Item 4: Ordinance on Oregon West Management LLC

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Mayor Kitty Piercy Eugene City Council March 21, 2008 Page 5 allow slightly more flexibility of uses, the proposed refinement plan policies requiring subsequent development reviews and limiting building scale will assure the neighborhood character of future development. For these reasons, the proposed amendments support and implement Metro Plan policies 'B.28' and 'B.29. III The February 19 letter also faults the applicant's TIA. First, as to the River Road BeltUne interchange, Goal One claims that the TIA did not establish what the existing performance level at that interchange is or what performance level would exist in 2022 if it was built with the existing and proposed plan designations or if nothing was built. Additionally, the criticism is made that the local facilities analyzed by the TIA, were analyzed using the 2022 planning horizon and should have been analyzed on a 2015 planning horizon, the horizon established in the TransPlan. A direct response to this criticism is set out in the March 7, 2008 letter of Damien Gilbert, P.E. of Branch Engineering, Inc. where he specifically points out that the original Goal 12 analysis submitted to the City of Eugene for the project assumed a planning horizon of 2015, as required in the TransPlan, which addresses the latter criticism and that upon recommendation of the three agencies, the horizon was extended to the year 2022 and evaluation made. As pointed out by Mr. Gilbert in his March 7 letter, the City of Eugene Staff Report and Planning Commission Findings provided a thorough evaluation as to how Goal 12 had been satisfied. The Goal One February 19 letter also claims that the proposal fails to address and is contrary to the Metro Plan's nodal development policies. This is basically the assertion that was elaborated upon in Goal One's March 7 letter addressed in the discussion above. It is here asserted that: ",..This proposal lacks inclusion of the nodal elements, including some public space, a mix of housing and employment types and densities, and integration of multiple uses throughout the node." Goal One would have application of the nodal concept to this development to mean that this development, standing alone, should contain all these elements. This one small area is a part of Node SC, a relatively large node including.a substantial number of dwelling units and a large retail center. That which is proposed adds to the mix of housing, does provide some common space and will provide a level of commercial use less intense than that of the