CC Minutes - 02/20/07 Public Hearing

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MINUTES Eugene City Council Public Hearing Council Chamber—Eugene City Hall 777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon February 20, 2007 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor, Betty Taylor, Bonny Bettman, Jennifer Solomon, George Poling, Mike Clark, Alan Zelenka. Her Honor Kitty Piercy called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. She asked those present to acknowledge the tragic death of Nathan McBryde at Willamette Pass Ski area the previous weekend with a moment of silence, and to reach out to his family. She said it was a loss for the entire community. 1. PUBLIC HEARING: FY08-13 Draft Capital Improvement Program Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing. Roxie Cuellar , 2053 Laura Street, representing the Home Builders Association of Lane County and Homebuilders Construction Company, expressed her organizations’ concern about the $51 million in parks projects included in the Capital Improvement Program (CIP). She said the association supported parks but objected that the City had not acknowledged the impact of its proposed parks acquisitions on the land supply. When the Parks, Recreation and Open Space Comprehensive (PROS) Plan was remanded by the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA), that agency ruled the plan could not be a stand-alone document, and at least part of it must be adopted as a refinement plan. LUBA also ruled that if the portion of the PROS plan adopted as a refinement plan did not include a precise estimate of the acreages required for parks, recreation, and open space facilities, it was unlikely the City would be able to justify a Metro Plan parks, recreation, and open space facilities element refinement plan if it failed to included mandatory standards that governed the selection and improvement of individual parks sites in the future. While there were standards in the PROS Plan related to acres-per-thousand residents for different park types, those were not mandatory standards. Ms. Cueller said the City had not dealt with the remand and had no mandatory standards. She thought the inclusion of the parks projects without those standards was in violation of the LUBA remand. Ms. Cueller discussed the issue of local wastewater lines, saying there was a lot of low-density land included in the urban growth boundary west of the city that could not be built on because it did not have services. The Residential Lands Study, acknowledged in 1999, outlined when areas were likely to receive service. Most of the area was slated to have service within seven to ten years, and that time was quickly approach- ing. She said if the council declined to look at the land supply, it should consider extending services. Carlos Barara , Olive Street, asked that the CIP include funding for Washington Park to allow for the conversion of the wading pool to a spray pool so small children could use it during the warm summer months. The Friendly Area Neighborhood Association supported the expenditure. MINUTES—Eugene City Council February 20, 2007 Page 1 Public Hearing