LAW OFFICE OF BILL IGLOOS PC <br />OREGON LAND USE LAW <br />375 W. 4THAVENUE, SUITE 204 <br />EUGENE, OR 97401 <br />TEL: 541.343.8596 <br />WEB: WWW.LANDUSEOREGON.COM <br />BILL KLOOS <br />BILLKLOOS@LANDUSEOREGON. COM <br />November 3, 2015 <br />Eugene Hearings Official <br />c/o Eugene Planning Director <br />99 West 10th Ave. <br />Eugene, OR 97401 <br />Re: Chamotee Trails PUD (PDT 15-1/ARA 15-13); Applicant's Hearing Statement <br />Dear Hearings Official: <br />Please accept this into the record on behalf of the applicant. Generally, this responds to issues <br />raised in the Staff Report. <br />This application invokes the Needed Housing Statute to ensure that the city approves housing on <br />this site in this application process. Invoking the Needed Housing Statute is the only way the <br />owner can approach residential development and be assured of an approval. As the Deerbrook <br />case shows (Deerbrook decisions included as Exhibit A), applying the General Criteria in this <br />neighborhood can result in multiple denials over many years for the same site. <br />The key provisions of the Needed Housing Statute being involved here are in ORS 197.307: <br />197.307 Effect of need for certain housing in urban growth areas; approval <br />standards for certain residential development; placement standards for approval <br />of manufactured dwellings. <br />(4) Except as provided in subsection (6) of this section, a local government <br />may adopt and apply only clear and objective standards, conditions and <br />procedures regulating the development of needed housing on buildable land <br />described in subsection (3) of this section. The standards, conditions and <br />procedures may not have the effect, either in themselves or cumulatively, of <br />discouraging needed housing through unreasonable cost or delay. <br />(6) In addition to an approval process for needed housing based on clear and <br />objective standards, conditions and procedures as provided in subsection (4) of <br />this section, a local government may adopt and apply an alternative approval <br />process for applications and permits for residential development based on <br />approval criteria regulating, in whole or in part, appearance or aesthetics that <br />are not clear and objective if.- <br />