Council to debate housing code Proponents of a new bousing plan expect to meet with opposition from property managers By Michael Burnham Community Reporter A housing code requiring mini mum standards for housing com panies. A University group creating a renter’s association. An ASUO-sponsored rental pamphlet ranking housing com panies for students. All three are new ideas that may stir up a hornet's nest worth of debate among Eugene City Council members, student renters and landlords. On Nov. 10, the City Council will discuss a new housing code recently drafted by an advisory committee composed of land lords, tenant representatives and community members. The plan, drafted by the Departmental Ad visory Committee for the Housing Code, includes detailed tenant housing specifics and require ments for minimum housing stan dards. According to John Davidson, a member of the committee, the housing code may encounter op position from landlords and prop erty managers because of the costs of the potential changes. David son, staff attorney for the ASUO sponsored Legal Services, said some City Council members may be more receptive to landlords be cause he believes more landlords than tenants will show up for the meeting to voice their concerns. “In relation to this issue and in relation to other issues, [City Council members’] comments have shown that they are more fa miliar to businesses and less fa miliar to the concerns of the con sumers and the poor," Davidson said. The West University neighbor hood has been the subject of at tention from a group within an upper-division public policy class whose goal is to organize student residents from the neigh borhood into a working renter’s association. The ASUO also is try ing to tackle renting issues on e larger scale by developing an ed ucational renter’s guide for stu dents that would rank rental com We urge you to VOTE NO ON 51. Governor John Kitzhaber MD* Peter DeFazio • Glen Gordon MD • Emily Fergus MD • Munir Katul Every Vote Counts I Ballots are due by Tuesday I Paid for by Physicians for Death with Dignity. panies and private renters. "Educating the public is a real ly big part of this,” City Council man Bobby Lee said. Lee attended an Oct. 30 infor mational meeting held by a group of public policy students in which community and Universi ty leaders discussed the group's and the ASUO's goals. Leslie Wilson, a senior plan ning, public policy and manage ment major, said his group's goal is to encourage West University student residents to join a renter’s association that could address le gal issues concerning housing matters. 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