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April 13, 2020, Meeting – Item 4 EUGENE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Public Hearing: An Ordinance Clarifying Relationship between Approved Riverfront Park Permit and S-DR Downtown Riverfront Code and Amending Section 9.3155 of the Eugene Code, 1971. Meeting Date: April 13, 2020 Agenda Item Number: 4 Department: Public Works Staff Contact: Emily Proudfoot www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-4915 ISSUE STATEMENT The City Council will hold a quasi-judicial public hearing on an ordinance to amend Eugene Code Chapter 9 (land use code). This City-initiated process proposes an amendment to a section of the recently adopted land use code provisions for the Downtown Riverfront Special Area Zone. The proposed amendment would allow the City to move forward with construction of the City-approved park pavilion structure within the view corridor at the east end of 5th Avenue (see Attachment A). BACKGROUND On July 22, 2019, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 20619, approving a package of land use applications to authorize redevelopment of the former EWEB site consistent with the updated concept plan for the site. The 2019 Ordinance included amendments to Eugene Code 9.3155(15), which limits structures within the designated view corridors of the S-DR Downtown Riverfront Special Area Zone (see Attachment B). In the same ordinance, however, the City Council also approved a /WR Water Resources Conservation Overlay Zone Standards Review application (City File SDR 19-2) to allow specific park features, including an art pavilion structure within the view corridor at the East end of 5th Avenue overlooking the Willamette River (see Attachment C). In moving forward with park development, staff noticed this previously overlooked inconsistency between the limitations of EC 9.3155(15) and the authorization of SDR 19-2. The proposed amendment would address the inconsistency. The City Council’s approval of SDR 19-2 indicates an intent to authorize the placement of the art pavilion in the view corridor extending from 5th Avenue. The proposed land use code amendment would make that intent explicit and would allow the City to consider approval of future structures in a view corridor only through the /WR Standards Review process (see Attachment D). On March 3, 2020, the Eugene Planning Commission held a public hearing, deliberated, and unanimously voted to recommend that the City Council approve the proposed land use code amendment. No written or spoken testimony was received during the Planning Commission public hearing process. CC Agenda - Page 43