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M I N U T E S Eugene City Council Work Session McNutt Room—Eugene City Hall July 27, 2005 Noon COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, David Kelly, Betty Taylor, Gary Papé, Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor, Bonny Bettman. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the July 27 work session of the Eugene City Council to order. A. WORK SESSION: Annual Joint Meeting with Eugene Planning Commission Mayor Piercy welcomed the members of the Planning Commission who were in attendance: John Lawless, Mitzi Colbath, John Belcher, Rick Duncan, Randy Hledik, Phillip Hudspeth, and Anne Marie Levis. City Manager Dennis Taylor introduced Acting Planning and Development Department Executive Manager Susan Muir. Ms. Muir reported that one of the Planning Commission’s primary accomplishments as part of the City Council prioritization was to focus its work based upon the council’s priorities. Ms. Muir opined that focus enabled staff and the Planning Commission to be more effective and efficient with the council’s help and discipline in setting priorities. She said occasionally items from previous work programs or commitments made by former staff remained incomplete. She hoped that those items would be approved by the City Council for inclusion in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 work program so that the Planning Commission would have one work program. This would help staff to focus and more clearly understand the council priorities. Ms. Muir offered an update to the FY05 Project Summaries included in the draft FY06 Work Program. Referring to page 164, Downtown and Courthouse associated projects, she noted that a City Council work session had been scheduled for September 12, 2005. Referring to the Goal 5 (Natural Resources) projects on page 164 of the agenda packet, Ms. Muir said the Planning Commission made a decision and recommendation to the City Council on July 18, 2005, that would be coming to the council in September 2005. Ms. Muir said Lane County was the lead agency on the Emerging Issues projects. A contract had been awarded to ECO Northwest to complete a study of the buildable land supply for the commercial/industrial study review. The project should take approximately six months to complete. Referring to the City Council Priorities/Planning Division FY06 Work Program on page 164, Ms. Muir said the highest priority item, Mixed-Use Centers (MUC), could be modified to reflect the City Council’s July 20, 2005, motion to amend High Priority Item 1 to include opportunity siting. Ms. Muir suggested that Item MINUTES—Eugene City Council July 27, 2005 Page 1 Work Session