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Eugene staff brief council on extending 'residential character' definition to more neighborhood plans
Summary
Planning Director Alyssa Hunter told the Eugene City Council at a June 25 work session that the city’s codified definition of “residential character” — “a combination of qualities and features that gives identity to a particular area where the predominant use is housing, and that distinguishes the area from other areas” — was added to Eugene’s land use code in 2008 and currently applies in limited land use reviews but could be extended to several older refinement plans.
Planning Director Alyssa Hunter told the Eugene City Council at a June 25 work session that the city’s codified definition of “residential character” — “a combination of qualities and features that gives identity to a particular area where the predominant use is housing, and that distinguishes the area from other areas” — was added to Eugene’s land use code in 2008 and currently applies in limited land use reviews but could be extended to several older refinement plans.
Hunter said the 2008 glossary-style definition has narrow application today — primarily to subdivisions, partitions and site reviews when an approval criterion requires consistency with an adopted refinement plan that uses the term residential character — but council extended that definition to the West Side neighborhood plan during the 2022…
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