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MINUTES Eugene City Council Regular Session Council Chamber-City Hall September 12, 2005 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, Bonny Bettman, David Kelly, Gary Pape, Chris Pryor, Betty Taylor, Andrea Ortiz. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy convened the meeting of the Eugene City Council. 1. PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Piercy welcomed everyone to the City Council meeting and reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. Zachary Vishanoff, Patterson Street, suggested that the Human Rights Commission look into the "tazer issue." He opposed the use oftazers by the Eugene Police Department (EPD). Mr. Vishanoff asked if a parking garage was going to be built on the International House of Pancakes property and whether it would be designed by an architect employed by Nike. He suspected the City's Request for Proposal (RFP) process would be circumvented. Mr. Vishanoff asserted that the Broadway Place structure was a "failure." Mr. Vishanoffthought a mixed-use development on the property formerly owned by Joe Romania Chevrolet in the Fairmount Boulevard area was linked to the University of Oregon's proposal for a basketball arena. William J. Jones, 1660 Mill Street, spoke on behalf of himself and his neighbors. He said his neighborhood was fraught with obnoxious parties due to its proximity to the University of Oregon campus. He reported two incidences of fire in the last month and said that noise issues included fighting in the street, bottles breaking, and the use of a bullhorn. He related that the bicycle patrols helped, but he hoped that there could be more "party patrol." He heard that the Eugene Police Department (EPD) received a list of the beer kegs that were sold and wondered if police could drive by keg parties. He also heard that one tack used in the past was to charge a landlord who had three police calls to his or her building. He felt such a charge would be an effective way to address the problem. He noted that some landlords included a "no keg" clause in leases. James Crabbe, 2080 East 2ih Avenue, spoke of the significance of Civic Stadium as a local landmark for the citizens of Eugene. He thought selling the Civic Stadium site for possible development would be enormously short-sighted. He averred that Civic Stadium should be owned by the City of Eugene and protected as the cultural and historic landmark that it is. He felt its great popularity with the citizenry alone merited the stadium's preservation. He noted that the Eugene Emeralds minor league baseball team had MINUTES-Eugene City Council Regular Session September 12, 2005 Page 1