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Eugene council weighs incentives, fee waivers and 10-year tax differentials to encourage voluntary annexations
Summary
Alyssa Hunter, planning director, presented four options to encourage voluntary annexations and illustrated fiscal impacts for River Road and Santa Clara; councilors requested targeted pilots and further financial analysis.
Alyssa Hunter, the city's planning director, opened the second half of the Nov. 12 work session with a focused briefing on voluntary annexations as a tool to unlock housing production for property inside the urban growth boundary but outside Eugene city limits.
Hunter outlined four potential incentives: (1) proactive outreach, education and partnerships (low-cost, staff-managed); (2) leveraging Public Works'led street or public-land annexations to invite adjacent owners to join at no cost; (3) waiving or reducing the annexation application fee ("a little over $5,000," Hunter said) to remove a financial barrier; and (4) using a state-authorized property-tax differential to phase in the city tax rate over up to 10 years.
Hunter presented numeric examples. Using typical assessed…
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