CITY OF EUGENE <br />INTER-DEPARTMENTAL MEMORANDUM <br />CITY ATTORNEY - CIVIL DEPARTMENT <br />To: Heather O'Donnell, Associate Planner Date: August 15,,2008 <br />Subject: Needed Housing <br />You asked what types of housing constitute "needed housing" as that term is' used in the <br />Eugene Code. The Eugene Code relies on the statutory definition of "needed housing." <br />State statutes' define "needed housing" as "housing types determined to meet the need <br />shown for housing within an urban growth boundary at particular price ranges and rent levels." <br />The Land Use Board of Appeals has declared that once a city identifies a need for housing within <br />its urban growth boundary at particular price ranges and rent levels, any housing types that the <br />city determines are necessary to meet those needs are considered "needed housing." <br />The City of Eugene's housing needs projection is embodied in the Eugene-Springfield. <br />Metropolitan Area Residential Lands and Housing Study 1999 Draft Supply and Demand <br />Technical Analysis and 1999 Draft Site Inventory Document. In addition to the housing <br />identified in the housing needs projection, the City's "needed housing" also includes housing that <br />has been statutorily defined as "needed housing:" whether it is included in the City's housing <br />needs projection or not. <br />The City's housing needs projection identifies a need for: <br />1. Single-family detached housing, including manufactured dwellings on,lots; <br />2. Single family attached housing; <br />3. . Multi-family housing; and <br />4. . Manufactured dwelling parks. <br />The statutorily defined "needed housing" types include: <br />1. Attached and detached single-family housing and multiple family housing foi <br />both owner and renter occupancy; <br />2. Government assisted housing; <br />3. Mobile home or manufactured dwelling parks; and <br />4. Manufactured homes on. individual lots planned and zoned for single-family <br />residential use. <br />1095 ' <br />