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JEO Issues List – Page 3 of 4 as well as legislative remedies and funding solutions at the statewide level. In September, LCOG convened a group that includes public works directors to begin discussing transportation funding solutions at a regional level. These two options are the ones most likely to mesh with the county. In addition, the 2009 Oregon Legislature is expected to consider some form of increased transportation funding, including a commitment from the Oregon Petroleum Association, to seek and endorse a significant increase to the state gas tax. A critical aspect of any funding solution collected at a countywide or statewide level would be a distribution formula that guarantees revenue, in perpetuity, to the cities. Presented by City of Springfield TransPlan Work Plan – The recent adoption of the federally mandated Regional Transportation o Plan (RTP) included a planning horizon that extends to the year 2031. The companion piece to the RTP is TransPlan, which shares the same adopted 2015 planning horizon as the Metro Plan. The state Transportation Planning Rule (TPR) requires consistency between the federal transportation plan and state required transportation plans, including similar out-years. The planning horizon for TransPlan needs to be adjusted accordingly, but since TransPlan is a part of the Metro Plan a similar adjustment to the Metro Plan is almost certainly necessary. As it happens, the updates to the buildable lands inventories currently underway will be for a planning horizon of 20 years (2030 when finished). It seems propitious to combine these tasks. Metro Plan – UGB Changes – HB 3337 requires Eugene and Springfield to undertake several o actions, including the establishment of separate urban growth boundaries. Although it is not clear when the best time might be to take this action, it would probably be in the best interest of all three governments to allow this to occur as either a joint action or independently depending on when the communities are ready to act. Metro Plan – Conforming Amendments – The establishment of separate UGB's for Springfield and o Eugene will create the need for various conforming amendments to the Metro Plan which will continue to reference a single UGB unless amendments are made to reflect compliance with the HB 3337 mandate for separate UGB's. One approach that would facilitate the work each city is undertaking is to coordinate necessary amendments to the Metro Plan text for purposes of creating conforming language that recognizes the changes brought about by HB 3337. Update – Inventories and Population Projections – A final draft of the Residential Lands Study o Report is nearly completed and the Commercial Industrial Buildable Lands (CIBL) project will begin this month. The findings of the Residential Lands Study will be combined with those of the CIBL to provide a complete inventory of all buildable lands and new strategies to encourage economic redevelopment. The inventories must be based on population projections for each urban growth boundary for that time horizon and adopted into the comprehensive plan. The existing population projections are for the metro area, not for each city, and only go out to the year 2015. It will benefit the inventory work of both cities to have the metro population projections disaggregated and as soon as possible. Presented by Lane County Right now the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) provides that cities o are the logical provider of urban services. With the passage of Ballot Measure 5 and then 47/50, is this policy still appropriate? Lane County requests the three governments consider amendments to allow the creation of mutually agreed upon special districts.