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May 20, 2019, Work Session – Item 2 <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL <br />AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY <br />Work Session: Clear & Objective Housing - Approval Criteria Update Meeting Date: May 20, 2019 Agenda Item: 2 Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Jenessa Dragovich <br />www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-8385 <br />ISSUE STATEMENT The City Council will be provided with a project update of the Clear & Objective Housing Approval Criteria Update, including draft land use code language to implement the previously approved recommendations. The City Council is requested to review the draft land use code language and take action to move forward with the formal adoption process. <br />BACKGROUND As part of the Envision Eugene urban growth boundary process, in 2015, City Council initiated several projects. These included establishing a baseline UGB, establishing urban reserves, growth monitoring and updating the City’s needed housing (clear and objective) regulations. Related to the City’s needed housing regulations, the council specifically directed the following action: <br />-Update the City’s procedures and approval criteria for needed housing <br />applications (applications to develop housing in areas identified for housing <br />in the City’s Buildable Lands Inventory and Housing Needs Analysis). <br />-Target for City consideration of proposed updates: within 1 year of State <br />acknowledgement of the baseline UGB.Through this project, Eugene’s existing clear and objective approval criteria are being reevaluated for potential updates. Proposed updates must meet the following goals: •accommodate housing on lands available within our current UGB•provide a clear and objective path to land use approval for all housing as required by Statelaw•guide future housing development in a way that reflects our community’s valuesThe project has identified land use approval criteria and procedures to be updated, added or removed to improve efficiency in complying with State requirements for clear and objective regulations, while still effectively addressing development impacts. As a reminder, state law requires that local governments adopt and apply clear and objective standards, conditions and procedures regulating the development of all housing. The intent of this