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The applicant’s material indicates that the traffic volumes and location of ingress and egress will not change from current operations, and identifies the local roads to be used for access and egress. The applicant did not provide a traffic study, as the applicant maintains that there will be no additional impact over current operations. The City notes that Lane Code 15.697(1) requires that a traffic impact analysis may be required for any plan amendment proposal, unless waived by the County Engineer as specified in Lane Code 15.697(2). Lane Code 15.697(2) provides that the County Engineer may waive traffic impact analysis requirements specified in LC 15.697(1) when, in the case of a plan amendment, the scale and size of the proposal is insignificant, eliminating the need for detailed traffic analysis of the performance of roadway facilities for the 20-year planning horizon. Lane Code 15.697(2)(b) provides that, generally, a waiver to Traffic Impact Analysis will be approved when the plan designation that results will be entirely a resource designation or there is adequate information for the County Engineer to determine that a transportation facility is not significantly affected as defined in Lane County Transportation System Plan Policy 20-d. The County Engineer waived Lane County’s requirement for a traffic impact analysis because the County made the determination that the above provisions for a waiver were met. The City of Eugene’s Senior Transportation Analyst opined that a traffic impact analysis would be helpful to assess the impacts of temporal extension of operations that would be permitted by expanding the mining site, thereby also expanding the amount of aggregate materials to be excavated over a longer period of time (See Exhibit 29). However, the City does not find that this information is necessary to assess the potential conflicts pursuant to OAR 660-023- 180(5)(b)(B). The City Council finds that, since approval of the application would result in the Metro Plan diagram designation of the subject property being changed from one resource designation (“Agriculture”) to another (“Sand and Gravel”) and since the applicant asserts that approval of the application will not result in any additional traffic on any local roads and, consequently, will not significantly affect any transportation facility, the information provided, taken together, is an adequate basis for the City to assess traffic impacts. (d) Proposals to minimize any conflicts with existing uses preliminarily identified by the applicant within a 1,500 foot impact area; and The applicant has provided proposals to minimize conflicts with existing uses within a 1500 foot impact area. See File Record No.1, Original Delta application, Introduction, in the 12 August 2005 application by Delta for a zoning change entitled “Application for amendment of the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan comprehensive plan map and significant aggregate resource site inventory and zone change from EFU to sand gravel and rock products,” which contains the following consultants reports: Report on Noise Study (Daly-Standlee & Associates, Inc.) (hereinafter referred to as “Daly-Standlee”) (Exhibit F); Air Quality Evaluation (Bridgewater Group, Inc., hereinafter referred to as “Bridgewater”) (Exhibit G); Flood Impact Evaluation (EGR & Associates, Inc., hereinafter referred to as “EGR”)(Exhibit H); and Digital Model- Groundwater (EGR) (Exhibit I). Proposals to minimize conflicts with existing uses preliminarily identified by the applicant within a 1,500 foot impact area were incorporated into draft conditions of approval by Lane County ((see staff report for November 1, 2006 public hearing, Attachment 1, Exhibit C: Lane County draft Ordinance No. PA 1238, Conditions Necessary to Minimize Conflicts). Ordinance - 8