Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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11. Seasonally appropriate investments 12. Triple bottom line (sustainability) 13. Urban form considerations Ms. Weiss referred to Attachment B, which included a list of specific work tasks associated with the Envision Eugene project. Ms. Weiss noted the items not recommended for inclusion: 14. Parcel-specific plan designations 15. Zoning/plan designation consistency 16. Dynamic modeling of residential development 17. Further natural resource protections 18. Further parkland needs 19. Adopt Parks Plan as refinement plan Ms. Weiss said that if the council chose to expand the scope of work, there would be time line implications. She invited questions. Mayor Piercy recalled that past planning processes envisioned a population that was not achieved in the planning horizon. She asked if there was a way to trigger various events as population targets were achieved. Ms. Jerome said that staff was working with the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) on the issue. The law does not include a provision to accomplish that; she suggested the way to accomplish it was to build in a shorter time period for check-ins. For example, the council could build in a check-in during the next periodic review. She pointed out that it would require County concurrence to change that number. Staff continued to discuss the issue with DLCD staff. Mayor Piercy asked if there was a way to switch out land within the urban growth boundary (UGB) with land outside the UGB. Ms. Jerome indicated that she believed that was possible. Mayor Piercy suggested that the public did not follow the work of the Planning Commission to the degree it did the work of the City Council, and asked how the City could help the community focus on the Planning Commission phase of the process to better engage it. Ms. Gardner said the City was attempting to do that and reported that the commission was seeing more attendance at its meetings. The commission had not received much public comment, but generally 12 to 15 people were present to hear its discussions. Mayor Piercy wanted to see more people in attendance. Mayor Piercy hoped the City tracked its experience with the triple bottom line tool so it could show other communities how it worked as she considered the tool to be quite innovative and potentially useful to those communities as well. Speaking to population projections that indicated 34,000 more people would move to Lane County, Mr. Clark suggested the community would grow up, out, or a combination of the two. He believed it would be a combination of growing both up and out. While he commended the staff work in general, Mr. Clark expressed concern that staff did not plan to include item 17 -Further natural resource protections - which precluded any analysis of natural resources MINUTES—Eugene City Council May 24, 2010 Page 5 Work Session