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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> Work Session <br /> McNutt Room--Eugene City Hall <br /> <br /> October 16, 2002 <br /> Noon <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: David Kelly, Gary Pap~, Nancy Nathanson, Scott Meisner, Pat Farr, <br /> Betty Taylor, Gary Rayor, Bonny Bettman. <br /> <br />Mayor James D. Torrey called the meeting to order. <br /> <br />A.WORK SESSION: Draft Endangered Species Act/Salmon Strategies <br /> <br />Senior Planner Mr. Bj0rklund introduced the item, noting the council's past direction to staff to <br />seek more public involvement on the proposed strategies. He said that, of the ten proposed <br />strategies developed by the City's Environmental Policy Team and forwarded to the Planning <br />Commission and the City Council, staff recommended that implementation of Strategy A, the <br />proposed overlay zone, be postponed while targeted citizen outreach occurred. That was the <br />primary regulatory strategy involved, and staff did not believe that it had involved potentially <br />affected property owners to the degree they understood the strategy. Staff proposed to hold three <br />targeted neighborhood meetings and to do a targeted mailing specific to the strategy. Mr. <br />Bj0rklund noted that the other nine proposed strategies were primarily internal in nature. One <br />strategy, the proposed noxious vegetation list, had minor regulatory implications. He invited <br />questions. <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey called for council comments and questions. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor hoped the City could revise and reinstate its waterway protection ordinance, which had <br />been remanded by the Land Use Board of Appeals. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor questioned the impact of postponing implementation of Strategy A. Mr. Bj~rklund <br />indicated the delay did not affect the actual implementation of the ordinance, which could not be <br />considered by the Planning Commission until fiscal year 2004, given its full work program. He <br />anticipated that the ordinance would come back to the council in May 2003. Ms. Taylor asked if <br />there was anything the City could do to protect the areas the overlay zone was intended to protect <br />in the meanwhile. Mr. Bj~rklund used a map mounted on the meeting room wall to identify publicly <br />owned land, stressing that the majority of the potentially affected land was publicly owned and <br />within the City's management purview. The City did not, at this time, have the regulatory authority <br />to restrict uses on private land beyond what was already in the code. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor asked if the courthouse site would be affected by the strategy. Mr. Bj~rklund said the <br />courthouse site would be within the area to which the strategy was applied. However, it could be <br />exempt in that all the proposed new buildings were likely to be in areas already developed. <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council October 16, 2002 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />