Planning Commissioner Ken Beeson: “I was uncomfortable tonight when we allowed one minute for the seven people who came here to give us comments… We’re the Citizen Involvement Committee for the entire city of Eugene.”
Presenter: The Planning Commission, which also acts as the Citizen Involvement Committee for the city of Eugene, limited each public comment to one minute Tuesday night, and afterwards suggested that commenters on the Clear Lake megawarehouse talk instead to the City Council. On Dec. 2, staff member Krystal Fischer:
Eugene staff: The Planning Commission has allotted a maximum of 10 minutes for public comment this evening. To ensure that everyone wishing to speak tonight has an adequate opportunity to do so, each speaker will be limited to, looks like we have seven (speakers), so is a minute, Chair Lear, okay?
Jason Lear (Planning Commission, chair): I think that works…