EUGENE CITY COUNCIL <br />AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY <br />Public Hearing: An Ordinance Vacating Slocum Drive, Songbird Loop, and Public <br />Utility Easement <br />Meeting Date: June 21, 2021 Agenda Item Number: XX <br />Department: Planning & Development Staff Contact: Jeff Gepper <br />www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-5282 <br />ISSUE STATEMENT <br />The City Council will hold a public hearing on a right-of-way vacation request submitted by <br />Neighborly Ventures Inc. The requested vacation of the unimproved public rights-of-way consists <br />of Slocum Drive and Songbird Avenue, as well as an associated unimproved public utility <br />easement (City File: VRI 20-1). A vicinity map and an aerial map of the vacation request are <br />provided as Attachments A and B. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The applicant has requested a vacation of platted public rights-of-way and a public utility <br />easement in order to develop the properties with multi-family dwellings consistent with the <br />residential plan designation and zoning for the property. Additionally, the vacation will satisfy a <br />condition of Site Review approval for the development known as the Southwest Eugene <br />Apartments (City File: SR 20-3). <br />The total requested vacation area consists of 25,288 square feet of public right-of-way, comprised <br />of Slocum Drive (16,438 square feet) and Songbird Loop (8,850 square feet). Neither right-of-way <br />was ever developed and currently consist of tall grasses and shrubs. The request also includes <br />vacation of a 7-foot wide public utility easement that abuts the north side of Slocum Drive and the <br />west side of Songbird Loop. The public utility easement is also undeveloped and not necessary to <br />serve the properties which have frontage on Willow Creek Road. The rights-of-way and the public <br />utility easement were dedicated as part of a plat through a previous land division (City File: M 00- <br />3). The City's Public Works Department supports the proposed vacation. <br />More details on this request can be found in the full record of application materials to date, which <br />will be provided separately to Councilors on a thumb-drive. Otherwise, application materials can <br />be made available to the public in hardcopy or electronic format upon request. These materials <br />can also be accessed online here: <br />https: [/pdd.eugene-or.gov/LandUse/SearchApplicationDocuments?file=VRI-20-0001 <br />