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Councilor Rayor said that he would be bringing a number of amendments to the Wednesday meeting for the downtown visioning document. He noted that was on the committee and had a hard time getting staff to address bicycle and pedestrian issues. He said that the idea behind the amendments was to get people to park their cars in the garages downtown, and to get people to walk around the rest of downtown. Councilor Bettman apologized to forum speakers who were not able to speak but noted that there had been hours of public testimony and hundreds of letters and e-mails submitted that dealt with the tobacco ordinance. Councilor Bettman said that she had gone on an officer ride-along in response to concerns raised from students about police conduct. She said that she had not observed any questionable conduct by the police during that time. She encourage students with complaints against the police to file formal complaints and noted that this was the only way to document a problem. Councilor Bettman noted that there had been a lot of opposition to the special response fee but no one had offered any kind of alternate solution. She said that the ordinance being proposed had a lot of feedback from the community and again noted that no one had come forward with an alternate solution. III.CONSENT CALENDAR A. Approval of Council Minutes B. Approval of Tentative Agenda Councilor Taylor, seconded by Councilor Nathanson, moved to approve the Consent Calender, including the minutes of the September 18, 2000, work session, the September 27, 2000, work session, the October 27, 2000, work session, the October 10, 2000, regular session, and the tentative working agenda. Councilor Kelly noted that Chief Tom Tallon's name was incorrectly spelled in the minutes of the September 27, 2000, work session. He also noted that the October 10, 2000, regular session minutes incorrectly indicated the meeting took place in the McNutt Room; the meeting occurred in the Council Chamber. Councilor Bettman offered a change to page 7 of the September 18 minutes, asking that the last sentence in paragraph 8 be replaced with the following: "She preferred other density strategies, including cottage zoning and asset mapping." Referring to the minutes of the October 2, 2000, work session, Councilor Nathanson asked that the following text be added the last sentence on page 6 in paragraph 3: "...and that high school, college, and university campuses were activity centers, more like commercial than residential areas." Referring to paragraph 4 on page 7, Councilor Nathanson requested that the third sentence be modified to read (struck text deleted, italicized text added): "She raised concern over prescribing certain kinds of lighting, instead of proscribing compfiance with objectives and aflowJng the designers to meet objectives ,A,~,~,+~,_,,~,,,~, '-"~-~ .... '~ '~'o~-~"~ '-~-~'"*~ ...... Referring to page 9, Councilor Nathanson asked that first MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 13, 2000 Page 6 Regular Meeting