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Exhibit B <br />for the site. The Applicant also seeks to ensure that the site’s Metro Plan designation <br />and zoning are consistent. Regardless of the existing Plan designation for the site, it <br />clearly is inconsistent with the site’s current Industrial zoning classification. <br />Therefore, this application requests a Type II amendment to the Metro Plan – changing <br />the diagram only and not the text of the Metro Plan. As defined in EC 9.7700(2), Type <br />II amendments change the Metro Plan diagram, and do not meet the standards for <br />consideration as a Type I amendment (i.e., the proposal does not change the Urban <br />Growth Boundary, does not require a goal exception, and is not a non-site-specific <br />amendment to the Metro Plan text). EC 9.7715(1)(b) and (2) allows the Applicant to <br />initiate this Metro Plan diagram amendment as owner of the subject property, which <br />is located within the Eugene city limits. <br />Below the Applicant cites relevant policies from the Metro Plan, Downtown Plan, and <br />Commercial Lands Study as the policy basis for granting the requested amendment <br />establishing a Commercial land use designation, and meeting the approval criteria set <br />forth in EC 9.7730(3). <br /> 2. Zoning classification <br />As noted above the site is currently zoned for Industrial use (I-2, Light Medium <br />Industrial), which is likely a relic of historic uses of the building and site, and similar <br />uses and zoning applied historically to properties near the Union Pacific railroad <br />tracks north of the site. However, virtually the entire area surrounding the subject <br />property is – and has long been – in commercial use, with adjacent properties to the <br />north, west, and south all already zoned commercially. Exhibit 4 includes an excerpt <br />of the City zoning map. <br />Because the site’s Industrial zoning has long been inconsistent with its generations- <br />long Commercial land use, the Applicant seeks to change the site’s zoning to align <br />with its use and to be consistent with the Mixed Use capabilities envisioned in Metro <br />Plan policies and land use designation. The findings below in Section 3 of this <br />narrative demonstrate the proposal’s consistency with applicable zone change criteria <br />in EC 9.8865. <br /> 3. Precedent <br />In 2006 the City Council approved a similar proposal applying a Commercial land use <br />designation and zoning to the former State of Oregon motor pool site at 445 Pearl <br />Street (MA 06-2, Z 06-9). Like the subject property, the former motor pool property <br />had I-2/TD zoning, and a more clearly defined Metro Plan designation of HDR/MU/ND <br />before being redesignated to C/ND and rezoned to C-2/TD/ND. <br />As with the motor pool property, the subject site was not included in the City’s <br />residential buildable lands inventory, so redesignation for Commercial uses did not <br />hinder the City’s ability to meet its residential land obligations. Unlike the motor <br />