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Exhibit B Implementation Strategy 17.1: Within the area from the east side of Agripac to Washington Street, change the plan designation and zoning of land currently zoned for industrial use to encourage a mixture of residential, commercial, and compatible industrial use.” (pg. III-15) Although only the CLS policies were formally adopted by the City Council, the above implementation strategy is indicative of the Council’s intent, which is consistent with the Applicant’s proposal to match plan/zoning designations and long- time commercial use as a means to ensure continued commercial use of this downtown property. Industrial Lands Special Study City staff confirmed that although the subject site has Industrial zoning, the Metropolitan Industrial Land Special Study only included vacant land either zoned or designated Industrial as of 1989. The study’s map for Subregion #4 (Central University) depicted only two sites in the downtown area – both parking lots located on the north side of the railroad track. Therefore, the inventory of Industrial lands required to meet the community’s needs did not include the subject site, and approving the requested redesignation and rezoning will not affect the City’s ability to comply with Goal 9 in terms of needed Industrial lands. Eugene Comprehensive Land Assessment As part of the City of Eugene’s process to establish its own Urban Growth Boundary separate from Springfield (per HB 3337), the City analyzed the sufficiency of residential, commercial and industrial land within the existing UGB. The subject site was not included in the Eugene Comprehensive Land Assessment (ECLA) among vacant sites evaluated for industrial use (consistent with its zoning), residential use (consistent with its designation), or commercial use (consistent with its existing and long-standing commercial use) because the site was not vacant and too small to be considered as a significant redevelopment site. ECLA did identify a deficit of 118 acres and 361 sites of land currently designated Commercial that area less than 5 acres in size, and a surplus of both acres and sites of Industrially designated land less than 5 acres in size (Table 3, pg. 13). This indicates that redesignating the subject property would not hinder the City’s ability to provide needed Industrial land, but would be consistent with meeting Eugene’s projected need for small Commercially designated sites. The ECLA showed a deficit of 94 acres of High Density Residential designated land, but a larger deficit of 388 acres of Commercial designated land (Table S-1, pg. 1). City staff confirmed that the site was not included in the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area Residential Lands and Housing study inventory of residential lands, nor in the ECLA inventory of commercial and residential lands. Therefore, approval of the requested redesignation would support the City’s efforts to meet needed commercial lands, but would not debit from its inventory of needed industrial or residential lands, or affect the City’s consistency with Goal 9.