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<br /> ATT ACHl\fENT D <br /> ~'tINUTES <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> Regular Sei;::;lon <br /> Co~mdl Chambcr...---City Hat! <br /> July 25, 2005 <br /> 7:30 pArt <br />COLTNC.U..oRS PRESENT: Georg~ Poling, Jennifer Solcmxm, Bonny Bdtrnan, f)avid Kelly. Gary <br /> Pape, Chris Pryor, Hetty 'TaYlor, ,A.n.drea Orth. <br />He.r fkmof 1\4aYQf Kitty Pien:-y (xmvt)ncd the meeLi.ng ofthc Eugent;; City Conndl. <br />L PURLICFORUM <br />Mayor Piercy wekoroed everyone to the City (?otl:n<:it meeting: an,d reviewed tbe rules of the Public <br />Forum. <br />Petel' f'erri.s, 1400 C.md1eHght Drive, Space #224, explai.ned that he WiiS the own.er of an older model <br />trailer in BriarwoodM{)bilc Home Park. He f~"JJ there was a crids in such parks. He related that the <br />management of the mobile hon,e park indicated 1t might seE thc si.de. of the park on which. h1i-> trailer was <br />located., He ::>aid park residcnts met w1th the Mayor and representatives of thc Planning and Development <br />DepartnK11t (POD) and abo with the Chair of tbe J:hmsing Policy Board, John VanL;tndlngham. He <br />averred that rnobi!e hOlDe' parks :repre~.,emed the greatest resource for afford-able how';lng in Eugene and in <br />Lane (\mnty, He noted that there were OHT 18,000 mobile l:h)meS ~md 70 mobile h<.)!Ht. parks in tbe <br />COUHty. He ~.:;taJ.ed that he raid $14,000 for his mobile home. $345 for his monthly space n;~nt, and there <br />was nowhi;)rc eb~ one could find housing space at that cost. <br />Han lkrbert, 1913 Potter Street, swmm.H1zed hi~ previous three presentations. He pointed out that three. <br />critical 1Hsues would likdy dmninaw the Ci.ty's planning and devdopment ag~nda: 1} population growth. <br />2) the City's role in prohlems related to inequallty ill its schools; and 3) and the devdopment of mixed~usi.:: <br />l;;entem,HekH th~~se iSSl,K~i; w{lukl create new planning ..m.d developrncnt tasks that v..-ouid dema:nd <br />rethinking the City's role in development, e$pedaHy for larg.) prliects. He suggeskd that a spec:i.ahzed <br />public agency should bc (ksign~tted for ~nch hrg~~r projec-ts that v;ou.U be empowe.red to fnmmlate <br />devdopm~~nt policy and act a8 a partn~~r in pubJii.:)private agnx~ments, He thought thc Hou;,;ing Policy <br />Board, created by the City Coundl in 19B9, and othcr natlnnal ~wd regbni:ll ex.;}mpks could be u::>ed as (l <br />refen..'llee to help <;Ie-ate this new agency, vY1-ilkhe did not expu'i tb:~ City Cmwell to z~ndorse his <br />sugge;,;tion, he :asked that 1;:omK:ilor::> con~;izkr Mking its fitaiTfnr a preliminary ~~l,!rvey of the fad~~ related <br />to the ten poinb he had raised in his time at the podium. Thosc point.; weie: <br /> L The projected populati6n of 2050; <br /> .'} SdlOfA inequailty prohlcrn.s; <br /> w. <br /> 3~ Mixed-lL'le centes; <br /> 4, 'The pre~ent organi::r-ation fur pl.anning and development; <br />MINUTES.....Sugene City COH:ndt July 25, 2005 Page 1 <br /> Regular Session <br /> ....................................................................................~~~~............................................ <br />