+1£&z <br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />PURPOSE <br />ORGANIZATION AND BYLAWS <br />OF THE <br />EUGENE PLANNING COMMISSION <br />(As revised and effective July 11, 2008) <br />FOREWORD AND EXPLANATION: <br />The following sets forth information concerning the Eugene Planning Commission and <br />also includes certain rules and regulations governing its membership. The Eugene <br />Planning Commission is established pursuant to Chapter 227 of the Oregon Revised <br />Statutes and Chapter 2 of the Eugene Code, 1971. Where these Oregon Statutes and the <br />City Code provisions apply, an indication of the section number thereof will be found <br />immediately following the information herein contained. <br />The rules and regulations herein are established pursuant to authority contained in the <br />Oregon Revised Statutes, Chapter 227, and the Eugene Code, 1971, Chapters 2, 8, and 9. <br />ARTICLE I. Establishment <br />The Eugene Planning Commission was established in 1925 (Ordinance No. 4846) and its <br />members are appointed by the City Council in conformance with ORS 227.010 through <br />227.120, which set forth the state requirements for establishing city planning <br />commissions, and by authority of Eugene Code, 1971, ("EC") Sections 2.325 through <br />2.365. <br />ARTICLE II. Purposes and Obiectives <br />The purposes and objectives of the Commission shall be: <br />(a) To keep current a General Plan for the city adopted by the Council as an <br />official guide to public and private uses of land. (EC 2.350) <br />(b) To prepare city legislation that will implement the purposes of the General <br />Plan. (EC 2.350) <br />(c) To cooperate with private developers and public agencies in their effort to <br />provide an adequate supply of housing for low-income families. (EC <br />2.350) <br />(d) To recommend and make suggestions to the Council and to all other <br />public authorities concerning laying out, widening, extending and locating <br />of streets and parking areas, sidewalks and boulevards, relief of traffic <br />congestion, betterment of housing and sanitation conditions and <br />4- <br />