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Exhibit B 3.B. Zone Change The following are findings of fact and conclusions of law that demonstrate this zone change request from I-2/TD, Light-Medium Industrial/Transit Oriented Development zone to the C-2/TD, Community Commercial/Transit Oriented Development zone is consistent with the applicable approval criteria in Eugene Code (EC) Section 9.8865. 1.EC 9.8865(1):The proposed change is consistent with applicable provisions of the Metro Plan. The written text of the Metro Plan shall take precedence over the Metro Plan diagram where apparent conflicts or inconsistencies exist. The Metro Plan designation for the subject site is unclear based upon casual visual examination of the Metro Plan diagram, given the metropolitan scale of the Metro Plan diagram and the small size of the single subject parcel. Therefore the exact boundary between the Commercial and High Density Residential is ambiguous. It is, however, clear that the Metro Plan’s Mixed Use Area overlay designation applies to the subject area and to surrounding areas north of the Eugene downtown central business district. The site’s existing Industrial zoning needs to be changed for uses to comport to a designation supporting Mixed Use development. The Mixed Use designation is indicative that the site was intended to have an underlying commercial designation to support true mixed use development, and is consistent with this request for commercial zoning with retained transit-oriented development zoning overlay. Eugene’s zoning code for residential uses does not generally permit a mix of land uses, whereas commercial zoning can implement the Mixed Use designation by allowing residential uses in a mixed use format. The Metro Plan’s “Mixed Use Areas” overlay is intended for “areas where more than one use might be appropriate, usually as determined by refinement plans at a local level.” (p. II-G-12) The subject property is located within the boundaries of the 2003 Eugene Downtown Plan, which was adopted as a refinement to the Metro Plan. But the Downtown Plan does not contain a land use diagram and therefore cannot be used to determine on a parcel-specific basis the intended plan designation of the subject site. As noted below in response to EC 9.8865(2), there is policy direction within the Downtown Plan demonstrating the proposed zone change’s consistency with that refinement plan. Given the ambiguity of the subject site’s base Metro Plan designation on the Metro Plan diagram, the text of the Metro Plan – as well as supporting refinement plans – must be consulted to help determine the site’s land use designation. The following demonstrates that this proposed zone change is consistent with and supported by the following Metro Plan policies and therefore supports the proposed Commercial zoning: