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City planning processes and commented on code amendments that affected it. There was no <br />formal consultation board but regular meetings occurred. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap~ referred to the school closure policy and asked if the school districts were consulted and <br />agreed with what was being proposed. Mr. Croteau said yes. <br /> <br />Mr. Fart asked staff to discuss the difference between "affordable" and "low-income" housing. Mr. <br />Johnson said that it depended to some degree on the speaker and what was in their mind. Some <br />people use the term affordable to refer to Iow-income or subsidized housing. Most planning <br />documents were clear that housing subsidized by the federal or State government was Iow- or <br />moderate-income housing, and there were criteria associated with those definitions. Mr. Fart <br />wanted to be clear that Iow-income housing was included in the definition of affordable housing, <br />but the need for affordable housing should be in forefront of everyone's mind. <br /> <br />Responding to Mr. Fart, Ms. Bettman said that the council was governed by the definitions it <br />adopted for Residential Lands Study, which were specific in terms of percentage of median <br />income and housing costs. Policy A-8 referring to affordable housing was from that study. The <br />definition in the plan in question was broader than that definition, and gave each city discretion to <br />determine what it wanted. <br /> <br /> Ms. Taylor, seconded by Mr. Kelly, moved to take tentative action on adoption <br /> of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Public Facilities and Services Plan as <br /> a refinement plan to the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan <br /> (Metro Plan) and related Metro Plan amendments, and as amended through <br /> Addenda #1, #2, #3, and #4; and including existing power generation <br /> facilities in the metropolitan area owned or operated by the Springfield Utility <br /> Board and the Eugene Water & Electric Board on Map 4 of the Public <br /> Facilities and Service Plan which shows electrical facilities. The motion <br /> passed unanimously, 7:0. <br /> <br />B. Work Session: Review of Exemption in Smoking Prohibition Ordinance for Establishments <br /> Obtaining Building Permits <br /> <br />Jan Bohman of the City Manager's Office joined the council for the item. She reported that the <br />implementation of the smoking prohibition ordinance implementation was going well and in many <br />cases businesses complied before the ordinance had become effective on July 1. <br /> <br />Ms. Bohman noted testimony was received by the council during a recent Public Forum regarding <br />possible abuse of the six-month extension available to businesses who applied for a building <br />permit before July 1 for an outdoor seating area to accommodate smokers. She emphasized that <br />the ordinance required compliance by the end of the calendar year, whether construction was <br />complete or not. Ms. Bohman said that she had reviewed about half of the 31 building permit <br />applications submitted to the City. Many were for relatively minor improvements. She was <br />exploring with the City Attorney's Office how to enforce the ordinance provision calling for a <br />reasonable pace of construction, noting that the building permit process does not involve any <br />enforcement or monitoring prior to 180 days, which was the outer limit of the City's extension for <br />the smoking prohibition ordinance. Ms. Bohman said that staff was contemplating adopting a <br />temporary administrative rule clarifying the milestones that property owners must achieve to <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 18, 2001 Page 3 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />