Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Roll call vote; the amendment passed, 7:1; Councilor Solomon voting in opposition. Roll call vote; the main motion passed, as amended, 7:1; Councilor Clark voting in opposition. Councilor Zelenka, seconded by Councilor Clark, moved to direct the City Manager to monitor car- sharing programs in Eugene over the next nine months, and to report back to the council. Councilor Zelenka related that the Sustainability Commission was very interested in looking into this issue. Councilor Ortiz thought this fell under the responsibility of the Sustainability Commission and that the City Manager was too busy. Councilor Ortiz offered a friendly amendment to direct the Sustainability Commission to monitor car sharing programs and to provide a report. Councilor Zelenka accepted the friendly amendment, as did the second. Roll call vote; the motion passed unanimously, as amended, 8:0. City Manager Ruiz observed that there had been continuing conversations among various stakeholders on the issue of building heights. Ms. Harding stated that since finalizing the Agenda Item Summary (AIS) they had continued work on the issue, because it had continued to generate a lot of testimony. They had been trying to reach a further compromise to address the testimony and had provided the council with an alternate motion that would limit buildings to 65 feet, with no bonus for larger lots, in the South University Area Neighborhood (SUNA). She noted that the compromise was acceptable to the Home Builders Association. Councilor Zelenka, seconded by Councilor Clark, moved that the City Council adopt Council Bill 5015, an ordinance concerning building height in the University area. Councilor Zelenka, seconded by Councilor Brown, moved to amend the building height ordinance in Attachment C to make the following changes to subsections 9.2751(3)(b)2 and (3)(b)3.c: 1) Replace the words “75 feet” in all three of those subsections with the words “65 feet.” 2) Delete from all three of those subsections the words “except that on a development site of 10,000 square feet or more, a building may be up to 90 feet in height.” Councilor Zelenka said his motion treated the WUN and the SUNA the same. He stated that the ICS group had come to near consensus. He did not feel the council had a good reason to overturn the task team’s consensus position. He believed that many people thought taller buildings were needed to achieve maximum density. He disagreed with this and felt that maximum density could be achieved in three stories. Councilor Clark indicated that he would be willing to put forward the motion that staff had brought, crafted out of the compromise. He had heard that the ICS task team had broad representation but he considered this to be debatable. He felt that if there truly had been broad representation, it would not have been unanimously reversed by the Planning Commission, nor would ongoing negotiations have been needed. He averred that the continued negotiations indicated that not everyone felt the limit was reasonable. He wanted to ensure that, when working toward answers, they did not use a “bully” approach and say we have the votes so some people would be left out. He said Planning Commissioners were appointed after being interviewed, represented a broad spectrum, and had a certain amount of education about the matters they addressed there. He suggested that the Planning Commission MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 14, 2009 Page 8 Regular Meeting