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participating in Occupy Eugene had high aspirations and wanted to make a difference and improve the <br />community. <br />The motion passed, 4:2; Mr. Clark and Mr. Farr voting no. <br />Mr. Brown left the meeting. <br />B. WORK SESSION: <br />Envision Eugene —Land Need for Single- Family Homes and Public Uses <br />The council was joined by Planning Director Lisa Gardner, Metropolitan Community Planning Manager <br />Carolyn Weiss, and Associate Planner Heather O'Donnell. Staff distributed a correction to the Public <br />Lands Needs Summary included as Attachment A to the Agenda Item Summary and copies of a <br />memorandum entitled Envision Eugene: Follow -up from Council Work Session on Housing Mix. <br />Ms. Weiss and Ms. O'Donnell led the council through a PowerPoint presentation entitled Envision <br />Eugene: Project Update for City Council Work Session November 9, 2011. The presentation included <br />information on the public land need through the planning period as well as site maps identifying the <br />locations proposed for inclusion inside Eugene's urban growth boundary (UGB) for public land purposes. <br />The presentation also included information about the single - family housing land framed in terms of <br />capacity inside the UGB and the remaining land need after that capacity had been determined. Councilors <br />asked questions clarifying the details of the information presented. <br />Mayor Piercy solicited additional council questions and comments. <br />Mr. Clark requested a regional analysis that considered the single- family housing mix over time for <br />Veneta, Elmira, Coburg, Creswell, Harrisburg, and Cottage Grove to determine how Eugene's land use <br />decisions in the last 10 to 20 years had affected those communities to ensure the council's decision <br />regarding the land supply was balanced with that more regional look. He said the City lacked a <br />reasonable market analysis of the data to determine what type of housing that people moving to Eugene <br />wanted to live in. He understood that at least 70 percent were looking for single- family houses. Mr. <br />Clark asked if the council would have market data to help it in its decision - making. Ms. O'Donnell <br />referred Mr. Clark to the memorandum distributed by staff, which addressed his question. <br />Mr. Clark was concerned that experts in the housing industry believed the City needed more land than the <br />City's studies suggested it did. He said Eugene continued to have a housing affordability problem and he <br />feared that further artificially constraining the land supply would increase the price of land and housing <br />and exacerbate the affordable housing problem. He was also concerned the council was not doing a better <br />job of creating a market environment that allowed for the construction of affordable housing for all. City <br />Manager Ruiz responded that his recommendation attempted to avoid artificially constraining the market. <br />He believed reasonable people could make a logical argument about any of the housing mixes under <br />consideration. He anticipated the council would have an extensive policy discussion based on all the <br />information presented before it reached a decision. <br />Speaking to Mr. Clark's remarks, Mayor Piercy said that presenters at recent conferences she attended <br />had suggested that the past housing trends could no longer be relied on and the United States was moving <br />into a different time. She anticipated more multi -unit construction and less detached single - family <br />housing in the future. Mayor Piercy believed that demographics also suggested that more multi - family <br />development would occur to accommodate aging residents, young families, and entrepreneurs. She <br />MINUTES— Eugene City Council November 9, 2011 Page 4 <br />Work Session <br />