Item 7: Action: Ordinance on Infill Compatibility Standards Code Amendments

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November 23, 2009 Eugene Mayor and City Council c/o Terri Harding Eugene Planning Division 99 West 10th Avenue Eugene, OR 97401 RE: Infill Compatibility Standards Hearing, November 16, 2009 Dear Mayor and Councilors: This additional testimony is in response to several issues raised at your November 16th hearing. #1 WUN Refinement Plan and Parking When the WUN Refinement Plan was adopted in 1982, the parking requirements were 1.5 off- street parking spaces/unit. An excerpt from the Eugene Code dated 2/01/89 is below: (a) Residential types 1. Dwelling, single family 2 for each dwelling unit on a single lot. 2. Dwelling, two-family and multiple 1-1/2 for each dwelling unit: where fractioned, next highest unit, except development in RA and R-1 Districts pursuant pursuant to sections 9.386(14) and (15) shall provide a minimum of 2 parking spaces per unit. These requirements were later reduced in 1993 to the current net 0.75 net parking spaces/unit (1 parking space required with an automatic 25% reduction by right of development). The ICS parking proposal would only boost the net parking spaces up to an average of about 1.07 parkings/spaces per unit based on an analysis of the multifamily projects built in WUN from 2004-2009 (see detailed tables of data on parking in WUN in SUNA in your packets on page 131-135). It should also be noted that a similar change to base off-street parking effectively on bedrooms was made in the 1980s for quads and quints (4 and 5 unrelated tenants sharing a unit). The off- street parking for both quads and quints was initially the same as 1.5 parking spaces required for multiple family dwellings. But this was changed so that the 3/01/89 Eugene Code required 2.5 spaces for quads and 3.0 spaces for quints. This off-street parking requirement for quads and quints was later changed as part major code changes in 2001. #2 Tandem Parking in Multifamily Additional testimony by Steven Baker on proposed Parking amendments (November 23, 2009) Page 1