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__JO-.--------Des-ienatimrm:-4J-Sehools~----Santa~ent_arv-__Seh_ooI Issue: What is appropriate Land Use Designatian af school sites that will no. longer be lised far "Government and Education" purposes? School District 4J requests COITh."Uercial designation for the Santa Clara Elementary School. Staff---AnaJysis:--Bne--ofthe-purpo-se-s-ofihe-M-etro-Plmn:liagranrupdate is to. ill::!. yc;-tb-em----------m---------n-- diagram better reflect land use designatians shavm in appraved refinement plans. Many Eugene neighborhood refinement plan designations reflect current use of public properties, such as scho.als and fairgrounds, as '"Gavernment and Educatian." \Vhen the refinement plans were prepared (often aver 15 years aga), it was not forecast that schaal districts may discontinue schaal activities and sell these properties. The timing of w.1is Metro Plan diagram update corresponds with District 4J's dispasitian af t\VO school sites, Santa Clara and Westmoreland Elementary Scho.ols. It would be efficient if the land use designation were determined at this time, sa as to. inform the zane change application, if possible. On the ather hand, more public discaurse about the future use af these praperties could be required, at 4J's expense, if the sites were designated Government and Education and refinement plan amendt--nents required prior to or concurrent with any zone changes. Amendments to the Metra Pla.l1 diagram will not automatically change the refine;meJ!t pl~'1s, ?utco.u1~ ~nforrn future interpretations. T~e 'written testimony provides .- -~--aaiaregardlniilie-intenm--nailife"of -tbe~',:Govemment. and Institutional"des-ign-ation, current Metra Plan designations, and zaning of these sites. The old 11etro Plan "blob" diagram shows co.mmercial designation extending along bou~ sides of River Road, to. just narth of Hunsaker Lane. The rest of this area is designated Low Density Residential. The Metro Plan diagram cauld suggest that some Commercial is on the Santa Clara School site. Narrow commercial zaping patterns suggest that the Commercial designatian is not so wide as to encompass the entire school property. The River Road-Santa Clara Urban Facilities Plan (a non-site specific refinement plan) appears to designate the entire Santa Clara School site as Education. The plan narrative recognizes problems created by tbe strip commercial development patterns along River Road and encaurage buffering between commercial and residential uses. Palicies in.the plan discaurage linear expansian of the strip commercial development patterns, but allow expansian "by infilling, redevelopment. or eJ..pansion onto contiguous property that does not front on River Road" t'Policy 3.0, page 2-18) and to locate new neighborhood commercial uses "mvay from Rilla Road in locations that facilitate the provision of commercial facilities scaled to a residential area and that al101v f..'w dispersal of uses throughout River Road-Santa Clara" (policy 6.0, page 2.19). Palicy 22.0 in the Eugene Commercial Lands Study (1992, adopted as a refinement af the Metro Plan) states, in part, <'Recognize that the commercial sites design.ated in the RivelRoad/Santa Clara Urban Facilities Plan provide adequate commercial supply for the area. . ." (the Santa Clara school site is not designated Commercial in the RRlSC Urban Facilities Plan]. Policy 11.0 states, <'Promote neighborhood-oriented commercial facilities and community commercial areas rather than additional major retail centers," Metro Plan Periodic Review Text and DiagnuIl Amendments Staff Notes City Council Agenda page 328 Page 26 of 28