Item 4: Action - Ordinance Concerning Vacating a Portion of the Alley Right-Of-Way Located Between 10th Avenue and Broadway

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ATTACHMENT A .Planning & Development Planning MEMORANDUM City of Eugene 99 West 10th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97401 (541) 682-5377 (541) 682-5572 FAX INININ. eugene-or. gov Date: November 21,2005 To: Mayor Piercy and City Council From: Alissa Hansen, 682-5508 Senior Planner Subject: Summary of Options for Urban Renewal Agency's Alley Vacation Request This memo provides a summary of options for the alley vacation request based on the direction received at the November 14,2005 City Council meeting on this item. Option 1: Approve the alley vacation request as originally recommended by the City Manager. This option would result in approval of the ordinance provided at the November 14,2005 public hearing. Option 2: Amend the ordinance and revise the ordinance title to remove subsection (b) of Section 4. The amendment provided in this option would specify that the alley vacation request become effective upon the closing of the pending sale of the Urban Renewal Agency's property to OR! only and was suggested following the close of the public hearing on November 14,2005. Staffhas no concerns with this option. Option 3: Postpone action on the ordinance at this time; provide direction to the City Manager to determine an assessment of special benefit for the benefiting property owners, prepare a new ordinance and schedule a new public hearing. The City Council cannot at this time take action on an amended ordinance which assesses the property owners for special benefit that may result from the alley vacation. The Eugene Code requires notice of the proposed assessment for benefits to be mailed to the property owners to be assessed no less than 20 days prior to the City Council public hearing of the vacation request. Additionally, the benefiting property owners are to submit payment of a deposit equal to the assessment of special benefit at least five working days prior to the public hearing. In order to go forward with this option the following would need to occur: 1) The City Manager would need to determine and the City Council would need to approve the assessed value of the special benefit that results from the vacation and disposition of the subject alley; 2) A new public hearing before the City Council would need to be set;