Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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or the number of bedrooms had been increased, thereby affecting the required parking. He asked if other enforcement strategies were being considered. He agreed with Mr. Brown’s concern about the second clause related to an effective date for the ordinance. Ms. Jerome reiterated her willingness to provide a motion to address that. She recommended inclusion of the clause in ordinances because it represented the safest legal approach and clarified for the community exactly when an ordinance went into effect. Ms. Piercy asked staff to provide information on how car-sharing and ride-sharing programs operated in other communities of a similar size with a large student population. . WORK SESSION: C Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment (ECLA) Planning Director Lisa Gardner stated that as a result of a council motion regarding the ECLA timeline, staff was developing a revised scope of work through April 2010, including strategies for identifying priority issues, and had reconvened the ECLA Community Advisory Committee (CAC). She introduced Jason Dedrick, Planning and Development Department, to provide an ECLA status report. Mr. Dedrick said the primary purpose of the work session was to obtain additional feedback from the council on the technical products that were presented at the October 28, 2009, council work session. He highlighted the information provided on October 28, including the Residential Capacity Analysis and the Baseline and Variations to Baseline Assumptions Analysis, which were associated with determining the acreage need over the next 20 years. He said a review of data from 2001 to 2008 indicated a reduction in density on slopes between five and 30 percent. Additionally, some Local Wetlands Inventory (LWI) wetlands were not protected by Goal 5 and the assumption was that only 50 percent would be developable. He said the conclusion was that Eugene’s vacant lands could produce about 8,000 dwelling units and 14,000 units would be needed over the next 20 years. He noted that although the supply of vacant industrial land exceeded the demand for the next 20 years, it did not mean there was no need, depending on the size of parcels. Ms. Piercy asked if staff had heard concerns from stakeholders that were not represented on the CAC as she wanted the process to be as inclusive as possible. Mr. Dedrick said he was not aware of any. The CAC members were doing a good job of representing stakeholder groups and their questions and concerns. Mr. Zelenka asked if the CAC would be involved in the ECLA process through April 2010. Ms. Gardner said the CAC was involved in the early part of the process and given the expanded timeline there was an opportunity for them to participate in strategizing and prioritizing ECLA work. She invited suggestions from the council on any stakeholders that should be added to the CAC for the ongoing discussions. Mr. Clark asked what percentage of the LWI wetlands were in private ownership and public ownership. Mr. Dedrick said that data could be easily provided. He estimated that somewhat more of the unprotected LWI wetlands were in private ownership. Mr. Clark said if the assumption that 50 percent of those LWI wetlands would be developed meant all of the privately-owned wetlands or also included some public wetlands. Mr. Dedrick said that publicly- owned land was not considered as vacant and buildable. Mr. Clark said there had been significant work over the years in the Santa Clara area to protect natural stormwater drainages and the neighborhood association had done a detailed mapping of the area’s natural MINUTES—Eugene City Council November 9, 2009 Page 5 Work Session