CC Minutes - 04/12/00 Work Session

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of the sites in the amendment package under the new criteria that were adopted last year by the council and board. He said for the most part, the sites did not change. He noted the recommendations from the planning commissions were consistent with staft~s analysis with the new criteria and staff did not recommend any changes. He added there were exceptions that fell into four categories. He said some that were undesignated in the plan have been filled. He noted there are some sites on which staff is proposing utility corridor status in which the wetland continues to be protected but utility maintenance and repairs are allowed. He said there are a couple of sites that had not been mapped when the planning commission did the review, and in staft~s analysis under the new criteria, the recommendation was no longer consistent, so they recommended a change. Bjorklund reported the amendments are organized into three separate ordinances and they are being considered together for the public hearing. He noted the speedway and Hyundai site have their separate ordinances and all other sites and text amendments are lumped together. He added the decision on the amendments is made within the context of a land use planning process that has two levels of criteria: for designating the wetlands and for amending a refinement plan. He read the criteria from Eugene Code 9.145 (2) to be applied for those types of amendments. He noted the ordinances given to the elected officials contain findings that address each amendment and approval criteria. Bjorklund announced that he sent out public notice 22 days ago, notified all the affected property owners, owners of wetlands in the West Eugene plan area and all of the interested parties from all of the previous hearings. (Over 1,000 addresses are on the mailing list.) He added the elected officials will not take action tonight and the public record will close if there is no request to keep the record open for written comments. He said the Eugene City Council deliberation and action for the amendments are scheduled for June 12, 2000 and the Lane County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to deliberate on June 28, 2000. He noted an error in the packet that went to the elected officials: in the speedway site ordinance, Exhibit C on page 12, the heading "proposed criteria" should be "adopted criteria." PUBLIC HEARING Greg Dahn, 2555 W. 22nd Avenue, Eugene, stated he is a fourth generation Oregonian and he was laid off from the timber industry. He said he wasn't able to get a job in Oregon and worked in New Jersey. He said he was able to get a job in 1996 at Hyundai and move his family back from New Jersey. He stated that Hyundai provided good jobs for people. He asked the elected officials to allow Hyundai to do what was promised to them. Neale Hyatt, 740 Madison, St., stated the issue is not jobs, but a choice of where to put the jobs, knocking out wetlands for jobs, or taking more appropriate places to create jobs. He said wetlands have to be protected as they are a state goal. He said he was in favor of the proposed changes for the wetlands. He noted that Hyundai had conditions associated with their permit to build phase one and they were to do restoration on site (southeast comer). He said it hadn't been done, but it was a condition of the permit. If it had been done, he wanted the elected officials to see how successful it was and to note the condition of the wetlands now. Shawn Boles, 105 N. Adams, Eugene, noted the wetlands designated for protection and restoration have been approved by the Eugene Planning Commission twice, twice by the Lane