Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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that a Mudywas cf!ndtlct~d on the use of spcaker~.; that would gEnerate a train whistJ.c noi~,e and t{)Cusit only at inwrsccHnmL Matt Purvis, 1391 West Broadway Street, a memher for the steering cmnmittee for Chambers Area Families ftlr HeaIthy Neighborhoods (CAFHN), tha:nh:A the council D:)[ adopting Councilor Hc1tmttn's motinn directi:ng statTto incOlvoratc opportunity sit.ing as the prim<try strategy fbr a;;:h:kving dewdty targets in mixed~use centers, He was pleased that the council una:n:irn.ousty supported an approach to density that would protect the ehamckr of an eswhlished neighborhood whiJ.e doin.g a better job of achieving eon:-.pact growth. He rz,)itemted tk!t CAFHN dist.ributed its mOi;t recent report to the wuncilors, lh:: said the report. WM thi:: n;;sult of hundreds of1KlW:i; of work and (~on",;;olidated the information (:ontained in previ01.ls1y submitted repO!ts, Ik noted that th{~ Fbnn:ing Commi5skm was holding hearings on development sta:ndards for <l Chambers Sp.;dal Area zone, He shared that CAFHN' was pk,1.se.d that staff pn..~sEn.ti::d proposed standards th13J agn:.e with mallY of its n;:cou.unendullons.HovleVEf, he wi$hed to call attention to one L%u.;; in the ~!re<1 of preventing exce$sivdy tut! or large iuGn SLnldl.lres adjacent to baz~kyards "sta.ffhad pre~{.'nted propo8als that [were} rl.t1.l with .;rror," He avern...'d that the. public W<.lS opposed to the propo8al, while CAfUN propGsat~ had wide~.;pread supped> He i;uggeste<.l that the pubhc was wa:khing tIus bsue us a test oflegitin:mk puhlic planning and urged th~ council not to ll:tKk:rwt citizen involvement. Ntwman Riddle, 1238 Cre~t Drive, said he read about th.e St. Vincent lk:Paul proposal to do Gutre<'l,,~h to hornde3s in the parks and it rais<xl his ire. He related thM he work.ed \vith the lj{)mek~s:c p(lpuh!tion [Dr nearly] 7 years and heard "thotli:;ands" of storks. of"the::;e human being~." He believed thut the problem h!y in a shortage of sen..-iees av:<dlabk He 1ik'n{'Xl it to rnissing pieces nfthe pn.hk'::m, He noted Hwt Congressman DeFazio said the area did n;;!t have a h(}mele~;;s probJ.em hecau.se it c(mld he solved immediately ift.h",,::resi.dents lwd the \Vm. lie thought, like the ovemight purki:ngprognnn, theproposa.t w'odd (:reate a grayareu that WOUld deny vulnerable homeks~ people thHH the consistent and trdl1SpaWl1t grievance process they wcr~ ~ntit1ed to as. the proposed a;;:tlOHi; were contrdcted to priVB.t<..~ h~ith--b<!se<..i agencie$., lit averred that puhlic lKa1t.h and safety wai; the fundamental :t'Cspollsibility of hx.al govermn~'nt, He said t~) create H "level of oh:::,curity"I:H:{WCt;u the proper <ll..ithorities and the eomnnmity' s rnost vtlJn<~H!blem.~mhers was a "terrible id~~n" ~md an .'admL.,5ion of failure to ai:~ccpt respon~';lbility:' l''lbyor Piercy dosed t1K P'ubHc Forum. and called for questinns and cmnmems {mn} the cmmc:i1. Councilor Fape tha:nkedML Herbert for his ongoing tc~;timony and ai;ked him t{) StlmmarlZe h,s presentations in writing for the coundL Councilor Taylor thanked ewryonc tl..1f testifying, She expressed interest in hearing more fwmMr. Ridd.!e, CouneHor Taybr a.lso expres.::>ed uppreciation for the work lYk Herbert had dO!w. Shc shared her admimtio]} .for the work .of CAFHN. C\mncibr Heltman thanked T'vfL Riddle for "caring about pcople without homes:' She 8uggested that she rnect with Ium to give him the "full expository" on the ii;$ue. She ~aid the imt:-:nz of the prograrn was to conduct outre;;icn to homeh::ss people and not to pdke t.hem. MrNUTEs....~Eug{:-ne City C:ou:ndl July 25, 2005 Page 3 Regular Se~.;sion ...................................................--.-..-.....-.......~..