CC Minutes - 07/20/11 Work Session

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Mr. Clark pointed out development was driven by the market rather than the City, and the City could not stop development in the campus area. More students would come to the University in future years and there would be a demand for more housing independent of what the council did. He suggested the question then became what kind of construction occurred. Mr. Clark speculated that more than 2,000 new housing units could be built in the University area over the next 20 years. He believed the council was talking about what type of development would be built and whether residents would have input into what occurred in their neighborhood. Speaking to Mr. Clark's request for information about was developed near the University without benefit of the exemption, Mayor Piercy suggested that times had changed so much since the 1990s that the comparison would not be useful. Mayor Piercy reported that the University planned to house all freshman and sophomores on campus and was in the process of constructing new student housing. She also attributed the large amount of multi- family housing construction in the University area to the fact that the only type of development that could get financed during the recession was student housing. Mayor Piercy suggested the council needed to have a discussion of where student housing should be located and how it could be encouraged. Ms. Taylor, seconded by Mr. Poling, moved to direct the City Manager to proceed in two phases: 1) prepare an ordinance and hold a public hearing to extend the sunset date for the existing MUPTE boundary area in the Downtown Plan area; and 2) conduct additional work sessions in the fall to discuss other priority areas for council consideration and future action. The motion passed unanimously, 7:0. Mayor Piercy adjourned the meeting at 1:24 p.m. Respectfully submitted, ,6j-A Jo Beth Forrest City Recorder (Recorded by Kimberly Young) MINUTES— Eugene City Council July 20, 2011 Page 8 Work Session