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ECC UGENE ITY OUNCIL AIS GENDA TEM UMMARY Public Hearing: An Ordinance Amending the Eugene-Springfield Metro Plan; Amending the River Road-Santa Clara Urban Facilities Plan Land Use Diagram and Text; Amending the Eugene Zoning Map, and Adopting a Severability Clause (Oregon West Management, LLC, MA 07-2, RA 07-1 and Z 07-3) Meeting Date: February 19, 2008 Agenda Item Number: 1 Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Heather O’Donnell www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541/682-5488 ISSUE STATEMENT This public hearing is on a private proposal to amend the Metro Plan, amend the applicable refinement plan and approve a concurrent zone change. The property subject to this request is located at 2685 River Road (the former Santa Clara Elementary School site) and 84 Green Lane, on the east side of River Road, south of Hunsaker Lane. The site includes 7.3 acres located north of Green Lane and 1.3 acres located south of Green Lane. All of the property is within the Eugene city limits. The applicant requests approval of Metro Plan and Refinement Plan amendments, and a zone change that will result in 7.3 acres being rezoned to C-2/PD/SR, Community Commercial with Planned Unit Development and Site Review overlays, and 1.3 acres being rezoned to R-2/PD/SR, Medium Density Residential with Planned Unit Development and Site Review overlays. This request does not include a specific development proposal. BACKGROUND The City of Eugene Planning Commission held a public hearing on October 18, 2007, to consider the requested Metro Plan amendment, refinement plan amendment, and zone change, received public testimony (Attachment F) and closed the record. On November 5, 2007, the Planning Commission met for deliberations. The Planning Commission continued deliberations on November 19, 2007, and, on that date, voted 4 to 2 to recommend conditional approval of the requests to the City Council. The conditions of approval recommended by the Planning Commission are set out on pages 33-34 of the Planning Commission’s findings and recommendations, which is attached to this AIS as Exhibit E of Attachment A. The majority of the Planning Commission found that the specifics of the site (the site being a former school) made this a unique situation and that the proposed refinement plan text amendment contains restricting language that would ensure any future development proposal will be sufficiently limited (i.e. by including use and building size limitations). The refinement plan text amendments proposed by the applicant directly address those components of the River Road-Santa Clara Urban Facilities Plan that restrict new community commercial development and result in the proposal being a “limited” community commercial development. The Planning Commission discussed the proposal’s consistency L:\CMO\2008 Council Agendas\M080219\S0802191.doc