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that hearings would be held before the Hearings Official. Mr. Klein continued that a property owner could also appear before the council at the last step of adopting the assessment ordinance and claim no benefit and the council could make that determination. Ms. Bettman asked if the notification to property owners of the formation of an LID explicitly stated the option of claiming no benefit and if it did not, she asked that the information be included. Mr. Schoening said the letter was a form letter tailored to each project and property owners had come to past hearings and claimed no benefit. Ms. Nathanson said she was not in favor of changing the code every six months. She encouraged the property owner notification to use plain language to describe the LID and appeal process and explain the issues. Ms. Taylor asked how soon after the assessment was levied owners were required to pay. Mr. Schoening said owners had 10 to 15 days after council action to pay the assessment in full or sign up to finance it through the City. Ms. Taylor asked if the public hearings were held before the council. Mr. Schoening replied that the LID hearings were before the Hearings Official. Mr. Kelly raised a point of order and requested clarification on whether the council had the option of holding a hearing on a resolution. Mr. Klein replied that the council had the option of holding a public hearing before any action it took. Mr. Pap6 raised a point of order that the Municipal Charter required a public hearing before any ordinance was passed. Mr. Klein said he would research the matter. Mayor Torrey restated the amended motion as ~I move to direct staff to prepare an ordinance amending the Eugene Code pertaining to the procedures and assessments for public improvements to assess all costs associated with alley improvements." The motion as amended passed, 7:1; Ms. Taylor voting no. D. WORK SESSION: Central Area Transportation Study (CATS) Principal Civil Engineer Chris Henry reviewed previous council action and background on CATS. He said that as a result of discussions to date, he was proposing to prepare motions for the council's consideration at such time as CATS was scheduled for action. He listed the three items that would be included in the motions: 1. #8 Parking policy on page 13 of CATS did not match wording in text later in the document; the page 13 text was correct and the housekeeping change would preserve consistency in the document. 2. #3 Policy discussion related to system development charges (SDC) - delete the geographical com- ponent discussion as it no longer applied. 3. Replace reference to the Breeze shuttle through the document with ~downtown shuttle service." MINUTES--Eugene City Council March 8, 2004 Page 7 Work Session