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Exhibit B Findings: Approval of the zone change request to Commercial will most effectively allow the potential for future mixed use development consistent with the site’s existing Mixed Use overlay designation, other zoning parameters affecting mixed uses, and the considerations referenced in the above Metro Plan policy. F.15 Motor vehicle level of service policy: a. Use motor vehicle level of service standards to maintain acceptable and reliable performance on the roadway system. These standards shall be used for: (1) Identifying capacity deficiencies on the roadway system. (2) Evaluating the impacts on roadways of amendments to transportation plans, acknowledged comprehensive plans and land-use regulations, pursuant to the TPR (OAR 660- 12-0060). (3) Evaluating development applications for consistency with the land-use regulations of the applicable local government jurisdiction. b. Acceptable and reliable performance is defined by the following levels of service under peak hour traffic conditions: (1) Level of Service F within Eugene’s Downtown Traffic Impact Analysis Exempt Area; (2) Level of Service E within the portion of Eugene’s Central Area Transportation Study (CATS) area that is not within Eugene’s Downtown Traffic Impact Analysis Exempt Area; and (3) Level of Service D elsewhere. c. Performance standards from the OHP shall be applied on state facilities in the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area. (III-F-8) Findings: The subject property is within the boundaries of Eugene’s Downtown Traffic Impact Analysis Exempt Area. Roadways within this area may perform at a Level of Service of “F.” The Applicant’s transportation analysis in Exhibit 6 demonstrates that roadway intersections adjacent to and near the subject property currently operate at LOS “A” or “B” in the morning and evening peak hour periods, respectively. The Applicant’s traffic engineer conducted a reasonable worst-case scenario of traffic generated by uses allowed in the proposed C-2 zone, versus those allowed in the existing I-2 zone and High Density Residential uses matching the site’s existing Plan designation (as indicated by City staff). This analysis demonstrated that based upon the reasonable worst-case scenario, the proposed zone could result in an increased number of peak hour trips under the proposed C-2 zone, but that Levels of Service would remain well within the acceptable performance standards allowed by the above Metro Plan policy, and codified in TransPlan and Eugene Code 9.9650.