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Draft 9/29/14 Periodic Review Pursuant to ORS 197.610-650, local governments are required to update their comprehensive plans and land use regulations through the Periodic Review process in order to bring plans into compliance with new state law and administrative rules and to ensure that the plans address changing local conditions. The DLCD initiated the first Periodic Review of the Metro Plan and land use regulations on June 28, 1985. The second Periodic Review process was initiated in May 1995. This Metro Plan is also subject to citizen- and government-initiated amendments which are incorporated into the document via Metro Plan replacement pages.This Metro Plan and replacement pages are available at LCOG and www.lcog.org. The Eugene City Council, the Springfield City Council, and the Lane County Board of Commissioners adopted identical Periodic Review amendments to the Metro Plan in 2004: Eugene City Council, Ordinance No. 20319, April 21, 2004 Springfield City Council, Ordinance No. 6087,May 17, 2004 Lane County Board of Commissioners, Ordinance No. PA 1197, June 2, 2004 Oregon Revised Statute 197.304(2007) Historically, many provisions in the Metro Planwere based on a premise that Eugene and Springfield would continue to have a regional metropolitan urban growth boundary (“metropolitan UGB”) that includes both cities and adjacent “urbanizable” areas of Lane County. However, ORS 197.304, adopted by the Oregon Legislature in 2007, requires Eugene and Springfield to divide the metropolitan UGB into two city-specific UGBs. Each city is also required to demonstrate that its separate UGBincludes sufficient land to accommodate its 20- year need for residential landconsistent with Statewide Planning Goal 10 (Housing) and Goal 14 (Urbanization). These statutory mandates implicitlyrequireeach city to also adopt a separate 20-year population forecast. ORS 197.304 allows the cities to take these separate actions “[n]otwithstanding . . . acknowledged comprehensive plan provisions to the contrary.” The ORS 197.304 mandates arebeing carried out by the two cities and Lane County through a seriesof incremental actions over time rather than through a Metro Plan Update process. Some of the land use planning that has historically been included in the Metro Plan will, instead, be included in the cities’ separate, city-specific comprehensive plans. This does not diminish the 1 fact that the cities and the county remain committed to regional problem-solving. The three jurisdictions anticipate that the implementation of ORS 197.304 will result in a regional land use planning program that continues to utilize the Metro Plan and regional functional plans for land use planning responsibilities that remain regional in nature. City- specific plans will be used to address those planning responsibilities that the cities address independently of each other. 1 In addition to the continued collaboration through someregional land use plans, such as the regional transportation systemplan and the regional public facilities and services plan, the three jurisdictions are committedto working collaboratively in other ways and through other initiatives, such as the Regional Prosperity Economic Development Planjointly approvedin February, 2010. iii