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MINUTES Eugene City Council McNutt Room--City Hall June 21, 1999 5:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Scott Meisner, Nancy Nathanson, Pat Fart, Bobby Lee, Betty Taylor, David Kelly, Gary Rayor, Gary Pap~. JOINT WORK SESSION OF THE EUGENE CITY COUNCIL AND THE EUGENE PLANNING COMMISSION The council was joined by Planning Commissioners Robert Conrad, Ann Marie Levis, Adell McMillan, Ellen Wojahn, Peter Barrel, and Jon Belcher. Mayor James D. Torrey called the council to order at 5:30 p.m. Planning Commission President Robert Conrad called the meeting of the Planning Commission to order. Those present introduced themselves. Mr. Torrey noted Ms. Levis had recently been named president of Funk and Associates. Mr. Conrad provided a brief overview of the Planning Commission's work activities and accomplishments in fiscal year 1999. He invited questions. Mr. Kelly asked what process the commission envisioned for the Land Use Code Update (LUCU) review, and if the council could get a check-in before receiving the commission's recommendations for a sense of the rationale behind the changes. He said that during the meetings he had attended the commission had spent time on detail, and asked if the commission had spent any time in "big picture, philosophical" discussions. Regarding Mr. Kelly's first question, Ms. Levis believed there was a disconnect between the commission's deliberations and its recommendations to the council. She said that it was difficult to review those sometimes extensive deliberations in a short period of time. Ms. Levis said that the commission talked both about the "big picture" issues and minutiae. She was also concerned about the Land Use Code Update. She recalled the council's participation in the commission's work on the Growth Management Study, which helped other councilors to understand the recommendations. Ms. Levis hoped to be able to bring the councilors into the LUCU review, but she did not how to do so efficiently without more meetings. Mr. Conrad said the commission was attempting to review the code as people who might use the code. He said that the commission considered the draft in light of the Growth Management Study policies. He noted that the department advisory committee worked on the draft for two years and the commission would also spend two years on it, and suggested that much effort was difficult to encapsulate in a single meeting. MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 21, 1999 Page 1 5:30 p.m.