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%XXEGLQIRX' <br />Planning & Development <br />Planning Division <br />City of Eugene <br />th <br />99 W. 10 Avenue <br />Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br />(541) 682-5377 <br />(541) 682-5572 FAX <br />www.eugene-or.gov <br />M <br />EMORANDUM <br />ĂƚĞ͗May 30, 2012 <br /> <br />dŽ͗Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />&ƌŽŵ͗, Associate Planner <br /> Emily Jerome, Deputy City Attorney <br /> <br />^ƵďũĞĐƚ͗ Envision Eugene: Follow-up on Housing Mix from Council Work Session  <br /> <br />This memorandum is in response to questions raised by the city council at the May 16, 2012 work <br />session regarding housing mix. <br /> <br />>ĞŐĂůĂĐŬŐƌŽƵŶĚ <br /> <br />State law requires the City to identify its 20-year need for at least three types of housing: detached <br />single family (free standing), attached single family (attached but on separate lots, e.g. row houses), and <br />multi-family (attached and on the same lot). For purposes of your discussions, staff memos and <br />presentations have included attached single family housing in the multi-family housing category, so the <br />recommended housing mix of 55% single family / 45% multi-family is actually 55% single family <br />detached / 8% single family attached / 37% multi-family. Reducing the housing types in this way is <br />standard practice for Oregon cities as they talk about the mix that is appropriate for their growth, <br />though some cities (e.g. Bend) include attached single family housing in the single family housing <br />n terms of all <br />three housing types. <br /> <br />State law requires the City to base its determination of housing need on specific sets of data pertaining <br />to the residential development that has recently occurred within the current UGB. Consistent with State <br />law, t <br />Eugene, the most accurate, complete and reliable data relating to housing trends in Eugene is that data <br />derived from the development that has occurred since the city adopted its new land use code, in 2001. <br /> <br />The specific data that the City must base its housing need/mix determination on is: <br /> <br />- The number, density and average mix of housing types that have actually occurred <br /> <br />- Trends in density and average mix of housing types <br /> <br />- Demographics and population trends <br />