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Article: Land use code: A tough read, but plot is vital.(Government)(City Council: Residents are invited to help revise key rules.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2002
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Byline: DIANE DIETZ The Register-Guard
The Eugene City Council wants your thoughts on revisions to a complex, 400-page document called the updated land use code.
But the problem is, even the people who've been working on the codes for the past five years - including those in opposition - are hard pressed to summarize what, exactly, it means to the individual Eugene resident.
"Land use planning is pretty esoteric to most people," City Councilor David Kelly said. "It's the challenge of translating the esoteric to the real."
In February 2001, the City Council adopted a thorough revision of the land use codes. The next month, local ...