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they are suggesting stronger language for the cities dealing with housing supply and <br /> needs analysis. He said the plan is an excellent one as it has citizen based involvement <br /> throughout, to monitor it closely. He said he will be recommending it. <br /> <br /> Max Liebreich, 1969 Columbia, Eugene, stated he is against high apartment complex <br /> densities and wants to see them spread out farther. He added he is against putting low <br /> income people into bigger projects with smaller areas around them. He said the city <br /> needs to be looking at smaller lot sizes with green areas around them for open spaces. <br /> <br /> Jim Croteau, City of Eugene, reported the public notice that went out advertising this <br /> hearing and study indicated to the public that they did have until April 26 to submit <br /> written comments. He added they have tentatively set work sessions with all three <br /> jurisdictions and made a handout for members of the public. He noted that all Metro <br /> Plan Amendments require unanimous approval by all three jurisdictions and if there is <br /> disagreement, the dispute resolution process is with the MPC. He said the Eugene City <br /> Council has scheduled Work Sessions on May 24 at 5:30 p.m. and May 26 at 5:30 p.m. <br /> He said that Springfield City Council will have theirs on June 7 at 6:00 p.m. He said <br /> that the Lane County Work Session is tentatively set for June 16, but not an exact time. <br /> He noted that staff will provide a listing of all work sessions to anyone that submitted <br /> testimony or had testified tonight. <br /> <br /> Sorenson questioned protecting high quality agricultural soils within the residential land <br /> study. <br /> <br /> Croteau responded that staff wanted to prepare additional material for the Work <br /> Sessions. He added at the Work Session the County Commissioners had, they <br /> produced a map that showed that everything within the urban growth boundary is high <br /> value soils. He said the sites that are vacant and in farm deferral are at the periphery in <br /> the North Coburg Road area towards Armitage Park and in Springfield in the Jasper <br /> area. He noted they will provide all three groups more information about that and the <br /> applicability of state law. He said that once land is put inside the urban growth <br /> boundary, the state and local laws claim the land is then considered urbanizable. He <br /> added if the elected officials decided to take the land out of the inventory, there would <br /> need to be a process to make up the land that had been set aside for residential uses and <br /> either increase the density or redesignate other lands within the urban growth boundary <br /> or expand the urban growth boundary onto other non-resource lands. He noted that <br /> with regard to wetlands, open space and other resource areas, the planning <br /> commissions' recommendations take into account that approximately 32% of the land <br /> that is designated for residential use will be in other uses. He said in addition, the <br /> planning commissions are recommending that certain constrained lands not be assigned <br /> to development in the future. He said the recommendations do contain analysis that <br /> constrained lands and resource lands should be protected. <br /> <br />Page 12 -- Joint Elected Officials Meeting -- April 14, 1999 <br />WP bc/m/99039/T <br /> <br /> <br />