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Draft 9/29/14 K.Citizen Involvement Element Active, on-going, and meaningful citizen involvement is an essential ingredient to the development and implementation of any successful planning program. Citizens in the Eugene- Springfield metropolitan area have participated in and articulated their concerns on planning activities and decisions as individuals and through various private interest groups, community and neighborhood organizations, and citizen advisory committees. A citizens advisory committee was established for the 1990 Plan and was an integral part of that plan’s development. The adopted 1990 Planincluded a recommendation that a permanent citizens advisory committee be established. That recommendation was implemented by the three governing bodies when the Metropolitan Area Planning Advisory Committee (MAPAC) was established. (MAPAC consisted of 21 members, seven from each jurisdiction.) MAPAC’s responsibilities included monitoring the use and implementation of the Metro Plan, serving as the Lane Council of Government (LCOG) advisory committee on natural resources, and reviewing and commenting on planning issues of metropolitan-wide significance. MAPAC’s responsibilities for conducting a citizen involvement program for the Metro Planwere transferred to the Joint Planning Commission Committee (JPCC) in 1990. The JPCC is made up of two planning commissioners from Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County. In recent years, citizen advisory committees have also been established to provide the citizen’s perspective on a wide variety of specific planning issues (e.g., transportation, Greenway, solid waste management). This emphasis on citizen participation has been recognized at the state level where the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) adopted citizen involvement as a mandatory statewide planning goal. Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County, in accordance with LCDC’s Statewide Planning Goal 1: Citizen Involvement, have each appointed committees for citizen involvement whose responsibilities include developing, monitoring, and evaluating the citizen involvement programs in their respective jurisdictions and recommending programs and techniques which will increase citizen participation. For the purposes of future updates of the Metro Plan, the three governing bodies designated JPCC as the citizens committee for coordinating and soliciting citizen input on the update process. The functions of JPCC also include the monitoring of the citizen involvement process regarding amendments to and the implementation of the Metro Plan. Goal Continue to develop, maintain, and refine programs and procedures that maximize the opportunity for meaningful, ongoing citizen involvement in the community’s planning and planning implementation processes consistent with mandatory statewide planning standards. III-J-6