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Roll call vote; the vote on the substitute motion was a tie, 4:4; councilors Solomon, Poling, <br />Clark, and Pryor voting in favor and councilors Ortiz, Zelenka, Bettman, and Taylor voting <br />in opposition. Mayor Piercy voted in favor of the substitute motion and it passed. <br /> <br />8. ACTION: <br /> <br /> <br />Downtown Code Amendments <br />An Ordinance Amending Sections 9.0500, 9.2161, and 9.4530, of the Eugene Code, 1971, Adding a <br />New Map 9.2161(6) (Downtown Plan Map) to that Code; and Amending Map 9.4510 and Figure <br />9.4530(3) <br /> <br />Councilor Pryor, seconded by Councilor Bettman, moved that the City Council adopt <br />Council Bill 4980, an ordinance concerning downtown code amendments. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman indicated that she had a list of intended amendments to the ordinance amending <br />downtown codes. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman, seconded by Councilor Taylor, moved to delete Section 1 of the Ordi- <br />nance, to delete the proposed changes to EC 9.4530(3)(b) in Section 3 of the Ordinance, <br />and to delete the proposed changes to EC 9.4530(3)(d) in Section 3 of the Ordinance. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman asked Nan Laurence, Associate Planner for the Planning and Development Department <br />(PDD), to describe what her amendment would alter in the ordinance. Ms. Laurence understood that the <br />changes had to do with counting the basement as part of the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) and would keep the <br />code the way it is regarding the basement; regardless of how the basement was used it would not be allowed <br />to be counted as part of the floor area in determining the FAR. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman was concerned that counting the basement regardless of what was in it would further <br />decrease the density that would be realized in the downtown area. <br /> <br />Councilor Solomon found all of Councilor Bettman’s amendments to be “utterly hostile” to the businesses <br />and people who had worked “so honestly and thoughtfully” to improve the situation in the downtown area. <br />She averred that the downtown area had been deteriorating since the codes they were seeking to amend were <br />instituted. She said the proposed changes had come from “a group of folks who worked downtown and tried <br />to make downtown happen.” She declared that these were items that those people had identified that were <br />doable, workable, and would help improve the situation. She pointed out that they had received a lot of <br />testimony about buildings that existed in the downtown area that could not be built under today’s code. She <br />was disappointed in the hostile nature of the amendments. <br /> <br />Councilor Clark respected Councilor Bettman’s desire to make amendments she felt would add strength to <br />the code. He said, however, the City had made code revisions a number of years earlier that were not <br />working. He respected the number of people who had worked on the code amendments. He looked to <br />experts such as Hugh Prichard who had been speaking to as many people as possible about the value of <br />making minor alterations to what the council had done years earlier in order to make the possibility of <br />success in the downtown area more probable. He felt the Beam project and the work the council had <br />initiated at its earlier work session had started some momentum to change the downtown. He did not want <br />to “step backwards.” <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council July 14, 2008 Page 13 <br /> Regular Meeting <br /> <br />
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