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Noyember 16, 1998
6:00 p.m.
JOINT ELECTED
OFFICIALS' MEETING
Willamalane Senior Center
215 West "C" St., Springfield
Springfield Mayor Bill Morrisette opened the meeting.
Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey explained the Cities of Springfield, Eugene and Lane County will haye
to deal with a concurrent automatic amendment to the Airport Master Plan Diagram and Zone
Change. He said the following criteria shall be used by the joint elected officials to eyaluate the
proposed Metro Plan: a) The amendment must be consistent with the relevant statewide planning
goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commissions and b) adoption of the
amendment must make the Metro Plan internally consistent.
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Toaey asked if there were any conflicts of interest. Dumdi stated she had no conflict but
knew the parties involved and had not discussed the matter recently. Sorenson replied he had no
conflict of interest but had a conversation with Mr. Mann who is inyolved with this. Morrisette
responded he had spoken with Larry Mann as well. Sorenson stated it was his understanding that
Mr. Mann purchased a lease or some interest in property near the Eugene Airport where he operates
a youth sports soccer complex and he is concerned about the airport, and would like to work with
the City. Weeldreyer stated she had the same conversation as Sorenson. Green stated he had no
contact. Dumdi said some months ago she discussed this with the owners of the subject property
and haye not discussed it with them recently. Mayor Morrisette stated he had spoken with Mann
previously and said he hopes they are able to maintain their property over the next couple of years.
Morrisette added he asked him if his property was involved in the discussion this eyening and he
said no. Mayor Torrey stated he had receiyed a document from him the night of the election. Lee
also replied he received a letter from him at the night of the election on the same issue. Yeiter also
spoke with Mr. Mann before the meeting and the amendment being discussed should not affect the
operations that Mr. Mann has.
ROLL CALL
Present from the City of Eugene: Councilors Lee, Swanson-Gribskov, Laue, Meisner, Tollenar,
Mayor Torrey. There were three councilors absent but there was a quorum.
Present from the City of Springfield: Councilors Ballew, Maine, Shayer, Beyer, Leiken, Mayor
Morrisette.
Present from Lane County: Commissioners Cornacchia, Dumdi, Green, Sorenson'and Weeldreyer.
STAFF PRESENTATION
Kurt Yeiter, Senior Planner, City of Eugene, presented a brief oyerview. He said as the many issues
were discussed and analyzed before the planning commissions, subsequent memos were written by
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staff that tried to narrow the discussion that the planning commission asked. He added since the
planning commission hearings there were some new discussions that came up during the Board of
County Commissioners' first reading of their ordinance. He said the application stems from a
decision made with the adoption of the Airport Master Plan in 1990. He added when the Airport
Master Plan was prepared, a study was done regarding air cargo facilities. He said several sites were
studied, one was selected and subsequently constructed. He added prior to construction in 1992 a
Metro Plan Amendment with statewide goals exception to Goal 3 (agricultural lands) and a zone
change were processed. He said the facility was built and now seyeral years later the operational
characteristics reveal that more room is needed to separate the jets froin the trucks and air cargo jets
from other corporate jets, an operational efficiency and safety issue for the airport. He said for an
expansion of the facilities, a Metro Plan Amendment and zone change are required and based on
public comment from 1997, the application was revised to reduce the area from oyer 28 acres
purchased to 9.1 acres affected. He said the application also included an amendment to the Airport
Master Plan, the Refinement Plan for the area. He added that amendment was included to clarify
what the future use of the 9.1 acres would be for the air cargo facility. He said the Metro Plan
Amendment was processed as a Type 1 Amendment, to allow participation from all three
jurisdictions. He said the Metro Plan Amendment requires action by all three bodies of elected
.officials and the Refinement Plan Amendment requires action only by Lane County and the City of
Eugene. He added the zone change is the sole responsibility ofthe Board of County Commissioners.
He said the ordinances before everyone should reflect correctly the actions that each body is
requested to take. He said with the Metro Plan Amendment there is consistency with statewide
planning goals and that the amendment makes the Metro Plan internally consistent. He said the
criteria for the Refinement Plan (amendment to the Airport Master Plan) is when a Metro Plan
Amendment is enacted, it requires an amendment to the Refinement Plan, functional plan diagram
or map for consistericy. He said the Metro Plan Diagram: Amendment automatically amends the
refinement plan or functional plan diagram or map if no amendment to the Refinement Plan or
functional plan text is inyolyed. He said there is no proposed amendment to the Refinement Plan
text. He said the summary for the zone change action is that the rezoning must help to achieye the
general purposes of Lane Code Chapter 16 and must not be contrary to the public interest. He said
in addition, the rezoning must be consistent with the specific purposes of the airport
operation/commercial airport safety combining AO/CAS zone classification and applicable Metro
Plan elements and components. He suggested if the Metro Plan amendments can be approyed, then
the findings for the zone change should fall into place.
Mayor Torrey opened the Public Hearing and said he was taking testimony in favor of the
amendments.
City of Springfield, Lane County also opened their Public Hearing.
Derick Birch, 2178 Firth Aye., Springfield, stated he is the GroUnd Support Manager for Flightcraft
at the Eugene Airport. He added he has been the Ground Support Manager for five years and what
has precipitated the need for air cargo expansion is that the Eugene Airport is growing and
businesses are increasing. He said there has been a large increase in the number of hangars that haye
been constructed at the airport and airplanes based there. He said there has also been an increase of '
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air cargo carriers. He said the south end of the airport is becoming very congested. He added his
general aviation ramp (where 50% of the air cargo operations is conducted) is haying to make do
presently. He said more asphalt space is needed, with a larger ramp to put all of the air cargo
handlers in to get them away from the general aviation and corporate aviation airplanes. He said
delivery trucks and yans also need the extra space and are currently having to gain entry through a
gate in the middle of all of the hangars. He said it is not a safe situation, that yehicles should be
separated from airplanes, and cargo operations separated from general ayiation aircraft. He said
from Flightcraft's perspective, they would like to see a zone change making the addition of an air
cargo ramp a possibility.
Mayor Torrey reported no one signed up to speak in opposition and closed the Public Hearing.
Mayor Morrisette closed Springfield's Public Hearing
Jim Johnson, Eugene City Manager, stated his Council will consider Council Bill 4666, relating to
the Eugene Airport Type 1 Metro Plan Amendment and Concurrent Amendment to Airport Master
Plan Diagram MA 97-3.
Meisner moved the Bill with a unanimous consent of the Council, that it be read the second time by
Council Bill number only.
Lau seconded.
. VOTE: 5-0.
Johnson stated council will consider Council Bill 4666 by number only.
Meisner MOVED, Lau SECONDED.
VOTE: 4-1, Meisner dissenting.
Mort moyed to adopt an Ordinance submitting the Eugene Springfield Metropolitan Area General
Plan Diagram 9.1 acre portion of property as identified by Assessor Map 17-04-07-00 Tax Lot 100
from airport reserve to government and education and declaring an emergency.
Maine seconded.
VOTE: 6-0.
SECOND READING AND PUBLIC HEARING/Ordinance PA 1124/10 the Matter of Amending
the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan Diagram to Redesignate Land from "Airport
Reserve" to "Goyernment and Education" and Amending the Airport Master Plan Land Use Diagram
to Redesignate that Land from "Enyironmental Buffer" to "Air Cargo" and Rezoning that Land from
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"Exclusiye Farm Use/Commercial Airport Safety Combining (E-40/CAS)" to "Airport Operations/
Commercial Airport Safety Combining (AO/CAS)"; and Adopting Savings and Seyerability Clauses.
Commissioner Cornacchia read into the record Ordinance P A 1124.
Cornacchia stated there are two choices tonight, to approye the second reading and then move to
approye the ordinance or approye the second reading and set it for a third reading and deliberation
on a later date. He said he had asked for questions to be answered and the answers didn't arriye until
he sat down. He said he remained interested in the complete compliance with all land use
regulations, both state and local, by the City of Eugene on the matter. He added the issue of whether
there should be a partition of the property before rezoning occurs and whether or not both the
transportation goals relatiye to plan exceptions have been fully addressed and met by the City of
Eugene remain unanswered. He said the concern he has is that in the record there are a yariety of
offerings from priyate individuals that question things. He said the questions in the record are not
answered in the materials in front of them, but it has been represented tonight that the materials that
say "Supplemental PA 1124" do answer those. He said if there are three commissioners that wished
to pass this tonight, there needs to be a move and second to the ordinance, and then haye the Board
polled or it could be rolled to December 9.
Sorenson stated he would favor that approach.
MOTION: to approye the Second Reading and Setting Third Reading for December 9, 1998.
. Dumdi MOVED, Weeldreyer SECONDED.
Green questioned the time problem ifit was rolled to December 9. He wanted to know if the third
reading would delay a grant.
Bob Noble, Airport, responded they have to be able to adyertise this in February and March and have
responsiye bids back by this summer. He said a delay into an early December date would not
preclude them from moving forward.
Green questioned Kent Howe about two abstentions from the planning commission meeting and
wanted to know the basis for them. '
Mike Copely, Land Management, stated he was not at the planning commission meeting when they
made a recommendation but his understanding is the abstentions came from the commissioners who
did not want to participate in the decision.
Green questioned whether the City of Eugene had not updated several of their plans and rezonings.
He gave an example of a Refinement Plan in Bethel that has not been updated in oyer 15 years but
rezoning has been happening.
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Yeiter responded the City expects a recommendation to be put forward to the elected officials
starting in January 1999 and the adoption process will take several months because of the multiple
jurisdictions and FAA reyiew.
Jan Childs, City of Eugene, stated it is correct that there are requests to go forward when a plan has
not been updated for some time. She said in this particular case the request for Metro Plan
Amendment was initiated prior to the beginning of the Airport Master Plan update.
VOTE: 5-0.
Mayor Morrisette recessed the meeting at 6:30 p.m. to resume at 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Mayor Morrisette called the meeting to order and asked if there was a conflict of interest or ex parte
contacts that needed to be declared.
Mayor Jim Torrey recused himself from the discussion.
There were no conflicts from the City of Springfield or Lane County.
Mayor Morrisette reported on October 13, the joint planning commissioners held a public hearing
to consider the staff report and receiyed public comment on the proposed amendment. He added
following the hearing, the commissions yoted independently to forward the recommendations of
approyal oftheir respectiye governing bodies. He said this evening the joint elected officials must
consider the eyidence reviewed by the joint planning commissions and their recommendations to
determine whether to approve the Metro Plan Amendment.
Len Goodwin, Management Analyst, Springfield Public Works, stated that what is before the
councils is a request to conduct a public hearing to receive a staff report to hear public testimony
concerning a proposed amendment to the Metro Plan, transferring jurisdiction of the area commonly
known as Glenwood from Eugene to Springfield. He added an ordinance is included, implementing
that amendment. (For the City of Springfield, it is an ordinance adopting a text amendment to the
Eugene/Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan, Section II-C, Chapters 1 & IV (2)) and to
transfer jurisdiction for Glenwood from Eugene to Springfield, adopting savings and seyerability
clauses and declaring an emergency. He said when the land use laws were first put in place in
Oregon, one of the major factors was the definition of "urban areas" and when the urban area for the
Eugene/Springfield Metropolitan Area was first established, one area of uncertainty was the location
or placement of the area known as Glcnwood. (The area between the Willamette River and 1-5 "
Freeway). He said much discussion took place at time as to the appropriate allocation of Glenwood
to the planning jurisdictions of Eugene and Springfield and in the mid-1980's, a decision was made
to associate that area with the City of Eugene for planning purposes. He added at that time one of
the major factors was both municipalities were in the midst of a severe fiscal constraint period and
the City of Springfield was in more dire straits than the City of Eugene. He said at that time it was
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clear the City of Springfield was unable to proyide an urban level of services and made the decision
to associate Glenwood with Eugene. He said in 1990, the Glenwood residents participated with the
City of Eugene in developing a Glenwood Refinement Plan, which was adopted by the City of
Eugene and became part of the record. He said the Refinement Plan set the general tone and
direction for further deyelopment in the Glenwood area and in 1994, the Springfield City Council
(after receiving a petition from a number, of Glenwood residents) requested that the issue be reyisited
and that a new determination be made as to the proper placement of Glenwood. He added in 1994
the Lane Council of Goyernments performed a brief study and cost analysis which is also part of the
record. He said that study was supplemented in April, 1995 by a more comprehensiye study by
LCOG of the Glenwood Jurisdiction and costs of transfer. He said that document was updated in
1996 as part of the most recent study and is also part ofthe record. He Said in 1995, the Springfield
City Council (with a committee of citizens) again looked at the issue of Glenwood and approached
the City of Eugene with a more formal review of the status of Glenwood. He said in 1996, through
the Metropolitan Policy Committee, a work plan was deyeloped forthe two jurisdictions to carry out
a more detailed study ofthe Glenwood area and impact of any change in jurisdiction. He said that
work plan is being completed tonight with a hearing before the joint elected officials to consider the
report of the planning commissions. He said part of the work plan was a further comprehensiye
study of the fiscal impact of transfer of jurisdiction of Glenwood and that report was initially drafted
in Noyember 1996, by staff of the City of Springfield. He said release was deferred at that time due
to Ballot Measure 47 which altered the property tax structure within the state. He added Measure
50 further changed the basis for the tax structure and as a result it wasn't until November of 1997
that a Glenwood jurisdictional study was released to the elected officials and the public. He said
finances were not an issue at that time with respect to the jurisdiction of Glenwood. He said the
reported indicated that each of the cities could provide an appropriate leyel of urban services within
their fiscal capacity. He added following the release of that report, the City Councils of Springfield
and Eugene both selected two councilors to serve on a joint subcommittee to review the report and
make recommendations. He,said some of the issues that were important in the discussions at that
time were the need on the part of the City of Eugene that it be reimbursed for a significant of
investment it had made in infrastructure within the Glenwood area. He added there was discussion
of that plan and concern on the part of some of the members of the City of Eugene that the
Refinement Plan not be abandoned but continued and amended to reflect the needs of the
community. He said during the course of those discussions, the committee of councilors came to
a conclusion that it seemed appropriate to consider a transfer of jurisdiction that would involve the
transfer of all of Glenwood between 1-5 and the Willamette River. He said during that time the City
of Springfield had conducted a number of public studies and surveys and conducted a statistically
valid telephone survey of the residents of Glenwood that was supplemented by mail surveys. He
said in summary, the surveys indicated a preponderance of citizen desire to transfer jurisdiction. He
said the City of Springfield also conducted an open house as part of the record of the proceedings
of that planning commission 'that are for review. H~ said in September a joint meeting was
conducted where public comment was heard and following the comment, each jurisdiction separately
acted to initiate the Metro Plan Amendment process. He added that process was followed by a report
that was presented to the planning commissions on October 12 that resulted in each of the planning
commissions recommending approval of a jurisdictional transfer.
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Mark Metzger, City of Springfield, focused on key issues. He said the proposal was a text
amendment and it is meant to make changes in the Metro Plan that would delete references to the
City of Eugene as having assigned jurisdiction over the Glenwood area. He said the purpose of the
report is to look at the criteria that are required by the Metro Plan and development codes to analyze
and examine amendments to see ifthey qualify for approval. He referred to the 15 page "Metro Plan
Amendment Staff Report." He said he would like to enter the staff report and support materials into
the record (the same body of information that was reviewed by the joint planning commissions) and
haye added to the packets the minutes from the Joint Planning Commission amended minutes. He
said they are looking at two different amendments to the Metro Plan, an amendment to Section II-C
and it will delete a fair portion of Section C. He said on Page 2 is the current wording of Section C
and there is a strike-out version. He read into the record "The division of responsibility between the
two cities is the Interstate 5 Highway. However state law provides a mechanism for a creation of
a new City in the Riyer Road, Santa Clara area." He said all of the remaining language in Section
II- C would be stricken. He said on Page 3, there is a change in Chapter IV ofthe Metro Plan, Policy
5 b) on Page IV-2 and for this section, there are two strike outs: "A site-specific Type 1 Metro Plan
Amendment that involves a UGB expansion or planned boundary change and a Type 2 Metro Plan
Amendment between the city limits and the planned boundary must be approyed by the home city
and Lane County." He said Springfield is the home city for amendments east ofI-5 and the stricken
portion of the amendment would be "excluding Glenwood." He said Eugene is the home city for
amendments west ofI-5 and "within Glenwood" would be stricken. He said those are the textural
changes that would in effect transfer jurisdiction of Glenwood from Eugene to Springfield. He said
criteria is given on Page 7, "The following criteria from the Springfield Development Code, Eugene
Development Code and Lane Code shall be applied by the planning commissions and elected in
appr~)Ving or denying a Metro Plan Amendment. The Amendment must be consistent with relevant
statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Deyelopment Commission and the
adoption of the amendment must not make the Metro Plan internally inconsistent." He questioned
if the amendment is consistent with the statewide planning goals, will it make the Metro Plan
internally consistent. He said two statewide goals have significance, Goal 1, has been a long public
process in trying to inyolye Glenwood residents in having an influence on who has jurisdiction oyer
that area. He said he belieyes Goal 1 has been met in the process of getting people involyed. He
said the second issue is in Goal 11, dealing with public facilities and services, "To plan and deyelop
a timely, orderly and efficient arrangement of public facilities and services to serve as a framework
for urban and rural development." He added if there is a transfer of jurisdiction, will Springfield
provide Glenwood with the services that it needed. He said there is a related action, an application
before the Boundary Commission to conduct a transfer of territory, but tonight they are just focusing
on the Metro Plan Amendment itself. He said the jurisdictional transfer is for a matter of future
annexation ifthe residents choose. He said the immediate impact will be on deyelopment services
and jurisdiction over development issues in the unincorporated area.
Metzger said Springfield has a fully deyeloped Planning, Engineering and Public Works diyision
that can handle development issues. He said services can be provided for the incorporated area. He
added if a transfer of territory takes place, they haye the capacity to proyide services for the
unincorporated area also. He said the [mal issue deals with the question, "Does this text amendment
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make the Metro Plan internally consistent?" He said the text changes are designed to keep the Metro
Plan internally consistent. He said the amendment needs approval with modification.
Mayor Monisette opened Public Hearing.
Steven Moe, P. O. Box 847, Springfield, stated he is a life-long resident, property owner and owns
a business in Glenwood. He said when they started with the Refinement Plan in 1988, Glenwood
was all industrial. Since then he has seen areas where things could have and should have been done
better. He said he wanted to see a new Glenwood Citizens' Advisory team treat the Refinement Plan
and make it better. With regard to the plan being internally consistent, he said the Eugene,
Springfield and Lane County Plalming Commissions have applied the facts to all of the relevant
"yes." He said adoption of the amendment must not make the Metro Plan internally inconsistent.
He said the approval of the amendment will absolutely not affect the Metro Plan as all commercial,
industrial, residential lands in the Eugene/Springfield inyentories as well as Trans Plan are combined
into one area wide Metro Plan. He said approyal of the amendment will correct the decision made
in 1986 that could not take into consideration the wishes of the majority of Glenwood residents. He
urged the Lane County Commissioners, Eugene and Springfield City Council to support the wishes
of 85% of Glenwood residents and go forward with the resolution adopting this Metro Plan
Amendment, and place Glenwood in the Springfield urban growth boundary.
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Don Jones, 3700 Franklin Blvd., Glenwood, stated he has had a family business in the same location
since 1946. He said he was on the original Refinement Plan and served with a five member panel
to make a recommendation as to what the City of Glenwood should go with. He said he had nothing
against Eugene (he yoted to go with the City of Eugene when they originally had the meetings in
1990) and due to the fact that Springfield couldn't financially take them on then, supports going to
Springfield now.
Jim Gutherie, 1475 S. Brooklyn, Glenwood, said he is pleased with being in the County jurisdiction.
He said his section has been ignored and is perfectly happy with the situation. He said they have
more police coverage than anyone else in the County, provided by four different agencies. He said
the children will still go to 4J schools. He said the only thing that will be impacted is a fast track
for development proposals at the Springfield Building Department. He said it is important to note
the history of how they have been treated as citizens. He said a neighborhood work group was
willing to volunteer to put in a bike path between Eugene and Glenwbod, but was urged to postpone
the work because the neighborhood group was looking into insurance. He said they were cut out of
the project entirely and County prisoners were put on the job and citizens' input got shoyed under
the rug. He said that is the situation in Glenwood. He said he recognizes this motion won't allow
them to vote on any issues and doesn't want to be annexed. He said a vast majority ofthe signatures
on the petitions were anti-annexation signatures. He said it was promoted as if it were their only
chance to preyent being annexed by Eugene. He said he recognizes there needs to be some planning
but with the history of how they haye been treated, he thinks it is important that the senior citizens
(who have signed petitions) understand that the deyelopment pressures they are about to face in their
trailer parks are not going to be friendly to trailer park situations. He said they haye been told that
Glenwood is the front door of Springfield and they will be more than happy to accelerate the rate of
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development and make the area nice. He said right now if you walk down Franklin Avenue, it looks
like a prison yard because of chain link fences with barbed wire strung all along Franklin. He said
something needs to be done. He said he is concerned that there will be developers recognizing that
Glenwood is the last urban developable stretch of the river that is desirable. He said he thinks trailer
parks will not be as welcome as they are now. He said the reality that is taking place is there are no
sidewalks, sewers. He added they have recently been promised by the federal goyemment (who is
helping fund a homeless shelter for mentally ill homeless people) that they will maintain a residential
atmosphere and will not place those people in an industrial wasteland.
Steve Pardo, 1715 Lexington, Glenwood, stated he has liyed at the same location since 1984 and is
only speaking for himself. He said his concern is around jurisdictional status, which doesn't allow
for any elected representation from their area concerning development. He said development has
gone on since the end of the Refinement Plan administered by the Eugene Planning Department and
the type of development that has gone on is not in the spirit of what the Refinement Plan indicated
with regard to the wetlands and drainage areas, the impact of the aquifer and some of the residential
areas. He said he would like to see that addressed in the future. He said his preference would be for
County servic{fs, but does like Springfield and geographically it is the only logical way to grow.
He said there is no riverfront access that is accessible to the public in Glenwood. He added he is
neutral and fine with the situation.
Bert Rekker, 3611 E. 18th, Glenwood, stated he has been a 20 year resident. He said he was part of
the Refinement Plan when it was originally developed that included input from individual residents
of the area. He said the Refinement Plan said residents will be protected against future industrial
development. He said he is neutral with Glenwood going to Springfield. He said he looks at L TD
as a development right next door and they did an incredible job of protecting the residents against
noise. He said his question for the joint elected officials is: "Why is there so much public money
on noise levels and why don't they protect residents in smaller areas when they request to be
protected against noise levels?"
With no one else signed up to speak, Mayor Morrisette closed Public Hearing.
Mayor Morrisette commented that the character of Glenwood is _unique in many ways. He said there
are nice areas in Glenwood and nice residential areas. He said there are a number of mobile home
parks and hopes they remain undisturbed, but the marketplace will determine ultimately what
happens. .He added he doesn't know ifthe sewer that will go in along Franklin will impact most of
the mobile home parks. He said the record in Springfield is they have not attempted to annex areas
in Springfield. He said annexation will come to either city with sewer hook-up and will go in before
anything else. He said parts of Glenwood could be unincorporated for years.
Metzger stated that within the City of Springfield planning commission, there are spots for ,two
members from unincorporated areas within the urban growth boundary. He said it was conceiyable
they could haye representation from Glenwood on the Planning Commission in the future. ~e said
there will be opportunity for representation.
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Sorenson asked about the school districts and other jurisdictional issues that may be relevant.
Metzger replied that Mr. Pardo was accurate in saying that Glenwood children would continue to
attend District 4J schools. He added that law enforcement services would continue to be provided
by Lane County Sheriffs Department in the unincorporated area. He said there would be septic
systems and the only reason people would hook up to a sewer (in the incorporated area) would be
due to a determination by the State Health Department that such action had to take place. He said
the Springfield Fire Department has provided fire and EMT for the unincorporated area for a number
of years. He added the City of Eugene and Springfield have a mutual response agreement that covers
Glenwood in general that would continue to be the same.
Mayor Morrisette referred to a joint meeting held six years ago on the Refinement Plan. He said the
same issues were brought up about the residential and industrial and noise protection. He wanted
to know if in the Refinement Plan there was wording that requires industrial traffic properties to put
up some noise mitigation.
Metzger responded there is language in the Glenwood Refinement Plan that talks about protecting
residents from industrial intrusion. He said he knows that from the City of Springfield, if a
deyelopment request came to them as a part of normal site review, they would look at the language
of the Refinement Plan and ordinances, and where the properties assigned by the ordinances would
be protected. He said they often require concrete sound walls or other sound abating facilities.
Tollenar stated that Steve Moe suggested there are some changes he would like to see in the
Refinement Plan. Tollenar said the Councilor Committee has had discussions based on the
assumption'that if the jurisdictional transfer is made that Springfield would adopt the existing
Refinement Plan. He said they recognize that some technical amendments would have to be made
to strike the word "Eugene" and insert the word "Springfield." He added if there was anything
substantive that needs to be done to the Refinement Plan, the Eugene Council needs to know what
the proposals are before they act on the Metro Plan Amendment. He asked Steve Moe to send a
letter listing the changes that he feels are necessary in the Refinement Plan. He added they will act
on this issue on December 7,1998.
Greg Mott, Planning Manager, City of Springfield, stated it has not been their intention at any time
during the transition for the translation of the Refinement Plan from a Eugene perspective to a
Springfield prospective, to do anything other than adopting their own code proyisions in order to
implement some of the policies that are in the Refinement Plan. He added it is not their intention
to evaluate that Refinement Plan in the context of an update or any types of changes. He said it is
in their work program if the elected officials go forward with the jurisdiction change to constitute
a Citizen's Advisory Committee with an expectation to get many participants from the original
Citizen's Adyisory Committee participating with the explanation and the guidelines that they are
trying to make it so the City of Springfield can implement the Refinement Plan as it currently is
constituted, not in evaluating whether or not that Refinement Plan needs to be updated. He said the
City of Springfield has seyen Refinement Plans that haye been adopted that need to be updated and
don't haye the staff to undertake that kind of effort.
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Green stated he was under the impression that action was going to be taken tonight and wanted to
know if that was still the case.
Tim Laue, City of Eugene, stated the City of Eugene has been working on the issue for quite some
time and what is left is for the Council to take a look at the Intergovernmental Agreement for transfer
of jurisdiction and payment for the infrastructure and planning costs. He said that is what scheduled
for December 7.
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Greg Shaver, Springfield City Council, stated that several thank you's needed to be handed out. He
said he appreciated the time the Councilors in Eugene, Springfield and County Commissioners have
spent on this issue. He also thanked the residents of Glenwood for the time they spent on this issue
and believes they are doing the right thing in going forward with this. He also thanked the City of
Eugene for their stewardship for the last 15 years. He said they have a challenge in Springfield to
not only put attention on areas that want to develop and have quality, but to preserve the character "
of the properties that want to be left alone. He added he has looked through the information over
the years and believes that by taking this action consistent with the Metro Plan, it is the right thing
to do.
Shaver moved to adopt an ordinance adopting a text amendment to the Eugene and Springfield
Metropolitan area general plan to modify sections II-C-1 and IV-II and to transfer jurisdiction for
Glenwood from Eugene to Springfield, adopting savings and severability clauses and declaring an
emergency.
. Maureen Maine seconded and stated to take this forward into the future with the citizens of
Glenwood's assistance and other partners. She added it is an area in the community that has great
potential.
VOTE: 6-0.
SECOND READING AND PUBLIC HEARING/Ordinance P A I I 23/In the Matter of Adopting a
Text Amendment to the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan to Modify Sections II-
C-1 and IV-2 and to Transfer Jurisdiction for Glenwood from Eugene to Springfield; and Adopting
Savings and Severability Clauses.
Cornacchia read the ordinance into the record.
MOTION: to approve Ordinance PA 1123.
Weeldreyer MOVED, Dumdi SECONDED.
Green commented that if the resources are available, commit to them and if they are not there, plan
responsibly so the people of Glenwood don't feel as they have been betrayed in the future.
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Sorenson reported that what came out of the public hearing a few months ago were the comments
from a professor from the University of Oregon whose students had studied the area. He said the
professor brought a tremendous amount of empathy for the community and knowledge about the
importance of the river to the people of Glenwood and the metropolitan area. He added it didn't
matter to him who administratively was in charge of the area, it needs to be recognized that it is a
spectacular resource that needs greater public access. He said he didn't hear anything in the public
testimony that would change his yiew, that the public interest I beings served by making this
transition.
ROLL CALL: 5-0.
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Mayor Morrisette adjourned the meeting at 8:10 p.m.
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Recording Secretary
Approved by the Springfield City Council this 1st day of.March, 1999.
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Maureen Maine
Mayor
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City Recorder
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