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4. PUBLIC HEARING:
<br />Resolution Adopting a Supplemental Budget; Making Appropriations for the Urban
<br />Renewal Agency for the Fiscal Year Beginning July 1, 2009, and Ending June 30, 2010
<br />Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing.
<br />Mary Salinas, General Delivery, Eugene, shared her concern about the homeless and questioned if the
<br />City had given much money to the homeless in the current budget. She advocated for more money to be
<br />dedicated to the Egan Warming Center.
<br />Mayor Piercy closed the public hearing. She called for questions or comments. There were none.
<br />Mayor Piercy adjourned the meeting of the URA and reconvened the meeting of the City Council.
<br />5. PUBLIC HEARING:
<br />An Ordinance Concerning the Walnut Street Station Mixed -Use Center; Amending the
<br />Eugene - Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan Land Use Diagram; Adopting the
<br />Walnut Street Station Refinement Plan; Amending the Fairmount/ University of Oregon
<br />Special Area Study; Amending the Riverfront Park Study; Rezoning Property; Amending
<br />Sections 9.1030, 9.2682, 9.5750, 9.6750, 9.7007, 9.7055, 9.7205, 9.7230, 9.7605, 9.7230, 9.7605,
<br />9.8010, 9.8030, 9.8680, 9.8865, and 9.9570 of the Eugene Code, 1971; Renumbering Sections
<br />9.8110 and 9.8113 of that Code to Sections 9.8007 and 9.8009, Respectively; Adding Sections
<br />9.3950, 9.3955, 9.3960, 9.3965, 9.3970, 9.3975, 9.3980, 9.8110, 9.8111, 9.8112, 9.8113, 9.8114,
<br />and 9.9655 to that Code; Adopting Special Setbacks for a Segment of Franklin Boulevard;
<br />Adopting a Severability Clause; and Providing an Effective Date
<br />City Manager Ruiz introduced the topic and noted the council was scheduled to deliberate and take action
<br />on July 26, 2010.
<br />Mayor Piercy reviewed the rules of the public hearing. She opened the public hearing.
<br />Bruce Mulligan, 3056 Hendricks Drive, submitted written testimony. He said the process had been in
<br />progress for several years, and he noted the collaborative approach to the form -based code that involved
<br />the Chamber of Commerce, Fairmount Area Neighbors (FAN), and the University of Oregon. He said the
<br />code was not perfect, and compromises were made. He acknowledged that businesses still had some
<br />concerns about the multi -way boulevard concept and access restriction that he hoped would be resolved.
<br />He supported the form based code as a way to resolve disputes before they arose and streamline
<br />development for businesses. He thought the plan was an example of what could happen when people sat
<br />down and resolved their differences. He thought the proposed form based code an ideal model for the
<br />future and asked the council to recognize the work that had been done.
<br />Elizabeth Steffensen, 2435 Skyline Boulevard, a member of FAN, endorsed the Planning Commission's
<br />recommendation to the City Council that the form based code be evaluated after 50,000 square feet of
<br />development had occurred or three years had passed. The neighborhood could then evaluate the resulting
<br />impacts and suggest adaptive management approaches that could take the form of code or plan changes or
<br />other supplemental council actions. She said FAN expected any evaluation to be done in collaboration
<br />with all stakeholders, including the neighborhood association.
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