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As a result of the 1999 Residential Lands Study, the following finding was incorporated into the Metro Plan: "There is sufficient buildable residential land within the existing urban growth boundary to meet the future housing needs of the projected population. In fact, the 1992 residential buildable land supply exceeds the 1992-2015 residential land demand in all residential categories. Assuming land is consumed evenly over the period, by 1999, there will be at least a 20-year supply of residential land remaining inside the urban growth boundary." (See Metro Plan findings 4, Page III-A-2) Therefore, the amendment is consistent with Statewide Planning Goal 10. Goal 11 - Public Facilities and Services: To plan and develop a timely, orderly and efficient arrangement of public facilities and services to serve as a framework for urban and rural development. Public Works Engineering staff have reviewed the proposal and have made the following evaluations: The southeasterly portion (approximately ½) of the subject site north of Moon Mountain Drive and west of Glenwood Drive is within Area "H" of the Storm Sewer Study, conducted by Poage Engineering, dated April 18, 2003, which reconfigured the sub-basin boundary between GL-60 and RA-80 in the 1990 OTAK study. With this reconfiguration, the southeasterly portion of the site is served by a stormwater system. The applicant has not, however, provided evidence that the northwesterly portion of the site can be served by a gravity -fed stormwater system. The wastewater system on Moon Mountain Drive is shallow (the depth of the flat-top manhole #16104 is 3.5 feet from rim to outlet). It is difficult to guarantee provision of gravity service for the entire developable portion of this site given the need to establish sufficiently deep facilities to serve all elevations of the site. Therefore, the applicant may be required to develop a lift (pump) system to guarantee that the site can be connected to wastewater service. Although it may be difficult to rely on a gravity system, feasibility of providing services to the site is apparent in that the applicant can, at the time of development, provide a pump system connecting to wastewater systems and provide on-site retention for stormwater systems. Such options are satisfactory in demonstrating consistency with this Goal. The amendment, therefore, is consistent with Goal 11. Goal 12 - Transportation: To provide and encourage a safe, convenient and economic transportation system. Goal 12 is implemented through the Transportation Planning Rule (TPR, OAR 660-012). The Eugene- Springfield Metropolitan Area Transportation Plan (TransPlan) provides the regional policy framework through which the TPR is enacted at the local level. TransPlan was acknowledged for compliance with Goal 12 in 2001. Under the state TPR, a local government must provide a form of mitigation described in OAR 660- 012-0060(1) when the local government adopts amendments to function plans, acknowledged comprehensive plans, and land regulations which significantly affect a transportation facility. This proposed refinement plan amendment does not "significantly affect a transportation facility" because the order does not meet one of the following four factors identified in 660-012-0060(2): Planning Division Staff Report 7 September 2004 Page 6 of 13 (RA 04-1 and Z 04-4) 8