Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Michael Webb, 1492 Washington Street, supported adoption of the MCAs. This would affect the HBA but there would still be plenty of business opportunities available. Marilyn Mohr, 1085 North Park Avenue, was a Lane County resident, member of the River Road Community Organization (RRCO) Board and member of the ICS. She supported the twelve proposed amendments, including Amendments 5, 7, and 8. Neighborhood volunteers who proposed the amendments had thoroughly considered the impacts and had responded to concerns from the Planning Commission, the HBA, and the HPB. In the findings included in the AIS for this meeting, although some of the amendments addressed residential standards, the land use code amendments did not compact the supply or availability of residential lands. The sustainable neighborhood amendments were supported by the NLC and unanimously endorsed by ICS. She hoped the City’s stated goals of allowing growth while maintaining the character and livability of neighborhoods would prove to be a priority. th Carol DeFazio, 1437 West 10 Avenue, had submitted written testimony via e-mail. She supported the MCAs and urged the City Council to consider them carefully and adopt them. Mayor Piercy closed the public hearing and the public record on the matter before the City Council. She thanked everyone who attended the hearing. The Council was scheduled to take action on July 14, 2008. Councilor Clark thanked everyone who came to the hearing. He had several questions that he would submit to staff via e-mail for response prior to the City Council making a decision. 3. PUBLIC HEARING: Downtown Code Amendments Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing on the Downtown Code Amendments. She explained the process for conducting a public hearing. She said speakers would be limited to three minutes each and asked that City of Eugene residents identify which ward they lived in. John Brown, 101 East Broadway, Ward 5, was speaking on his own behalf, and not on behalf of any board or commission of which he may be a member. He distributed photographs of property at 260 West th 10 Avenue, consisting of commercial space on the ground floor and housing on the second floor, which had been the subject of a Ballot Measure 37 claim brought against the City for a density variance in the 1.0 Floor Area Ration (FAR). The development was not financially feasible with the code required density. If the Measure 37 claim procedure had not been available and had gone back through the entire code, he would not have had to comply with stormwater standards and some other development design standards that had been included in the project. If the variance had not been granted, the site could have been sold to neighbors who wanted the site for a parking lot. He asked the Council to listen to local people, consider financial feasibility and understand that sometimes it was necessary to subsidize development downtown. The Council could not legislate financial feasibility unless it was willing to subsidize it as it had done in the past. It was important to listen to the people who lived in the community and wanted to do development “right”. Terry Connolly, 1401 Willamette Street, on behalf of the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, supported the proposed Downtown Code Amendments and urged the City Council to approve them as recommended MINUTES—Eugene City Council June 16, 2008 Page 13 Work Session