CC Minutes - 11/26/01 Work Session

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legally without charging rent to every single program, and requested legal analysis of his question before the next work session. He agreed with Mr. Kelly that the council did not approve a rent program when it approved the transfer of the exception value. He did not think that staff had the authority to implement the program, and hoped it would be coming back to the council for action. Mr. Carlson said his point was not that the City Council started a new commitment of General Fund dollars with the action contemplated; his point was that in FY01, the council committed the FY00 exception value, and that was the resource the staff was proposing to use. Mr. Meisner agreed, but said the decision did not represent a policy statement that programs and services should be charged a rent. Mr. Farr said the staff-recommended approach seemed to be an equitable way of addressing the issue of constructing new facilities. He thought the proposal got to where the costs were actually incurred. He reiterated his support for the staff recommendation. C. Work Session: Minor Land Use Code Amendments The council was joined for the item by Planning Director Jan Childs and Senior Planner Teresa Bishow. Ms. Bishow identified two issues for further council discussion and direction: 1) large multi-tenant commercial standards and 2) flag lot standards, particularly those related to the building setback and building height limitations. Ms. Bishow called attention to Attachment D in the council packet, which included options for amending the multi-tenant commercial standards, noting the issue was not the standards themselves but when the standards should be triggered. Ms. Bishow noted the Planning Commission's recommendation for Option 1, to apply the standards to new buildings in cases where three or more new buildings were being constructed, and to the portions of the development site affected by the new buildings. Ms. Bishow called attention to three options for the flag lot standards, noting the Planning Division's recommendation the standards be applied only to lots created after August 1,2001, and that the Planning Commission further review the flag lot standards during its spring 2002 amendments package review. Ms. Taylor, seconded by Mr. Kelly, moved to direct the City Manager to prepare an ordinance to amend Section 9.2175(2) addressing large multi- tenant commercial standards, Option 1. Mr. Kelly agreed with the suggested change related to the portion of the development site directly affected by new buildings. He also agreed the multi-tenant commercial standards should apply to new buildings. However, he said there were many projects in Eugene where buildings were partially remodeled by destroying everything but one wall to avoid triggering code provisions. He MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 26, 2001 Page 9 Work Session