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EXHIBIT A FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION OF THE EU ENE CITY COUNCIL RE: Controlled Income and Rent Housing Code Amendments (CA 95-1) Background 4n October 27, 1993, at the request of the City Council, the staff presented to the City Council options for amending the City's Controlled Income and Rent ~CIR.} regulations for housing projects with density bonus. This request was a result of a review by the Housing Policy Board of a Land Use Board of Appeals LUBA} remand of the City's decision to grant conditional approval of a CIR project in the willakenzie area, the Orchards. The LUBA remand resulted in the project not going forward. The Housing Policy Board, as well as the developer of the Orchards project, Housing Authority and Community Services Agency ~HACSA} of Lane County, felt that a review of the zoning provisions dealing with CIR housing was necessary to address the issues raised by LUBA. The council approved a motion to add to the Planning Commission's work program the CIR Code Amendment Project. This issue was indirect response to one of the 1994 City Council Goals, Housing, which states in part "Increase the supply of low-income housing throughout Eugene ... " Following review by the Planning Commission, the City Council held a public hearing and adopted Ordinance No. 20001 on March 6, 1995, implementing the commission's recommendation. The major components of that code amendment ACA 93-3} included: l}Address the issues raised in the LUBA appeal by requiring that public facilities are "available" rather tb~an. "adequate; 2} provision for the full density allowed by the Metro Plan; 3} allowance for the density banes in the R-2 and PL zones as well as the low-density zones BRA and R 1}; 4} elimination of approval criteria that are not clear and objective; and 5} adding a criterion which referenced the map of non-priority know proposed to be termed "unavailable"} areas from the 1990 Interim Housing Dispersal Policy Plan. The purpose of this criterion was to make it clear that CIR housing with increased density is not permitted innon-priority areas. Immediately fallowing the adoption of CIR code amendments, the City Council added to the Planning Commission's work program an update of the Housing Dispersal Policy Plan using the 1990 census data. The Interim Housing Dispersal Plan used 1980 data. Since the CIR provisions of the City Code reference the, map of non priority areas contained in the dispersal plan, which used outdated census data, a minor code amendment was initiated in conjunction with the Housing Dispersal Plan update to keep the code up-to-date ACA 95-1}. This issue is indirect response to one of the 1995 and 1996 City Council Goals, Housing, which states in part "sustained development of affordable and low-income housing through .. . a review of municipal regulations relating to the creation and maintenance of affordable housing." The Planning Commission held a joint public hearing on both the Housing Dispersal Policy Plan update and CIR code amendments on August H, 1995. Following the public hearing, the Page 1- FIlVDINGS AND CaNCLUSI~NS QF THE EUGENE CITY COUNCIL EXHIBIT A Re; Controlled Income and Rent Housing Code Amendments ACA 95-1}