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· Refinement Plan Amendment - TRS 18-03-03-2-3, Tax Lots 199, 200, 300 , January 13, 2004 Page 4 refinement of the Metro Plan diagram. The Metro Plan diagram included in the 1987 update appears to show all or portions of the subject property designated low-density residential. In contrast with the 1982 plan diagram, which was a "blob" map, the 1987 plan diagram was based on a tax lot specific data. However, the 1987 diagram was not officially adopted and the 1982 plan diagram continues to be the "official" base Metro Plan diagram. In 1998, the Eugene Hearings Official issued a decision concerning an application to rezone two of the tax lots that make up the subject property from RA, Suburban Residential, to C-2, General Commercial. That decision, Z 98-1, concluded that, while the Metro Plan designation for those two tax lots (TL 199 and 300) indicate that they are commercial, the Laurel Hill Plan designates them residential and that the more specific refinement plan should prevail. The Hearings Official explained that those two lots cannot change their zoning until the refinement plan is amended. Other sources have painted a confusing picture about the plan designation of the subject property. The Lane County Regional Land Information Database (RLID) indicates that the plan designation for all three tax lots is commercial. A similar designation for those properties is included in the table for the Eugene Properties With Proposed Metro Plan Diagram Changes, published as part of the current work to amend the Metro Plan Diagram to a tax lot specific map. While those other sources are not determinative of the properties' plan designations, they explain why the Applicants initially believed that all of the parcels on the subject property were plan designated commercial. Having reviewed all of the sources described above, and quite a few more, the Applicants is proceeding with this refinement plan amendment application, submitted concurrently with a zone change application, on the presumption that the Metro Plan designations for the subject property is low-density residential, which is consistent with City staff's previously stated position. Applicants are also proceeding on the understanding that a change to the Laurel Hill Refinement Plan land use designation for the property will change its Metro Plan designation by operation of the refinement plan's adopting legislation. Applicants request staff to inform their representative if that is not the case. IV. Approval Criteria The application must be consistent with the Eugene Code (EC) Section 9.8424 Refinement Plan Amendment Approval Criteria, The criteria are listed below in bold, followed by appropriate findings. The relevant portions of EC 9.8424 provide that approval of the application will be based on compliance with the following criteria: II-B-4