Item 1: Ordinance on Oregon West Management

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Is there any other information (from the 2004 Metro Plan "housekeeping'~ update process) about Public Land (zoned sites) and Low Density Residential being the "default" designation? Possibly a spreadsheet? The lead City staff on the Metro Plan update indicates that there was a spreadsheet that was developed early in the Metro Plan update process that represents a first look at possibly affected properties. The spreadsheet indicates some changes to Government & Education Lands, but on a site by site approach, not through a blanket policy. A blanket policy was not considered with the Metro Plan "housekeepingH update amendments and staff believes that that type of amendment would have been too large of a policy change for that process. The spreadsheet shows the former Santa Clara Elementary School as a current designation of Low Density Residential (based on RUD 1987 Metro Plan data) with a proposed designation of Government and Education (based on the RRSC). At the October 18, 2007 public hearing for the Oregon West Management applications, the applicant provided the PlaIU1ing Commission with a copy of the February 10,2004 Agenda Item Summary for the Metro Plan "housekeeping" proposal (Exhibit 4, item 8). The AIS includes an attachment which summari:zes staff's iinalrecommendation for the former Santa Clara Elementary School. Staff s recommendation indicates that based on the evidence, the designation of the entire school property as commercial could be contrary to adopted policies. Therefore staffs recol1U11endation was for the property to remain designated as Low Density Residential (consistent \-vith the 1987 Metro Plan data). Regarding other instances oftrus type of blanket policy, the concept may have been discussed informally, potentially even during other Planning Commission hearings. A blanket policy has not been implemented, however; the Planning Commission may remember an example of a similar policy that was implemented for a specific site (an EWEB property) rather than a blanket policy for all public land, which was reviewed by the Planning Commission when a policy was inserted in the WiUakenzie Area Plan to implement the Chase Node project. Dates that the Metro Plan "Blob" Diagram, the River Road-Santa Clara Urban Facilities Plan, and the latest version of the Metro Plan Diagram were adopted. Metro Plan "Blob'~ Diagram was adopted in 1982. The River Road-Santa Clara Urban Facilities Plan was adopted in 1987. The current version of the Metro Plan Diagram was adopted April 21,2004 Typical square footages of "big boxtt stores in Eugene. (Also, please include the square footage of Ray's Market if available.) The public record is closed and there is no evidence in the public record regarding the square footage of "big box" stores. However, in response to a similar question, staff provided the West Broadway Advisory Committee with a spreadsheet of several "big box" stores and their approximate square footage, include Ray's Market. Per EC 9.7095 Quasi-Judicial Hearings - Official Notice and Record of Proceedings, subsection (1)(a)2, the Planning Commission may take official notice of all public records of the City. Per subsection (1)(b), matters officially noticed need not be established by evidence andmay be considered by the hearings body in the determination of the proposal. Therefore, the Planning Commission can choose to take official notice of this document that was provided to the West Broadway Advisory Committee. If the Planning Commission chooses to take official notice of the spreadsheet, staff will provide the spreadsheet to the Planning Commission during deliberations. A reevaluation of the amount of dwelling units that can be built under existing zoning~ and that which could be built under the proposal. (1 know you addressed this in the staff report, but based