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Councilor Rayor requested that staff, in the context of the lSth Avenue vacation, the amendment H3, the bridging issue, and the connection to the west side of the site, do a street connectivity study. City Manager Johnson said that there was a work session scheduled on August 2, and that he would attempt to have the study done to be dealt with at that meeting. In response to a question from Councilor Pap~ regarding the status of the Speedway Site according to staff, Mr. Bj~rklund said that there had been some contact with the owners' consultants after the last meeting, but noted that the staff recommendation was designed to respond to the concerns voiced at the April 12 public hearing. In response to a question from Councilor Pap~ regarding whether staff had received a proposal from Mr. Holtar and whether it had responded to it, Mr. Bj~rklund said that there had been general proposals discussed and what staff had recommended was in response to those. City Attorney Klein noted that the council was limited to data contained in the record. He added that the record had closed. He said that if the council based a decision on information from outside of the record and somebody challenged that in court, the City would lose. Mr. Bj~rklund said that materials that came in after the record had closed were not forwarded to the council and were not part of the public record on the agenda item. Councilor Kelly said that he was comfortable with the staff recommendation as it was presented in the work session. Councilor Kelly, seconded by Councilor Meisner, moved to direct staff to prepare an ordinance and findings consistent with the staff recommendation on the Speedway site. In response to a question from Councilor Rayor regarding the options that had been presented to the council at the work session, Mr. Bj~rklund said that the first option was to accept the Planning Commission recommendation. He noted that this was the option chosen by the council. The second option was what was submitted by the property owner. The third option was a compromise between those two, recommended by staff, that avoided impacts to any rare plants and had less wetland acres impacted while addressing the access issue. In response to a question from Mayor Torrey regarding how wide the access road would have to be to be adequate, Mr. Bj~rklund said that, at the worksession, staff raised two issues related to access. The first was how to get from West 11th Avenue onto the existing access road and into the land in question. He said that this question was addressed in the staff recommendation. The second issue discussed was access to the Speedway Site itself and whether the access was wide enough. He noted that an option was presented that would have widened that access road in addition to the changes recommended by staff to address access from West 11th Avenue. Mr. Bj~rklund said that the council had elected to reject those options. Councilor Fart commented that until he could be satisfied that the traffic issue had been resolved, he could not support the ordinance. MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 24, 2000 Page 15 Regular Meeting