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<br />July 24, 2019, Meeting – Item 7 <br />between the Agency Board and WDA for approximately eight acres of the Downtown Riverfront site. Since that time, the City’s consultant team has prepared the land use applications that are the subject of this public hearing, and if adopted by council, will ensure the City’s regulations allow the riverfront site to be redeveloped in accordance with WDA’s concept plan. The Eugene Planning Commission held an initial public hearing in the proposed adoption package on May 7, 2019. Following an open record period to consider additional testimony, they conducted deliberations at three separate meetings on June 3, 4 and 11, 2019 to reach a final recommendation to City Council. Their unanimous recommendation for approval of the overall land use adoption package (4:0) includes several recommended changes to the proposed code language for Downtown Riverfront Special Area Zone (S-DR) which will be provided separately, in next week’s Council packet. Staff will also provide an overall summary of the Planning Commission’s recommendation that highlights a few key areas of focus that came out of their deliberations. The full record of materials including a draft ordinance with supporting findings and exhibits, is available for review in a binder located at the City Council Office. As a courtesy (not the formal, complete record), the application materials are also available on the City’s website at: https://pdd.eugene-or.gov/LandUse/SearchApplicationDocuments?file=CA-19-0001. A copy of the draft ordinance and findings are also included in Attachment B to this agenda item summary. Due to the size of the ordinance and exhibits, one full color copy is provided in the Council office; otherwise, these materials are available online using the link above, or additional hardcopies can be provided upon request. Several copies of the full record, and the draft ordinance with exhibits, will also be made available at the public hearing. As a reminder, this request is subject to quasi-judicial procedures, which requires that the Council’s decision be based upon the applicable approval criteria. Those approval criteria include Sections 9.8065, 9.8424, 9.8470 and 9.4980, 9.8515, 9.8815, and 9.8865 of the Eugene Code, which are addressed in the written findings in Attachment B, Exhibit D. Quasi-judicial procedures dictate the order of speakers at the public hearing and set forth other procedural requirements such as the need for Councilors to disclose any ex parte contact. At the beginning of the hearing, each councilor will be asked to disclose any such “ex parte contacts they may have had. <br />PREVIOUS COUNCIL DIRECTION On July 9, 2018, council voted to initiate the necessary land use code amendments (and other related land use application components) necessary to carry out implementation of the WDA concept plan for redevelopment of the Downtown Riverfront site. Since that time, the necessary applications have been prepared and processed in accordance with the City’s land use application procedures to date. A summary of additional City Council and Urban Renewal Agency meetings leading up to these formal land use proceedings is included in the written findings attached to the proposed ordinance (see Attachment B, Exhibit D).