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outcomes were generated by staff with a focus on Eugene. She said staff provided the Cheyenne example because <br />it had been inspired by some aspects of it and wanted to share it with the council. It was not a traditional planning <br />document. It was very user friendly and not just to those interested in land use but to the entire community. Ms. <br />Weiss said the Cheyenne model addressed both vision and implementation. while she thought the City's existing <br />plans had great goals and good policies, Eugene did not have a lot of clarity around its vision. She noted that <br />Cheyenne had also spent considerable time on the implementation element of its plan. <br />Mayor Piercy noted the council had received a link to the Cheyenne plan, which she found interesting. <br />Mr. Pryor liked the idea of employing the elements of the Cheyenne model that worked best. He also <br />recommended staff to employ those elements of the Eugene Decisions process that had worked. He cautioned <br />against giving people the false sense that their suggestions would be automatically implemented and wanted staff <br />to be clear the City was asking for input as opposed to a decision. He said the goal of improved understanding of <br />common goals and community vision would require multiple steps over a significant amount of time. Mr. Pryor <br />was interested in seeing how staff connected the dots in the final planning document. <br />Mr. Poling liked many of the ideas from the Cheyenne model and encouraged staff to glean what it could from it. <br />He expressed concern that the process had the potential of taking on a life of its own. He was also concerned that <br />the council tended to see the same people offering public input, and while he appreciated their input, he wanted to <br />see some new faces. He approved of the draft principles and outcomes as a starting point. <br />Mayor Piercy urged staff to be clear about what the City was trying to accomplish and what the necessary steps <br />were, and to say it in enough ways that it would be heard by as many as possible. Speaking to the nature of citizen <br />participation, Mayor Piercy suggested that some people were just more involved than others and people <br />participated in different ways, leading to multiple tools to facilitate that participation. She encouraged staff to <br />consider using media opportunities to extend an invitation to citizens to participate. <br />Ms. Ortiz expressed appreciation for the citizens the council heard from on a regular basis, but wanted to challenge <br />the "usual suspects" to bring someone new with them to an ECLA forum. She suggested that the templates for <br />each neighborhood might be different depending on the level of citizen input. She asked if citizens could suggest <br />code revisions. Ms. Gardner anticipated that such suggestions could come through the Infill Compatibility <br />Standards project as well as the Strategic Neighborhood Action Plans. <br />Ms. Taylor asked questions clarifying the steps remaining to be completed in the ECLA. She did not want the <br />process to preclude citizens from offering viable options to the City. <br />Mayor Piercy did not want the public conversation to be too broad or too narrow. She said that the Eugene <br />Recisions process had been a broad one but it was conducted several years ago and it was time to check back in <br />with the public on the policies it wanted guiding the community. She wanted ECLA to inform the decision - making <br />process rather than drive it. Mayor Piercy thought the council's policies needed to be the lens through which the <br />council addressed the supply questions that came from ECLA, rather than vice - versa. She said if the council chose <br />to adjust those policies that required another discussion. She suggested the real question was how the council <br />wanted the community to look, and how it could address the community's' needs within that policy context. <br />Mayor Piercy said the council needed to have some agreement about that policy lens before it went to the citizens <br />to ask their opinion. If the council had disparate ideas about what it was trying to accomplish, she anticipated a <br />problem. <br />Ms. Solomon asked how Mayor Piercy's comments fit with the timing associated with ECLA and the deadlines set <br />by the State. Ms. Weiss indicated staff would return with more information. <br />MINUTES —City Council October 12, 2009 Page 4 <br />