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Councilor Taylor, seconded by Councilor Nathanson, moved to adopt the 2001 Legislative Policies Report, and to direct staff to make editorial changes which may be necessary for publication. Councilor Nathanson said that there were two questions before the council. The first was, "What to do with the report?" The second was, "Does the council wish to select top priorities for lobbying? And, if so, did it want to adopt them that night or wait until another date?" She recommended setting priorities at that meeting. She also recommending adopting the report that evening. She said that the document reflected what the State legislative program would be, but as Measure 7 becomes more clear and other issues develop, then the program might involve more than what was in the document. She said that the report was not the sum total of the legislative program and added that next year's Council Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Committee (CCIGR) would consider a number of things not in the document. Councilor Kelly made the following suggested changes to the document to general consensus: · He suggested that, in the "Planning Policies" section of the document, language be inserted that used revisiting the needed housing rule and the requirement that all refinement plan criteria be directly in the land use code as examples of cases where the State was overstepping local zoning authority. · He noted that there was no transportation package at the legislature for the upcoming session and remarked that the document needed to be changed to reflect that. · He expressed a desire to see language included in the document regarding funding for nodal development initiatives. Councilor Kelly noted that the 1999 document language strongly supported the Oregon Transportation Plan and questioned the changed language that said that the City supported the Plan as long as it was consistent with City policies. He suggested that the language of the 1999 be examined to see if the language was still what the City wanted to support. Sara Hamlen, Intergovernmental Relations Manager, said that a number of the transportation elements that were proposed as a package in the last legislative session were not being brought forward by the League of Oregon Cities or the Association of Oregon Counties in the upcoming session, although there would be a transportation package offered. Councilor Nathanson raised concern that reviewing the 1999 document language, reviewing new staff proposed language, and going over the Oregon Transportation Plan would be a very long process. She stressed the need for adopting the report by the conclusion of council business that Wednesday. She said that the CClGR did not have time to review the Oregon Transportation Plan independent of staff analysis and determine if it was still consistent before the close of the Wednesday meeting. Councilor Kelly raised concern that the language was simply brought forward from the 1999 document without a closer review. Councilor Bettman said that the language in the document was reassuring to her. She suggested that if the language "...consistent with City policy" was removed from the document the council might be viewed as supporting things that were not consistent with City policy. MINUTES--Eugene City Council December 11, 2000 Page 8 Regular Meeting