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talk to people if their project meets its goals, even if not in a location identified on a map. <br />(Belcher) <br />• Concur that existing core areas and core areas, particularly downtown, are the right places to <br />focus attention. (Zelenka) <br />Strategy 2 : Transform key transportation corridors and core commercial areas as mixed -use <br />neighborhoods that foster active, walkable, community living by providing a mix of residential, <br />commercial, retail, and public uses in close proximity to one another —in many cases within a single <br />building. <br />Councilors and commissioners offered the following thoughts on Strategy 2: <br />• Hope there was an opportunity for closer examination of the streetscape to improve the walking <br />environment. (Bierle) <br />• Concerned that if City was not prepared to act quickly in its area planning, it could slow the <br />process of redevelopment down. Recall the example of Oakway Mall, which spurred further <br />redevelopment along Coburg Road. (Duncan) <br />Strategy Protect adjacent neighborhoods and provide housing options by creating transition areas <br />between commercial and higher density residential uses and lower density, single-family <br />neighborhoods in accordance with the goals and recommendations of the infill Compatibility <br />Standards and Opportunity Siting Task Teams. <br />Councilors and commissioners offered the following thoughts on Strategy 3: <br />• This strategy of creating a transition area was very important because it would help the City find <br />ambiguities that exist in the current Growth Management Policies. Over the past few years the <br />council and commission have heard how density was impacting existing neighborhoods, and <br />believe that continuing the two initiatives mentioned would bring opportunities to correct some <br />issues that have arisen. (Hledik) <br />• Not a totally resolved issue —in reality, the transition zone will be in the commercial zone, the <br />residential zone, or both, and at some point that must be resolved. (Belcher) <br />• A caveat —much great work has been done on Opportunity Siting and it is a promising tool that <br />should be included in the plan, but work needed to be done to fully define what it was, how it <br />would work, and what mechanisms it would employ. (Mills) <br />• Agree about transition areas —like the idea of having transition zones that include transition <br />heights that were higher in the commercial area and lower in the residential area, which eased <br />people's anxiety about the impact of such development on residential neighborhoods. Such <br />issues would come up as the City tried to create 20- minute neighborhoods. (Zelenka) <br />• Suggest that remarks about transition heights reflect where the City had been going with the <br />form -based code, with a focus on the way things look and how they impacted the neighborhood. <br />Opportunity siting gave developers the opportunity to identify the next locations for higher <br />density development, counterbalanced by neighborhood involvement so that the negative impacts <br />of higher density could be addressed and resolved collaboratively. (Hledik) <br />Strategy 4 : Make compact urban development of core commercial areas and corridors easier. <br />Councilors and commissioners offered the following thoughts on Strategy 4: <br />MINUTES— Eugene City Council February 9, 2011 Page 2 <br />Work Session <br />