Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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the noise from the site could be mitigated. Councilors Poling and Solomon accepted that as a friendly amendment to the motion on the floor. Councilor Pryor indicated his opposition to the motion and his support for Councilor Poling’s motion. Councilor Bettman would not support the motion as change would reverberate throughout the findings. She thanked the staff for its work in addressing the voluminous testimony and council discussion. Councilor Bettman said the City came to a different conclusion than the Lane Board of County Commissioners because of the operation’s impact on City residents. She said that past planning had allowed for residential development up to the buffer of the property but the company had not objected. She agreed it was a good location for gravel mining, but not for the residents living so near. That fact created many conflicts. She asserted that other conflicts were not mentioned because the applicant refused to do a traffic impact analysis. In regard to noise, Councilor Bettman said that a mining operation would be operating within 150 feet of people’s houses, creating noise, dust, and other impacts. She maintained that the decision would not put the company out of business as it had additional resources. In regard to the sufficiency of the resource, Councilor Bettman said the issue was whether it was adequate to justify the elimination of farm land and the impact on the neighbors. Councilor Clark supported Councilor Poling’s motion. While he acknowledged the applicant’s interest in completing the process, after the loss of Hynix and its jobs he did not want to see the council act too quickly without considering all the issues thoroughly. He thought the council should take the time to get each element of the decision right. Councilor Solomon thought it was a sad day when the City punished a company for something it had allowed. She pointed out that the home buyers in this case were not victims as they had bought their property with knowledge of the mining operation. She said that anyone who toured the site would see the site was quite large and production was moving away from the home sites back onto the deeper part of the property. Roll call vote; the vote on the amendment to the motion was a 4:4 tie; councilors Solomon, Poling, Pryor, and Clark voting yes, and councilors Taylor, Bettman, Ortiz, and Zelenka voting no, Mayor Piercy expressed appreciation to Delta Sand and Gravel for all the jobs it provided and for the materials it provided to the community, but she agreed with the staff. Mayor Piercy cast a vote in opposition to the motion and it failed on a final vote of 5:4. Roll call vote; the vote on the main motion was a 4:4 tie; councilors Taylor, Bettman, Ortiz, and Ze- lenka voting yes, and councilors Solomon, Poling, Pryor, and Clark voting yes; Mayor Piercy cast a vote in support of the motion and it passed on a final vote of 5:4. 6. ACTION: An Ordinance Concerning Amending the Eugene-Springfield Metro Plan Text; Amending the Willa- kenzie Area Plan Text; Adopting an Exception to Statewide Planning Goal 15 Willamette River Greenway; Adopting Severability and Saving Clauses; and Providing an Effective Date (I-5 Willamette Bridge Project, Eugene Files MA 07-03, RA 08-01; Springfield file LRP2007-00010; Lane County file PA08-5230); and MINUTES—Eugene City Council January 16, 2008 Page 8 Meeting