CC Minutes - 04/21/10 Work Session

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MINUTES Eugene City Council McNutt Room - -City Hall 777 Pearl Street Eugene, Oregon April 21, 2010 5:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Mike Clark, Betty Taylor, Chris Pryor, George Poling, George Brown, Alan Zelenka, Andrea Ortiz, Jennifer Solomon. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the work session of the Eugene City Council to order. A. WORK SESSION: Resolution 5004 Concerning the Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment Project's 20- Year Need Determination Planning Director Lisa Gardner provided an overview of the Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment (ECLA) process. She recognized members of the ECLA Community Advisory Committee (CAC) for their work on the project and introduced Jason Dedrick, Planning and Development Department, to present the results of the ECLA process. Mr. Dedrick distributed a document entitled Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment -- Community Advisory Committee Concluding Statement, April 13, 2010. He used a slide presented to outline the work of the CAC, which was convened to vet the information produced by ECLA and provide a recommendation on the final results. He said the CAC, by consensus, accepted the results of ECLA for use in the Envision Eugene process. He reviewed the CAC's specific findings, discussion items and recommendations contained in the document that was distributed. He said the CAC particularly wanted the following key policy issues carried forward into Envision Eugene: • Nodal development • Plan designations • wetlands • Market trends • Housing affordability Mr. Dedrick said small groups were formed to address outstanding issues and the consensus statements and recommendations from those groups were included in the agenda packet. He said the only significant change to data presented in December 2009, related to park land need that resulted from a change in the methodology for calculating that need. He said rather than basing the need on the Parks, Recreation and Open Space Plan (PROS), it seemed more appropriate to base park land need on the Project and Priority Plan. He said any additional protection of drainage -ways and the 25 -year floodplain were factors that could impact land need in the future. Continuing, Mr. Dedrick pointed out that the table of assumptions for ECLA remained virtually unchanged from the one presented in December 2009, with the exception of parks. He summarized the key land needs, based on the population forecast of 34,000 new people by 2031: MINUTES Eugene City Council April 21, 2010 Page 1 Work Session