Item 3C: Approval of ECLA Interim Grant Products

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ECC UGENE ITY OUNCIL AIS GENDA TEM UMMARY Acceptance of Products Associated with Department of Land Conservation and Development Grant for Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment Meeting Date: August 10, 2009 Agenda Item Number: 3C Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Jason Dedrick www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-5451 ISSUE STATEMENT This item is needed to satisfy a requirement of grant funding received from the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) for the Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment (ECLA) project. For the City to receive distribution of grant funds, the grant document requires that the City provide DLCD with meeting minutes showing that the City Council “accepted” the Economic Opportunities Analysis (EOA) and Housing Needs Analysis (HNA) documents that have been prepared using grant funds. This “acceptance” is not an “adoption” of the EOA and HNA documents and does not preclude the City Council from making future modifications to the EOA or HNA as work continues without grant funding. BACKGROUND The goal of ECLA is to determine whether there is a sufficient supply of land on the Eugene side of the current Eugene-Springfield Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) to meet Eugene’s projected demand for residential, commercial, industrial, and public/semi-public land over the next 20 years. This study addresses Oregon House Bill 3337, which directed the City of Eugene to undertake a study of residential lands sufficiency. The scope was expanded by the City Council to assess all land types, including employment lands (commercial and industrial) and public/semi-public land needs. The City applied for, and was awarded, a grant in the amount of $100,000 from DLCD. This grant funding is specifically being utilized to contract with ECONorthwest to prepare an EOA and an HNA to be used in the ECLA project. The contents of the EOA and HNA documents are specifically dictated by state statute or rule, as well as by the conditions of the grant. Because the state requires extensive reporting of background information such as national, state and local trends, these documents are very large. Due to the resulting large file size, the full EOA and HNA documents have been provided in hard copy format in the council office, while a summary of the contents of the documents is provided in Attachment A. At work sessions in April and July, staff presented all the baseline assumptions associated with the land need determination. These assumptions form the basis for the EOA and HNA documents prepared by ECONorthwest under the grant. The council is still reviewing some of the baseline assumptions at this time; an additional work session is scheduled for August 10 to continue the discussion from the July 22 work session. Please note that staff’s recommended “acceptance” of the EOA and HNA documents prepared under the grant is expressly for the purposes of meeting grant requirements and does not Z:\CMO\2009 Council Agendas\M090810\S0908103C.doc