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(c) New or amended community policies. (d) Nel.... or amended provisions in afederallllw or regulation, state Sllltute, state regulation, statewide planning goal, or state age/Icy land use plan. (e) A change of circumstances in a substantial manner that was not anticipated at the time the refinement plan was adopted. The proposed amendments are not based on an error in the publication of the RRSC, new inventory material relating to a statewide planning goal or new or amended state or federal laws, regulations, or policies; therefore EC 9.8424(2)(a), (b) and (d), above, are not applicable to this request. Regarding subsection (c), the proposed amendments have been found to comply with the applicable Metro Plan and refinement plan approval criteria, therefore the proposed Metro Plan amendments constitute a new community policy in the context of this criterion. Regarding subsection (e), two significant changes of circumstance have occurred and the proposed refinement plan amendment addresses both changes of circumstances. First Change of Circumstances The first change of circumstances is the decision by the 4J School District to sell the Santa Clara Elementary School property. The City and its citizens had no anticipation at time of Refinement Plan adoption that the school district would seIl its property to a private developer. A pOliion of the subject site is the former location of the Santa Clara Elementary School, and is currently zoned Public Land, designated on the refinement plan as Government and Education, and designated on the Metro Plan. as Low Density Residential. Oregon W est Management, Inc., a private development group, recently purchased the Santa Clard Elementary School site. Per EC 9.2681(2) which states, "When public land is soldfor private the development, the property shall be rezoned according to the procedures for zone changes beginning 'with andfiJllowing section 9.8850 PumoseolZone Changes" the applicant is seeking a zone change of the subject site. The refinement plan designation logically shall also be amended to reflect the current private ownership. The applicant has a concurrent application under review fur a plan amendment to the school property to change the designation from Low Density Residential to Commercial. Upon approval of the Metro Plan change the refinement plan designation will be nonconforming. As such the applicant proposes to change the refinement plan designation for the school site from Government and Education to Commercial to reflect the proposed Metro Plan designation. Second Change of Circumstances The second significant change of circumstances concerns City Council adoption in 2004 of Ordinance No. 20319; which amended the Metro Plan Residential Land Use and Housing Element. The background materials for the update are contained in two documents of the Eugene-Springfield lvfetropolitan Area Residential Lands Study, the 1999 Supply and Technical Analysis and the 1999 Site Inventory Document. The RLS was acknowledged by the state Land Conservation and Development Commission as being consistent with Goal 10. The purpose of the RLS was to compare residential land needs with available land supply. Findings- November 19,2007 Page 3 1