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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> Work Session <br /> McNutt Room--City Hall <br /> February 14, 2000 <br /> 5:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Bobby Lee, Betty Taylor, Nancy Nathanson, Pat Fart, Scott <br /> Meisner, David Kelly, Gary Rayor. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: Gary Pap~. <br /> <br />Mayor James D. Torrey called the meeting to order. <br /> <br />A. TransPlan <br /> <br />Planning Director Jan Childs reviewed the materials related to the agenda item included in the meeting packet. <br /> <br />Mr. Rayor arrived at the meeting. <br /> <br />Ms. Childs called the council's attention to Appendix F of the TransPlan document and said the glossary <br />definition of nodal development was not updated to reflect the Planning Commission's changes. She asked <br />the council to refer to the Metropolitan Plan amendments rather than the generic TransPlan glossary for that <br />definition. <br /> <br />Mr. Farr arrived at the meeting. <br /> <br />Ms. Childs referred the council to a memorandum in the meeting packet entitled Review and <br />Recommendations: TransPlan Provisions for Land Use/Nodal Development and reviewed the staff <br />response to testimony and recommendations regarding TransPlan's provisions for nodal development and <br />land use. She requested council input. <br /> <br />Ms. Childs referred to the definition of nodal development on page 2 of the memorandum, noted testimony <br />from Friends of Eugene (FOE) calling for a definition of "node," and said that after consultation with legal <br />counsel, staff now recommended not having such a definition. The City Attorney's Office indicated concern <br />over two separate definitions of nodal development and node, and the potential one could be referred to over <br />the other in a land use proceeding. <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey determined that there was no objection to the staff recommendation. <br /> <br />Mr. Meisner said that there was no goal statement associated with nodes, or a sense of what the community <br />was trying to accomplish. He believed that there was community misunderstanding about what a node was. <br />He suggested that using the word "concentrated" from the FOE definition gave the definition more focus. Mr. <br />Kelly concurred. Ms. Childs clarified that the staff recommendation was to compare the two definitions and <br />attempt to find the strongest points in the two. <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 14, 2000 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />