CC Minutes - 06/29/11 Work Session

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MINUTES Eugene City Council McNutt Room —City Hall 777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon June 29, 2011 Noon COUNCILORS PRESENT: Betty Taylor, George Brown, Andrea Ortiz, George Poling, Mike Clark, Chris Pryor, Alan Zelenka, Pat Farr. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the June 29, 2011, work session of the Eugene City Council to order. A. WORK SESSION: Envision Eugene The council was joined by Shawn Boles, Richard Duncan, Mia Nelson, and Sue Prichard of the Technical Resource Group's (TRG) Partially Vacant Lands Committee. Ed McMahon, Barbara Mitchell, and Laura Potter of the TRG were also present. Planning Director Lisa Gardner and planners Heather O'Donnell, and Jason Dedrick led the council through a PowerPoint presentation entitled Envision Eugene: Project Update for Eugene City Council, June 29, 2011. The presentation provided details about the City's plan to accommodate future single - family development, and included information about anticipated growth, community demographic factors, and housing trends that affected how much land the City needed for single - family development. The presentation also included information about the current housing mix and the housing mix recommendations of consultant EcoNorthwest and the Housing Mix Subgroup, and highlighted key issues related to the amount of single - family housing need that would be monitored by staff in the future as the plan was implemented. The presentation detailed the process used to establish the capacity for single - family development that existed inside the urban growth boundary (UGB) and the assumptions behind the process. The presentation also detailed the process used to identify the capacity for single- family housing that existed on partially vacant lands, specifically the capacity that existed on the 4,500 lots in Eugene that were less than one acre in size. The presentation described efficiency measures that were proposed to help accommodate more single- family houses inside the UGB than were currently allowed and suggested land redesignation as another possible approach toward increasing the amount of single - family land inside the boundary. The presentation also included data about the range of need and the number of units that could be satisfied through vacant land, partially vacant land, efficiency strategies, and land redesignation, indicating that 4,460 additional single- family houses could be accommodated within the UGB. The presentation detailed a formula used to translate housing demand into acreage need and concluded with a schedule of upcoming open houses and council work sessions on the subject of single- family housing. Ms. Gardner emphasized the complexity of determining the land need for the anticipated housing mix. She encouraged the council to keep in mind the human scale and how the information in the presentation translated into the community's every day experiences and values. MINUTES— Eugene City Council June 29, 2011 Page 1 Work Session