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EXHIBIT A FIlVDINGS AND CGNCLUSIONS GF THE EUGENE CITY CGUNCIL RE: Residential Development Code Amendments (CA 94-2) Background Qn May 9, 1994, the Eugene Planning Commission and City Council met for the annual review of the Planning Commission's wank program. Discussion focused on the commission's recommendation to develop an Urban Development Functional Plan during FY95. The council asked the commission to return in June with a list of possible "stopgap" measures to address innmediate development issues in advance of the plan. The Planning Comnussion developed several possible measures and presented them to the City Council on June 2,1994. The council approved three motions relating to residen~al development: 1} to move up the start date currently in the Planning Commission work program. on the establishment of minimum residential density requirements in the medium- and high-density residentiaal zoning districts ~R-Z, R-3, and R-4. zones}; ~} establishment of minimum density requirements in the low-density zones, e. g. , maximum lot size limits BRA and R-1 zones} be placed as a separate item on the Plan~ung Commission work program; and 3} that the zoning code be amended to require secondary access when a residential subdivision or PUD, singly or in the aggregate, exceeds 19 units or lots. These work items were packaged as one project, the Residential Development Code Amendments, for consideration by the Planning Commission and City Council. The Planning Commission held a public hearing on the Residential Development Code Amendments on October 4, 1994. Notice of the hearing was provided in accordance with Chapter 9 Amendment Procedures, Eugene Code Sec~on 9.11349. Following the public hearing and work sessions held on Dctober 10,17, and 24, 1994, the Planning Commission recommended the following: 1. Delete current code language which imposes only maximum density requirements and replace with a minimum and maximum density range for the R-2, R-3, and R-4 zoninng districts; 2. Create an exemption for residential development that will become nonconfornoang, i.e., residential development in the R-2, R 3 and R-4 zoning districts that is e~~i.sting but does not meet minimum density requirements; and 3. Provide that natural resource areas may be excluded in the area calculated far density in the R-2, R-3 and R-4 zoning districts. 4. Consideration of minimum density in the low-density residential zones be delayed at this tune and incorporated iota the Zoning Code Review Project; and