Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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transition between processes. She believed it would be a challenge to staff to identify the areas where the processes came together and should be more carefully interwoven. Mayor Piercy reiterated her concerns about doing something through one process that was counter to the goals of another process. She acknowledged that it was difficult to anticipate that. Assistant City Manager Medary suggested that the triple bottom line tool was a way to ensure that such issues were considered. Responding to a request from Mr. Brown, Assistant City Manager Medary indicated she would provide the council with copies of the questions included in the triple bottom line analysis. Mr. Pryor acknowledged the work that had been done and the work still to come. He suggested that the council needed to also accept that there was conflict ahead. He hoped the council worked through that conflict and came out with something better than it originally considered. He did not think those conflicts would be unique to Eugene and they could be positive, rather than negative. Mr. Pryor anticipated a conflict between reasonable values and suggested that the council owed the community an informed, thoughtful, deliberative discussion when it made its choices, which some people would not support. Mayor Piercy perceived the Envision Eugene process as an opportunity for the community to have a comprehensive discussion about the future. She said the challenge for participants would be to overcome the initial skepticism that would arise, and while that would not be easy she thought that the council would be pleased with the results of those efforts. C. WORK SESSION: Envision Eugene—Project Approach The council was joined by Planning Division Director Lisa Gardner, Metro Community Planning Manager Carolyn Weiss, and City Attorney Emily Jerome for the item. Ms. Gardner provided an update on the process and presented a short video on the project. Ms. Jerome provided a brief overview of the legal framework for the process. Mr. Zelenka arrived. Ms. Weiss referred the council to Attachment A in the Agenda Item Summary (AIS) for a listing of issues raised by advisory committees, members of the public, and staff. She recommended that the process address 13 of the 19 listed issues. Items 1-5 were legally required and items 6-13 had a high level of demonstrated community interest. 1. Transportation findings 2. Nodal development 3. Housing mix/affordability 4. Market trends 5. Economic development strategy/site needs 6. More integrated land use and transportation 7. Underbuild/utilization 8. Climate and energy action plan 9. Development standards 10. District scale modeling MINUTES—Eugene City Council May 24, 2010 Page 4 Work Session