Item 3A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Ms. Bettman, seconded by Ms. Taylor, moved to delete the item stating “Eugene supports allowing adopted plan policies to be incorporated by reference in the Land Use Code rather than reprinted in the code,” from the Land Use Planning and Growth Management subsection of the legislative policies document. Ms. Bettman expressed that it was necessary for the complete text of refinement plan policies to be included in the Land Use Code to make such policies more accessible to the community. Ms. Jerome, responding to a comment from Mr. Clark, noted that the required complete reprinting of adopted refinement plan policies was only applicable to three certain types of limited land use decisions, subdivisions, partitions and site reviews, and that other types of land use decisions such as planned unit developments or conditional use permits allowed refinement plan policies to be incorporated by reference. Mr. Zelenka felt that it was odd to require whole sections of adopted refinement plan policies to be reprinted in the Land Use Code and maintained that it used an adopted policy as a force of law under the code. Ms. Piercy called for a vote on Ms. Bettman’s previously stated motion. The motion passed 5:4, Mr. Clark, Mr. Pryor, Ms. Solomon and Mr. Poling voting in opposition. Ms. Wilson, responding to a question from Ms. Bettman, noted that the objective item regarding support for local discretion in standards for needed housing had come from previous iterations of the legislative policies document. Ms. Jerome, responding to a comment from Ms. Bettman, clarified the definition of the term “needed housing” as it applied to the legislative policies document. Mr. Zelenka averred that there were clear and objective standards for needed housing within the Land Use Code. Ms. Jerome replied that there were indeed clear and objective standards, as well as additional approval criteria, listed for every type of needed housing identified by the City. Mr. Zelenka maintained that the issue of clear and objective standards for needed housing ,and the corresponding approval criteria, was very confusing and that further discussion on the topic was needed. V. Planning and Community Services—D. Land Use Planning and Growth Management--D3. Twenty-Year Land Supply Ms. Wilson, responding to a request from Mr. Clark, clarified the legislative objective regarding the impact of rural residential development on housing capacity within the urban growth boundary. Ms. Bettman offered that the legislative objective item would not affect the cities of Coburg or Creswell and had been originated in response to past residential development in rural areas that was not being adequately accounted for. Ms. Wilson, responding to a question from Mr. Clark on the legislative objective regarding the 20-year buildable lands inventory, noted that the City would continue to oppose the requirement that the housing needs analysis and commercial determinations be based only on actual past development. Mr. Pryor maintained that such determinations and reviews should be based on multiple criteria and not solely on past development. VI. Public Safety--C. Police and Enforcement MINUTES—Eugene City Council November 24, 2008 Page 8 Work Session