The Public Health Standards Project is a city-led effort to protect residents who live in or near Eugene’s industrial areas by adding public health considerations to land-use policy.
The policy has been more than five years in the making and is scheduled to come before the City Council on March 9.
Over that time, the proposal has grown increasingly complex, and the latest revision shifts a key responsibility originally intended for industrial businesses. According to drafts, city staff — no longer private applicants — would be on the hook for tracking and disclosing pollution-control permits for new developments…