern about <br />in previous deliberations. He noted that another possible method, if determined that downtown development <br />generated a lower number of trips on average than development in other parts of the City could use reduced <br />trip rates in the equation, but this data had not been gathered at this point in time. <br /> <br />In response to a question from Mr. Meisner, Mr. McVey estimated it would take approximately six months <br />to study trip generation from downtown. He stated that the nodal designation would result in a 10 percent <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 12, 2003 Page 1 <br /> Regular Meeting <br /> <br /> <br />