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Strategy 1: Create more 20-minute neighborhoods where residents can meet most of their daily <br />needs within walking, biking, or transit distance from their homes. <br /> <br /> <br /> The school closures currently being contemplated were detrimental to the City’s goal for 20- <br />minute neighborhoods and would increase vehicle miles traveled. The increased traffic <br />would also be a detriment to neighborhoods. (Taylor) <br /> <br />Strategy 2: Complete assessment of implementing variable systems development charges (SDCs) <br />with the purpose of supporting development toward the core of the city. <br />Strategy 3: Integrate climate change and energy projections into an assessment to understand <br />the risks that climate change and energy volatility pose for the transport of goods and services, <br />housing costs, food and water supplies, energy systems, and the location of emergency services. <br />Strategy 4: Facilitate urban agriculture by evaluating barriers in the land use code to the <br />development of home-grown food sources, including backyard and community gardens, urban <br />food orchards, and micro-livestock, in accordance with the Food Security Scoping and Resource <br />Plan. <br /> <br /> <br /> Would like to see investigation of Southeast Neighbors’ idea for privately funded <br />greenhouses on public lands. (Warnes) <br /> <br /> Would like to see water catchment facilities required in new development or in <br />redevelopment, including underground storage for rainwater. (Warnes) <br /> <br /> Consider the tensions between goals that contradict each other, e.g., need for distribution of <br />local food products versus the desire to reduce vehicle miles. Need to recognize and take into <br />consideration consciously. (Piercy) <br /> <br />Strategy 5: Continue City efforts to reduce greenhouse gas impacts from housing and <br />transportation. These include development of a new Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, <br />collaboration with the Lane Transit District to complete the EmX bus rapid transit system, and <br />efforts to encourage existing and new houses to be energy-efficient, particularly by using solar <br />energy. <br /> <br /> <br /> Transit was not necessarily EmX. Do not think calling out one particular project was <br />suitable. (Taylor, Clark) <br /> <br /> EmX was included in the community’s transportation plan as a way to reduce greenhouse <br />gases and vehicle miles traveled. (Piercy) <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy adjourned the work session at 2 p.m. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Beth Forrest <br />City Recorder <br /> <br />(Recorded by Kimberly Young) <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council February 16, 2011 Page 4 <br /> Work Session <br />