Item 1: Ordinance on Oregon West Management

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EC9.8865(5) In cases where the NR zone is applied based 011 EC 9.2510(3), the property owner shall enter into a contractual arrangement with the city to ensure the area is maintained as a natural reliource area for a minimum of 50 years. Response: The NR zone is not requested. Therefore, the above criterion is n'Ot applicable. Statewide Planning Goals: If the c'Oncurrent A1e/ro Plan and River Road/Santa Clara Urban Facilities Plan land use diagram designations were already approved and acknowledged, it would not be necessary to demonstrate compliance with the statewide planning goals. However, in Roloff v. City ofA1ilton- Freewater, 27 Or LUBA 256 (1994), the Land Use Board of Appeals ruled that where a propelty is the subject of a concurrent comprehensive plan map amendment and zone change, the zone change is made under an unacknowledged plan amendment and must comply \-vith those statewide planning goals applicable to the unacknowledged plan amendment. Because the Statewide Planning Goals and related statutes typically address amendments t'O comprehensive plans, the findings herein regarding those goals frequently refer to the pr'OPosed zone change as the proposed "amendment." This is done for better comprehension and to recognize that state documents often refer to "z'One map amendments" when discussing the action referred to in the Eugene Code as simply a "zone change." Regarding compliance of the proposed zone change (amendment) with statewide planning goals, the applicant's responses follow: Goal 1 - Citizen lnvo/vemellt: To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunityforcilizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. Response: The City of Eugene has an acknowledged citizen involvement program and an acknowledged process expressed in the Eugene Code for securing citizen input on all proposed plan amendments. It insures the 'Opportunity for citizens to be involved in aU phases.ofthe planning process and sets out requirements for such involvement. The amendments proposed d'O not amend the acknowledged citizen involvement program. The process for adopting these amendments complies with the requirements of the citizen involvement provisions. The Metr'O Plan contains an ackn'Owledged citizen inv'Olvement program satisfying Goall. The citi:l,Cn involvement program is in Metro Plan Chapter III, pp. III-K-l to III-K-4. The proposed amendments comply with and do not affect or amend the citizen involvement element in the Metro Plan. The proposed Refinement Plan amendment is subject to the public notification and public hearing processes provided for all Type IV application procedures as stipulated in EC 9.7400 through Ee 9.7455, which, along with the remainder of the Code and \vith Statewide Goals and state statutes, provide the provisions for citizen involvement. The City's acknowledged progranl for citizen involvement, including public notice, public hearings at the level of the planning commission and city council, notificati'On of decision and notification of the right of appeal, provides citizens the opportunity to review and make Santa Clara - Zone Change Application Written Statement - August 2, 2007 Page 27 of 41