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Mr. Ruiz noted he would be attending a meeting of the League of Oregon Cities in Portland on October 1 and 2. <br />He commented that a community workshop regarding the Eugene Counts initiative would take place on October <br />14 in the Eugene City Hall Council Chamber. Mr. Ruiz added that a staff update regarding the Eugene Counts <br />initiative was expected to be presented to the council at their October 26 work session meeting. <br />Mr. Ruiz noted that the City executive team and staff expected to have a very busy agenda through the fall and <br />winter on a variety of topics and urged the council to feel free to contact staff regarding any matters of concern. <br />Ms. Piercy noted that the City had received letters and petitions from local merchants regarding downtown public <br />safety and urged the council to review the suggestions and feedback presented therein. <br />WORK SESSION: <br />B. <br />Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment (ECLA) <br /> <br />Planning Director Lisa Gardner noted that while the July and August council work sessions to consider ECLA <br />data were associated with determining the demand facets of the ECLA, the current presentation would be devoted <br />to the supply side and the City's buildable land inventory. She further recognized that the council had raised <br />questions during the July and August work sessions regarding the next steps of the ECLA process with particular <br />emphasis on how public outreach and community dialogue issues would be addressed. <br />Associate Planner Jason Dedrick presented data and statistics from the ECLA process to the council and noted <br />that the data was intended to prepare and inform the council for their October work session where the next steps <br />of the ECLA process should be discussed. <br />Mr. Dedrick presented information regarding the buildable lands inventory and briefly described the various <br />components of the ECLA process overall. He further provided a brief overview of the community advisory <br />committee (CAC) process used to develop the various methodologies involved in determining the buildable lands <br />inventory. He noted that expert opinions had been used to develop the buildable lands inventory in addition to the <br />CAC processes. <br />Mr. Dedrick briefly described the differences between the committed, protected, developed and vacant <br />classifications used in the buildable lands inventory for the benefit of the council and further described how those <br />classifications had been determined. <br />Mr. Dedrick, referring to graphs from his presentation, demonstrated the percentage breakdowns of the current <br />land base in Eugene and noted that Eugene's urban growth boundary contained 34,446 acres. <br />Mr. Dedrick summarized that, when subtracted from all currently non-available land areas within the UGB, the <br />City's current available vacant buildable lands inventory contained 2,774 acres or approximately 8% of the land <br />in the UGB. He then proceeded to describe the residential, industrial and commercial breakdown of the buildable <br />lands inventory. <br />Mr. Dedrick stated that land in the buildable lands inventory contained tax lots with improvement value less than <br />$1,000, not committed or protected under any established parameters, and deemed developable within the next 20 <br />years. He noted that the majority of the lands in the buildable land inventory were located on the periphery of the <br />UGB and that any re-development of lands not part of the current buildable lands inventory would be addressed in <br />a separate part of the ECLA process. <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council September 28, 2009 Page 5 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />