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present tonight for recognition of the housing impact having infrastructure decisions on environmental and other resources. She added they specifically endorse policies 15 through 18 and measures 8 to 20 that encourage development of high density and affordable housing in mixed use communities. Eleanor Mulder, 2775 Emerald, Eugene, stated she had attended many of LCOG's Development Committee meetings. She said the study should respond to people's housing dreams and wants and not to what they could afford. She said the theoretical demand should be expanded and the land supply lessened by changing the variety of the components that compute both figures. She said she was enthusiastic about the comments the Department of Land Conservation and Development made to address the draft's shortcoming. She said too much apartment development has not been aimed at the more narrowly affordable market but attached development has targeting the high end of the housing market. She asked to heed de-sale of the recommendations. Randy Prince, P. O. Box 927, stated he was in favor of utilizing market principles wherever possible. He said homeownership is more dependent on policies set at the federal and state level. He said that Eugene has more regulations, the quality of life is higher and that is why people want to move here. He suggested eliminating the pressure of people wanting to own homes from the equation, because the factors of homeownership are wrapped up in Washington, D.C. He suggesting allowing people to have extra bedrooms or parking spaces and leave it to the market. He asked the officials to support the economic growth by non-real estate indicators. Roxy Cuellar, 1255 Pearl St., Eugene, stated she is the Director of Government Affairs for the Lane County Homebuilders Association. She said they are recommending that council members and commissioners adopt and approve the recommendation that the planning commissions did with respect to the inventory on supply and demand. She said one of the reasons they are willing to accept the fact is the study concludes that there is a 20 year supply of buildable lands in the area. She said if the homebuilders think that they can use time most productively for the concept in the report there would be a better monitoring system for how much land is being used as they are developing it. She noted policy number 7 is too vague and asked that the language be clarified. She said they want to encourage all the parties interested to work together before the next periodic review, to arrive at a policy for dealing with the fact that seven years from now they will not have a 20 year buildable land supply. Mark Radabaugh, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, 635 Capital St., NE, Salem, stated their department is close to endorsing the work. He went over minor points of a letter dated April 14. He said they endorse the monitoring system. He noted that for the next periodic review, they will be under SB 2709 of 1995 that requires more effort in terms of developing good land use efficiency. He said Page 11 -- Joint Elected Officials Meeting -- April 14, 1999 WP bc/m/99039/T