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<br /> <br />ECC <br />UGENE ITY OUNCIL <br />AIS <br />GENDA TEM UMMARY <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Public Hearing: State Motor Pool - Plan Amendment and Zone Change <br />An Ordinance Amending the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro <br />Plan) Diagram to Redesignate Property Identified as Map 17-03-30-44, Tax Lot 8900 <br />(Oregon Motor Pool Site) from High Density Residential/Mixed Use/Nodal Development <br />Designation to Commercial/Nodal Development Designation; Rezoning the Property <br />From I-2/Td Light-Medium Industrial with Transit Oriented Development Overlay Zone <br />to C-2/Td/Nd Community Commercial with Transit Oriented Development and Nodal <br />Development Overlay Zones; and Adopting a Severability Clause <br /> <br /> <br />Meeting Date: November 20, 2006 Agenda Item Number: 3 <br />Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Ann Siegenthaler <br />www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 682-5452 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ISSUE STATEMENT <br /> <br />The State of Oregon, as applicant, requests a Metro Plan amendment and zone change for a 1.7-acre <br />downtown parcel currently used as a surface parking lot. The request is to change the current plan <br />designation from High Density Residential/Mixed Use/Nodal Development to a designation of <br />Commercial/Nodal Development, and to change existing zoning of I-2/TD, Light-Medium Industrial <br />with Transit Oriented Development overlay zone, to C-2/TD/ND Community Commercial with Transit <br />Oriented Development and Nodal Development overlay zones. No development is proposed at this <br />time. The Planning Commission recommends approval. <br /> <br />The proposed zone change is being reviewed concurrently with the proposed Metro Plan amendment. <br />Pursuant to EC 9.7305, when the City considers a zone change concurrently with a Metro Plan <br />amendment, the City is to use the applicable procedures for the Metro Plan amendment. The Metro Plan <br />amendment is a single jurisdiction (Type II) Metro Plan amendment inside the city limits of Eugene. In <br />accordance with the single jurisdiction Metro Plan amendment procedures outlined in E.C. 9.7735(4), <br />the City Council's decision on the requested actions must be based on the record created before the <br />Planning Commission; no new evidence is allowed at the council hearing (E.C. 9.7735(4)). The <br />decision is quasi-judicial. <br /> <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br />No public testimony other than the applicant’s was received during the public comment period or the <br />public hearing before the Planning Commission. <br /> <br />The Planning Commission has recommended approval of the request. The only issue that raised a <br />question for the Planning Commission was initially identified in staff’s September 12, 2006, findings. <br />There, staff concluded that there was insufficient information in the original application to demonstrate <br /> L:\CMO\2006 Council Agendas\M061120\S0611203.doc <br /> <br />