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ORDINANCE NO. .19604 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE CITY'S LIMITED ASSESSMENT PROGRAM AND MULTIPLE UNIT RENTAL HOUSING PROGRAM; AMENDING SECTIONS 2.945 2.947 OF THE EUGENE CODE, 1971; AND REPEALING SECTION 2.940 OF THAT CODE. The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that multiple-unit rental housing would not be built near or in the downtown care area of the City without the incentive of a property tax exemption. This finding is based on the staff report, the City's experience with the property tax exemption program in the past, and the testimony at the February 13, 1959 hearing. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS; Section 1. Section 2.940 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is repealed. Section 2. Sections 2.945 and 2.947 of the Eugene Code, 1971, are amended to provide: 2.945 Multi le-Unit Rental Housin -Pro ert Tax Exem tion. ~1} Based upon the findings contained in Resolution No. 2711 adapted by the council on July 11, 1917, and the provisions of Resolution No. 4109 adopted by the council on February 13, 1959, the provisions of ORS 307.600 to 307.690 are hereby readopted as the city's multiple-unit rental housing property tax exemption program within the area generally bounded by the Willamette River and Skinner's Butte Park on the north, Jefferson Street on the west, 13th to 19th Avenues on the South, and on the east by Hilyard Street between Broadway and 11th Avenue and Patterson Street between 11th and and 13th Avenues and High Street between 13th and 19th Avenues, more or less, all of which is more particularly described in Attachment 1 to Exhibit "A" to Resolution No. 4109 referred to above. ~ 2 } Applications for property tax exemption hereunder shall be f i 1 ed with the city manager and processed i n accordance with the amended and restated standards and guidelines attached as Exhibit "A" to Resolution No. 4109. As used in sections 2.945 and 2.941 of this code and the amended and restated standards and guidelines referred to above, "city manager" inw cludes the manager's designee. .~3} Upon receipt of the city manager's written recommendation, the caunc~l shall consider the application at its next scheduled meeting. If the council fails to act on an application which has been timely referred to it as provided in the guidelines, within 150 days from the date it was filed, the application shall be deemed approved and processed thereafter in Ordinance - 1