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program. In addition - and most importantly for purposes of this work session - the work program now has a 'notes' column to indicate any comments or Measure 37 considerations that need to be made. (Additional information is included in this packet to provide the City Council with a tentative Planning Commission schedule, and to provide the City Council with a response to questions regarding the use of funding related to mixed use development and code amendments. While these documents are not related to Measure 37, they are related to the work plan and to responding to questions the council previously had raised related to that work plan.) Overall, while we believe each project on our work program will require additional technical and legal staff time to review the possible implications or risk under Measure 37, we do not believe we should make significant changes to the work program. The item of most concern to staff is the state-mandated Periodic Review, especially the remaining work tasks required to comply with statewide planning Goal 5 related to natural resources. At this point staff can assume that the Goal 5 tasks will need to have some type of regulation to protect important resources and to bring the City into compliance with the Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR). Staff is currently having discussions with the State Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) to better understand what it proposes to do with jurisdictions who have remaining periodic review work tasks and who may be facing some exposure under Measure 37 if they are required to complete those tasks. It is the staff opinion, however, that regardless of the outcome of the discussions with DLCD, staff should continue on and complete the very important natural resource inventory work that is underway at this time. This has been a 1 O-year process, and there has been a lot of difficult work done that should not go to waste. At the time the staff work is done under Goal 5, staff believes a policy discussion should ensue with appointed and elected officials about how the City moves forward to protect natural resources in light of Measure 37. The other work program items may or may not have a Measure 37 implication. On a case by case basis, staff will provide the Planning Commission and City Council with an analysis on each item as it moves forward in the adoption process. Staff believes there are not only risks associated with Measure 37, but is also working hard to understand and develop any opportunities from the Measure. For instance, the "alternative path" to the Land Use Code's regulations may provide some new and unique ways of assisting staff in working with property owners who come forward with Measure 37 claims. Staff reviewed with the Planning Commission the conclusions related to Measure 37 and the work plan. The Planning Commission discussed staff' s conclusions and made some additional changes on January 10, 2005. The attached work plan incorporates the Planning Commission revisions. Staff expects that the revisions to the work plan proposed by the Planning Commission will be the subject of the annual joint City Council/Planning Commission meeting which is scheduled to occur in June 2005. However, if there is time at this work session and the council would like to provide comments about the Planning Commission's proposed revisions, staff can take those comments back to the Planning Commission. COUNCIL OPTIONS Based on staff' s review of the PDD and Planning Commission work plan, staff is not proposing any changes to the work plan at this time based on Measure 37's passage. Therefore, staff is not suggesting that the council take any action at this time. Should the council disagree, certainly one option is for the council to modify the work plan. L:\CMO\2005 Council Agendas\M050119\S050119A. doc