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ECC UGENE ITY OUNCIL AIS GENDA TEM UMMARY Action: Adoption of Resolution 4990 Denying a Multiple-Unit Property Tax Exemption for Residential Property Located at 1367 High Street (Pearl on Campus LLC) Meeting Date: November 9, 2009 Agenda Item Number: 3 Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Richie Weinman www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 682-5533 ISSUE STATEMENT The City Council is asked to approve or deny a Multiple-Unit Property Tax Exemption (MUPTE) for The Sequoia at 1367 High Street. BACKGROUND In 1975, the Oregon legislature adopted the enabling statutes for the MUPTE and Transit Oriented District Tax Exemption program. Since that time, both the state statutes and Eugene’s implementation ordinance has been amended. The City Council amended Eugene’s code provisions and boundary in November 2008. To assist both staff and the City Council in evaluating a MUPTE application, those code amendments included: (a) adoption of approval criteria, and (b) a direction to the City Manager to adopt a public benefit scoring system (discussed below). This proposed eight-unit project is at 1367 High Street, which is zoned R-3, high-density residential. There is currently one house on this .2224 acre site. This house is not a city landmark nor on the National Historic Register. The applicant has entered into a sales contract with a purchaser who plans to move the house, in December, to 920 Cheshire in the Whiteaker Neighborhood. It will be used as a residence. Public Comments A display advertisement was published in the Register-Guard on August 23, 2009, soliciting comments for 30 days. The comment period was extended one week because the applicant submitted an amended application. The period ended September 29. No written comments were received. Public Benefits As noted above, the City Council adopted criteria for review of MUPTE applications, including a requirement to consider the public benefits to be provided by the development. The council directed the City Manager to adopt a public benefit scoring system, which the City Manager did as part of the Standards and Guidelines. As part of that administrative process, the City Manager determined that unless a proposed development received at least one hundred points, the City Manager would recommend that the council deny a MUPTE application. After reviewing this MUPTE application against the public benefit scoring criteria in the Standards Z:\CMO\2009 Council Agendas\M091109\S0911093-and att'sABCFG.doc