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H. In accordance with ORS 457.085(5), on June 28, 2004, the proposed Plan and accompanying Report on Urban Renewal Plan for the Central Eugene Project (~the Report") was £omfarded to the governing body of each taxing district affected by the Plan. After public notice, the Council conducted a public hearing on August 9, 2004, on the proposed Plan amendments. Based on the recommendations of the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eugene, and the Planning Commission, and the written and oral testimony before the Planning Commission and the Council, the Council specifically finds and determines that: (1) The area defined in the Plan is blighted; (2) The rehabilitation and redevelopment is necessary to protect the public health, safety or welfare of the municipality; (3) The Plan conforms to the Metropolitan Area General Plan, State Land Use Planning Goals, the Downtown Plan, the adopted Growth Management Policies, the Vision for Greater Downtown Eugene, and other adopted City plans and policies, including the Council's 2001~2002 Vision and Goals Statement, and provides an outline for accomplishing the urban renewal projects proposed in the Plan; (4) The Plan provides that the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eugene will prepare, adopt and maintain a Relocation Policy providing for the housing of displaced persons within their financial means in accordance with ORS 281.045 to 281.105 and, except in the relocation of elderly or disabled individuals~ without displacing on priority lists persons already waiting for existing federally subsidized housing; (5) Acquisition of real property is necessary to carry out the purposes and policies of the Plan; (6) Adoption and carrying out of the Plan is economically sound and feasible; and (7) The City shall assume and complete any activities prescribed by the Plan. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Based upon the above findings, which are hereby adopted, the Urban Renewal Plan for the Central Eugene Project attached as Exhibit A is approved and adopted as the urban renewal plan for the axea set forth in the Plan. Section 2. The City Recorder is requested to: (a) Publish a notice of the adoption of the Plan amendment, in the Register- Guard, a newspaper published within the City of Eugene and having the greatest c/rculation within the City, no later than four days following the date that this Ordinance is adopted. In accordance with ORS 457.135, the notice shall contain a statement that the Plan shall be conclusively presumed valid for all purposes 90 days after its adoption by this Ordinance and that no direct or collateral attack on the action adopting the Plan may be commenced thereafter; Ordinance - 2