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F. The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eugene has considered the proposed 2007 Amendments (such 2007 Amendments amending the Original Plan hereinafter referred to as the "Plan" or the "Urban Renewal Plan") and the accompanying Report on Urban Renewal Plan for the Downtown Urban Renewal District (the "Report") and has forwarded it to the Council for adoption. G. In accordance with ORS 457.085(5), on June 11, 2007, the proposed Plan and the Report was forwarded to the governing body of each taxing district affected by the Plan. H. On June 18,2007 the Planning Commission met to review the Plan and Report. I. After public notice mailed pursuant to ORS 457.120, the Council conducted a public hearing on July 16, 2007, on the proposed 2007 Amendments. Based on the recommendations of the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eugene, and the Planning Commission, and the written and oral testimony before the Planning Commission and the Council, the Council specifically finds and determines that: (1) The area defined in the Plan is blighted; (2) The rehabilitation and redevelopment is necessary to protect the public health, safety or welfare of the municipality; (3) The Plan conforms to the Metropolitan Area General Plan, State Land Use Planning Goals, the Downtown Plan, the adopted Growth Management Policies, the Vision for Greater Downtown Eugene, and other adopted City plans and policies, including the Council's 2007 Goals, and provides an outline for accomplishing the urban renewal projects proposed in the Plan; (4) The Plan provides that the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eugene will prepare, adopt and maintain a Relocation Policy providing for the housing of displaced persons within their financial means in accordance with ORS 35.500 to 35.530 and, except in the relocation of elderly or disabled individuals, without displacing on priority lists persons already waiting for existing federally subsidized housing; (5) Acquisition of real property is necessary to carry out the purposes and policies of the Plan; (6) Adoption and carrying out of the Plan is economically sound and feasible; and (7) The City shall assume and complete any activities prescribed by the Plan. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Based upon the above findings, which are hereby adopted, the Urban Renewal Plan for the Downtown Urban Renewal District attached as Exhibit A is approved and adopted as the urban renewal pIan for the area set forth in the Plan. Section 2. (a) The City Recorder is requested to: Publish a notice of the adoption of the Plan, in the Register-Guard, a newspaper published within the City of Eugene and having the greatest circulation within the City, no later than four days following the date that this Ordinance is adopted. In accordance with ORS 457.135, the notice Ordinance - 2