Item 1: Ordinance on Oregon West Management

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public use to meet its needs and the stated parks priority plans of the City of Eugene. Additionally, a public plaza/green space could be an opporttmity for the developer to incorporate pervious areas to meet the storm water runoff and infiltration needs of the rest of the development. Public storm water conveyance for this site is very limited and the anl0tillt of stormwater rtilloff from the level of impervious surface proposed will be significant. The use of df)rwells in Santa Clara has been prohibited due to the high level of groundwater and the switch to surface infiltration is on. . There are numerous vacant C2 parcels in our area. River Rd., Division Ave., and Oroyan have vacant parcels currently, and the Safeway at Silver Lane and Grocery Outlet at River Rd. and Hunsaker are closing this year creating two other large parcels. There is no demonstrated need for more C2land within our neighborhood to serve the greater Eugene area as supported by both the current commercial lands study, the Metro Plan, and the RR/SC Urban Facilities Plan. Eugene Commercial Lands Study-RiverRd.lSanta Clara subarea Polky 11.0 Recognize that the commercial sites designated in the River Rd/Santa Clara Urban Facilities Plan provide for adequate commercial supplyfor the area. Consider additional commercial land in the vicinity of the Chambers Connector ff needed to address community commercial needs. Metro Plan Economic Element Policy #6. Increase the amount of undeveloped land zonedfor light industrial and commercial uses correlating the effective sUPp~y in terms of suitability and availability with the projections of demand. RR/SC Urban Facilities Plan 2.3 Commercial ami Industrial Land Use findings: The addition of 2 J acres of commercially zoned land at the River Rei. and Division Ave. commercial area and the eight acres a/community commercial-designated land allocated to the existing commercial area north of Wilkes Dr. is large enough to meet virtually all of Santa Clara's commercial land needs that ),t'ere anticipated by the Metropolitan Plan, including the commercial portion of the floating node . The. subject site is identitied in TransPlan as "potential nodal development area 5- C." Although the city of Eugene has not yet identified this as a node, the applicant states that the proposal meets the intentions of nodal development for this parcel. Nodal development in a residential area generally seeks to create a more balanced neighborhood commercial center than is being proposed. The continued expansion of commercial land fronting River Rd. is expressly prohibited in the refinement plan, and the refinement plan specifically directs us to adopt zoning that is consistent with the land use diagram and policies of the Urban Facilities Plan. RR/SC Urban Facilities Plan General Land Use Policy 1 Adopt zoning that is consistent with the land use diagram and policies contained in the land use element of the Urban Facilities Plan TransPlan Land Use Polky #1: Nodal Development Nodal development centers will include a mix o.f housing types that achieve at least an average density that is within the medium-density range jar residential uses.