Item 2: Ordinances on Minor Code Amendments (MiCAP Remand)

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11 1required number of parking spaces.” (Emphasis added.) Petitioner contends that because 2Ordinance 20418 increases the required number of parking spaces for multiple family 3dwellings in the West University Neighborhood, rather than reducing them, the ordinance is 4inconsistent with the policy. 5 The city responds in its brief that West University Neighborhood Refinement Plan 6Policy 3 was adopted when that refinement plan was adopted in 1982. According to the city, 7in 1993 it updated the EC and adopted the requirement that multiple family development 8must provide only one off-street parking space per unit. The city contends that there is 9evidence in the record that the old one-space off-street parking space standard “was not 10working in the University area and it needed to be revised.” Brief of Respondent 17. The 11city contends that this “policy does not prohibit the City from revisiting and adjusting the 12way in which it has implemented the policy.” Id. 11 West University Refinement Plan Policy 3 provides: “The City of Eugene will update its Land Use Code and that effort shall particularly take into account the need to: “-- reduce non-residential uses permitted in the R-3 and R-4 zones. “-- redefine usable open space. “-- enable infilling on newly created small lots. “-- enable alley access as the primary access to newly created lots. “-- reduce the minimum lot size. “-- increase the flexibility of development standards (for example to enable more efficient use of open space, shared parking,and more extensive use of public rights- of-way). “--review parking requirements for residential development with the purpose of reducing the required number of spaces per unit in the plan area. “-- amend the commercial zoning in the City Code to provide a greater range of commercial zones.” (Emphasis added.) Page 20