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